Oct 15, 2010
It is Nice to Dream about San Cristobal de la Habana
Reveries of a Born Traveler Three days after my birth, an astrologer was consulted who drew the map of the stars at the time of birth (a chart I still…
Stories
Field notes from the road
Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Oct 15, 2010
I am Proud of Cuba and Cuban Doctors
Only yesterday I became aware of the fact that there are students from Solomon Island studying Medicine in Cuba. Just looking at the following citation from 2008, I was so…
Oct 15, 2010
The Deep Legacy of Khmer in Mekong Delta. Soc Trang Province
When I visited Cambodia regularly in the past, I was vaguely aware of a Khmer population in the delta region of South Vietnam. I had expected pockets of small communities…
Sep 15, 2010
Erev Yom Kippur entre OS INDIOS Peace and Happiness to All
Feel very content on this erev Yom Kippur even though I am far away from many of the people who are important to me and also to the Jewish people…
Sep 15, 2010
A note on Happiness…
We all want to be Happy.. is it a sensation of feeling High? a sense of contendment? the rush of acquiring material goods? Are Rich people happier than the Poor?…
Sep 15, 2010
Eating in TRULY ASIA … that is, MALAYSIA
Day 1 Lunch at CITRUS, at Bangsar. Nouvelle cuisine Pakistanaise. Dinner at JANBO Chinese owned, whose wife is australian who has become very malaysianized! Friends order the multiple foods for…
Aug 15, 2010
C’est la Vie….
Does this man deserve a holiday? People, who have known me for a while, still are not sure what is that I do, which takes me to exotic places on…
Aug 15, 2010
Nostalgia para Londres
I never realized how wonderful my life was in this greatest English speaking City in the world-as a student, first in Medicine and then second time in Cultural Anthropology. It…
Jul 15, 2010
False Indians of Cuba .. the so called Tainos
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false IDENTITY It would be a wonderful world, if you could consider each and every person as a human being,…
Jul 15, 2010
In Miami you can always expect the unexpected
Senor Chef from Manila, We all love Pamela! at the Jewish Cemetery in Penang, Malaysia what all can happen when you go to dine out at Lan in south miami?…
Jul 15, 2010
A day of Travel Part 2 July 8, 2010 ZRH-MIA
A Day of Travel Part 2 July 8, 2010 ZRH TO MIA 12 55 pm Seat 4 D A glass of champagne 7852 km to Miami (4879 miles). Incredible when…
May 15, 2010
THE BARBER OF PORT VILA
I have to thank FeiWen, the hair stylist at A Cut Above at Bangsar in KL, for this chance meeting with the Barber of Port Vila. My best friend in…
May 15, 2010
Memories of a Collective Past.. weekend in Normandie
We who are from the New World, with an easy going lifestyle and an outward friendliness, find ourselves so comfortable in other new world countries.. for e,g., I am an…
Mar 15, 2010
Les Belles Asiatiques
Paris being the most visited City on earth, on rare occasions people from different parts of the world may coincide with your visit to this city of Light and Love..…
Mar 15, 2010
Tristes Tropiques.. 30 Hours in Miami Part B
I sat with my sister for hours, chatting and catching up on common news. Since her treatment began in July 2009, I have tried to be here at appropriate moments…
Dec 15, 2009
French Paradox Explained At Breton
French Paradox Explained at a Breton Village The drive from the seaside Breton village of Quiberon with its holiday festive atmosphere and the shops awaiting the tourists, to the village…
Dec 15, 2009
Christmas Punishment…Houston to Paris on Business First
Christmas Punishment Never before in my life have I lost my appetite completely, but on the evening of the 19th December 2009, I did. What a punishment since I was…
Dec 15, 2009
I am also a Bumiputra…
Genetic 'map' of Asia's diversity The study indicates that all of Asia was populated through one migration event. Even during a short time period such as one's life time, the…