October 2010
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Please fill in this mental health form...
I pulled the best prank this morning. The new intern came in this morning for his second day of work; C came back from medical leave.
Last night I swiped their laptops and put them in the closet, which sits in between each of their seats, and replaced it with a packet on each of the desks. The first page was a letter (on letterhead) explaining that their hardware was confiscated to ensure...
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WatchWell, there’s the Parkour I was looking for…
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Watchnpr:
JR creates pervasive art that spreads uninvited on buildings of Parisian slums, on walls in the Middle East, on broken bridges in Africa or in favelas in Brazil. People in the exhibit communities, those who often live with the bare minimum, discover something absolutely unnecessary but utterly wonderful. And they don’t just see it, they make it. Elderly women become models for a day; kids...
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Thanks for the smoggy welcome, Singapore.
The smoke from Sumatra is ridiculous. I didn’t notice it yesterday when I landed because it was so early and began to rain shortly after touchdown.
This just means I have to run indoors this weekend. Yuck.
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Should I bring my own helmet?
Having sat in traffic all week throughout Cairo, and despite my friend saying “the traffic looks crazy, but there is a way about it…you’ll learn,’ I think I need to invest in my own helmet.
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Cultural learnings from Cairo...
You can get breakfast at McDonalds until 12-noon. I have yet to confirm this, but breakfast past the 11am at McDonalds is slightly mind-blowing considering the hungover ‘mornings’ I recall from my early 20s and the difficulty to get an egg McMuffin in the US around 11am…
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I can certify...
I was the only person running the streets of Cairo this morning.
I asked the concierge where to run, here was the conversation that ensued:
Me: where can I run outside, somewhere not busy.
Concierge: do not go left.
Me: Ok. So, leave the hotel and turn right?
Concierge: Yes. You can go to the Mosque and back.
Me: How far is that?
Concierge: Oh, far.
Me: Like 5k? 8k?
Concierge: No,...
“Somebody threw a book at President Obama, and I thought ‘wait a minute.’ If...”
– David Letterman (via justfeisty)
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Cairo, Thursday.
Plane ticket booked.
Hotel room reserved.
Meetings scheduled.
Passport? Visa? Not yet arrived.
Awesome.
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What did I do this weekend?
Did not find compression socks. Did find compression sleeve for my right knee, so that’s good enough. Should help on the long-haul flights if not post-long-run.
The things you put in shoes to stretch them out a bit? Yeah, they are nowhere to be found in Singapore. Not even plastic or wood forms to stick in your shoes for storage. I guess my flats will remain strangely smaller than...
Note to self: pick up a supply of sweet lime flavored gum the next time I’m in the Middle East. That stuff is good and you can’t get it in Singapore, that’s for sure.
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What will I do this weekend?
Look for knee-high compression socks (for travel and post-running) since they seem to be so popular and praised right now.
Look for those things you put in shoes to stretch them a bit. I have a pair of shoes that fit when I was in Minnesota earlier this year, but seemed to have shrunk once they touched Singaporean soil. WTF, shoes? WTF.
Run. I’m trying to become a ‘runner’...
“I hope that I shall be the last victim of China’s unending imprisonment of...”
– -Liu Xiaobo
Human rights activist, Academic, Nobel Peace Prize candidate
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“Unscientific studies conclude that if you were to ask ten Koreans, “What is the...”
– In Korea, the hoarding of cabbage has exacerbated an inflationary spiral that has seen the price of this humble vegetable rise over 400% in the past year. (via theeconomist)
KIM CHI!!! I just had some. The hoarding needs to stop. I need my kim chi. And kimchi from not-Korea is not the same.
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“Sliced bread is a loaf of bread which has been pre-sliced and packaged for...”
– Wikipedia…love you.
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