The Arts – JustMeMike's New BlogIs taking a spiritual journey on your list of things to do. Or have you taken a journey which turned out to be spiritual in some way without you planning for it. For me, the answer to both questions is yes AND no. You see, I don’t aspire to take a spiritual journey, nor have [...]
It’s Wednesday. the 16th, and here I am about to review a film called Elite Squad which is set in the favelas and mean streets of Rio de Janeiro in faraway Brazil. A week ago, last Tuesday night I was far away from my home in Sarasota, Florida. That Tuesday was my last night, half [...]
Famed song-smith Frank Loesser wrote the song “Slow Boat to China” in the middle late 1940′s. The lyrics to the song start with these words: I’d love to get you On a slow boat to China, All to myself alone. Get you to keep you in my arms evermore, Leave all your lovers Weeping on [...]
As I write this, I am somewhere near the Arctic Circle, or maybe I should say near it and above it. My flight left Hong Kong around 9:30 AM on the 9th of November, and by the time it touches down in JFK Airport in New York a bit more than 14 hours later – [...]
Walking on the moon has a nice ring to it: it’s kind of astronaut-ish. Well, I did walk on the moon and I’m not even close to being an astronaut. Of course, I am referring to Moon Hill which is located in Yangshuo, Guangxi Province in China. To the right is a picture of the [...]
Meanwhile, back at the East Hotel, 29 Taikoo Shing Road, Hong Kong, things are really better than the impression you might have gotten from my article on breakfasts this morning. Around 1:30 PM today, after lunch, I was waiting for something and decided to cruise back to Feast, and take some images. I ran into [...]
Wednesday November 2nd – It is about 10:30 in the morning. I have just returned from my morning expedition. I will leave Hong Kong for the 1st time tomorrow evening. But I needed to lay in some items for today and tomorrow. So the first item on my agenda was some orange juice. I’d not [...]
