Posts by Ellie
Malaysia – foodie heaven!
November 4, 2013
Time for a long-overdue update! As usual I’ve been very busy trying to get the work-life balance steady. This is no easy task when you have at least 2 modules that you barely understand, an ever looming design project and an entire country to distract you! It’s become standard to find myself in the computer …
Heading North: Cameron Highlands and the Orang Asli
October 9, 2013
The last couple of weeks have felt like university in overdrive mode. Moving from second year to third year is hard enough in a familiar environment, but doing it in a whole new country is one hell of a ride! Take the much more independent learning style, and add a number of complicating factors…for a …
Bangkok, Arrival and Week One
September 19, 2013
It’s been a long week, and it’s not even over yet! It started on Monday, right after a weekend in Bangkok (which was fantastic by the way – Thai cooking classes, night bike tour through the old city and temples, floating markets…). I got up before the crack of dawn on Monday to get myself …
Past, present and future
September 4, 2013
It’s been three years since I stood in the room I grew up in, halfway through the process of packing up my life to go to university for the first time. No matter the amount of preparation that goes on – hoarding piles of brochures with smiling students, three separate lists of “what to pack for …