What is Juppie?!

After writing a successful proposal about traveling in south East Asia through a young person’s perspective, I was awarded a travel Scholarship by the University of East London (UEL)
in early 2008.
My original project proposal, that I devised myself, was to travel to South East Asia mainly Malaysia, but I luckily managed to go to Singapore, Thailand, Melbourne and Japan as well. The proposal included creating and producing an online mixed media blog/magazine issue, which would be available as a PDF version of the destinations I visited.

‘Juppie’ is chosen title of the magazine and is about my travel adventures and experiences of other cultures, cities and south East Asian youth and student life. I got to meet and interview interesting young, talented, creative people.
Juppie covers a huge variety of subjects; my journey, and epic adventure, youth, economy, society, religion, law, weather, wildlife, food, fashion, nightlife, travel, the bizarre, environment, sport, places of interest, art and music.
As I had never been to any of these places before and initially would be traveling on my own, I decided on using universities in South East Asia, Melbourne and Japan that are linked to UEL, as my base.
When I left on the 12th August 2008, I only had a return ticket from Kuala Lumpur to come back on the 29th September. Every other detail of my trip was then pretty much unplanned…

Click, Read, download, Listen, play, and explore the area…

I hope you enjoy finding out what I have been up to…