Jun 15, 2016
A LOVE LETTER TO MALAYSIA
An adolescent love letter to Malaysia Malaysia began appearing on the horizon on my travels since 2008... The year I met my best friend in Asia on a flight to…
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Jun 15, 2016
HAPPINESS OF BEING IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
I am at the Double Tree Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, at the Lounge at 34th floor, looking at the setting sun colouring the city being slowly lit up underneath me.…
Jun 15, 2016
GREAT AMBASSADORS FOR KERALA : VIJAYAN AND MOHANA THE TEA SHOP OWNERS OF COCHIN INDIA
I have had a very long standing relationship with Cochin in India, perhaps the ancient Jewish connection. A few months ago, my cochini jewish friend Elias sent me the above…
Jun 15, 2016
NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS VISITING MALAYSIA FOR THEIR FIRST OVERSEAS TRIP: SUMMARY OF AN INTERVIEW
Interview with two Native American Indians visiting Malaysia for the first time I had the pleasure of accompanying a young Native American Indian couple of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska,…
Jun 15, 2016
MINDFULNESS VS MINDLESSNESS IN MASS TOURISM
MINDFULNESS VS MINDLESSNESS IN TOURISM Two tourist spots and two different forms of extraction of your dollar. At the end of the day we are just dollar signs to the…
May 15, 2016
ETIHAD AIRWAYS NEW YORK JFK TO ABU DHABI 13 H 20 MIN; ABU DHABI TO COLOMBO 3 H 30 MIN. SERENDIVA LOUNGE COLOMBO AIRPORT
THE ETIHAD LOUNGE AT JFK, ONE OF THE BEST YOU WILL SEE IN THE USA BEING FAITHFUL TO MY GENES: TABBOULEH, BABA GANOUSH, CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA AND RICE ARABIC ICE…
May 15, 2016
ONE REFUGEE TO ANOTHER.. ON THIS HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF SYKES-PICOT MAP
ONE REFUGEE TO ANOTHER... AN EYE OPENER IN HISTORY OR HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF SYKES-PICOT MAP I am a Jew, and firmly rooted in the Middle East, not only the history…
May 15, 2016
MEDICAL WISDOM FROM CUBA: AN EGALITARIAN APPROACH TO WHAT IS GOOD FOR SOCIETY
MEDICAL WISDOM FROM CUBA: AN EGALITARIAN APPROACH TO WHAT IS GOOD FOR SOCIETY The other day I was having lunch with the Senior Professor of Endocrinology and a Consultant Psychologist…
May 15, 2016
CUBA THE LAND OF GENUINE AFFECTIONS
Nowhere in the world have I felt affections at their sweetest, at their most innocent, so genuine than in my dearest island, and its capital, San Cristobal de la Habana.…
May 15, 2016
A FRIENDLY MORNING IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA 9 MAY 2016
After a long flight to Bogota from Madrid via Cali, I had hoped to rest well at Hilton Bogota, where they had upgraded me to a spacious room on arrival…
May 15, 2016
2 NDNZ AND A CUBANO IN MALAYSIA DAY 1
ABB is a Nurse Educator and Administator with the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, is seen here with her husband MBB, who is an Emergency Medical Technician who would join the…
May 15, 2016
THE CHAOS OF BEING EXOTIC, YOUNG ABLE BODIED MEN ARE ITS ONLY EXPORT THE CASE OF COCHIN
Cochin is exotic because it is chaotic, has no order and no explanation. One finds in the flow and if you are lucky you make friends like I have done.…