Martin gets the credit for finding my regular spot in Bangkok. I met him at the bar through a then mutual friend who thought we had enough in common to make the unprovoked introduction. He pre-dates my arrival by years. Whereas I first landed after the world had been recovering from what’s often referred to […]
Bangkok was my home for five years. When there was no where else to go, I’d get on a last minute flight to Suvarṇabhumi and then spend my off-time – long-weekends, typically – de-stressing in my apartment. While work was stressful at times, living on the road eventually caused persistent stress. Sure, it was fun […]
I’d be surprised if the NFL isn’t paying close attention to Shane Tamura’s case. Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old ex-high school football player with no college and/or professional football experience, was the gunman responsible for killing four people at 345 Park Avenue in Mid-town Manhattan on July 28, 2025. Tamura knew he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy […]
It wouldn’t surprise me if MH370 was hijacked. I can’t count the number of times I flew out of Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) since 2010. I’m not even sure of the number of passports I’ve had since then. But, for an extended period, I’d go through both arrival and departure immigration at least two […]
My cousin once told me that the music you listen to as a teenager is the music that you’ll listen to for the rest of your life. He couldn’t be anymore wrong. I grew up listening to R&B, hip-hop, and rap music. It was part of my identity. I used to know songs, word-for-word. Others […]
This fucking idiot is comparing his time in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center to a Nazi concentration camp in an op-ed that was published in the Washington Post. Wtf. First, if it isn’t obvious to him, Mahmoud not only is full Palestinian by blood, he’s also the leader of the hypocritical pro-Palestinian […]
What makes us an attractive target? We have been the target of criminals at least five times. Whereas we were the victim of petty theft the first two times, the last three times were more suspect. Besides the guys in Vinhomes Central Park that tried to kidnap you, we don’t know what the other criminals […]
Had you guys been in my life 10 years ago, I might have died on Malaysia Airlines (MH) 370. Connecting in Beijing was the quickest route from Kuala Lumpur to New York. A trip that took a day or longer on other routes comparably could be done in 18 hours since the layover in Beijing […]
Within spec. That’s what the Tesla delivery representative said after showing him an alignment issue with the driver’s side quarter panel of the Model Y Performance assigned to me. While you were waiting for me, I tried to convince myself to take delivery of it for the better part of 90 minutes but couldn’t get […]
Rainbow, in card collecting, is the term used by collectors that acquire every parallel of a base card. A parallel is a card that has a similar look and design to a card from a base set but is distinguished by a unique physical quality, according to Topps. Color variations are, typically, one of the […]