March 2010
13 posts
Airport Story 3.0: Singapore Intro
Last November 2009, I found out about a business case study competition that was scheduled for the Global Entrepreneurship Week of Singapore. It was called the Asia-Pacific Enterprise Challenge, and it offered two different Singaporean brands for people to investigate: Sakae Sushi, a restaurant for Japanese cuisine, and bYSI, a fashion brand.
Now, I remembered encountering bYSI while commuting...
“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.”
– Ray Bradbury
Airport Story 2: On Tears
I used to cry when I traveled.
I was the most dreadful kid to fly with—I’d demand to be carried in airports, complain relentlessly, and bawl my eyes out in the cabin. I recall one particularly horrible story where I threw up on my poor brother, innocently sitting next to me in the plane.
My mom, who should be declared a saint for her endless patience, would think of creative ways to...
“Still, despite all this, traveling is the great true love of my life. I have...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)
“Underneath and unexplored, islands and...
“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
– St. Augustine
Airport Story 1: Introduction
I remember one time my family and I were standing in a line within an airport. I was young then, perhaps eight or nine, so I considered it a big deal that dad allowed me to hold my own passport and travel documents. I felt so very grown up, grasping those precious papers.
As the group in front of us spoke to the official at the counter, I noticed two Japanese tourists kept on glancing my...
