@blackheart_wg @harsh_vardhhan Not planned by me , by close friends . After that we didn’t travel much together 😂
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@ficussg
Fearmongering is an ailment. Chardi Kala .
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@ficussg @harsh_vardhhan you visited couple of times...why if its overrated?
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What a humbling data-
Foreign Tourist Arrivals (2025)
India → 9 million
Bali → 7 million
An entire country vs one island
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@harsh_vardhhan I’ve also visited a couple of times , maybe my expectations were very high . It’s not bad but not the paradise lost which it is made out to be . Next door , Lombok is what Bali was at one point .
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@ficussg Personally travelled Bali
NGL, didn't find it one bit overrated
rupeetravel.com/bali-travel-gu…
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@dannycheng2022 Is it ? As a retail investor , am quite ignorant of this trend . Am I missing out ?
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Out of curiosity, why do most retail investors prefer to bet big on small-cap stocks rather than large-cap (big) stocks?
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POV: You just paid S&C, one of the three most expensive and high-powered law firms in the world, $3000 per hour to submit AI slop to the court on your behalf.
No one is safe.
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Stunning: Tim Cook stepping down. This is tough news for those of us who have learned so much from him...
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@LLequeu The moment China decides the canal is the way forward and Thailand is on board , it will happen .
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#Singapore days of prosperity are counted and this should not surprise anyone since Singapore has decided to take side with the US empire. Ultimately Singapore like the puppets monarchies of the GCC will end in a similar state of disarray
Bloomberg@business
Thailand will press ahead with a plan to link the Indian and Pacific oceans, after tensions over the Strait of Hormuz highlighted the strategic value of key shipping routes, a senior minister said bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@ficussg One of my teachers liked to punish students by making him read out the text loud every time a plane flew by, it had to be loud enough so everyone can hear him
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I went to school under this flight path with a 747 thundering by right outside classroom windows every two minutes. What an iconic airport
Greg Girard@gregforaday
A few pictures of Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong. 1977-1996. Mostly unpublished but one or two from “HK:PM” and “City of Darkness Revisited”. 1. Kai Tak arrival lobby. 1991. 2. Departure lobby, 1977. 3. Kai Tak overview, 1992. 4. Singapore Airlines jet making the low turn to line up with Kai Tak’s single runway. 1989. Link to books in bio. greggirardpictures.com
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@martinvars China will be overrun by Robots , physical and digital . They don’t need to worry about boasting fertility . That’s their goal and clearly they are close to achieving it working a decade .
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@martinvars China will be a close second to America if not the leader for several decades ahead , on many fronts. That is the reality for the world in the forseable future .
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The United States has a habit of watching its rivals shrink. The Soviet Union collapsed. Japan, which was supposed to own America in the 1980s, is now a far smaller economy. China looks set to follow.
In 2021 China's GDP reached 76 percent of American GDP, and the consensus was that it would pass the US before 2030. That consensus has collapsed. By 2024 the US economy was 29.2 trillion dollars against China's 18.9 trillion, a gap that has widened for three straight years. China's working-age population is shrinking. Its fertility rate has fallen to roughly 1.0, half of replacement. There is no immigration to compensate.
Yet America benefits from believing it faces a formidable rival. The belief is what keeps it competing.
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@Pivot2Centre The United States gives everyone in the world , work intenet access and a bit of money , to build wealth … just invest in the US stock market etfs . Dollar cost average for a few years consistently
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Japan was poised to take over from US. Then the population decline hit it.
Soviet Union was an equivalent in influence, it disintegrated
China was a certainty. It had the momentum of Japan and was trying to get the influence to match USSR. It has stalled
As much as I don’t like few things about America, it would be a lie if I don’t say that I am in awe of its ability to adapt.
Military wise, tech wise, AI wise, and the sheer ability to let businesses think big. There is literally only 1 country where a lower middle class man can dream of becoming a multi millionaire and actually achieve it without closeness to any influential person
Even with stupid politicians and some crazy ass population, it just keeps moving.
Martin Varsavsky@martinvars
The United States has a habit of watching its rivals shrink. The Soviet Union collapsed. Japan, which was supposed to own America in the 1980s, is now a far smaller economy. China looks set to follow. In 2021 China's GDP reached 76 percent of American GDP, and the consensus was that it would pass the US before 2030. That consensus has collapsed. By 2024 the US economy was 29.2 trillion dollars against China's 18.9 trillion, a gap that has widened for three straight years. China's working-age population is shrinking. Its fertility rate has fallen to roughly 1.0, half of replacement. There is no immigration to compensate. Yet America benefits from believing it faces a formidable rival. The belief is what keeps it competing.
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As a non-native English speaker I must say Marlene’s list is a great showcase of how tricky English can be at times.
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@TomWrightAsia Little napoleons in Singpaore , feeling ‘rich’ and entitled behind their over priced COE paid cars which are depreciating assets at best .
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Small example, crossing a gas station entrance with my kid, a car comes off the main road and almost hits us. We were half way across as he came hurtling in. In his mind, we should only have started crossing when there was no chance of a car coming at all.
Tom Wright@TomWrightAsia
Love Singapore, but some of the most dangerous drivers in the world.
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@VishalBhargava5 Before business parks , there were places like Delhi Cantt with their verdant and pothole free boulevards and relatively quiet , laid back vibe
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Bangalore: You drive on the broken roads, invisible footpaths, unchecked garbage. Every sign of a third-world city. And then you enter the gate of business parks where the first-world experience awaits you.
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@Molson_Hart English works very well across India , in official and commercial arena , thank you very much .
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This shows why India will struggle mightily to be “the next China”.
India’s prime minister has to give speeches in English with dubbing in the local language in the second largest state economy in India, Tamil Nadu.
Modi speaks English and Hindi. They speak English and Tamil.
Mao forced a single language on China, but no one ever did that indigenously in India.
There is no such thing as “the next China”.
That’s a unique moment in world history that will never recur in our lives.
India will have to find its own way and that’s fine.
Narendra Modi@narendramodi
Over the past five years, two things have increased to record levels in Tamil Nadu: The first is…one family’s wealth. And the second is…Tamil Nadu’s debt.
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You can’t even drink the tap water in Shanghai.
Jostein Hauge@haugejostein
I agree. Shanghai is the most developed megacity I’ve seen — more so than New York, Tokyo, or London. I might have to reconsider if I visit Shenzhen or Hangzhou.
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Walk into any government office in India, towels are a common sight on the chairs of bureaucrats. A ubiquitous symbol of power.
Such is the importance of the towel that a few years ago in Uttar Pradesh, lawmakers filed complaints, aggrieved at not being offered chairs draped in white towels during visits to government offices, while pointing out that officers were "sitting on tall, betowelled chairs." The matter was serious enough that the state's parliamentary affairs department had to issue a formal directive to officials, reminding them of the existing hierarchy. The government ordered that MPs, MLAs and MLCs be given towel-adorned chairs "of the same height and decor" at meetings across the state.
In the Uttar Pradesh secretariat in Lucknow, around 1,000 towels are changed twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays😀
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