Travels
Grounded
Vinny and I are heading to Ha Giang for the weekend. We're planning to graze the China border on motorbikes where limestone outcrops, mountains the the great big skies reign.
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Travels
Halong Day
Spent my birthday having wine under the stars on the deck of a boat, wondering what kind of career I'll have, will I relate to my friends who are now VPs with salaries in the six figures, and sloshing around Captain Morgan's with Coke.
Travels
Twilight Mix
There was a weird moment yesterday when I experienced traveler's vertigo. Friends were visiting from Indonesia and Chile.
Twentysomething
Gospel of Judas II
So the National Geographic's episode on the Gospel of Judas was really interesting. It starts out as a predictable 'whodunit' detective series on how the codex was discovered, bought, stolen, bought, and analyzed, with predictable re-enactments.
Twentysomething
Grups
Am I part of the Ipod phenomenon? (Low supply and high demand = hipsterdom, but look around and everyone has Ipods hooked up) Am I part of the unrelenting Peter Pan syndrome?
Tech & Etc
Diverging Paths
Another example of Wikipedia's supreme usefulness as a tool for procrastination. A must read (for hours) if you think of yourself in any way a Christian. Do most Christians even know what they believe -- the roots, the history behind it? Wikipedia's Christian Theological Contreversies. If
Twentysomething
Addition by subtraction
yuppienomad has formulated a new proof for me. Thinking back on it, it encapsulates what many of my female friends have told me from time to time
Travels
What's Sapa?
I'm gonna take advantage of the weather and head out of the city next week, north to Lao Cai and Sapa and the mountains, regions that other travelers have noted the most beautiful in Vietnam.
Travels
Bitter Asian Men
Of course, as an Asian guy, I'm tempted to say 'grow some balls' and dare to be different to all these Asian guys who complain about their station in society. But I feel a little sorry for them too, because after centuries of Western stereotypes, we are in a pretty bad position.
Travels
Angel Lane
Oprah rocks. With her Angel Lane project to build homes for the displaced by Katrina in Houston, Texas, she has done more publicly than the US govt. ever did.
Travels
Flickr Updated
Just made some updates to the photostream on Flickr. More China and S. Vietnam pictures. Feliz Primavera. The black and whites came out better than I thought. great pics :) Posted by: blowingbubbles | March 21, 2006 at 05:52 AM
Twentysomething
Leave me dry
Hanoi rains interminably. Seems like the sky ripped open and the sea above has come pouring down for the last week.