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Meeting Russell

My dream came true on Valentine’s Day. I went to see a live performance of my favourite comedian, Russell Peters. Russell’s energy is amazing. When I heard that he would be performing at the o2 Arena,...

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Thank God for Tacks and Candles

Don’t get me wrong. I am not writing this because I think I am special. It is just an obsession of mine. I want to find out what living abroad for the past 26 years has done to my brain. Apparently, I...

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My Travel Companion

I came across a quote by former East German dissident Rudolf Bahro the other day that made me think. “When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by those people who are not...

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Christine’s China

“China knocks the ego out of you.” I love this quote by Christine Lu. Her talk last week was very inspiring. Christine is not only the founder of The China Business Show. She is also involved in a...

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The Power of Floating

I had my first Twinterview the other day. Angelo Fernando of Hoi Polloi interviewed me and Yang-May on Twitter about the book. What an interesting experience…. You feel suspended in cyberspace. You...

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Going Local

I have times like this… when my blogging streak seems to run dry. May be it’s because it’s June. When I was growing up in Italy, June was the month when school would end and it would soon get too hot...

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The Facebook Table

I knew this would happen… it was just a matter of time. I am talking about my father joining Facebook and commenting on my posts. Over the weekend, he and a former high-school friend of mine were...

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The Wisdom of Sarajevo’s Turtle

In Prague, I used to live on a street called Sarajevksa. I lived there from April 1992 to the first half of 1996. The spookiness of these dates had never struck me before.

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Not My Poppy

It’s that time of the year…. And I don’t mean my seasonal cold. I live in London and every year in early November, I am surrounded by people wearing red plastic poppies on lapels, sweaters, handbags…...

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Cross-border Pain

I had promised not to blog about this but I am going to do it all the same. I might be making myself unpopular.  And I will probably have to dodge a couple of tomatoes next time I visit Italy. But...

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