Archive for the 'Life Styles' Category

Law of Attraction Cliff Notes

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

You may have heard of it on Oprah, she calls it “The Secret” and has promoted a book to that title. The secret is based on The “Laws of Attraction” and basically says that, as I’ve always put it, “You create your own reality”. 
 
Here are some cliff notes on what The Law of Attraction is all […]

Millionaire Habits

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

There are consistent patterns among millionaires. These five strategies may be worth emulating.
1. Avoid the Earn-to-Spend Mentality
To increase wealth, it’s essential to emulate millionaires who view money as something to save and invest, rather than income to spend. Many wealthy people live quite simply, choosing less pretentious homes than they could theoretically afford and opting for […]

Top World Destinations

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Top destinations of the world to visit before cashing in the chips.
 
Portals into the Past - Walk the timeless streets and byways of ancient cities on three continents.
– Mesa Verde
– Pompeii
– Tikal
– Petra
Feats of Engineering - The world’s surviving architectural wonders hewed from stone and mortar beckon as ever.
– Pyramids of Giza
– Taj Mahal
– Easter […]

Create a Tongue Twister

Friday, January 11th, 2008

I was driving to “work” the other day… (Starbucks), when I noticed that all the keys on my key ring were totally polished and clean. You see, after we flipped the boat, my keys laid in seawater for 4 days. The seawater had corroded everything to the extent that I had listed to get new […]

Kings Cup 2007 Capsizing SeekRongHuk

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Hugh taught me that anyone can learn to sail in a day but it takes a lifetime to become a sailor. After 5 years of competitive racing, the more I learn the humbler I get. And I’ve come to learn quite a bit and acquire new talents like overcoming much of a predisposition towards seasickness, […]

New York City Bus Driver Rescue

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

I was down between the brooklyn and manhattan bridges where I found a nice quiet place along the waterfront to snap off some pictures of the bridges. There wasn’t a soul around except some Chinese fisherman a hundred or so meters away.
 
Out of nowhere, I hear a minor crashing sound, like a pallet tipping over or being dropped from a […]

Queens New York Tourist Report

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Give us your tired, your poor, your weak and your hungry… and we’ll lower our standards of living to make room for them. Home of the politically correct now uses terms like “underdeveloped” or “developing” to describe nations of lower socio-economic maturity. “Third world” was too derogatory a term for such nations since after all, we don’t call […]