The first thing that comes to mind when I think of Indianapolis is the famous Indy 500 event. The GPS begs to differ. It took me more than five attempts with voice control to get GM’s in-car GPS to comply with my command to navigate me to Indianapolis, not Minneapolis. Read more…
Located in Postdam less than an hour away from Berlin, this group of palaces is almost as spectacular as Versailles from the outside and ten times more fun because the outdoor area is free for all to admire. Though I would recommend bringing a bicycle there because the S-Bahn is very Read more…
Or the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, named after the famous Grimm brothers who wrote fairy tales such as Rapunzel, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, and The Red Cap (Little Red Riding Hood). This is a fitting name for a central library of the university that once managed the German State Library – Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Read more…
We had the opportunity to choose which company we wanted to engage with in a case competition for HPAIR 2018. Out a list of many companies it included the World Bank, Maybank, and Tencent. Naturally, I chose the World Bank as it was the biggest name on that list, I Read more…
On the first night of the HPAIR conference I had some thoughts on my mind I wanted to share with a friend. At 1am, I was walking towards the Monash University campus to roam around with a beer to clear my mind. Spotify was playing “Take it Easy”, exactly what Read more…
I had so much fin with this rascal staying up till midnight five nights in a row that I never took a proper photo with him. Although he says he’s a Professor from the University of the Philippines he’s the only guy on a table of eight that would take Read more…
The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations is better known as HPAIR, the largest annual student conference organized by Harvard University in the Asia-Pacific region. Those of you who have been fortunate enough to be delegates will know that the sentence was repeatedly recited during official events. It aims to Read more…
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Centre of the National Air and Space Museum may boast the largest collection of aviation artefacts in America, but the Seattle Museum of Flight has the most historically significant. Home to the first Boeing 727, 747, and a NASA 737, its proximity to the Boeing factory Read more…
Having just opened in the early 2010’s, Chihuly Gardens and Glass is one of the newest additions to the already iconic Seattle Centre. Sharing a site with classics such as the Space Needle and the Museum of Pop Culture, the gardens and its fragile exhibits are not inferior to its Read more…
Some of us plan ahead and I like to imagine myself as someone who lives life with a certain degree of forethought. There are summers where I plan out my academic and career path, winters where I plan summer holidays, but as far as planning goes it never gets past Read more…