Seated next to a knitting hottie on the train 😊
#Treinleven #LatourOnTour #Knitting #GoodMorning
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In related news: ik reageer blijkbaar hetzelfde op jonge mannen die dicht om me heen gaan staan, met de zaklamp van hun telefoons in m’n gezicht schijnen en me van zo dichtbij filmen terwijl ze roepen wat een lelijke *bliep* ik ben, als mijn zus reageert op mijn neefjes die een beetje te lomp […]
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Wat is het nut van het NS “onveilig gevoel in de trein” telefoonnummer als hun enige reactie “niets van aan trekken, joh” is?
Like… ??
#Treinleven #LatourOnTour #NS
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BTW: even though Deutsche Bahn cannot reasonably be blamed for the events that resulted in an unexpected and very brief visit to Japan… I had planned to take a train from the airport to the mainland, but that train wasn’t running that morning, so as I entered the replacement bus, it felt like I […]
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Me in sunnies on a Japanese local train, grinning way too widely and gesturing towards the empty seats behind me
A stone carved guard dog in front of a shrine
Info sign at platform 2 of a train station, with a train in the background. The 9:55 am departing train is the one bound for Wakayamashi (NK45). The next train is the 10:02 am rapid train to Kansai Airport
A lone man stands on a man-made stone barrier, looking out over the water to the airport in the other side of the bay. Blue sky, sunny
In a rather extreme edition of #LatourDetour, we have now visited Rinku, Izumisano, and Iharanosato, Japan.
#LatourOnTour #LatourDetour #Japan #Trains #Travel
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From Wikipedia: prefix ta- or da-: frequentative galung (to roll) → tagalung (to roll around) dep (to hide oneself) → dadep (to be wont to hide oneself)
Another thing I learned today was that the Cham language uses prefixes to create frequentatives.
Unlike English’s suffixes (daze -> dazzle, sniff -> sniffle) and Dutch’s infixes (huppen -> huppelen, klinken -> klingelen) […]
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The answer Tony settled on was that it lasts at least a thousand years because it’s made of sandstone which is so soft that it’ll never crack, unlike marble.
This is obvious BS, but in a romantic enough way that I’m not mad about it. I find that there are many granite and blue hardstone mines […]
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Tony the tour guide gestures a grinding motion with his hands while standing next to a rice grinder
Anyway so this was all prompted by me wondering how many kg of rice you can grind in this rice grinder before it needs to be replaced.
#latourontour #vietnam #Travel #Rice #RicePaper #Cooking
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I must admit that I have earned the “huh. Interesting question. I don’t know the answer. Nobody ever asked me that “ badge on many a guided tour, which suggests that I ask a lot…
#LatourOnTour #Travel
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Tony: do you have questions? Any more questions? Just ask me, okay?
Australian tourist: *turns sharply towards me* sssshhh
#LatourOnTour #Vietnam #Travel
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lol the other tourists just told me to stop asking questions 🥲
#LatourOnTour #Vietnam #Travel
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Update: I’m in her seat!
Not enjoying this tour as much as the last one. While Handsome Hau seemed to have been genetically engineered to be the most energetic and cheerful tour guide, Tony the Tour Guide is mostly focused on making sure that everybody understands what he says. This isn’t […]
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Okay so it seems that the reason that we left 15 minutes late is that the German tourist thought she was going on a tour with two friends, but each of them managed to book the same tour at a different time, which was why they weren’t there at the pickup point.
Tony the Tour Guide has been […]
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Found two more tourists and reached the main vehicle. Sadly no seatbelt on my chair, but others have seatbelts and don’t use them. Life’s unfair, I guess, and so might death be, the way things are going.
#LatourOnTour #Travel #Vietnam
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After many phone calls, we finally found the first tourist. She loudly yelled “hello good morning” in a German accent as she entered the vehicle and is putting the “germ” into “German” by sneezing all over the place, so I think we’ll get along great! /s
#LatourOnTour #Travel #Vietnam
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Text exchange Me, 7:24: Good morning! I’m waiting in the hotel lobby Them, 7:26: Driver is on the way to come with you a few minutes , Thank you so much and Have a good day ! Them, 7:28: 💥💥
I’m going on another guided tour today. Was picked up at the hotel at 7:30. Now, 20 minutes later, we’re trying to pick up two other tourists, but we can’t find them 😬
I’ve done these kinds of guided tours in Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia, but have never […]
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Oh we found the guy. He went down the wrong set of steps.
He’s now being scolded by Handsome Hau about sticking with the group.
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Driver just got out also, to also look at the forest.
#LatourOnTour
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lol we lost one of the group and are now driving away without him… Handsome Hau made the driver drive to a patch of forest and he’s outside now, looking at his phone and the forest and back at his phone…
#LatourOnTour
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lol my tour guide’s phone’s battery died, but since I’m me, I always carry not one, but two charged power banks, so we’re good for now 😅
#LatourOnTour #BePrepared #Vietnam #Travel #PowerToTheTourGuide
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My hotel serves kopi c at breakfast 😋
#LatourOnTour #Kopi #KopiC #MakanApaToday
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The couple next to me in the restaurant are asking ChatGPT to explain the 6 7 meme to them.
#LatourOnTour #Memes
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Just had my first egg coffee at a cafe with a very lovely waitress who (accurately) guessed that it was my first and politely explained how to drink it. Will leave her a good review when I have WiFi again. Coffee was excellent.
The heavily smoking uncle next to me told me that you’d pay 7 USD […]
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Exhibit of assorted bombs and fire arms, including a US napalm bomb
Museum text in Vietnamese and English. English text reads: THE VICTORY OF MOTHER NHU AND THE SEVEN THANH KHE HEROES (DECEMBER 26, 1968) Mother Nhu (Le Thi Danh) and Mother Le Thi Hien were two secret bases of the urban guerrillas in Thanh Khe neighborhood. On the early morning of December 26, 1968, due to a betrayal, the bases were exposed. The enemy surrounded and opened fire. Three guerrillas in the underground shelter of Mother Như's house, along with four others in Mother Hien's house, coordinated their efforts to fight back against two enemy battalions, killing and wounding more than 80 enemy soldiers and capturing numerous weapons. In this battle, comrade Nguyen Van Hue and Mother Nhu heroically sacrificed their lives, while comrades Nguyen Dinh Nam and Nguyen Van Chi were captured and imprisoned by the enemy until the day of liberation.
Map of Vietnam showing in red the bomb and mine areas, and stating that 18.82% of the country is contaminated with landmine/UXO
Sepia Portraits of Mother Nhu (Le Thi Danh) and Mother Le Thi Hien and a picture of Mother Nhu's house where the fighting of 7 soldiers of the city's special force in District Il occurred, December 26, 1968
[American Vietnam war]
Visiting the Da Nang museum and realising I know really very little about this war, let alone from the Vietnamese perspective. Exhibit gets pretty graphic. Not sharing all of that, but it’s pretty horrific.
#Vietnam #DaNang #LatourOnTour #War #VietnamWar #Museum #History
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A takeaway box with two durian pods, covered in plastic. It’s sitting on a table that belongs to a place called Durian 36
Same box, now opened, and my plastic glove-covered hand is holding part of a pod, mid-eating
Bin with discarded durian shells, discarded mangosteen shells, plain gloves and a coconut
[Durian]
Fuck, yeah.
#Food #Durian #LatourOnTour #Singapore
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I’m having a late lunch of nasi Padang in a vegetarian restaurant, and the German next to me clearly woke up and chose violence today, because he’s telling the restaurant owner that laksa is Indian, actually, so they’re not actually serving Singaporean cuisine.
#LatourOnTour #MakanApaToday […]
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My messaging app with my friend saying: “what’s the turnout like at socials?” And me responding: “so far just me”
The calendar event for the social on swingout.sg
POV: you’ve planned your trip around Friday socials, ppl have told you that they’ll be at the Friday socials, so you arrive at the Friday socials, only to find out that Friday socials were cancelled over a year ago and nobody bothered removing the recurring […]
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Title slide of a presentation. Title: The Complexity of Testing Message-Passing Concurrency Authors: Zhen Shi (NUS), Lasse Møldrup (Aarhus University), Umang Mathur (NUS), Andreas Pavlogiannis (Aarhus University)
POV: you need a break from your vacation so you attend a seminar about a cool new paper at your old university. 🤓
paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3776643
preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05162
#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #ProfessorLife […]
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My hand holding up a plastic cup with kopi peng, and a snack, in front of a place called “cool spot” that sells drinks and snacks.
Kopi bro remembered me and my order.
Excuse me while I just sit and cry my eyes out for an hour 😭🥰
#NUS #Singapore #Kopi #KopiBroIsTheGOAT
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Fort Canning Hill was one of the most prominent landmarks for ships entering the harbour. It was an ideal location for the lighthouse as its strategic position provided an expansive view of the Singapore Harbour. The first signal light on Fort Canning Hill was a simple lantern mounted at the top of the flagstaff in 1855. Before the Fort Canning Lighthouse was completed, a smaller fixed-gas contraption known as the harbour light was used to signal to ships entering Singapore's waters. With its completion in 1903, the lighthouse became one of the most important navigational aid for ships moving in and out of Singapore's waters.
During the Japanese occupation of Singapore (1942-1945), the lighthouse was neglected by the new rulers, but the dedicated and faithful lighthouse, keepers who had operated the facility before the British surrendered did not allow the building to fall into disrepair. They risked their lives to conceal critical components of the lighthouse mechanism, rendering the lighthouse unusable to the Japanese. In secret, the men continued to keep the lighthouse equipment in good working condition, ensuring that the building remained safe and liveable. When the British returned to power in 1945, the lighthouse resumed its role after the caretakers unearthed the vital lighthouse apparatus they had carefully kept hidden during the Japanese occupation. In 1948, the Union Jack was once again ceremoniously hoisted at the lighthouse.
THE CLOSING OF FORT CANNING LIGHTHOUSE For more than a decade after the Japanese occupation, the Fort Canning Lighthouse continued to serve as an essential aid to navigation for merchants and traders moving in and out of Singapores waters. The light produced by the Fort Canning Lighthouse performed an important role on 19 September 1950 when a generator failed at the St James Power Station. Singapore was thrown into total darkness for an hour and a half in the most serious power cut the country had ever experienced. During that period, the lighthouse remained as the only constant Light source in the city. The Fort Canning Lighthouse was closed on 14 December 1958 as the development of tall buildings obstructed it from being seen from the sea. A new Fullerton Lighthouse was erected atop the Fullerton Building (now known as the Fullerton Hotel) instead. There, it occupied an advantageous sea-facing position and more importantly, was electricity-enabled. The ray of light from the Fullerton Lighthouse was also significantly stronger than the Fort Canning Lighthouse. The Fullerton Lighthouse shone brightly until 1979, when it was dismantled and replaced by the Bedok Lighthouse - the first automated lighthouse that did not require any lighthouse keeper to man it. Singapore Waterfront
Fort Canning lighthouse, seen from sight higher up the hill. Is an open structure of white metal, with a red light in the top. In the background are trees and a few tall buildings. The sky is mostly overcast, but the full moon is peeking through the clouds.
@venite Fort Canning lighthouse (no longer functional) , yesterday evening.
#Lighthouse #Singapore #LatourOnTour #History
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