When I travel, walking around town early in the morning is a pleasurable adventure; it is as though you catch the locals off guard and see them in real life. Perhaps they do not expect an outsider to trepass into their world at this hour. Food stalls that disappear after 7 a.m. - they serve local fare to the locals - the tourists are expected to eat something else. People washing on the pavement; laundry, vegetables, small children, grownups too. A man bathed with a water hose piped down from the floor above - humming blissfully to himself with a cigarette in his mouth the whole time.
Vignettes of city life such as this are hard to come by nowadays. But if you wake up early enough - even my hometown of Kuching has the ability to surprise me at times. Re-introducing me to local characters (and food) not seen since Primary school days. The rewards of waking up earlier and going for a walk in your town.
Market Road, Sibu\
hey min, i have an idea. you and your fellow architects seem to be prolific sketchers. i suggest we hand-make journals, with original sketches on one face and blank pages on the other face, give it a nice cover, and auction however many of those we can come up for charity. i would definitely buy one to carry around and write diary entries on my next vacation. watchoothink?
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