Asia

85 posts

2026

4 Jan Luxury is absolutely done in the West but still exists in Asia and the Gulf states 𝕏

2025

23 Dec The oceans are full of plastic exactly because you recycle 𝕏
14 Dec Why Koreans didn't get richer 𝕏
13 Dec Amap is my favorite navigation app in China 𝕏
13 Dec NIO is another very popular EV brand in China 𝕏
7 Dec China can be very cheap with $300 Chongqing hotel suites and $20 rooms 𝕏
7 Dec Chinese tourism is 95% domestic making China feel like the only foreigner there 𝕏
4 Dec Chinese high speed trains are now faster than the Japanese Shinkansen 𝕏
4 Dec Arriving in Chongqing and China's LED lit skyline versus Europe saving energy 𝕏
4 Dec I took the high speed train in China today 𝕏
4 Dec Western double standards on China versus Japan city lights 𝕏
3 Dec China's train security is stricter than TSA 𝕏
3 Dec Getting the China flu after arriving and why to wear an N95 on planes 𝕏
3 Dec Never bring a knife to China because DHL and customs make shipping impossible 𝕏
29 Nov I got the China cough after 4 days in China 𝕏
28 Nov Western people used in Chinese marketing to represent quality 𝕏
27 Nov Beijing uses robot arms at toll booths 𝕏
27 Nov China airport confiscated our power banks without CCC certification 𝕏
27 Nov The Russian connection in China doesn't stop 𝕏
27 Nov Woke up in Beijing's Summer Palace built in 1750 as a birthday gift 𝕏
26 Nov Got Alipay to work in China as proxy for Didi Meituan and Baidu 𝕏
26 Nov Russians are traveling to China a lot because they're blocked from most places 𝕏
25 Nov China isn't easy to travel 𝕏
10 Nov Singapore too is now compromised by degrowthers 𝕏
15 Jun I randomly discovered Dubai has an absolutely massive solar farm 𝕏

2024

24 Nov Europe's end game might be to become like Japan a cheap tourist destination 𝕏
5 Sep Bali broke ground on a subway that will connect the entire island 𝕏
5 Aug In Bali the heat puts your brain into power save idle mode 𝕏
5 Aug If you wanna get rich install AC 𝕏
4 Jul Japan is not futuristic it's a fossil stuck in 1990 unlike China Korea and Vietnam 𝕏
2 Jul Jack Ma met Jerry Yang at the great wall of China in 1997 𝕏

2023

8 Aug Invested in Brazil after traveling there for a month 𝕏
4 Aug Good example is GoJEK a super app in Asia where you can do everything from ordering an Uber to massage and investing 𝕏
22 Jun Almost nobody I know in Asia wants to move to America anymore 𝕏
10 Jun First class in America vs first class in Asia 𝕏
5 Jun US flag stripes come from Indonesia's Majapahit empire 𝕏

2022

2 Dec Indonesia makes sex outside marriage illegal even in Bali while Thailand gets more progressive 𝕏

2020

20 Mar Asia had SARS so they test and isolate but the west tries its own thing 𝕏
1 Mar Air pollution before and after Corona 𝕏

2019

2018

24 Nov In Beijing you can add your public transit card to Apple Wallet 𝕏
23 Nov Beijing air turned into hell on earth this weekend from weekend driving 𝕏
23 Nov Every receipt in Beijing gives you a QR code for digital bookkeeping 𝕏
19 Nov Beijing today 𝕏

2017

2016

18 Oct Vaporwave impression about my month in Shanghai 𝕏
17 Oct Hong Kong Express - 上海 (Shanghai)
8 Oct Working from a free coworking space in Shanghai 𝕏
7 Oct The Shelter in Shanghai is a cyberpunk Bladerunner club from the year 2150 𝕏

2015

30 Nov Beijing air quality hits 543 AQI 𝕏
14 Oct Vaporwave is the only music that fits the feeling futuristic Asian mega cities give me
14 May I uploaded 4 terabyte over Korea's 4G, and paid $48
11 Jan Why are you still in Europe 𝕏

2014

5 Aug Manila
23 Jul Bali is the magical voodoo spirit island of Asia
13 Apr Celebrating my birthday North Korean style
18 Jan How I Went From 100 To 0 Things (Or How I Was Robbed of All My Stuff)

2013

31 Dec Celebrating NYE 2014 in Hong Kong
30 Dec How I ended up in Hong Kong (or my adventures in the New York of the East)
23 Nov How I spent the night with Singapore's migrant workers
22 Nov Why I want to live in Singapore
27 Oct The myth of a globalized world
12 Oct What I learnt from bootstrapping my startup from Thailand in six months
20 Jul The 100 Thing Challenge – From 200 to 20 things in 3 months
17 Jul Living in a Hotel
16 Jul The Story of my Visa Run to Tachileik in Myanmar
19 Jun Make money where prices are high, spend it where prices are low. Does income arbitrage work?
16 Jun Finding an apartment in Chiang Mai
11 Jun Co-Working Spaces in Chiang Mai: PunSpace
10 Jun Moving to Chiang Mai
4 Jun My Bad Day At The Co-Working Space
29 May The 24-Hour Coffee Place in Bangkok: Too Fast To Sleep
17 May Visiting Koh Samui, the island of paradise
5 May From dive bar to roof-top bar to roof-top pool in Bangkok
1 May Co-working spaces in Bangkok: Launchpad
24 Apr The 100 Thing Challenge
23 Apr Co-working spaces in Bangkok: Hubba
22 Apr Reset your life