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Re-entering the darkness

  • 18 January 2017
I wasn’t procrastinating – I actually wasn’t planning on ever reading the book. It was going to be one for the mantelpiece, to adorn the bookshelf. After all, I spent a year working for the organisation founded by the author, so I didn’t just know the content – I was living right amongst it. It was a surprise, then, how much the opening chapters of The Locust Effect moved me. Two months back on board with International Justice Mission (IJM), now in Australia, and we’ve talked on a number of occasions about vicarious trauma. I’ve shared with my colleagues some of what I went through that year in Bolivia. They’ve shared about how advocating against cybersex trafficking has had a toxic personal effect on them.
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A cure for emotional jetlag

  • 13 December 2016
You've been feeling jetlagged this last week although you never left the state, let alone the time zone. Sometimes the world and your past come to you.
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My biography, as told by my booze

  • 6 September 2016
A personal atlas of alcohol. Before you get the wrong impression, this post is not about booze-filled nights from my backpacking days. It's an anthology of anecdotes and memories, linked by a common theme: alcoholic beverages. My discovery of different drinks parallels some important memories. These are what I'd like to share with you. So let me take you from my childhood, all around the world and back home again. In this brief autobiography, I'll let the alcohol do the talking.
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10 Tips For More Meaningful Travel

  • 8 July 2016
What's the difference between a tourist and a traveller? And how can we have more meaningful travel experiences even while traveling for leisure? Throughout my experiences of being a tourist, exchange student, international intern and expat, I have been reflecting constantly on these questions of identity, foreignness and the assumptions bound up in the practice and concept of travel.
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Seeya, Sydney

  • 28 June 2016
You cried the day I left. Well, I like to think grey skies and rain spattered across the…
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Reflections from the Reef

  • 27 April 2016
Dreaming Embedded somewhere in my subconscious is the ultimate Tourism Australia campaign. Sure I also learned how to…
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Next stop: Sydney

  • 1 December 2015
Tomorrow will be my first day in Monday to Friday, 9 to 5, paid employment in Sydney. There is…