I had 3 days off. Combine that with the weekend and you have a mini holiday. The best thing to do, if you live and work in Hanoi, in many people’s opinion, is to get the hell out of that city and enjoy a less crowded, less polluted, less noisy corner of the planet. As […]
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The jam It was June. The open air monthly jam session from the cute Dutch city of Haarlem was reenacted once again. The power of music united souls again. as it did on the first Saturday of every month. While some of us were using the art of sound to express ourselves, others were using
It’s time to slow down, dear travelerHave some rest,You’ve come a long wayWith the speedOf a rocketOn an interstellar freewayYou are weary, you are tenseSit down, have some sense Have a hot bowl of noodlesOr a flamboyant glassOf fruity red delicious wine Yes, my dear travelerA small treat, a nice retreatAfter a long distanceAnd a
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I see stones I see temples I see the green valley Lying right ahead I see Thailand In the blue distance The monks join me Flashing their orange outfits In a place Where everything fits I chop down the scene With the blade of my mind Pick up the bits And build a raft To
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I began the lesson as usual. I was in one of the funny classes were I really enjoyed myself. I walked in and everyone stood up. I asked them one or two questions to get the atmosphere going. “ARE YOU HAPPY?” I asked all of them while they still stood up. “NO!” Most of them
Tori Onawa had always prided himself on his combobulation. His combobulation was his primary benchmark to measure his overall well-being. A combobulated day was a successful day for Tori. He had never witnessed a discombobulated day in his whole life. But one day that changed. A discombobulation was bound to happen sooner or later in
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Many people will agree that high school is arguably the most intense time to be alive during the process of growing up as a human being. Some remember it dearly. Some dreadfully. The matter of fact is that during high school one of the most important breakthroughs concerning the individual’s existence happens. It is during
I was waiting for the plane to take off. I had just finished spending 2 weeks in Bali. Why Bali? Because I’d already been in Indonesia for nearly 5 months. I was just finishing my exchange semester in that country and my visa would last a few more weeks. So the best thing anyone could
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I want to talk a little bit about cheese. This isn’t any story or riddle with some hidden meaning or any epistle dedicated to something or someone in particular, except maybe to cheese a little bit. I simply felt like talking about cheese. There are a few great things in this crazy world we’re living
We went outside As darkness crept once again On the same familiar streets But it wasn’t any night For it was that one time When mother Earth completed Another full rotation In the form of space flotation Around the same old Light giving ball of fire Me and my poet buddy Entered the realm
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