John Lennon: Lennon Peace Monument Unveiled in Liverpool
Cynthia (Lennon) asked everyone to seek the kind of peace Lennon enjoyed, which was to have a good time. "Go and have a good time," she said.
Topic
Travel
Stories from my travels on work, and travels that I've done to escape work …
Diaries: Tokyo and Kyoto
The maikos posed on Ninenzaka's cobblestones: young, gracious, smiling without showing teeth, more cute than sexy, attractive to all ages and to both sexes.
Wandering About in Sultanahmet, Istanbul
His cry rode a long time on each breath and dipped and rose and turned and twisted in the sweet manner of an endless Hindusthani strain and my mind came to a halt and listened, rapt.
Mauritius : About Honouring Past Heroes
At the National Museum in Mahebourg, there is a celebration of another type of hero in Mauritian history—the corsair. And Surcouf was the king of Corsairs.
Tuol Sleng, Duch, and Hell on Earth
Duch ran the prison, oversaw the torture, and, soon as he had a "confession," certified the dispatch of his prisoners to the "killing fields" out of town.
At a Pond in the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia
The sight holds a long time, it is wondrous, but I want to see fish, so I intensify my gaze: they come out like ghosts …
Feeling Good and Bad at the Melukote Temple
This temple is a place of pilgrimage on account of the saint Ramanujacharya, who lived in Melukote during the rule of Vishnuvardhana, nine hundred years ago. More recently, the Wodeyars have poured generosity upon it.
Return to the Now Drowned Magge Church
This visit, I went there on a theppa (coracle). Reaching the church, only the top of which is exposed, I sat on a dry part on the Southern wall, feeling tiny, my body and mind lost in the immensity of water.
A Lite History of Singapore
She wanted lions, and the realtors said: "Lions also can see, la." Utama rejoiced, settled down with Siti on the island, and gave Temasek a new name.
Even in Modern Singapore
Everybody who passed stared at it: young and old, Singaporeans and Japanese and Westerners, women and men. Many took pictures, some took lots of pictures.