[Warning: A couple of graphic images in this post.] No words. Just concealed tears. The air felt stiff. So stiff it smothered my senses. I was painfully looking at a black and white photo of Armenian doctors hanged at Aleppo Square, 1916. In my peripheral view I caught sight of other visitors, barely moving, fixated…
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Dinosaur Discovery: Lost Creatures of the Cretaceous
“Emu’s grandparents were dinosaurs, remember, mummy?”, Luna was clutching her emu doll. They are ratites, and would have descended from dinosaurs. That was me talking in my head. What I actually told her, “Yes, but great great great great great grandparents!”. Amazing how that, out of the million things I read to her in the…
Hyde Park Barracks Museum, Sydney, Australia
That Psychedelic Village Named Nimbin
Duuude, it’s 420! We ain’t celebrating with a slice of space cake though. No Puff, The Magic Dragon either. To commemorate this uhm, counterculture holiday, let’s do a different kind of “trip”, shall we? A psychedelic visual trip. The talk of spliff takes me down two travel memory alleys. That of Amsterdam’s (where possession of …
Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay: Anniversary On The Rock
A little above ten degrees centigrade, and we were cowering inside the souvenir shop at Pier 33’s Hornblower Alcatraz Landing. The longer we stayed, the more unnecessary knick-knacks I purchased. We drove all the way from Santa Clara, California where we were shacking for one month, under the spell of our nifty GPS gadget sitting…
Colonia Santa María la Ribera, Mexico City: Morisco Kiosk And Museo del Instituto de Geología de la UNAM
Almost every bench had a kissing couple, I felt like we were in the set of some Mexican telenovela. The backdrop consisted of trees gently swaying, soft sun rays dancing, and a multihued gazebo sitting pretty in the middle of the block. It was a peaceful early afternoon stroll in Colonia Santa María la Ribera’s…
Photo Essay: Geek Out At Intel Museum
Oh how crestfallen these geek parents were when we learned about Intel Museum’s temporary closure due to renovation during our visit in May of last year. It was our first time to step foot on San Francisco Bay Area’s famed Silicon Valley and aside from the hubby’s job interview, we only got our eyes set…
Madurai, India: Gandhi Museum And Its Resident Dinosaur (I kid you not)
“Four kilometers, is it? Let’s walk.”, I was being stubborn. And well, the hubby was being cheap as usual. It was February last year. We just hopped off a bus we took from Vandiyur Mariamman Thepakkulam, one of the largest temple tanks in south India (Yes folks, they build temples on artificial islands in the…
Huaca Pucllana, Lima, Peru: The Ruins And A Red Balloon
Photo Essay: National Museum of Anthropology (Museo Nacional de Antropología), Mexico City
If your adrenaline junkie soul reckons museum ambling is a bore, this one might spark your interest for it could literally keep you on your toes. Spread across an area of more than seven hectares, with multiple exhibition halls, National Museum of Anthropology could easily burn your whole day. But if you intend to do…