Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
An imp that delighted in self-contradiction
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
I had often thought that the mind was, quite literally, a
devil’s advocate, an agent of diabolical sophistry that could argue any point
and its opposite with equal conviction; an imp that delighted in
self-contradiction and yet, though full of sound and fury, ultimately signified
nothing. None of the truest things in life — like love or faith — was arrived
at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the
ones that came as suddenly as thunder. Too often, I thought, the rational
faculty tended only to rationalize, and the intellect served only to put one in
two minds, torn apart by second thoughts.
~Pico Iyer, The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto,
1991
Thursday, January 16, 2014
58 Countries
Thursday, January 16, 2014
58! That’s the number of countries a Philippine citizen
can travel to without a visa according to the Henley and Partners Visa Restriction Index 2013. Having been to only a few of those countries,
I can still visit 49 nations without applying for a visa. And among these 49
countries are Morocco, Israel, Colombia, Brazil, Kenya, Tanzania, Laos, and
Myanmar—all the places I’ve always wanted to explore. There are just too many
places I dream of visiting but not enough time and financial resources to turn
the dream into reality.
It is now the middle of January, and I’m frantically
making travel plans for our next trip.
North Africa is too foreign a place that I can’t simply go there and
wing it.
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