The Thank You Project: #191 (Muthu Raj’s kindness)
Probably quite a few thank you posts ago I wrote about extremely great experiences I’ve had at the Asiana hotel. The staff there is just so friendly and really made the stay in India quite an enjoyable one. There was one particular gentleman I met there named Muthu Raj who would always go above and beyond to make sure the experience was even better. He would always love serving me food at their Wildfire hotel and would often present me with a cake when I was about to leave. This kind of service is almost nonexistant at least in the case of normal people receiving such gestures. I always...
read moreThe Thank You Project: #190 (Chase Bank)
When you think about the amount of money that you have do you think about where exactly it is stored? I think I forget on a daily basis that most of my money is hypothetically locked up in a vault at Chase Bank (well that’s kind of a lie, I know it’s being loaned out on a daily basis, that is how banks work really). Isn’t it a nice thought that you can keep your money in a safe location, be able to access it at different locations around town and sometimes even collect interest for the bank keeping it? For this reason, I’m giving thanks to Chase Bank who currently...
read moreThe Thank You Project: #189 (Great and Caring Dentists)
Growing up I didn’t got to the dentist very often. It was a combination of not having a lot of dental insurance, being a bit scared of going, and my parents never really pushing for me to go. For about 8 years I never saw the dentist which I know a lot of you will think is a long time. Well, it truly is. I was lucky only to have some things wrong, the worst right now being having my wisdom teeth out, a few fillings and a root canal that I have coming up. One of the great things I’ve encountered now that I have dental insurance is the dentist office that I go to at Bittersweet...
read moreThe Thank You Project: #186 (Thanksgiving meals)
I know this thank you is a bit late but I want to give thanks for Thanksgiving meals. It is one of the only meals all year long where it is completely appropriate to go back for thirds or fourths and not be judged… harshly. It is a time where family gets together and plays games all day and really gets the chance to bond. It is a time where the chefs in the family can come together to make culinary masterpieces. This year we had a chance to have almost all of the immediate family with us. Tito Jun and Tita Rose were of course already here visiting us. Manong Rob and Manong RJ and Manang...
read moreThe Thank You Project: #185 (Spotify, Napster, Kazaa, Pandora, and any other musical site I’ve ever used)
The original file sharing program, Napster was the first exposure I had in getting exposed to mainstream music. Sure there was the radio and CD’s but I had grown up not owning a huge collection of music. I remember still using cassette players growing up and then slowly migrating to a sony CD player. Napster was the first time that music was available and was *free*. Back then I didn’t understand the concept of how bad it really was to just share music like that. I was in middle school and it just really blew up on the school’s computers where we were downloading music to every computer...
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