You might have noticed things have been a bit quiet here on the old blog.

What’s that? You hadn’t noticed?

Well, umm…

Now, I feel awkward.

I understand.  I’m sure you’ve been busy. Maybe you’ve had a lot of stuff at work or have some family things going on right now or have one [...]

Dear Big C, I can call you that, right? I know we’re just getting to know each other and all, but I feel like we’ve really, you know, connected over the past ten days.

I could just call you China, but everyone gets to call you that.

Your nickname – The Middle Kingdom – [...]

Shortly after arriving home in Buffalo, NY, two and a half weeks ago, I visited the hair salon.

It had been more than six months since my last haircut – a dire affair conducted at a mall salon in Penang, Malaysia. The stylist, a young Chinese-Malaysian girl who looked all of twelve years old, [...]

Last week, I left the lovely city of Chiang Mai, Thailand after living there for a grand total of three and a half months. As this is the longest time I had stayed in any one place for the past year, you’d think I would have managed to do and see a lot of [...]

I am a believer.

Not so much in a religious sense of the word, mind you, but in a believing-without-having-much-proof sense of the word. I believe in my online horoscope and those tiny slips of paper you get from fortune cookies. I believe in cheesy movies. I believe in wishes made on stars and [...]