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Gotta love this kid. Half the population live in gers.

Inside a ger, I was served sheep noodle-soup.

Always panorama. This is what most of Mongolia looks like.

Kenny, Tyler, Omi and Bam filming an epic scene in the Gobi desert.

The engine is placed next to the driver’s seat, for easy access. […]

The first time I visited Mongolia, it was winter. A landscape of white, temperture of -30C. I arrived last night in unexpected heat and humidity. The landscape is barren. Mongolia has a population of 3 million, of which 1 million live in the capital city, Ulaanbaatar. Tyler, Kenny and Omi have been living in a […]

18 hour layover in Beijing. Slept on a metal bench, one bag under my head, the other one between my arms. I woke to the sound of mosquito flying, I scratched my arm, killed two, scratched my arm again.
Only female mosquito feed on blood, male ones feed on plants. Why do the females inject poison […]

Sitting on the cold marble floor with my laptop, I am leisurely enjoying my 5 hour delay to Beijing at San Francisco airport.
A blue-eyed lady sashayed towards me, squatted to my eye level and with her face 3 inches from mine, asked what the time was. She also asked where I was from, and said […]

I leave tomorrow to Ulanbaartaar, arrive there 2 days later after a stop-over in Beijing. In the week ahead, I’ll be with Tyler and his crew travelling the Gobi desert. ‘360 degree horizon’, they say.
An expansive land, most people there have never seen the ocean. I have never seen the desert. I am lucky to […]

This is Blue Taro. He’s visiting from Japan. The glasses he wears are dummies. It makes him feel more comfortable and less shy, he says.
The odd thing is, he also wears contact lenses.

After 3 days at a semiconductor convention, I can blindly recite the ‘value and quality’ found in Valqua’s O-rings, which are special rubber bands made to fit in machines that make computer chips. (Elastomer / perfluoroelastomer, plasma resistant, wafer processing, sealing equipment). In another words, without them, our computers and phones would not be here.
The […]

I worked at a convention as a ‘booth baby’ today. I met a Russian man who launched a web-browser 3 months ago called TilTul. We exchanged websites. I have a feeling it’s going to be the next big bang on the web.
“TilTul enables you to search using multiple search engines simultaneously, for videos, blogs, shopping […]

I saw a new sport called kite buggying, where a person on a ‘buggy’ is pulled by a kite that (s)he is controlling. They sped fast on the beach, going backwards sometimes, it looked so much fun that I jot it down as number 25 of my ‘100 things to do in life’ list.

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I used to sing Jazz at a hotel lobby in Japan, living in an adjacent dorm. The pianist and I shared a kitchen. One day he passionately taught me how to make garlic fried rice.
It was 20 minutes before our performance, when he harshly critiqued the fried rice I made, saying the garlic wasn’t marinated […]