There were all kinds of cool wildlife at Bako National Park. I really felt like we were on their territory, and they made that well known – especially the Macaque monkeys, who will attack you anytime you carry anything that even resembles food. I walked on the island carrying a pack of leftovers from lunch, [...]
Matangtubig squatter community in Manila (photo album)
Yesterday I went with some Catholic nuns to a squatter village in the center of Quezon City, Metro Manila. It’s not the worst that I’ve seen, and the kids were all full of joy and laughter, but they have lots of problems. The nuns there have had a constant presence in the community for over [...]
New and improved websites!
I decided to stick with WordPress for all my websites, and what you see here is the result. I’m a little torn on this one…it’ll need a bit of tweaking the way I do things to make it look nice, but I think it’s a step up from what I had. I’m still considering other [...]
[video] YouTube Online editing tool
There’s a new tool available to edit your YouTube videos online. Click here to try it out yourself. I threw together this video with it
[video] Curry Party
I really enjoyed the curry party yesterday. What was most impacting was everyone’s willingness to chat about charities and apparent thankfulness that someone had put the work in to create a forum where people could share their thoughts. I was really glad to see everyone pitch in, and with all of the donations as well [...]
Curry Party for Charity: Water!
Join us live at 3pm (Tokyo time) this Sunday on BlogTV! This Sunday, I will have a house party for Charity: Water. It’ll be an informal gathering of hopefully about 25 people gathering to have some food, drinks, fun, and to enjoy summer in Tokyo while focusing on a bigger cause at the same time. [...]
The beauty of silence
This week I took a week off from the internet and all the connections it gives me. I love the internet to no end – recently my life has become more and more internet based, which is both awesome and troublesome for my upcoming travels: awesome because I can maintain communication with a lot of [...]
Bought my ticket!!
I’m gonna use the blog again now that I’ve finally decided on a date for leaving Japan. I got a ticket for August 3rd!! It still goes through moments of feeling real and moments of feeling completely unreal, but it’s leaning more toward the real side these days. ^_^ I’ll leave out of Kansai airport [...]
RTW packing lists
I’m preparing a list of links to all the RTW travelers I can find who have posted their packing lists online. Hope this’ll help you – I’m SURE it’ll help me. ^_^/ Just the beginnings for now, so bear with me. If you know of any others, please tell me in the comments! * The [...]
Sinners in the hands of an angry god?
I had a fascinating conversation with a student today. We somehow followed a rabbit trail to comparing the Romantics like Wordsworth’s image of childhood to the Puritan’s. The Puritans believed that children were naturally evil and that the evil must be beaten out of them as they grow up. The conversation then led to talking [...]
