The Moment I Blew It

There are many life-changing moments that happen with a simple sentence.

“I’ve got the job!”
“We’re getting married!”
“They’re closing the company down”
“He’s not going to make it..”
“She called off the wedding”

I remember that it hurt. Looking at her hurt.

We had spent an hour after school to work on a math test that we had both failed. Well, failed for us means a mark less than a 90 or so, since we both tend to get mid-90s. Neither of us finished it.

Stepping into the DPRK

My first impression of the recluse state North Korea

My immigrations officer sat on a wooden cubicle, with a computer screen and stationery on her desk like any other in her field. She wore a navy hat, her black hair secured…

2005.

Two lives intertwined

A meeting of the mind

Game plans set, but

Fate dealt a new bet

Impossible is nothing?

The truth, this was something

How to fit Stuff into Life

Lately I’ve been feeling a little unmotivated.

It was a culmination of many factors, but mostly I felt that was putting in an awful lot of effort into pushing what seemed like a concrete wall.

A Minor Goodbye

My cat flipped me the middle claw on his way out.

I’m allergic to cats, but my wife and kids really wanted one, so I caved. We took a trip to a nearby animal shelter after a hurricane left many pets ownerless. We entered the cat room. My eyes…

Trip planning.

I wonder how people used to do it before the internet, google and blogs. After years of traveling I still get excited and hyped up over reviews and nuggets of information i find over the WWW, but increasingly I find myself wary about the comments I read and the expectations they bring.

The value of change

$2.25 a day, for 5 days.

So, for the past 2-3 months, I have been working on the Live Below the Line campaign for TEAR Fund. We got 250+ sign ups and raised $72,000 in total. These are some lessons I have learnt from living on $2.25 a day, for 5 days.