We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be [...]

Petronas Towers by Night 2 Originally uploaded by magnusvk. Many modern high-rise buildings are very similar to each other. It is all about the glass and the steel and can get very impersonal at times. The Petronas Towers, on the other hand, are very distinctive, beautiful buildings. Despite being designed by an Argentine-American architect, they [...]

I recently had a client apply for a credit card. She is a homemaker, with no personal income. The house she lives in is in her husband’s name. She would have asked for a $3,000 credit line, just to pay miscellaneous expenses and to establish some credit on her own. So the computer is told [...]