So Wen and I are about to head home from Australia, but before we leave, here are a few thing I’ve noticed/been ruminating over for the past few days. 1 Australians love the sea. In fact, Sydney isn’t so much a city as it is a collection of neighbourhoods located around the water. However, the… Continue reading Various Aussie Thoughts
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Best Photos of 2008
If you know me, you know that I love taking photos. Since I’ve wasted a lot of people’s time by making them pause to take photos, I thought I’d share some of my best shots from 2008. Here they are in roughly chronological order. Note that WordPress seems to be doing some sort of horizontal… Continue reading Best Photos of 2008
Sydney’s Unique (Architectural) Style
Sydney has its own style – of architecture that is. This post is going to be about architecture-I’ll save a bitchy Mr. Blackwell-style rant on some of the bad fashion I’ve seen here for later. It’s not just monuments like the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House, rather there are a few neighbourhoods with a… Continue reading Sydney’s Unique (Architectural) Style
Migrants
A few years ago I was lucky enough to go to school at INSEAD. It’s a university that can claim to be truly global: our class of four hundred represented more than 60 nations, the campus was spread across two continents (Fontainebleau, France and Singapore) and I was able to use the alumni network to… Continue reading Migrants
The Great Dane
Wendy and I are currently in Australia visiting her parents who live on Sydney’s Manly beach. The easiest way to get to Manly from downtown is via the ferry – which happens to give you a phenomenal view of the Sydney Opera House. Sadly, just after we got here we learned that John Utzon, the… Continue reading The Great Dane