You’ll find many of these tiny shops in the Philippines, “sari-sari” stores or mom & pop shops. They sell everything from food to hardware. What we found most amazing about them is the fact that they are the anti-thesis to hypermarts like Carrefour/Walmart. If you need to buy butter by the pail there, you can [...]

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It’s almost impossible to cross the border over to Malaysia these days. With Mas Selamat still at large, the queues at immigration / customs are horrific and the jams are nightmarish. It took us nearly 2 hours just to see an officer and then of course there was the next queue for the obligatory toilet [...]

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My friend gave me Abott’s Flatland several years back to read. The story is basically about a two dimensional world introduced to us by SQUARE. What is life like if lived only in two dimensions? The Square even has a dream about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland), and attempts to convince the realm’s [...]

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