Category: Life
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Image has Nothing to do with Love.
Image has nothing to do with love. When was the last time that an “unattractive” woman was the subject of a Hollywood love story? I suppose it happens. But very infrequently. Hollywood is obsessed with image, as is TV, the Internet, and just about every person who is honest with themselves. It’s not often that…
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Community Shopping Carts
A scene, perhaps, unique to Asia. I was heading off on my powerful Honda 100cc scooter, approaching the large Tesco Supercenter complex not too far from my house. About a quarter of a mile before getting to Tesco is a small enclave of houses. The houses are small too. It is a mainly Malay village…
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The problem with politically charged labels. An example from my father.
This is not a post about either side of the Global Warming mud-throwing match which goes on in politics and academia. This is a simple post to dispel a certain narrative that exists about “right-wing, conservative, Christian fundamentalists” who dismiss global warming and who don’t care about the environment. I’ve seen plenty of these kinds…
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America Got This One Right
America has its faults – as does every country run by human beings. But the collective they got it right when they established Thanksgiving as a national holiday. Even as retailers push each year to pervert the intent and reach of the holiday, there is something extremely satisfying about setting aside a day a year…
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Sleepless Nights are a Good Thing, Right?
I had one of those annoying half awake/half asleep kind of nights. You know the kind: it feels like your eyelids are heavy as cast-iron skillets, but you have a constant stream of images from your life, frame by frame, constantly rewinding and replaying inside your brain’s DVR. It’s as annoying as anything. You wake…
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Me and Sriracha (And it has something to do with Vietnam)
I was a sriracha hot sauce fan before you! Is that what Americans are yelling these days. It seem’s that Huy Fong’s delectable hot sauce, Sriracha, named after a place in Thailand where the hot sauce originated, is the condiment of choice for America – certainly the condiment of the decade. It has it’s own…
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Another cool feature of Penang – covered sidewalks.
I was walking down by Nagore Place not long ago and snapped this photo. I’ve seen these types of sidewalks built into the building before, but this is the first time that they really grabbed my attention. How cool! These can be found in several different places throughout Georgetown, and since I know nothing about…
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Remember When Music Was Expensive?
In a recent post, a student of mine stated that music nowadays is expensive; therefore, it’s okay to download the illegal stuff. I quickly corrected him, telling him that music is not expensive. In fact, music is cheap. Here’s proof. I started with that dreaded phrase that all youth hate to hear: when I was…
Author Mark W Sasse 