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1692 days ago
Do you see the image below turning clockwise or counterclockwise? Don’t be skeptical, with a little concentration, the image can flip directions if you trick your brain. According to science, whichever direction you see first tells you which side of your brain is more dominant. Clockwise viewers, right side of the brain. Counterclockwise viewers, left side [...]
1704 days ago
Radiohead has announced over the weekend that they will lets fans pick price for their new album, In Rainbows. It will be available online as a download, and feel free to pay as much as you like. Could there be any other band that could possibly pull this off? When you are as big as Radiohead, [...]
1732 days ago
During my vacation in France, I had the unfortunate liberty of having one of my friends who I met there accidentally drop my digital camera with the lens retracted. I was utterly heartbroken when the camera’s lens assembly was broken, therefore not allowing me to take photos till it was fixed, or more importantly for [...]
1739 days ago
(Mario 2 was indeed the weirdest and oddest one of the bunch, what gives? Check out the hilarious revelation)
1740 days ago
"It is one of the ironies of travel writing that bad trips are more fun to read about than good ones"
1753 days ago
"The ancient Khmer city of Angkor in Cambodia was the largest preindustrial metropolis in the world, with a population near 1 million and an urban sprawl that stretched over an area similar to modern-day Los Angeles"
1753 days ago
Back home from my month abroad in France. About 800 photos to sort, and too many memories to reflect on. A great summer, and a trip I’m glad I found the time to take. Goodbye Paris, France. “Ici c’est Paris!” has rung truly in my heart.
1799 days ago
(in the food mecca of NYC, there is only one Cambodian noodle shop)
1804 days ago
I’m going to London and Paris in July, oui, oui!
1810 days ago
"I've become convinced that the key to a more rewarding experience is violating the rules"
1870 days ago
(Huff Post blogger conveys the feelings of those in support of stricter gun control)
2062 days ago
Before I get back to updating this site, here’s current news. On October 8th 2006, on a clear day in Boston, over 3500 runners answered to the 8am gunstart of the annual Boston Half Marathon. I was there competing myself in what is (and will be the hardest to beat) the most beautiful course in all [...]
2070 days ago
New York City, it’s not that I can’t quit you, it’s that I don’t want to quit you. March of this year was a pretty rough time. I was finally home from the Peace Corps and Cambodia, but yet I had no plan for the future. In some ways, I knew I had to find a [...]
2084 days ago
For many readers, Killer Cars has been on hiatus for the past 6 months. Until now, all you have been reading is 5 weeks of Cambodia travelogues that took about 35 hours or 16 weeks to complete. With the exception of the link posts, the blog itself almost faded into obscutiy, almost seeing the way [...]
2105 days ago
In using this space for closing notes and thank yous, I would like to thank many people who have made this trip a reality and a once in a lifetime experience. First, I would like to thank my friends in Cape Verde, the Peace Corps volunteers and locals alike who understood my intents on leaving [...]
2131 days ago
Where we had last left off, I was in the middle of an amazing trip through rugged Ratanakiri and Kratie. A trip that will make a backpacker out of any of us. I was asked to stay and extra month in Cambodia and left you without an answer. Read what I chose to do and [...]
2530 days ago
Recently, I have felt I have been giving my friends and colleagues a lowered sense of excitement about my Peace Corps departure. I blame that it’s still weeks and weeks away but more importantly, I find it hard to give the same speech and answer the same questions as enthusiastically as the first time. One [...]
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