John Fitzpatrick. About New China, the Koreas, Myanmar, Thailand, and also about Japanese and Chinese writers and poets. The main emphasis is on North Asia and the political tectonics of this very important, powerful, and many-peopled area.
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
I knew a guy who drove buses in Rockhampton, Queensland. He liked his job and had done it all his working life. A few years before retirement he thought about what he may have missed out on in his life, but he couldn't come up with any thing much. Except for one...he'd always wanted to be able to sing well...just a few songs. His voice was pretty awful, but, he decided to go to a singer tutor and he did the various voice exercises and learnt hard at 60 years of age. After a year of singing lessons, he was still driving the bus and yet could now sing 5 songs, 3 popular songs and two semi-operatic songs, in pretty close to perfect pitch.
He knew he had it in him.
Advice for the Traveller in the USA: I think it was Anarcharsis, 2000 years ago, the inventor of both Anarchy and the modern Ship's Anchor, who noted: "The First Drink is For Happiness, the Second Drink is for Relaxation, the Third Drink is for Love and Laughter..the Fourth Drink is for Madness..." If I were you, whilst in America, I would forgo the Fourth drink... and Take the Fifth...
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