Off the plane, I catch a taxi with some guy and head to the hotel I previously stay at. I set my things down and head “downtown” for a small walk. Around the main impressive Town Hall, the only decent looking building in this city, I notice a big gathering. I try to ask around [...]
It’s quite unique experiencing the country you grew up in through the eyes of a tourist. I don’t really know what it was like for my Asian friends to show me around their countries and hear my responses, but I can imagine it was quite naive and bizarre. Erin, a Jewish Canadian girl I met [...]
One of the strangest things at the Far-East day was when they screened a video the Chinese students did. Behind me were a few Chinese reporters, some men, some women, and they were having a fairly good time. The video has started off with a warning that the video is about to display very bizarre [...]
(About the Far East day announced here)
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Last part of the evening, I was sitting 2nd row from the back with the students studying Japanese, and behind me were some Chinese reporters that came by to cover the weird event in which a bunch of Israelis were singing Karoeoke songs in Chinese and Japanese, dancing to [...]
As part of my job I try and track things that are happening in the field I’m consulting in. Not that it’s really needed, but it makes me feel as though there’s progress and that I’m going somewhere. There are many tools that I use for that, reading some websites, following some blogs through RSS [...]
We’ve been brought up to believe that the less that we do, officially - the more free time we have. Lately, I’m finding that very hard to prove. Although, on paper, I have a LOT of spare time, I rarely get to all the things I want to do, and I can’t find a single [...]
