Veggie food

One thing I love here are the vegetarian restaurants. There are not all created equal, however, but the nice ones serve pretty good everyday food for a very moderate price. Considering a lot of the local food is prepared with impressive quantities of oil, doesn’t contain a lot of vegetables (or only the official overcooked leafy green) and [...]

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A long awaited item!

 
Somethings will always puzzle me here. The fact that until very recently, we only had bars of soap in the washrooms of my university was stagering for all the foreign faculty members. After all, our uni is not poor, it’s got flat screen TVs on the wall broadcasting the very little watched closed circuit uni [...]

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Typhoon Krosa

Yes, another typhoon. We had one about 3 weeks ago, and now we’re having another one, stronger. Watching the rain and wind from our 22nd floor windows was pretty interesting. Our car narrowly avoided being flooded. This is the view of the flooded road, trafic had to be diverted for about 1 hour. Things came [...]

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Back to school

Time for another school year! The semester started 3 weeks ago, and the dust is just starting to fall down! Managing 64 students per class (times 6) is quite a task! Then you have the ones that come to listen, hoping to join if some other student drops the class. On the good side, I [...]

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