Bungee Jumping in Lake Taupo, New Zealand
ALTHOUGH I’M TERRIFIED of heights, I’ve got a big mouth. That mouth sometimes gets me into awkward spots. When I went to New Zealand to visit my brother in 2013, I promised friends and family that I would do a bungee jump, something big bro reminded me of daily while I was there.
Spanglish – An Eejit Abroad
IT’S VERY EASY to stay within your comfort zone in foreign countries. Especially when you can speak enough of the language to get around. I’m half way through my Colombia adventure, a third trip in two years. My first time on these shores was a backpacking trip through Central and South America. I fell in love with […]
Why Dating is like Solitaire
A POST I PUBLISHED at the end of December 2014 has (surprisingly) been my most viewed in 2015 – Why Dating is like Minesweeper. Following in the same vein I decided to compare the bane of most single people’s lives to another ageless game that dominated my teenage years – Solitaire. The game came pre-installed with […]
Louis Sachar – Holes (Book Review)
Opening Lines: There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas. That was over a hundred years ago. Now it is just a dry, flat wasteland. Synopsis: Stanley Yelnats has bad luck (which is all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather). When Stanley’s bad luck unfairly lands […]
Wrist Bubbles, Glitter Cubes and Human Lie Detectors
INTERESTING TO SEE NYT Best-selling author Neil Strauss doing the media rounds lately promoting his latest book – ‘The Truth‘. Strauss is probably best known for infiltrating a secret underground society of ‘pick-up’ or seduction experts and documenting his journey from shy, introverted, unlucky in love geek to the world’s best PUA (pick-up artist) in […]