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• Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Malaysia, cake, dessert, entrees, fish, road trippin', travel

  Canons of KL

  04.21.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Dear Blogger’s Block,
  You are harder to lose than the last few pounds from the Malaysia trip—you know, the one I’m trying to write about. The one you’re prohibiting me from writing about by completely overstaying your welcome.
  I expect you to come when Huzhou life has reached its predictable static lull, when life is nothing but [...]

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• Malacca, Malaysia, chicken, entrees, fish, mysterious ingredients, out and about, restaurants, travel

  Visceral Overcrowding

  04.12.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  My college we’re-practically-married roommate Emily liked to regale me with stories of her endearingly eccentric music librarian father. A few times she told me about family trips, in which her father would permit his family breakfast, and then insist on sight-seeing (I have a feeling it included a lot of museums) straight though until dinnertime [...]

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• Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Malaysia, entrees, mysterious ingredients, out and about, restaurants, road trippin', travel

  Digestive Default

  04.09.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  One of the pleasures of traveling is returning to a place for a second time. The Local Way is no longer a grand mystery, and the place is likely not yet so familiar that The Local Way becomes the norm. So stepping off the plane in Kuala Lumpur, I felt just a little bit superior, [...]

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• Cambodia, entrees, mysterious ingredients, travel

  Running Amok

  03.23.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  When I try to picture Cambodia conceptually, like on a map or as an overall mishmash of purple, trees, dirt, bricks, and green, I usually ‘see’ it as tucked neatly away under Thailand and Laos, or through a veil of netting—not quite clear, and hidden and out of the way. Cambodia has seemed, and [...]

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• Thailand, animals, entrees, headaches, travel

  Promises and Pachydermal Proboscides

  02.14.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Throughout my few years of travel, I’ve learned a lot of interesting things: pineapples grow in the ground. Smile innocently at your waiter in Italy and you’ll get free drinks whether you wanted them or not. In the Costa Rican forest, that huge thing you think is a tree is technically a vine. Jaguars will [...]

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• America, Malaysia, Penang, dessert, entrees, mysterious ingredients, travel

  Double Negative

  02.03.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Life is hard when you’re on vacation in Malaysia.
  First, you cannot find the motivation to put up another blog post. You also cannot live up to the one that preceded it.

  There are a lot of other restrictions on what you can do in Penang.

  Even in the winter, it’s too hot to wear a lot of [...]

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• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, entrees, fish, mysterious ingredients, out and about, restaurants, travel

  Making a KL-ing

  01.24.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Travel is all about doing new things, meeting people you never knew existed, seeing things you’d never even thought of. People, I have had a Kuala Lumpur revelation: I have seen fresh baby corn. For real! Who knew that stuff didn’t naturally grow in cans? Not I!

  Kuala Lumpur is not, in my opinion, a special [...]

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• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Mosques, dessert, entrees, fish, out and about, travel

  Go South, Young (Wo)Man, 2010 Edition

  01.20.10 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  If the question “Where has ellis gone for her 5-week adventure?” has been plaguing you since I mentioned it a few days ago, well, your day of respite has come. Unless I told you. Or you saw my update on Facebook, which I can, for better or worse, access for the trip’s duration. So, where [...]

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• Gerald, entrees, out and about, pizza, restaurants, travel

  Menage a Fromage

  01.13.10 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  From what I hear, love is a complicated thing. I haven’t had the fortune (or misfortune?) of being in actual love, though I hope I haven’t missed the boat at my old age. Especially when one is not in love with anyone, it can be tough, or even sickening, to be around two people who [...]

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• entrees, pizza, restaurants, travel

  McFengShui

  01.11.10 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Life tends to have modes of interesting and same-old-same-old. For the past few weeks, my life has moved out of the former and into the latter. When my life is in s-o-s-o mode, there’s not a lot to write about on a blog, unless you’d like to hear about grading 200 final exams and watching [...]

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