They say, if you love what you do, you are not working at all. But if you ask any 5-year old, what does he/she want to do when they grow up, I can bet you the answer will never be, “I want to be a travelling salesman!”

I have been a salesman all my life, spending most of my adulthood on the road. I spent over 150 nights in hotels,  earned my platinum badges for several travel loyalty programs, and most of these time I never took any real look at the surroundings I was in.

I started with shuttling between Hong Kong and Singapore. Then I was based there and travelled inland to China and westwards to Taiwan. And as my career (and waistline) progressed, travelled more and more to Pacific, India, and sometimes Europe and Americas for my work. I missed my family yet I love my job!

Because of my job, I have to entertain a fair bit, and therefore I took the effort to chronicle the food adventures with Live2Makan. But along the way, I got to enjoy a view like the one in the feature picture taken in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Enough of food porn! So this little section is to share all the trinkets of memories that are not gastronomic in nature.

• A day climbing the Great Wall (1/27/2020)
• A walk in the Elephant Mountain (2/4/2020)
• Akasaka Historic Walk (1/17/2020)
• Autumn in Japan (12/30/2017)
• Beijing Nanluogu Alley 南锣鼓巷 (3/4/2020)
• Changsha Part 1: Yuelu Mountain 嶽麓山 (6/29/2020)
• Changsha Part 2: Yuelu Academy – 1,000 years of education 嶽麓書院 (6/30/2020)
• Changsha Part 3: Museum of Chinese Academies 中國書院博物館 (7/1/2020)
• Changsha Part 4: A young Mao in Changsha 橘子洲 (7/2/2020)
• Changsha Part 5: Tianxin Pavilion 天心閣 (7/3/2020)
• Chaozhou Kaiyuan Temple 開元寺 (6/5/2020)
• Chaozhou Leng Ou Village 龙湖古寨 (4/9/2020)
• Chaozhou Night Out 潮州府韻 (4/13/2020)
• Dimsum in Guangzhou 去廣州吃點心 (5/14/2020)
• Drinking coffee with corgis (2/7/2020)
• Forbidden City – Sacred Animals (7/6/2019)
• Hangzhou Lingying Temple 靈隱寺 (5/6/2020)
• Hangzhou Night in West Lake 夜游西湖 (6/20/2020)
• Hoi An Central Market (7/11/2020)
• Kyoto and Nara (12/30/2017)
• Kyoto Arashiyama (12/30/2017)
• Land of Canals and Streams – Wuzhen (3/15/2017)
• Mao’s Hometown (6/23/2020)
• Remaking 西营盘 (6/6/2017)
• Sakura 2017 Tokyo (4/4/2017)
• Sakura 2019 Tokyo (5/28/2019)
• Shanghai – A walk in Tianzifang 田子坊 (9/9/2018)
• Shanghai – Drinking tea at Dak Town 大可堂 (3/14/2020)
• Summer Palace 颐和园 as a Garden (3/20/2020)
• Summer Palace 颐和园 as a Palace (3/19/2020)
• Swatow Old Town Tour 汕頭老城區 (4/17/2020)
• Tour of Chaozhou Part 1 Green Dragon Temple 潮州遊記 1/3 青龍古廟 (4/14/2020)
• Tour of Chaozhou Part 2 West Lake 潮州遊記 2/3 潮州西湖 (4/15/2020)
• Tour of Chaozhou Part 3 Guangji Bridge 潮州遊記 3/3 廣濟橋 (4/16/2020)
• Via Dolorosa (4/10/2020)
• Walk in Train Night Market (3/8/2019)
• Yangzhou Beautiful in March (4/29/2019)
• Yangzhou Dongguan Street 東關大街 (4/20/2019)
• Yangzhou Ge Garden 个園 (4/20/2019)
• Yangzhou Grand Canal 古運河 (4/20/2019)
• Yangzhou Slender Westlake 瘦西湖 (4/20/2019)

Museums

One of my favourite itinerary was to visit the museums. Museums always fascinate me, how people lived in the past, and a reflection of how we can live better from a moral altitude and civil responsibilities.

• Australian Museum, Sydney (6/2/2019)
• Changsha Bamboo Slips Museum (2/1/2017)
• Changsha Part 3: Museum of Chinese Academies 中國書院博物館 (7/1/2020)
• Cup Noodles Museum @ Yokohama (2/28/2020)
• Forbidden City – Gallery of Historic Architecture and Corner Towers (6/9/2019)
• Forbidden City – Life of the Empress (8/15/2019)
• Forbidden City – Treasures (6/2/2019)
• National Museum of China – HouMuWu Ding 后母戊鼎 (1/13/2020)
• Old Changsha Museum (1/31/2017)
• Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (2/17/2017)
• Shanghai Museum – Gallery of Ancient Chinese Bronze (4/21/2019)
• Te Papa Tongarewa (4/30/2014)
• Walt Disney Family Museum (5/21/2016)
• Yad Vashem (2/1/2017)