Tag: Rooftop

I did not really know what to expect of Bangkok. I have seen the Hangover — watched plenty of Mark Wiens exploring the street food, and spent years scrolling past my friends’ rooftop instaposts. It was finally my turn. Flight to BKK — and I start my story with my last night befo...

Shyoop and I were walking on the rooftop of my ex-flat in Delhi and we confirmed for the third time that there’s something about it that makes everyone open up, that makes us talk about things that we think about but haven’t said out loud, that makes us talk about ourselves, the mistakes...

We each have a tablet and it’s obvious that I’m over-matched. Mine displays a disjointed collection of spreadsheets I’ve created over the years, sporadically analyzing my personal energy use, filling in unknowns with the best information on Reddit. For inexplicable reasons, all my ...

Life had already fallen apart in China when my mother was born in 1948. The Japanese invasion had ravaged the country for eight years in the midst of the Chinese Civil War that ended with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) taking control of the country in 1949. At one years old...