My Travel Map

    26 Aug 2012

    Strange Encounter

    A Malayian business man asked me if we should study China together because him being Chinese he would not know China well. He were Westernized as I was, having been educated in Malaysia and England.

    24 Aug 2012

    Blood Brothers

    This was good, but not really my cup of tea, I must admit. Too much quarrelling and negative energy for me.

    14 Aug 2012

    Zafon and Mozart

    Without reading Ruiz Zafons' The Shadow of the Wind, I would never know about Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio :)

    12 Aug 2012

    He said it again

    He said it again by saying: " It's so easy to love you and I do..." :)

    10 Aug 2012

    "Women are like an iron..."

    Carlos Ruis Zafon in his novel The Shadow of the Wind (2004) writes: " The trouble is that man, going back to Freud [...], heats up like  a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand, heats up like an iron, slowly, over a low heat, like a tasty stew. But then, once she is heated up, there's no stopping her."

    8 Aug 2012

    Columbian Olympic team leaving from Heathrow

    These guys were leaving from Heathrow on Tue, 07th August 2012. I sneaked up on them like a paparazzi.....