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Saint Carr

By Kris | Published: February 3, 2012

Yesterday Facebook filed the preliminary prospectus for its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO). The company is seeking to raise a whopping $5 billion. That is pretty massive and one of the greatest IPO filings ever. Facebook is so valuable because it has 850 million active users, of which half returns every day. As part of [...]

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The threath of Information Thieves

By Kris | Published: February 2, 2012

You know what’s cheap in the 21st century? Compute time. You know what’s expensive? Human judgment. And they’re not interchangeable. Humans are good at understanding things, computers are good at counting things, but humans suck at counting and computers suck at understanding.  – Cory Doctorow, Pester Power This blog is becoming increasingly an asylum for [...]

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The movies of 2011

By Kris | Published: February 1, 2012

I have watched many movies in 2011. But because I have such a bad memory, I decided to keep track of them – it should be fairly complete. Some I saw in the theater, some at home. Here an overview and some words on each of them. The American. With George Clooney: thoughtful story, but [...]

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Live music in Ho Chi Minh City

By Kris | Published: January 28, 2012

I have always enjoyed music. And especially live music. I just love shredding guitars and pounding basses. Raw. All the shit we hear on the radio is sometimes just too overly produced, soft, and licked. And I can really appreciate a live concert when everything just feels right. While staying in Ho Chi Minh, I [...]

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Vung Tau (i)

By Kris | Published: January 25, 2012

One of our first trips in Vietnam was to Vung Tau. This is not so a touristic city, wouldn’t it be for the 32m-high statue of Jesus. You do find foreigners there for a different reason: the crude oil. Vung Tau as a petroleum extraction center is economically very important to Vietnam and situated near [...]

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Karaoke on Lunar New Year

By Kris | Published: January 25, 2012

It was getting late. Lunar New Years’ day had almost ended. I hear some very loud Karaoke music coming from a house. We go there. I see two beautiful daughters energetically dancing and signing, a proud and caring mom and pop. The dad is filming the in-house karaoke event with my Canon 500D.  The guy [...]

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The Vietnam refugees

By Kris | Published: January 24, 2012

Yesterday I met a man who had a very intriguing story that I would like to share. He explained me how he escaped Vietnam. The story starts in 1975, the end of the Vietnam war when Saigon was captured. The north was getting more and more influence. People in the south now had to deal [...]

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Trick Eye Art

By Kris | Published: January 23, 2012

During my stint in Vietnam (still here btw), I visited a very interesting exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City. This exhibition consisted of tens of big-sized 3D paintings. Paintings that reveal another dimension in fact, as you can be part of the scenery too and bring it alive. You just need to be able to [...]

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My Vietnamese Lunar New Year

By Kris | Published: January 22, 2012

Today it’s the Vietnamese old year and tomorrow the Lunar New Year, Tết or Tết Nguyên Đán starts. I had heard about this “lunar” New Year before, but was not really much aware about what it really involves. Dragons and Gods right and a different calendar or something? Like the Chinese thing… Not so much and [...]

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In Kuala Lumpur

By Kris | Published: January 15, 2012
Astonishing Kuala Lumpur view seen from the TV tower. You can see that its a green city too.

On my way to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam my flight was in transit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As a matter of fact, quite some flights to South-East Asia actually come through the Kuala Lumpur International airport (or Bangkok).  And as I had more than 10 hours to spend there, I thought of making optimal [...]

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