Emperor’s no clothes (Singapore) September 11, 2011 So I was at another of these online media outreach sessions where a phone company is showing off its up-coming phone. I am already jaded with this Social Learning via crowd-sourced educational events (Singapore) June 9, 2011 I was at the Elearning Forum Asia sharing how we get people to come together and learn from each other across South East Asia Is there a god? (Singapore) October 19, 2010 Was just in a class demonstrating the Wolfram Alpha Knowledge engine. I asked them to try the question that mankind has been asking since we started The new new thing (Japan) May 28, 2010 We were in Ginza to catch the launch day of the iPad in Japan. The Apple store in Ginza turns festive on such occasions. I already had one, In Hoi An (Vietnam) November 28, 2009 I had always skipped Hoi An when I traveled to Vietnam. But after watching The Quiet American recently, I felt like visiting this place. In the Cheap Chinese imports (Burma) March 8, 2009 Every few months, we hear complaints about cheap Chinese imports undermining local economies. However, from my experience here in Burma, and in Avenging Gobi Manchurian (China) January 19, 2009 Anyone from China visiting India may wonder why Indian interpretation of Chinese food does not unleash the full wrath of the People’s Liberation The stick men of Chongqing (China) April 13, 2008 These stick-men (locally known as the bang bang- 棒棒 ) help people to carry their groceries or other heavy things over the ups and downs of Bandrek in Bandung (Indonesia) January 1, 2008 It gets cold in the mountains in Java here, but we have the traditional warm beverage called Bandrek. The ingredients (that change depending on who Oni go away (Singapore) February 2, 2007 Tomorrow (Feb 3) is Setsubun in Japan. Males wear a demon or Oni (demon) mask. Others will throw roasted soyabean on them and say “Oni wa soto! Fuku Next page