trailwalker 2008!

Dear friends,

It's November, and the annual 100km Trailwalker is upon us.

These are crazy times we are in - asian financial crisis, the internet bust, SARS, and now, the seemingly bottomless abyss of 2008.

Many of us have lost months or even years of savings. Personally, my portfolio seems to be rapidly becoming all cash, and unfortunately not of my own free will - just that there is not much left...Read more

tibet and qinghai!

finally got around to doing some uploading... from our 5000km road trip in the qinghai/tibet region.

here are several of them...

street fighter rooooound 1

candy's headstand at 5000m to combat altitude sickness

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fine wine

i saw several bottles of fine wine the other day at home - and only today found out the story behind it.

a friend of my dad's, only about 50 years old, had suddenly discovered he had terminal lung cancer, apparently coming out of nowhere - terence was not a smoker, he exercised.  he had just passed away a few weeks back.

his wife had kindly shared the wine with us, telling us that terence was had been a lover of fine wine, and wanted to share his collection with his friends after his passing away.

i just wanted to wri...Read more

a celestial farewell

after more than five years... it's time for me to bid farewell...

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pic of the impending #8!

snapped this before the rain clouds came... really windy outside. can feel it!

(nope, not touched up at all. yes, the clouds could be even more dramatic, but this is straight from the cam!)

yoga

was in SF for a bit... missing out on a bit of the summer parties. went to a yoga thing (story for some other time) and some pix...

the teacher is dharma mittra, an incredible 69-year old yogi.

elbow stand!

dharma playing around with his handsfree headstand

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You can die of encouragement in Hollywood

this was a quote my colleague mentioned to me the other day. he read it from syd field's book, but i don't quite know where the original came from. and i think most ppl who are in film know precisely what it means... (yup, u can always count on me to be the news bearer of doom and gloom). but the key is to remain optimistic, as always!

and i think this speech by Mark Gill, posted here, is a must-...Read more

secret bhutan pix!

ok, secret only cuz most of you probably have never seen them. (yes, apologies for a little misrepresentation here...)

but, it is a really nice country, and i had the pleasure of visiting a couple years back. we even stayed a couple nights at uma paro, yes, the hotel where mr tony and ms carina had their wedding!!

some pix to share. more here.

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red cliff

i just have to say... better lower your expectations a lot and u just might enjoy it...

if the 2nd part coming in dec/jan isn't utterly spectacular, this is going to hurt.

thanks to all you guys for the kind words and thoughts on the entry about my friend adrienne.  i think she'd be happy to hear all of it!  so... just to lighten up things a little bit. a couple pix from a boat trip when we managed to catch a good weekend about 3 weeks back...

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big wave morning

went to big wave beach on sunday, bunch of things on my mind lately... and witnessed the change from blue skies to thunderclouds. i fell asleep under a blazing sun, and when i woke up, this is what i saw:

well, things do change without warning.  life, innit...

sharing an entry i wrote a little time ago somewhere else. 

Something happened late last week that left me very ...Read more