Category: Life
Humans slaughtering whales & dolphins – mankind is definitely loosing it
Two recent “incidents” triggered my real interested in protecting whales and dolphins: I watched The Cove, 2010 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, a movie about the annual killing of dolphins in a National Park at Taji, Wakayama, in Japan I stumbled upon online petitions against killing whales and dolphins on the Faroe Islands as […]
Japanese restaurants in Zurich
A list of Japanese restaurants in Zurich (“Japanische Restaurants in Zürich” for our German-speaking friends). Samurai If you judge a Japanese restaurants by the number of Japanese who frequent the place this was the clear favorite a few years ago. Samurai was considered an in-sider tip back then. Located next to a striptease club in […]
Americans love their cars – way too much
The quote below was taken from a story about the serious issues Toyota seems to have with its jamming accelerators. Some owners of recalled Toyotas are now saying they are afraid to drive them. “I live only a half mile from the office and I drive there,” said Elaine Byrnes, a Camry owner in Los […]
Never give up fighting for liberty
As I’m a very liberal mind my heart jumped when I came across the following quote today: “Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have.” A quick Internet investigation lead me to a page that claims that the above quote isn’t by Thomas Jefferson but from Gerald […]
Nuad boran – fascinating Thai massage
A friend of mine started learning and practicing “nuad boran“, traditional Thai massage, a while ago. In order to get the best possible courses and the most authentic teachers she spent a few weeks in Thailand twice. I had the pleasure of serving as one of her “practice objects” i.e. she needed human dummies on […]
Shopping in Konstanz
Once a year or so my wife and I take a day off to go shopping in Konstanz. Usually we start this day by having a small breakfast in the train’s restaurant car on the way from Zurich to Germany. Once in Konstanz one shop we always spend a considerable amout of time in is […]
Building a successful and efficient team
It’s not that The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni provides any new aspects to team building….wait, there’s more…it’s not that Lencioni provides any new aspects, yet it’s the clarity and simplicity with which the material is presented that makes this book a must-read. And no, I don’t mean a must-read for the […]
Broken families
In a previous post I wrote about a situation I witnessed where kids were being shoved back and forth between mon/dad on weekends. Earlier I also once wrote that I listen to American country music more and more. The below lyrics from the song “Every other weekend” by Reba McEntire and Kenny Chesney combine both […]
Thoughts about closeness and private space
I think the Japanese have a split relationship to closeness and private space. Some thoughts: It is rather uncommon for Japanese couples to openly demonstrate affection for each other in public. Teenagers walking hand-in-hand is about all you ever see – if at all. Of course, it’s a cultural “thing” that also manifests itself by […]