63Random
63 random things from the past 3 months (inspired by Michael Ruby's "Fleeting Memories")
- Arriving in Budapest knowing absolutely nothing about Hungary
- Drinking palinka for the first time, feeling the flush
- The Hungarian energy drinks I drank while wearing funny hats
- Walking with team Photogotchi along the Halászbástya, feeling a little like Ezio Auditore da Firenze
- The boys who were carrying giant swans and crocodile paddle boats onto Lake Balaton
- Sitting in the yard of old times
- Leaving Hungary thinking fröccs is the best idea in the world
- Arriving in frosty Helsinki once again
- The cute studio in Apila
- That Finnish rapper in a Tiki bar
- Being miserable, cold and desperately wanting you
- More palinka, Timo's flat, tiny spaces and uncrossable chasms
- Red-heads in the rain
- Remembering that karaoke in northern Europe is pretty damn weird
- Mushroom-picking, mushroom-cooking
- Cycling on a Jopo through the rain
- Beautiful Finnish brunches on Sunday mornings
- A lot of fish
- Tactical Nuclear Penguin
- American Airlines, truly a terrible way to fly
- Arriving in America for the first time
- Pacific Heights. Not having change for the bus to Market Street.
- Speaking badly in Cantonese.
- Father of my future children showing me a iBaby monitor in the Apple Store
- Brilliant people all over San Francisco.
- Being chased up a flight of stairs by a bouncer in the Castro for not having an ID.
- Losing my ID. And my credit cards. And my iPhone. In a bar. In the Tenderloin.
- Being stupid.
- Being on a work call with Sydney while sitting next to a painting called The Chronological Wall of Dicks and Cunts. Ah, San Francisco.
- Staff at the Singapore consulate giving me cup noodles and soya bean milk from their personal stashes.
- Buying a bright yellow Fuji Finest on my second day in San Francisco.
- Toning my ass, cycling uphill everywhere
- Excellent vegetarian Japanese food in Valencia followed by a free meditation class down the road.
- Folsom Street Fair. Many things cannot be unseen, once seen.
- Ethiopian with Jiten and Family.
- Family of four sitting in a hipster coffeeshop in San Jose, each with a parrot on their heads.
- Watching The Nationals vs the Phillies at the Nats Stadium.
- You never forget your first Shake Shack.
- America is so great because you can order beer and hot dogs online, and expect to have them arrive at your seat in a baseball stadium in three minutes.
- One day I will understand more of this great nation, the same one that invented SPAM and Chicken in a Biskit. These inventions speak more about a national character than any other great invention.
- Rolling my eyes at groupies of ‘famous tech people'.
- Walking to the Lincoln Memorial, wishing I had seen it earlier because all I see now in that statue is Abraham Lincoln (Vampire Killer)
- Eating fish tacos with Jason Scott Jones, who knows more about Brooklyn than anybody else
- Having the cashier ask me why I want to pay US$12 for a can of tuna. Not having a good answer other than ‘it's very good tuna. Spanish.'
- My crazy/beautiful Crown Heights pad.
- Being in love with New York, like they all said I would.
- Talking to my aunt at JFK for longer than we have ever spoken to each other, all our lives.
- My 27th birthday party in Crown Heights.
- The Met Museum with Michael Ruby and Dave Gurien.
- Leaving New York, loving New York.
- New York to Budapest via London, Budapest to Singapore via Doha, 12 hours apart
- Those miserable long layovers in Doha.
- Wanton mee
- Having everything fall into place the moment I got home
- The first day Cookie got home
- Cooking a delicious spare ribs pasta
- IKEA, burgers, Thai supermarkets and Mustafa
- Finally getting my diving license
- Doing the Gangnam Style at 10m underwater
- The corner store in Tioman
- Thinking that learning to dive in the middle of the monsoon was probably not too clever
- Floating upwards uncontrollably before learning to trust my own buoyancy
- I am finally ready, maybe.