My Asian Life

@wander_investor not entirely fair to be honest 😁

@wander_investor that has been my impression so far in Central Asia 😆

Turkey is a powerhouse in Central Asia and in the South Caucasus. Very strong economic, political, and financial ties based on shared Turkic heritage.

@zybach717 true but Modern Standard Arabic isnt really spoken among the Arabs (dialects instead), but at least you can read and write in it

Best languages to learn for geo-maxxxing: - Russian - Arabic - Spanish - Chinese Small euro languages like french, german, italian, portuguese, dutch are useless, they don't open any new doors in business nor do they grant access to different worlds of cultural inflence

@varrock Asian emerging and frontier market equities

@PPC4Liberty 🇫🇷🇵🇹🇬🇧 WTF!? Is this real?

It should be zero.

@johndory1914 welcome! But it takes some to time to get used to drinking beer out of plastic bags 😅

One more tax increase, and I'm moving to China to become a greeter / postcard vendor at the Tsingtau German Beer Museum.

Entrepreneur’s mind. Athlete’s body. Artist’s soul.

@wander_investor ‚Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation‘ would be great too 😁

People often ask me what my dream passport is. This ⚜️👇

@CaudilloXIV true 😁

this would be the average mexican woman if their diet wasn’t based on corn and motor oil

@BowTiedPassport 🤣 wtf is the front basin for?

The Mexican urge to charge money to use a bathroom that looks like this.

@archi_tradition because so few people, let alone political 'leaders' can ride 😁

Why don’t we create statues like this anymore?

@WuWei113 @eriktorenberg Agree. ❤️🇲🇳

@eriktorenberg Give woman social status for be mother. Mongolia do this. It work

Nothing has worked in fixing birth rates. Financial incentives didn’t work (Hungary), Nordic socialism didn’t work (Scandinavia), restricting women’s rights didn’t work (Iran), totalitarianism didn’t work (North Korea), doing nothing didn’t work (Latin America). What will work?

europeans at 3pm after putting in a hard days work at their $15,000 a year salaried job (they pay $100 in rent and beer costs 50 cents)

@milchickfan42 And some nice Schmiss (dueling scars) on his cheek 🇩🇪⚔️🧐

Thinking about this guy again No ideology just pure love for the game

@tomhuzz Interesting thought, will try next time I’m out of Asia, no tipping whatsoever here 😁

dubai bouncer, 6'5" nigerian guy gold teeth, broken english waves me past a 2-hour queue "why?" i asked thought he mistook me for someone "you tip before party not after only one type comes back" handed him 200 dirhams earlier just being polite didn't expect special treatment "rich people tip going in poor people tip going out one is investment one is charity" watched the queue while drinking noticed the pattern: flashy guys arguing about cover charge real money walking straight through no questions asked decided to test his theory that whole night: tipped the bathroom attendant first got insider info on private party tipped the bartender before ordering never waited for a drink again tipped the valet before parking they watched my car like hawks met 3 potential clients that night all in areas i wouldn't normally access closed £30k in deals within a week now i pre-tip everywhere: barbers: perfect cuts, zero wait restaurants: tables appear from nowhere hotels: upgrades i never requested flights: "somehow" business class opens up that bouncer changed my whole philosophy: luck isn't random it's pre-paid you don't tip because you got service you tip because you want service poor people react rich people pre-act started teaching this to students: "pay before you need to give before you have to tip before they serve you" one student started pre-tipping at every business meeting location never waits for a table always gets the quiet room closing rate went up 40% because when you tip after you're saying "thank you" when you tip before you're saying "i'm valuable" completely different energy completely different results the lesson: stop waiting for luck start manufacturing it with 50 dirham bills fortune favors the prepared but serves the pre-tippers [Comment 'MIND' for my FREE OFM PDF]

@ngahpham delicious! 🍺🇻🇳

#HanoiDiary One of the best things about Hanoi is probably bia hoi, the fresh beer served in iconic green hand-blown glasses, accompanied by yummy food and your best friends. A glass costs less than 50 cents, so there’s no reason not to drink plenty!

@MyLatinLife I wonder why it’s Latin inside, but Italian on the front cover 🧐

It is my life's mission to become a citizen of the Vatican and get a Vatican passport

@wander_investor Looks like it was written by a German, with all those capitalized nouns 😆

The wording and punctuation of these letters is absolutely insane from a protocol point of view

@BowTiedPassport Peruvian cuisine and Argentine steaks/wines are great too

Thank the lord for Mexico, otherwise, food in Latin America is trash.

@ErrolTostigson yes, but keep in mind that if you know Chinese Hanzi and some phonological rules, you understand 70% of Korean/Japanese vocabulary, and about 40% Vietnamese. In these areas, literary/classical Chinese used to be a written lingua franca before the 20th century.

Chinese is an important language, but like Persian, Turkish or Swahili, it’s a minor global language with little use outside its exact zone. Russian, Arabic, French, Spanish and English are true master languages that will serve you almost anywhere on earth.