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High-mountain Tea
In the month I was in Malaysia, I hoped to visit more temples from all walks and go on a tea hunt. Alas I just about managed a handful of temples and never managed any tea expeditions. To my complete surprised in visiting on of my oldest and best friends from school, whom while showing…
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Married (Kuala Lumpur Edition)
After what felt like an eternity, with multiple changes to plans, family tensions, hospital visits, hours and hours of travel, hair and make up, parties with heavy drinking, our families all pulled together across the globe and we came together at the temple that I went to as a child where we got married on…
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Engaged
My beloved brought me to the place she loved most on earth, Acadia, Maine. We then retired to Ellsworth, where I smuggled a wooden jewellery box that I painted green and gold with a ring and proposed that we be married. She said yes We then walked up Mt. Penobscot together, she pushed me to…
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Dust Bowl
Documenting interesting TV I watched in the past couple weeks pertaining to man-made environmental collapse. The above is a compilation of 60 Minute pieces on People preparing for doomsday scenarios but more importantly they focused on the areas of concerns driving the concerns to take so much extreme personal precautions in advance of of the…
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Santa Cruz
I’ve longed to visit the West Coast, not only because I’ve always felt an affinity to some of the major locations that produced so much of what has defined the counter culture movements all over the UK and Europe. While we were in wonderful Oakland visiting a good friend, we decided to all together go…
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Shogun
Its hard to believe just how much time has gone past since my last post. It has been exceptionally busy but just as I imagined things would settle once I move in with partner on May 20th, we immediately started our summer travel. Briefly, we both finished watching FX’s adaptation of James Clavell’s novel, Shogun…
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Calf and Mule
It’s taken me a couple of months to put down this Christmas story on paper. Why? It’s partially to do with the banal cruelty of the story and how it surprised me that due to my lack of experience in writing, I didn’t know how convey the emotions and reflections in a concise blog post.…
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Dreams & Unrest
It’s about 4 AM and I’m awake for a number of reasons. First, simply because I’m sleeping on the two seat dusty crummy sofa, as my mother is visiting and has my bed. Second, the air is still and the room is too hot as the heating pipes in the ceiling of my basement apartment,…
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Tigran
I spent several at Boston Logan waiting to fly home to parents for the holidays. I spent all those hours listening to all of An Ancient Observer and The Call Within by Tigran Hamasyan I was transported from airport drudgery to sublime folkloric splendor. I discovered Tigran first from his Markos and Markos that a…







