During our lunch conversation with a bunch of collaborators at Memorie Cafe Velocity, which is a fusion of Eurasian Portuguese food, it brought back memories of the Portuguese Settlements in Melaka where you can get authentic Portuguese food for relatively good prices (or at least that was how it was but mind you, the last... Continue Reading →
10 Skills to hack life
Saw this off a friend's FB feed. It's a list of ten skills that's put together by Evan Carmichael that he thinks are hard to learn but will pay off forever. Speaking Up (Warren Buffet) Being Honest (Mark Cuban) Having Confidence (Robin Sharma) Listening (Simon Sinek) Managing Your Time (Bishop T.D. Jakes) Stop Whining (Iyanla... Continue Reading →
Dune Deluxe Edition HC books
Ah.. didn't know they now have the Deluxe Edition format for the other two books in the series - Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. I bought this Deluxe Edition format for the first book back when they released it during the 1st movie's buzz in 2019. However buying the other two books individually is... Continue Reading →
Been awhile.. getting back into races (’17)
When you are off races for 8+ months, the best race to get our ass back would be a short 6K on flat route, yes?
Superblocks of Barcelona
Just thought of posting a quick one that 1) illustrates how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars with it's Superblocks model, and 2) the video giving some background to how the "blocky" nature of Barcelona was conceptualized back in 1859.
Barcelona – from the top
Came across this lovely pic from Derek Hopper's tweet of a view from the top of this beautiful city. Indeed Barcelona looks unique from the sky. My first trip to Barna was donkey years back when I was working on some UK/Spain business projects. It was a short trip and by myself but I fell in love with this European city then.
Morning pages… or just write la.
An article prompted me to re-evaluate my excuses for not writing. So here it goes, just write la.
Sugar, insulin and the link to Alzheimer
Learnt something useful about "insulin-resistance" and "type-3 diabetes", and it's link to Alzheimer. It swings back to the under-rated danger of having too much processed sugar in our modern diet. Something most of us would easily understood but not many may take the next step towards culling sugar from their diet. If so, hopefully this article could give you another prompt.
Motivational speech on LIFE from Rocky?
Every now and then, what is supposed to be pop-corn entertainment turns up with some nuggets of gold. Sure we expect to be entertained by the brutal fights in Rocky, but to get a lesson in life from Rocky da man?
we are all… intelligent
Think there's only one way we can be considered "intellligent"? Well, here's 9 different ways for you to consider.