Archive for July, 2012
A loca’s hodgepodge on Copa
I’ve given up trying to find time to write what I call a decent piece on Copacabana. It’s been a month now since I came back from my trip to Rio and my story is getting stale – and my memory of it, thanks to my highly efficient hippocampus, slowly becoming fuzzy. So I’m settling [...]
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Hotter than Rio’s gems
I may not have found what I thought were some of Rio’s gems – beautiful women and men with sun-kissed and well-endowed bodies stretched endlessly under the sun in Copacabana – I discovered gems that I thought were lovelier and hotter. I could admire or hmm… ogle them as long as I want and bring [...]
Magnificent Cristo
Magnificent. That best describes how it felt coming face to face with Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) on top of the 2,300-feet high Corcovado Mountain in Rio de Janeiro. The statue, about 130 feet tall and the 5th largest statue of Jesus in the world, was massive and imposing that it was overwhelming at [...]
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Taking a slice of the China pie
So the rush for goldmine that’s China hasn’t really ebbed despite its weakening economy and expected slower growth this year – and the country’s countless failings, from the perspective of the western world at least. A recent proof of this is the New York Times’ launch this week of a Chinese language website, targeting the country’s “growing number of educated, affluent, [...]
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