culture
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Four days ago in the wee hours of the morning I felt a terrible itch that permeated throughout my whole body: its the kind of itch that makes you want to crawl out of your skin. Half awake, half asleep I eventually dozed back into sleep while my legs felt increasingly uncomfortable against my bedsheets
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In the several times that I’ve been to Japan, I’ve always been at awe at the Japanese strive for perfectionism and dedication to work. This Japanese concept of “kaizen” of continual improvement in the pursuit of perfection or “kodawari” is noticeable the moment you step off the plane and onto Japanese soil. I remember my
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I was thinking about growing up the other day and how some skills you acquire along the way depends a lot on where you live. Living in Thailand, as in any other asian country, life requires one to tip other people every now and then. A tip for good service, tip for the valet, tip
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On the day you go to visit Bang Pa-In the summer palace, you can also opt to go to the ancient capital of Ayutthaya were there are beautiful ancient temples at almost every turn. I had been to the ancient capital in my younger days when my Thai Professor took me on a trip to
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Amidst the boxes I’m happy I finally found my box of photo CDs. I’m delighted the DVD reader reads them well and the photographs are still there after almost a decade. I shall have to back them up. With digital cameras, I take more pictures but print less and then end up losing some when my
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What better month to start my virtual trip to Austria than in the month of love? Amongst the number of european cities I’ve visited, for me Vienna, Austria was by far the most romantic city of all. Even more romantic than Paris. You could wonder if it perhaps depended on whom I went on the
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I like, you like. We all like different things. Life is strange, everyone of us like different things. It makes things complicated sometimes, but then it is also the spice of life. Imagine how monotone and plain everything will be if everyone on earth all liked a particular shade of blue and loved the exact
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Languages are funny things. They evolve and transform over time. Different countries use different versions of the same language. Cleaning up some things from my previous trip to Singapore, I was reminded of this funny word I noticed while I was there. The word “alight.” Now I haven’t been to England for over a decade so I’m
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