Category: Curiosities
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What Is Love? Famous Definitions from Maria Popova
Go here. I particularly liked the following, from Iris Murdoch: Love is the very difficult understanding that something other than yourself is real. What is love to you? What was your favourite definition? Love – undefined, untamed, and all, Val
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Hitchhiking Adventures – from Kuala Lumpur to Cambodia
For the full story, go on: Hitchhiking Adventures – from Kuala Lumpur to Cambodia!
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Life takes you in unexpected turns,
and sometimes the silver lining just isn’t there. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/10/17/anne-frank-friendship-book/ Another gem from Maria
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All is fair in love and war.
All is fair in love and war. An interesting saying which: According to Urban Dictionary means: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=All%20is%20Fair%20in%20Love%20and%20War And according to The Free Dictionary means: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/All’s+fair+in+love+and+war I don’t think the term justifies deceit in general (refer to above definition). But deceit in the name of war and love? Well, that’s a tougher line to draw. Any thoughts, dear…
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Slow Walkers
So, one of the main advantages of having lived abroad in cities whose citizens rely heavily on public transport (London and Paris) is this: you learn to walk faster. It’s probably an incremental change. I’m not sure when it happened. When I arrived in the UK in 2007, I must have walked at the ‘normal’…
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Spotted in London…
Sherlock 01.01.14 #Sherlocklives Are you excited? I bloody well am. And guess what, I’m even going to be in London for the Series 3 premiere – woot woot! #BBCPlayerFoDaWorld Cannot wait for ‘the Empty Hearse’. Never seen Sherlock? Shame on you.
Val Saksornchai 