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Read more: 144. Shanghai, you magnificent overachiever.144. Shanghai, you magnificent overachiever.
If cities were supermodels, Shanghai would be the impossibly tall, other-worldly beauty, all height, confidence and angles, with silky molasses-coloured hair, improbably bright blue eyes, flawless skin. The kind of presence you simply can’t look away from. I was struck by her scale and shine. There’s a palpable sense of pride in what’s been built.…
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117. Karaoke Me.
Read more: 117. Karaoke Me.So we were out with our hosts, both attractive young thirty somethings who had the keys to the town. And our hosts were determined to create memories for us, even if that meant we couldn’t remember it in the morning. We started at Yardbird, an izakaya that specializes in chicken yakitori. Sake and hoots of…
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116. How to sweat champagne
Read more: 116. How to sweat champagneI am sitting on a sofa in an apartment in Hong Kong. Wednesday morning. I was up yesterday morning at 330 to catch a flight here and once here had to immediately inhale a lot of champagne and other associated stimulants. It would have been rude not to. Staying in New Zealand time, it was…
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115. Thinking about the handbag.
Read more: 115. Thinking about the handbag.It’s downstairs right now. The handbag. By downstairs, I mean in Yves St Laurent. I’m in the Kris Lounge a floor above it, killing five hours at Changi Airport. Should I get it? I work hard. God I work hard. But I have big mortgages to show for all that hard work. So big. And…
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114. Regret and other useless emotions.
Read more: 114. Regret and other useless emotions.It seems to me that regret is the sugar of emotions. You know it’s bad for you, but you just keep going back for more. I always feel jealous of people who emphatically say they have none. Whether that means they’ve learned, recalibrated and moved on or they’re just really good at discarding…
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113. Settle Petal.
Read more: 113. Settle Petal.The slogan Flower Power blossomed in the 60s and the passive resistance of the Vietnam War. But here in Bali, Flower Power exerts a different influence. Wherever you look, they call me to task – and the task is to stop, to notice, to appreciate, to be grateful.
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112. Stumbling towards enlightenment.
Read more: 112. Stumbling towards enlightenment.Desa Seni has been taken over by white people, like 40 of them. I’m not being casually racist. Each of them is literally and compulsorily dressed head to toe in white. There’s a 30-day Kundalini Yoga training programme on at Desa Seni. Called by practitioners ‘the yoga of awareness’, it aims ‘to cultivate the creative…
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