Archive for May, 2008

The best commercial ever !

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It says:

“Bill an extra hour and still make your flight !
US Helicopter
8mn to JFK + Newark
Only $159″

Cool !!! Yay !!! I pay $60 when I dare take a cab, why not induldge myself once in a while (i.e. every 5 years ….) !!
Ok, phone number ? None. Website maybe ? None. Wtf ? That’s well spent advertising dollars ! Could have used some of those :)

 

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When I’m grown up, I wanna be Apple !

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Honestly, which other brand can have people stay in line for hours according to a rumor of a potential launch of a product, not even announced ?

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Who won the primaries ?

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It’s been a month that I haven’t written about the campaign, and I wrote more earlier this year about my discovering and understanding of the primaries.

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What is Sikhism and who are the Sikhs ?

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A Sikh taking a morning holy bath at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. By Jingye.

As for certain things in your daily life that you never think of questioning, I realized reading Freedom at Midnight that I knew nothing about the Sikhs, and their religion Sikhism.

Yet they account to 25 millions worldwide, including 19 millions in India and 6 millions in the rest of the world. It’s the fifth largest religion in the world, and is only 400 years old.

So here is, in brief and for the neophytes like me, what Sikhs and Sikhism are.

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10 years of travel !

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I was working on some administrative stuff for my visa this morning, and at some point had to list my travels (outside the US and Europe) over the last 10 years. My current passport is only 8 years old, so I might be missing some, but here is the list (the links are to the pictures, when available online): Continue reading ‘10 years of travel !’

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