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1 year on. There’s a lot of C words that could be applied to the Japan I experienced and the people I met, I think these sums it up though: calm, curious, confident, competent, communitarian. Obviously I don’t know anything really and have not done that long there/learned about the language / history/geography/culture fully. I only worked in the public sector so I don’t know what it is like to work in a company etc there or how but it was an interesting year. Calm: Despite t

I’ve been mandated upon leaving the country to give one final salute to glorious, all knowing, wise and radiant revolutionary father, Ho Chi Minh. The man’s face is plastered all over the country. I’m pretty sure he died before the country was even finished with the Americans. Tough break for the man, not knowing whether they would achieve the glorious “reunification” before passing. Ironically the south seems more developed than the north despite the north being victorious,

First time in Asia proper, place is interesting. First stop is Cambodia, specifically Siem Reap. Plan is to hack through the entire southeast within a month and a half. Airport built by the Chinese, full biometric scanning etc upon entry. Infrastructure built out from it, but located 60km away from the actual city it serves. Airport is absolutely massive, much bigger than required, either built for capacity in the future or something else. Extremely high tech, with qr code vi

Long time no see. Some of the clan visited for 3 weeks for the mothers birthday. Many a tale. Started tumultuously with a bear sighting...

This is a set of policy ideas designed to increase Ireland's global soft power + solve some chronic domestic challenges through...

Here is a nice ** collage ** as they say. There is a few rogue images in there, I will allow you to hunt them down. One is of a cherry...