EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT: BODIES BEING THROWN INTO RIVER
Dan Rivers
in Bogalay, Myanmar
CNN
Homeless children watched on Tuesday as solemn men unceremoniously dropped dead bodies into the river of this southern Myanmar township.
The funeral-like procession to the river was one of many disturbing images of the destruction left by Myanmar’s deadly cyclone, which could be seen everywhere in Bogalay.
The estimated 240km/h winds spared only four of the 369 houses Keep reading →
I was just reviewing some of the photos on my HTC Touch Cruise and Canon S80 and thought it’s about time to upload them.
These are random photos of co-sojourners I meet as I go about my daily activities so I decided to start this regular (hopefully!) series of photos of co-sojourners I meet in my daily life.
After all, who knows when (if ever) our paths will cross again?
First of all, photos from Ogilvy’s Open Room event :
This blog is about the life being like the highway, with quite a bit of parallels and lessons to learn from.
One of my favourites subjects is on co-sojourners.
In the context of a highway, your co-sojourners can be other cars right there and then on that same highway with you.
But it could also be the person sitting in the same vehicle with you as you cruise down the highway of life.
Some of these co-sojourners come and go. Your paths cross for a fleeting moment in eternity, and then you continue on your separate journeys.
For example, the bus ride I took in China where I had a prostitute Keep reading →
Hi folks, sorry for the ‘radio silence’ here. I’ve been walking around with the ’swamped thing’ t-shirt :p
Here’s an interesting piece on co-sojourners I came across today :
Cambodia has temporarily banned marriages between foreigners and Cambodians because of concerns over the rising number of brokered unions involving poor, uneducated women. The move follows the publication of a report highlighting the abuse of many Cambodian brides who went to South Korea following hastily arranged marriages. Rory Byrne reports from Phnom Penh.
The ban will at least briefly halt the increasing number of marriages of poor Cambodian women to foreign men, mostly from Taiwan and South Korea.
Most such marriages are hastily arranged by brokers who charge clients up to $20,000 Keep reading →
In the recent debacle where Clinton released videos of Obama’s pastor Jeremy Wright making racist speeches, instead of just allowing the controversy to die down and move on, Obama tackled the issue head on (in Philadelphia) in what must be one of the most inspiring speeches I’ve heard, and totally off-the-cuff too!
OK this is not a typical post you will find on this highway. But traditional media does it again, and I guess using new media as a response would be a good way?
A few days ago, the Straits Times managed to publish a sentence from an one-hour-long NBL CEO speech taken totally out of context and came to the conclusion that the Slingers will get axed in the next season!??
This blog is about reflections of life through lessons/parallels learnt from the highway (or the road).
And I just had this reflection recently about outdoor advertising on vehicles and how it has some similarities to blog advertising.
Companies place out ads on cars or vans like this because it’s an outdoor advertising media that gets you lots of exposure, for a relatively low price compared to say TV commercials or newspaper ads. However, Keep reading →
I grew up in a culture where we are not so forgiving towards mistakes. A recent chat with an american-based venture capitalist (VC) confirmed this:
“I’ve realised that over here, when your startup fail and you lose money, people scream for blood.”
“But over in the US where I come from, when your startup fail and you go back to your VC, he’d say ‘common, you can do it, gimme one more startup to invest in!’”
What a strange contrast. Almost unimaginable to us here in this part of the world.
But then I thought of a parallel. Driving Keep reading →
