The concept of the Metro Rail train system is to provide fast, efficient mass transportation that cuts through traffic and carries people from end-to-end cities in 30 minutes or less. Just like your favorite pizza delivery service. I just made that up as I typed, because I thought it made sense that people were delivered to places much faster than pizza. The one other metro rail line I’ve been on—the MTR in Hong Kong–seems to agree with me though. After a Hong Kong MTR train leaves the platform, a one-minute timer starts followed shortly by a cool voice on the…
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I Googled, but this poem did not exactly appear. But that’s what Hunter said to his blind tutor Will Fratalli in the Beastly movie anyway. The scene can come out a bit cheesy to rom-com cynics, but the poem is a good fun read. That should be enough for salvage value. Having a Coke with You Having a Coke with you is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian…
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To welcome 2012 I made a list of things I wanted to do, because fulfillment and action were the themes of that New Year. It summed up to be quite a tough yet full 365 days, and I’ve looked forward to seeing it close just so I can start on a blank page. Next level multitasking can do that to you. So for 2013 I write another list, this time of things I need to learn, because I am always a work in progress. And that’s a good thing. 1. Don’t obsess over things I don’t need to decide on…
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Of course you can learn plenty of things from manga! Reading is always an educational journey, and though comic books employ more drawings vis a vis words, it is a visually aided education nonetheless. From something as rich and action-filled as the history-based romantic story of Rurouni Kenshin, you can pick up nuts of knowledge such as the different ways a sword can maim you, names of Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu techniques, and specialty sweets in Kyoto. I’ve learned the following things too:
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It is not really an invasion, when said man is the father and said women are his wife and children. But any child of an OFW will attest to being so used to absence that presence now is an awkward state. And so it is in the first few weeks to months whenever father comes home for his much deserved vacation from the deserts. I’ve been living through this transition for a while, and there are a few noteworthy things: 1. Driving gets stressful for the passenger. Before any other man protests, this is not a general rule, but in our…
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Herein is the annual report prepared by the WordPress.com stats helper monkeys (that was a fun mental image). These are hardly impressive numbers compared to those of the popular blogger-cum-celebrities. But still, I apparently got clicks from 109 countries and I think that is awesome 🙂 Hmm, have to be more discerning in what I put in here. Responsibilities, responsibilities~ Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. My blog got about 8,800 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 15 years…