Recent content by hornygandalf

A review in the Review section would be very helpful... with a little more detail :)

BTW, I have seen her real pictures and they are representative and not far off reality. I wouldn't let the fake pictures get in the way of meeting with her.

They may have come from Hong Kong, where asking the cost of housing is just about a standard 'getting to know you' type question whenever you visit someone's place for the first time. Don't take it as necessarily them trying to suss out how much to squeeze you for.

You mean Drumpf? That, according to John Oliver, is the original family name for Trump. And it does seem so much more fitting. http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/donald-trump-drumpf-1.3470630 Get the Chrome extension from John Oliver's site to correct the references to the Donald on websites to the...

Just because we can’t explain something or it doesn’t fit known scientific laws, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Until very recently there was no scientific explanation for why warmer water froze faster than cold water. Doesn’t mean the phenomenon didn’t exist simply because we had no scientific...

Josephus, the Romano-Jewish historian, born shortly after the time frame when Jesus was reputed to have lived, did write about Jesus and other individuals from the New Testament (see Antiquities of the Jews). Also, the Roman historian Tacitus (later, in his Annals). There are other historic...

While I was a student I enjoyed the fee-free banking at Scotiabank. Once I was no longer a student, I moved to Vancity. Like Coast Capital, pleasant, painless experience without getting gouged. Only need to hold $1000 in the checking account for it to be no-fee. Banks and telecom companies are...

There is so much we don't know or understand. And we have been educated to believe that everything has to have a scientific explanation, or it isn't possible (accepting that there are some scientific explanations yet to be found). But, there are things that are outside of empirical observation...

Aside from Tokyo, we are probably one of the cities most likely to get hit with a major earthquake. Wonder how many of the recent immigrants will decide to leave after that hits... Having grown up in the shaky isles, it is less of a concern to me, but I know it will change people's perceptions...

Welcome FreeG... and thank you for bringing in another perspective. It ain't all bad here, as you have just pointed out. Thank you.

I do... most of the time. Though not as frequent as Hong Kong, it is still better than many other cities I've been in.

I am kinda stuck here for family reasons (though another part of the family would prefer me to move), but also love some aspects of the place. In many ways, this is one of the best places in the world that I've lived, though there is the problem of the ratio of income v. housing costs. That...

'cause, some of us are hopeless romantics, or fools, or both. There can be dishonesty and deceit on any relationship. But there can also be honesty, transparency, acceptance, affection, trust and a real deep connection (and a few other things). I'm looking for the latter, and when I find it...

Having flown about half a million miles with Cathay, I have to agree with you Ms Lavinia, though I used to find that the Singapore Airlines Business Class was probably better than Cathay. However, Cathay frequently addressed me by name when I got on the plane (still do occasionally) and so made...

Very clever :)