The last time I was in Berlin, it was on a school trip. We stayed somewhere near some remnant of the Berlin Wall, in a dingy hostel. We went to the Legoland centre and the Opera, and apart from that I don’t remember much of it (it was almost 10 years ago). I do remember […]
Last week, I had the pleasure of going to Kuala Lumpur for some, shall we say, administrative reasons. I went there briefly last year, too, but this time I was doing it more as a splurge trip: I was in a nicer hotel and spent some more money doing nice things than the backpacker cheap-as-chips […]
“Are you filming a vlog?” Asks Ryan, also known as Ray to his friends (and after sharing a meal, I was now on Ray-terms with Ray). “No,” I responded, “why do you ask?” Ray proceeded to tell me that he thought Banda Aceh had a lot to offer for tourists, but that there’s not much […]
I’ve come up with something I like to call the “Effort:Reward ratio”. It’s something which we all do, but which affects us in numerous ways, from work to our personal lives. Simply put, the effort:reward ratio asks us to examine how much effort we put in to something, versus the amount of reward we get […]