• Culture,  Journal,  Travel

    Japan

    Found a great deal online for tickets to Japan, so I embarked in this last-minute adventure, first time in Asia! Narita airport via Brunei The trip from Australia to Japan, with Royal Brunei, includes a 7Hr layover in Brunei airport,…

  • Culture,  Journal,  Spanish

    Acuarela de culturas

    Hace un par de días tuvimos una charla, todo relacionado con R U OK (organización en Australia/NZ que promueve buena salud mental) – escuchar a la persona hablar fue como viajar y estar de pronto en Nueva Zelanda! Mas allá…

  • Culture,  Journal

    Online market – Aussie style

    Writing down few notes about the experience of buying online while in Australia. I moved here only with a suitcase and a backpack, initially I stayed at the most random places, AirBnB, cheap hotels… once I finally got a place…

  • Culture,  Journal

    Would beauty transcend?

    In 2007 The Washington Post asked Joshua bell, a Grammy-winning violinist, to pretend to be a street performer playing for change in the Metro. It was a social experiment for a magazine article: if a world-famous musician and his $10+ million dollar…

  • tall poppy
    Culture,  Journal,  Society,  Spanish

    Tall poppy

    Desde hace algunos días en las noticas o medios sociales la gente ha estado usando el concepto de “tall poppy” (amapola mas alta que el resto) así que aprovecho de escribir algo acerca del folclore local. Tall poppy se refiere…

  • COVID whatever
    Culture,  Journal

    COVID – the whatever phase

    I hope to be wrong but it seems we are already living the “whatever” phase of the pandemic, where governments like England or Australia are giving up and promoting the message that “people will need to live with it”, which…

  • Culture

    The good, the bad, the ugly and the wild

    It seems, fingers crossed, that end of the year/early next year the borders will be open. Hopefully we can travel and visit each other soon. Meanwhile I just wanted to drop few lines of the good, the bad, the ugly…

  • Jake Millar
    Culture,  Entrepreneur,  Unboxed

    Entrepreneurship – local style

    Couple days ago I read in the news feed one of the local star entrepreneurs sold his company, a video/news/education? platform. That was a big thing in the news, today, however, it seems that instead of a successful exit this…

  • Culture,  Journal

    Truth

    While updating my blog yesterday I found an old quote that I love: “First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love” – Thomas S. Monson I feel so grateful…

  • Culture,  Journal,  Spanish

    Tribus Nomades

    Hace tiempo no escribo en Español asi que mientras descanso un poco de la rutina comparto algunas lineas Un par de conocidos y amigos estan con interes de venir a Nueva Zelanda y una de las cosas que me he…