by Tom | Apr 3, 2012 | Google+
Where to start? Out for a quick meal in an outdoor food court in Chengdu, China's most laid-back city, when a fight breaks out. Two guys at the next table get into it with the waiter when a chef arrives brandishing a cleaver. We carried on eating as they fought...
by Tom | Mar 30, 2012 | Google+
Off to Chengdu we go.Pandas, Buddhas, spicy food and lots of unknowns. Should be fun. Loads of luggage in the normally empty marble halls of Hong Kong airport. Surely not cost effective for the Indians to ship it as excess baggage? Hong Kong International Airport Hkia...
by Tom | Mar 30, 2012 | Google+
Delay no more.I do love the minuscule amount of Chinese I have come across. Lots of word games and poetic license. "Delay no more" in Cantonese sounds a lot like fuck your mother (diu2 nei5 lou5 mou5), so is super suitable for a T-shirt slogan.Late to this...
by Tom | Mar 23, 2012 | Google+
Touch-line rugby, anyone? Ahem. China missing a conversion against Tonga. The madness that is Sevens weekend begins. Hong Kong Stadium Stadium 55 Hospital Road So Kon Po,,, ä¸ç’°, Hong Kong
by Tom | Mar 23, 2012 | Google+
How to be creative.Lots of interesting stuff there. You can put anyone in situations that help or hinder their creative expression.http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203370604577265632205015846.html How to Be Creative The image of the 'creative...
by Tom | Mar 22, 2012 | Google+
Donde no hay medico / Where there is no doctor. This book helped convince me I was not going to die when I was very, very ill in a tiny village of 3,000 people India for four days. I did not enjoy reading the instructions on making a cholera bed. Great that...