Sep 15, 2011
Philosophy of the man in seat 4 D LH 747-400
Philosophy of the man in Seat 4 D This year, for unknown reasons, I had been assigned to seat 4 D on Lufthansa long haul flights, usually to Asia. It…
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.
Jul 15, 2011
DALAI LAMA ON COOKING AND STRUCTURAL DEFECT OF THE MIND: JUDGEMENT AND AVERSION
DALAI LAMA ON COOKING and THE KLEISHA [STRUCTURAL DEFECT OF THE MIND] OF AVERSION There are many intimidating judges that one may face on a cooking show (the fiery Gordon…
May 15, 2011
A CUT ABOVE at Bangsar Merci Beaucoup Feiwen GS and Nadia
A Cut Above at Bangsar Village, Kuala Lumpur. Luxury with Friendship For a person who lives on the other side of the world to KL, I am lucky to have…
Mar 15, 2011
SOLITUDE IS NOT LONELINESS
HOW SOLITUDE SHAPES YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS This is a continuation of my previous post: Network in Social Network Occasionally, an email arrives inviting to join Face Book or some of the…
Mar 15, 2011
Net work in Social Network
Social Networking on the NET In the olden days, let us say before the year 2000, there was Qualitative Networking: person to person; consideration for the other; relationships, visiting each…
Jan 15, 2011
Express your Gratitude, says the American Indian Wisdom
Gratitude List for 2010 As the year 2010 ends, it is good to recollect those people on whose shoulders the great fortune of 2010 came riding to us. Without them,…
Nov 15, 2010
Plus Ca Change, Plus C’est al meme chose: THE MORE THINGS CHANGE THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME
Jean Baptiste Alphons Karr: His epigrams are frequently quoted, for example " plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose "-"the more it changes, the more it's the same thing",…
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
Excess in the Land of Plenty
Arriving soon after a visit to Myanmar, two weeks ago I was in Yangon, the food served at the American Resto in Miami, Bahamas Breeze, gives me a great sensation…
Aug 15, 2010
LOVE IN THE TIME OF THE MONSOONS IN BURMA
LOVE IN THE TIME OF MONSOON IN BURMA AUGUST 2010 I felt that I may not have another chance to visit Myanmar/Burma in the near future, so took this chance…
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…
Aug 15, 2010
Where is Dr Aung Khant?
After this wonderful trip to KL and Myanmar, and a nice flight back to Paris from KL, I want to put down the days of love and affection and fearlessness…
Aug 15, 2010
Oh Burma.. What a Wonderful People.. the Sweetest of all Asians
It is way past midnight, I have just arrived from Rangun or Yangon.. and i am so filled with the tendereness of this encounter.. The smiles come so easily to…
Jan 15, 2010
What a Friendly welcome at AF Lounge at Dubai
In the west, Dubai is not perceived as a place of friendship. I arrived here after what seemed to be a very short flight from Paris. My connecting flight was…
Jan 15, 2010
An Unusual Tale of Love in the Time of Cyclones
a good friend of mine, Eithwe who is Burmese and currently at Phnom Penh, wanted me to send her one of my notes about my experiences in Burma. I thought…