From an elevator in Fortune Town in Bangkok. I was tempted to take a look on Level 4.5, but decided not to risk getting stuck in limbo.

While searching for an article on one of my hard disks, I came across a long-forgotten folder submerged in the depths of the “organisation” system on my computer. Among the bits and pieces in the folder was this Top 10 list I barely remember writing.
Top 10 Differences Between Lenses and Love
10. You can sell a [...]

This is a screenshot from cnet news, with an embedded video of Steve Jobs announcing OS X Leopard at WWDC yesterday. The caption for the video reads:

Jobs takes jab at Vista
At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, CEO Steve Jobs takes a swipe at Microsoft by announcing Leopard is being released in different [...]

Sometimes, even the most simple of tasks can become quite a challenge. Recently in Bangkok, a friend was having trouble opening a durian fruit, so I offered to lend a hand.
More friends were on hand to watch and record our herculean struggle on video. They were only using a small still camera, the Canon [...]

Back in the days when I had a respectable office job, I got bored a lot. (I’m sure this never happens to anyone else with respectable office jobs.) So I kept myself mentally occupied by thinking of new projects, sorting out lists of clients I needed to touch base with, and occasionally, just daydreaming (ok, [...]

While on a business trip to Seattle a few years ago, I stayed with a friend, at another friend’s house. One afternoon, our friend drove us around for a tour of the town.
In a particularly scenic and quaint neighborhood, she parked her shiny, clean white VW beetle under a row of trees, and we [...]

Here’s an example of practical advice.
This is a sign on a pole in a train station in Tokyo. Loosely translated, it says, “Watch out for pigeon sh*t”, with the exclamation point serving the dual function of emphasising the admonition, and also directing the reader to look up.
Tell-tale multi-coloured, multi-shaped splotches on the floor [...]

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, part of the United Nations) has released a report indicating that cattle are a more significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation industry.

Another amusing sign in Japan, this one announcing the opening of a stained grass museum. From the outside, the museum actually looks quite posh, so you’d think they could have afforded a proofreader, or at least a dictionary! But I haven’t actually gone inside, so for all I know there could actually be tinted vegetation [...]

I was looking through more photos from my recent trip to North Sulawesi, and came across this, which I had completely forgotten about!
A few minutes into a dive at the Sahaung II dive site in Bangka, I felt a strange sensation on one my legs, sort of a repetitive nibbling feeling. Of course, since I [...]

One of the great things about travelling all over the world is that I’ve been able to pick up bits and pieces of different languages — often just enough to get myself into trouble, but not enough to dig myself out.