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agm in Kenya - Jun-Aug '09: August 2009
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Agm in Kenya - Jun-Aug '09. Saturday, August 15, 2009. I’ve spent the past two weekends safari-ing through two different national parks. And two national parks more different from each other you could hardly get. The Masai Mara (at least this time of year) is a lush green reserve, teeming with life. Water is abundant, flowing through natural pipes under the surface where not visible to the human eye. At 1,510 km. I’d like to say that they dot the Mara landscape like trees, except that that would be...
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Urban duality: Contracts or how to avoid a divorce - part deux
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Contracts or how to avoid a divorce - part deux. After a very insightful feedback on the my post from an unexpected source of relationship wisdom and one illuminating comment by a life guru on an actual situation I was going through, I have a few observations to make on marriage and contracts:. 2 - If you focus too much on the details of the contract, you may loose the big picture. Why are you willing to spend the rest of your life with that person? Roughly translated as you do...
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Urban duality: December 2009
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Saturday, December 26, 2009. 8220;Such mechanisms are analogous to the involuntary grace by which an oyster, coping with an irritating grain of sand, creates a pearl,” he writes. “Humans, too, when confronted with irritants, engage in unconscious but often creative behavior.”. From this very good article on what makes us happy. 2009 surely gave me enough pearls to make a necklace. Links to this post. Tuesday, December 1, 2009. Cats in my life. In (kind of) chronological order:. 2 - Os Saltimbancos:.
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Urban duality: November 2009
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Saturday, November 21, 2009. It was a good Thursday. Thanks for dragging me to the concert. It turned a dull day into a Wagnerian experience. Links to this post. Tuesday, November 17, 2009. The strange obsession of faith in life. Last Sunday I went to Milton Nascimento. I have always liked Milton Nascimento but I would hardly consider myself a die-hard fan (as I am a Caetano or Chico Buarque fan). Links to this post. Friday, November 13, 2009. A tender moment in a chilly day. He gives her her skin. He is...
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agm in Kenya - Jun-Aug '09: The Great Rift Valley I: Climbing Mt. Longonot
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Agm in Kenya - Jun-Aug '09. Saturday, August 1, 2009. The Great Rift Valley I: Climbing Mt. Longonot. The Great Rift Valley is a continuous geographic trough, some 6,000km long running from northern Syria all the way down to central Mozambique. Cutting a swathe through Kenya it is a visually stunning naturescape. There are numerous vantage points from which one can appreciate the majesty of the valley, and I’ve checked-out a few. Today, I introduce you to the first: Mt. Longonot. Of course, where there a...
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agm in Kenya - Jun-Aug '09: The enigma that is Nairobi
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Agm in Kenya - Jun-Aug '09. Friday, July 17, 2009. The enigma that is Nairobi. A schoolmate from the year above, who had spent the previous summer in Nairobi, also didn’t do much to assuage my anxiety levels. He recounted (with what seemed, strangely enough, to be a glint of excitement in his voice) about being beaten and mugged by a group of boys on the streets. From time to time another work colleague picks me up from home in the mornings en route to the client site. He usually picks me up around 8...
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Urban duality: Things I'm not good at
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Sunday, May 30, 2010. Things I'm not good at. 1 - throwing things away. 2 - not gesticulating when I'm talking. 3 - organizing my shoes. 4 - organizing my closet, as a matter of fact. 5 - not smiling. 6 - saying goodbye. Elizabeth Bishop lived in Brazil and in Cambridge, MA - as I did. And she wrote a beautiful poem about losing people and places. The art of losing isn't hard to master;. So many things seem filled with the intent. To be lost that their loss is no disaster. My last, or. Folha Online - Blo...
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Urban duality: June 2009
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009. I work at the corporate center of Mexico City – Santa Fé. The curious story behind the area is that it was a sanitary landfill less than 20 years ago. One real estate entrepreneur decided to develop corporate skyscrapers on the valueless land. He was very successful – today Santa Fé is a thriving neighborhood with corporate centers, universities, and residential and commercial centers. Well, so far so good. Viva the private enterprise. Right? What are the alternatives? Mexico has ...
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Urban duality: Contracts or how to avoid a divorce
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Sunday, March 28, 2010. Contracts or how to avoid a divorce. The wedding wave has arrived in Cambridge. Over the past 3 months, 4 of my brilliant classmates decided to get engaged. As I plan a trip to Pakistan to attend one wedding, I have started to think on what makes a marriage successful? My answer to that was: contract theory! If you're lost in the economics-jargon, worry not, my dear. My only caveat would be: DO NOT OVER-REGULATE! Great post, very true! I dont think seeing marriage as a contract an...
