Author: Marina M.
Marina M. thinks she should be invited to design jetplanes to make them more comfortable and user-friendly, having spent years flying with babies and husband in tow as well as alone. She is dreading the advent of mobile phone access on planes because long plane flights are the only time she is totally cut off from everyone else and she likes it that way.
Beating Jet Lag: When Your Mind And Body Can’t Agree On The Time
This year has been extraordinary for me in that I’ve made so many long-distance time-zone crossing trips over very short periods of time, both planned and unplanned. While generally I enjoy long plane flights for their insulation against earth-bound work and irritations, it does mean that I also have to suffer that inevitable side-effect: Jet…Secrets For Women On How Not To Be Schizo (When You Travel)
What I am talking about are the physical effects of travel, when your body starts behaving as if it belongs to another person entirely. This happens when...
Marina Mahathir Reviews GrabCar+
I don’t use taxis much in KL. I have a driver who takes me everywhere so efficiently that I rarely need to look to see where he takes me. As a result, on...
Essential Travel Tips – How To Survive A Foreign Toilet
In 1995, along with some 30,000 other women ( and a few men), I attended the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. Or, to put it more precisely
A Lost Luggage Saga
There are some things we take for granted when travelling abroad, especially to first world countries. One is that our luggage won’t get lost.
International Women’s Day
Every year on March 8, I get the same cynical question from men. “Why,” they ask, “should women have a day all to themselves?”
How To Travel Like A Pro
That may sound like an unfortunate title since professional escorts at the top of their game are known to jet round the world to service their clients.What You Should Really Know About Kuala Lumpur
Depending on where you’re coming from, Kuala Lumpur (always called KL by the locals) is either orderly or chaotic. Those coming from neighbouring countries marvel at our ‘orderliness’; the fact that we actually stop at traffic lights, don’t normally run down pedestrians on zebra crossings and do not have hawkers clogging our pavements.My City, My Home: Watching Bangsar Grow
I came to live in Bangsar by chance. While looking for a house to buy, and doggedly insisting on other areas of KL, the real estate agent persuaded me to look at a house that she said I could move in ‘right away’.
Marina Mahathir: Women & Travel in Asia – Zafigo & How It All Came About
When I was packing for a meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan some years ago, I faced a dilemma. What on earth is appropriate to wear in that country? From what I’ve heard it’s a conservative country, so what should I wear for this meeting?
