After dinner at a friend’s, someone posed the question: if you were independently wealthy, say you have $10million, what would you do? Someone mentioned starting his own business, someone wanted to become an architect, most people would travel, and perhaps charity. My mind was a blank. I remember at another occasion being asked this question […]
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A year ago I was in Beijing
2012 has been a … difficult year, starting from the very beginning, in Beijing. Now that a year has passed and a future trip to Beijing may be on the horizon I think back on the difficult trip last year. There were a few fun moments that I will record now before they completely slip […]
Sushi, and commencement speeches
Two unexpected things touched me in the last couple of days. 1. Jiro Dreams of Sushi I am not a Sushi lover. I eat Sushi sometimes, but hardly ever have a craving for it. I went to the movie because Matthew suggested it and it has great reviews. Those reviews are not wrong. It’s a […]
rss image test
Experimenting with a plugin to add images to RSS feed. Now let’s see if this picture of Jeju shows up on the feed…
Pulau Dewata
Pulau Dewata is one of the names of the island of Bali, literally, “The Island of Gods”. I have often recalled hearing a piece of music on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio 2 back in the late 1980s. Radio 2 was still mostly broadcasting classical music, an odd specialty considering there were only 2 CBC […]
A few trips later
Inertia is what I call it. That’s what would explain my almost 1 year hiatus from my blog. How else can I explain it? I have traveled since Thailand – in fact, there have been multiple trips: sailing BVI, fishing Baja, Canada in two parts (visiting family and friends in Ontario, and then sailing the […]