Archive for December, 2009

As my KLM flight from Hong Kong landed in Amsterdam, I pretended to stretch as I tried to peak out the window 4 seats away on the 747. Snow!!!

I’m finally done packing (kinda)! The two most asked questions friends and family ask me are: 1. are you crazy? 2. what are you bringing? So, here’s what I got: Clothing North Face Summit Series Shell – Paclite Goretex shell; Windproof, waterproof, ultra lightweight. – Anyone who has traveled or gone hiking with me know [...]

1. Hotels from Netherlands, Kenya and Tanzania are finally all booked (and omg Nariobi, Kenya = 29% tax on hotel room? -_-; Also, expensive hotels are expensive) 2. Vaccinations (Yellow Fever, Typhoid) are good, no side effects to boot! 3. All that’s left is to pack …. and buy travel insurance. Except I’m going out [...]

I don’t usually care for stuff like this… but… ;_; 10th grade As I sat there in English class, I stared at the girl next to me. She was my so called “best friend”. I stared at her long, silky hair, and wished she was mine. But she didn’t notice me like that, and I [...]

I’m so not ready…

11, Dec 2009

… for this trip. 11 days till I’m off to Amsterdam, Nairobi and Kilimanjaro and I only have the hotel in Kilimanjaro booked. So I decided to do some reaserch tonight and realized that hotels in Nairobi are (alot) more expensive than I expected. So in frustration I turned to Twitter: me: Hotels in Kenya [...]

Today is World AIDS Day. I’m sure you’ve all seen the (RED) campaign and while I understand the “Buy (RED) and we’ll donate x% of the profits to fight AIDS” mentality, what I don’t understand is what Twitter, Facebook and the useless fluff have anything to do with it. Will adding the #red hashtag save [...]


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