Friday, 10 July 2015

Putting travel writing to the Limpeh test

As a travel writer myself, I do often take the travel writing of other travel writers with a large pinch of salt - after all, I find myself all too often rolling my eyes and thinking, "yeah, right." But am I too cynical? In this piece that I have done for Alvinology, I have taken five pieces of travel writing and subjected them to my cynicism. Actually, I turned out to be less cynical than I thought, please have a read and see how I reacted to these five stories. Many thanks for reading.

PS. Can you identify the scenic spot where I took this photo back in 2011? I am on the extreme right in this photo.
Is your perfect holiday story just impossible to believe?

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2 comments:

  1. KnotsInLife12 July 2015 at 16:24

    1) Young man age unknown? But can tell he is young / ignorance otherwise would has reacted on his own way. It can be that he is timid by nature.

    2) Other passengers in train usually try not to confronting / involved unless requested or bully is too aggressive (most Singaporeans).

    3) The one filming may has the intention to made proof & too timid to say anything that moment.

    4) Everyone for yourselves are Singaporeans 2nd nature by now (being pressured top down for too long).

    Thank you for 5 advices & hope Singaporeans have learnt well to self defend themselves when confronted with same scenario.

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    1. Limpeh Foreign Talent13 July 2015 at 00:55

      Hi KnotsInLife, you seem to have posted the comment on the wrong post but no matter ... I hope you like my travel writing as well.

      1. We don't know the age of the young man. But even if you are timid, you don't just allow yourself to be abused like that. Even a timid person can run away from the situation, to get away from the attacker. Timid is not the word - I think he has just such extremely low self-esteem that he believes he deserves to be abused in public.

      2. Well, the young man should have asked for help. I talked about this in my piece.

      3. Again, I don't think that being timid is a valid excuse.

      4. Now that's just fucked up. Like seriously fucked up.

      5. I hope I can introduce some common sense into the debate about self-defence because seriously, the number of idiots who think that the young man did the right thing is driving me NUTS.

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