on being listless

While not many are aware that a cure for listlessness involves little more than writing down all the things that are wrong (or indeed right) one after another, it is easily demonstrable in the literal if not metaphorical context.

So it falls often to the blogger, to note his achievements and to share them with the good people, that choose to read these words as opposed to all the others that litter the superhighway. Failures could also be listed but the world might appreciate being spared my failure to be plucked from obscurity to lead the global revolution against cronyizm and any number of other things that I occasionally aspire to.

Life in Hanoi is pleasant for someone like me and I intend to keep it that way.

let's go