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Culture Shock or “How’s the Serenity?”
Culture shock can be a complicated, confusing, disorienting experience. It is defined as the individual’s sense of dislocation when attempting to settle into a new environment. Moving cities can be hard enough. Moving countries requires you to adapt to foreign values, mannerisms, mind-sets … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle
Tagged culture shock, trailing spouse, transition shock
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Trendy Mediocrity with a Side Order of Inconsistency
I love Rockwell. There is always some new restaurant to try amongst the plethora to be found both inside and outside Power Plant Mall. My latest, belated discovery is Rambla. Apparently it has actually been there for almost twelve months, but … Continue reading
Snapshots of Japan
A clean and helpful clockwork world where a pair of missing glasses is located and returned before panic sets in. A lavatory with a heated seat, an in-built bidet, a video screen and a sound system that provides the noisy gush … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Japan, Travel
Tagged japan, kimono, Kochi, Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower, Tokyo
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“Selamat Datang!”
“I loved the heat. Hot, hot and then all the rain. It rains, you know, nearly every day in Malaya… It comes down in sheets, in buckets, nearly every day around the same time for an hour or two. And … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Malaysia, Travel
Tagged Bombay Palace, KLCC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Petronas Towers
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Blackbird: a transformation
One of the first snippets of local history I was handed when I arrived in the Philippines: Ayala Triangle, now the focal point of the Makati business district, was once an airport among rice fields, its original runway the stretch of … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Philippines
Tagged Ayala Triangle, Blackbird, Chef Colin McKay, Filipinas Heritage Library, manila, Nielson Tower, Philippines
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An Inn of Distinction
The Victoria is a glorious little boutique hotel tucked away down the narrow suburban streets of West Temple Sheen, just the other side of Richmond Park in London. Obediently, we followed our GPS off the motorway and onto the not-so-beaten-track. … Continue reading
Posted in England, Food & Wine, Travel
Tagged Greg Bellamy, Paul Merrett, The Victoria, West Temple Sheen
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Ducks are A-Dabbling III
A Thames Valley Journal: Part 3 “In it’s unbroken loveliness this is, perhaps, the sweetest stretch of all the river…” ~ Jerome K. Jerome Day 6: Marlow to Maidenhead Before we left the Vicarage, we popped into the Church-next-door, All Saints … Continue reading
Posted in England, Travel
Tagged Bisham Church, Boulter's Lock, Bourne End, Cookham, Eton, Maidenhead, The Christopher, The Old Lion, The Waterman's Arms, Windsor
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Ducks are A-Dabbling II
A Thames Valley Journal: Part 2 “Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow…” ~ Kenneth Graham Day 4: Pangbourne via Bus and Sonning to Shiplake Day four of our walking adventure found us wandering through peaceful water meadows, talking … Continue reading
Posted in England, Travel
Tagged Bisham, Henley, Marlow, Pangbourne, Shiplake, Sonning, Thames path, The Baskerville, The Bull, Zizzi's
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Ducks are a-Dabbling I
A Thames Valley Journal: Part 1 `DUCKS’ DITTY’ All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all! Ducks’ tails, drakes’ tails, Yellow feet a-quiver, Yellow bills all out of sight Busy in the river! ~ … Continue reading
Posted in England, Travel
Tagged Goring & Streatley, Jerome K. Jerome, Kenneth Graham, Moulesford, Oxford, Pangbourne, Sutton Courtenay, Thames path, Wallingford
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It’s Not Easy Being Green
“It’s not easy being green. It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things. And people tend to pass you over ’cause you’re not standing out Like flashy sparkles in the water, or stars in the sky.” So … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Philippines
Tagged Chit Juan, ECHOdeli, Echostore, Salcedo Village, sustainable
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