Freaking WordPress killed my last elaborate post, so here’s the gist, because there’s no way I’m typing all of this again:
Me + Asian food = angry stomach = bed instead of dinner
Me likey Hong Kong better than Vietnam, but there’s a couple of reasons why that statement alone might be unfair to Ho Chi Minh, [...]

I guess you hoped I was totally forgetting to do that, right? I know it’s cliché, but when Vietnam wakes you with a thousand scooters honking outside your hotel window, you just want to say good morning back. Really loud.
And turn on your iPod to listen to Arcade Fire’s Wake Up. Awake I am.

Right now I’m sitting in a chair at Charles de Gaulle airport in (or rather somewhere out of) Paris without WiFi access or one of the two books I wanted to get first thing off the plane and with about four hours to kill before our flight goes first to Bangkog and then to Ho-Chi-Minh [...]

Just in case you actually need prove to believe that Stephen Fry is awesome.

I’ve registered with Twitter about two weeks or so ago as an experiment. To be honest, Twitter was one of the many Web phenomena that I thought I simply couldn’t care less about. I neglect my blogs enough as it is, I sometimes have to get over myself to load pictures onto Flickr and I [...]

[...] I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.
Miranda July, Ten True Things
Although No One Belongs Here More Than You didn’t make it quite into last year’s top ten, I still would recommend it, if someone were [...]