Article Archive for April 2019
Breakfast, a Comfy Shoebox Room, and Mystery Stairs
It was a pleasant surprise to learn that the Lil Yangon Hostel provided breakfast in the morning for its guests. I started my first day in Yangon enjoying that breakfast, and then I settled in for a very long wait as my single room was prepared. I wasn’t able to move out of the temporary double room they gave me until the current resident of …
Goodbye, Kuala Lumpur (for now); Hello, Yangon
When I booked my flight from Kuala Lumpur to Yangon (Myanmar), I had to choose between flying out early in the morning or late at night. Since I’m a morning person, I chose the early flight at 6:45 a.m. But, perhaps, I should have done the math on that. Once you take into account getting to the airport 2 hours early and the trip to …
GoPro TimeWarp in Kuala Lumpur — From Low Yat Plaza to Pasar Seni by MRT
What do you do when you buy your very first GoPro? You try out the TimeWarp feature of course.
And here it is, TimeWarp all the way from where I bought the GoPro to my hostel in Chinatown.
STORYTIME: 3 GoPros in 3 Days! (Freezing and Glitches – Defective Firmware?)
With much fanfare, I bought and unboxed my very first action camera: a GoPro Hero 7 Black. Things did not go smoothly as I charged the battery, updated the firmware, and otherwise got it set up. I ran into all kinds of glitches and issues that confused me. But I powered through. All of that is in the previous video.
The next day, I took my …
GoPro Hero 7 Black – Buying/Unboxing (+ In-depth first impressions & test clips)
I’m breaking all of my own rules these days. One such rule is to avoid buying brand new tech just before a trip. It’s just asking for trouble. You’ve got to buy this stuff a month or two in advance to have enough time to work out any wrinkles and learn how to use it.
But, just four days before my flight to Myanmar, I …
5-Snacks, a Haircut, and a Thunderstorm in KL’s Little India (Day 2: Jalan Padang Belia)
I set myself up for a 5-Street, 5-Snack, 5-Day challenge for Little India, and this is Day 2. I’d hoped to finish all 5 challenges before going to Myanmar, but a certain GoPro got in the way and took up all of my remaining time. (LOTS more about that in the next video.) The remaining 3 days have to wait until I return to Malaysia …
Getting a Myanmar Tourist Visa (and a Bonus Snack!)
I apply for a tourist visa for Myanmar at Ever Fine Services in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. After that, I sample a special Taiwanese dessert called a snowflake. The owner of the Bingo snowflake shop treated me to a mango snowflake, and it was amazing.
Planning a Trip to Myanmar and Buying a Microphone
My flight to Myanmar was coming up fast, and I still had a lot of things to do to get ready. I had booked my flight, but I still needed to get a tourist visa. And that meant preparing documents to bring to the agency. On top of that, I was still having camera issues. The main one for today was audio, and I …