chapter four – my 30s
Happy Chinese New Year! Welcome to the year of the Ox! According to Wikipedia:
The Ox is the sign of prosperity through fortitude and hard work. This powerful sign is a born leader, being quite dependable and possessing an innate ability to achieve great things. As one might guess, such people are dependable, calm, [...]
I don’t usually participate in meme’s, but the meme Jim Byford tagged me with is a pretty good exercise. Not to mention the fact that I haven’t written a post in December yet, I needed to be inspired and Jim’s post did the trick.
A site called Mindapples has started a meme asking [...]
A friend of mine asked me last night what I thought of the situation in Mumbai. I answered that I find it, like all terrorist attacks, crazy. It’s a sad reaction by desperate misguided individuals who don’t value other human lives as much as they should. After that I qualified my response [...]
I remember where I was the planes crashed the towers.
I remember where I was when the US invaded Afghanistan.
I remember where I was when I found out that Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States… bed. Switzerland’s 6 hours ahead of Eastern Standard time so I slept not so well, [...]
Like most of the rest of the world, I’ve been really interested in the US election this year. It’s been the most anticipated and tightly fought battles in my lifetime and I think it’s very cool to be an adult with so many American friends and family living in America at this time.
But the [...]
One of the things I’m discovering about Switzerland is that they force you to assimilate by offering you less of everything.
Examples:
95% of the gyms in Switzerland do not open before 9am. Which means working out in the AM is next to impossible
All the retail stores are closed on Sunday and most are [...]
So Elton Brand opts out so his team can sign Baron Davis and looks like a hero until he signs with Philadelphia. Kind of reminds me of the job Carlos Boozer did on the Cleveland Cavaliers a couple of years ago. Chris Kaman goes to the Olympics with Germany, something about his great [...]
Let’s recap here, fuel prices are going up and up and up. People want to have a work-life balance. The internet has revolutionised the way people communicate. So why do we need to be in the same place to work together? We don’t.
Sure being in the same room as people you [...]
This morning I saw a headline and story that bothered me on my feed reader,
Obama under fire after fundraiser remarks (Reuters)
Reuters – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama came under fire on Friday for saying small-town Pennsylvania residents were “bitter” and “cling to guns or religion,” in comments his rivals said showed an elitist [...]
Cathy pointed me to the LordsoftheBlog.net today. It’s about page describes it as:
“a collaborative blog written by Members of the House of Lords for the purposes of public engagement.”
Last year I discovered David Cameron’s blog, I was skeptical (sk or sc? Seems like it can be spelt both ways) and unsure as to [...]