A short dehydrated Asian girl (fresh off of a 12 hour flight from Shanghai after 16 months away from home) stood perplexedly in front of a display of bottled waters in an LAX airport store. The girl’s stream of consciousness went a little something like this: Cheapest bottle… cheapest bottle… aha! Dasani. $2.59— TWO FIFTY NINE USD?! That’s– that’s like …
Yearly Archives: 2011
Clouds and Bladders, Four!
The stars won this round. They sneaked into the battle without Clouds nor Bladders taking the slightest notice, at a time when Bladders were silent and Clouds slept in the darkness. If you, dear reader, are thoroughly confused at this point, let me recap: Round 1, Sept 2008, to the European lands: Clouds chosen, bladders protested, …
Shift
This blog has been driven by change. Changes in location (whether via traveling or living in a new country) bring reflections and stories. These stories are found without much effort because the fresh and the new are almost always experienced with heightened awareness. Changes in lifestages bring questions, reevaluations and realizations. Again, heightened awareness because of …
Change.
We all change. Constantly. We change as our lives converge with those of others… we change them… they change us. It’s hardly ever drastic and it’s usually difficult to pinpoint because it happens so naturally. We’re molded, shifted, altered based on our environment and those with whom we surround ourselves. It’s so subtle that it …
The Toilets of China
This could also be titled: How badly do you really need to go?? The Western Toilet I used to favor these out of habit. But then I came to the conclusion that sitting toilets are quite nonsensical. Why on earth would you want to put your bare backside on a surface of questionable cleanliness upon which another person’s bare …