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Crashing back down to earth

April 19, 2010

We spent the weekend in Mar del Plata to visit the boy’s family.  We had home-cooked food, spent time by the sea and generally relaxed for three days.  But my oh my, what three days of pure frustration they were for me. After 8 classes of Español para Extranjeros, I was feeling fantastic leaving Buenos […]






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The beauty of language learning

April 11, 2010

Learning a new language is like stumbling through darkness to a destination not yet charted.  I know I’m going to get there at some point but where and how I’ll know, I have no idea.  Learning Spanish has been like a shot in the dark.  There’s a goal but I’m not quite sure exactly when […]






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Spanish: lesson 2

April 8, 2010

A few more of my favourite words: pesadilla (peh-sah-dee-shaa) Nightmare.  Really?!  What a beautiful word for nightmare. llover (show-vehr) This is the verb for rain.  Rain is a verb! yo lluevo. I rain. vos lloves. You rain. el llueve. It rains. nosotros llovemos. We rain. ellos lloven. They rain. cuchillo (cooch-eee-shoh) Knife.  This is very […]






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First day of school! First day of school!

April 7, 2010

We spent the entire day yesterday trying to get me into Spanish for Foreigners at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).  We trekked downtown, I took an oral and written exam, got a note from the ‘principal’ and then trekked all the way back into Palermo to attend class.  Phew!  So much walking and talking […]






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The next next generation

March 18, 2010

When it comes to technology, I consider myself quite tuned-in. I read my daily TechCrunch, Valleywag, Boing Boing and Engadget. I’m an early adopter of most online services and I get really really excited about stupid geeky things like A.I. apps, open-source CMS offerings and start-up camps.  But in my old age, I’m starting to […]






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Life lessons from Cirque du Soleil’s Ovo

March 12, 2010

Last night I was treated to a showing of Cirque’s Ovo, courtesy of a great friend who thought of me when a certain company decided to be nice to its employees by buying-out the entire show. Guests were invited. Cirque is ridiculous. It’s the 2nd show I’ve seen (the other was ‘O’ in Vegas and […]






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On being "all over the place"

March 10, 2010

Yesterday, I met a good friend and mentor for coffee.  We’ve been friends and somewhat colleagues for a little over a year now.  I did some consulting work for his company while in Buenos Aires last year.  After each of our pow-wows, he has always given me the same feedback.  He says, “Denise, you’re all […]






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The Islamic Arts Museum in KL

January 22, 2010

Yesterday, I spent three hours at the Islamic Arts Museum here in KL.  I think it’s my favourite museum of all time.  It’s tiny but beautiful.  What I love about it and why I like it more than the crazy big beautiful museums in Europe (like the British Museum, for example) is that I learned […]






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