Reverse Culture Shock

http://b2b.meetplango.com/category/coming-back-home-after-a-career-break/

Exactly what I'm feeling.

Back home, boredom can happen pretty fast if you don’t keep yourself busy. On the road you move around everyday but there is a certain static-ness that comes with being back home. Even if you keep yourself busy, returning home can be a little underwhelming sometimes.

Really, you’ll be surprised how few people show even the slightest bit of interest in the life-changing trip or stint abroad you’ve just returned from. If you’re the kind of person who loves to travel a lot, you might have trouble understanding this, because you’re probably the exception to the rule.

Sometimes, when I walk past the hallway closet, I swear I can hear my hiking boots whisper.

Your day-to-day falls back into a routine, lacking the discovery of yourself, new people, and new places.

After being gone so long you would not believe how much you have accepted the terms and customs of the cultures you have visited.

Accept that you are not the same. You see things with different eyes and people may not recognize this anymore. Understand that is okay.

Innovation

Love seeing innovative products that solve little problems. Wish I have this before my travels.

http://www.thescrubba.com/

Game On

I just signed up for my 3rd marathon a couple of days ago.

And had enough motivation to go for a run just now.

It's gonna be a tough 3 months getting back to fitness.

Politics

Wanted to post political comments on facebook some days, but I'm always mindful that it's never a place for meaningful debate, because there are always people who behave like they are in a high school debate team, holding an entrenched position and having a one-sided view of the issue. And at the end of every conversation, they can only mutter a number. 

6.9. 

Travel Blog

A little look at the statistics of my travel blog, probably helped some people along the way I hope.


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Great ideas

Recently I came across this new initiative that started in the US, called Kickstarter  (http://www.kickstarter.com/). I'm not sure when they started this program, but basically it's a place where potential inventors look for investors. Not those rich investors with money, but people like you and me, to invest in their potential products. It's sort of like a pre-purchase, and normally there's a target they wanted to hit, and if they do hit it, they will start mass production and ship the products to the buyers/investors. 

It's an interesting concept, and I'm already eyeing 2 products that raised funds through this. 

See how cool this is! 

A breakthrough game console that's in the development,

I'm just excited at the ideas that's going to come out of this =)