Author: Tony Tam

  • focus, execute, kick ass

    When I was interviewing new engineers for Yahoo! News back in late 2004.  I told them that they will part of a team that can make a difference. The team is small enough and our site audience is large enough (25 million) that they can contribute as much as they have the time and energy…

  • Tonight’s Munich Gamble: Ended In Disaster

    After a very fillilng meal of traditional German food of fatty pork and dumplings for lunch, I’m up for some sushi. It’s 9:58 and I’m trying to find some good food here in Munich, a search for ‘munich late night dining’ found me this CNN article http://www.cnn.com/FOOD/restaurants/weissmann/world/munich.html#ASIAN Tonight’s gamble: Sho-ya-Sushi—Though the city offers a bounty…

  • People On Euro Train To Munich

    I arrived at the train station on the Brompton (flickr photos) 10 minutes before the train took off.  The conductor looked at my bike and said I needed a reservation for it.  I folded it up in 30 secs and he said I didn’t need reservations. Today’s sleeper is a 4 bed and oddly they…

  • Travel By Bike In Europe: Essential Gear Check List

    As I get ready to leave for Munich for a short one week trip, I’m 2 hours away from the train leaving and as I get ready to pack I thought I write down the list of things so I remember to bring them.  Might as well share it here, why not, it helps me…

  • Mid-life Crisis Coming Early

    So the common theory goes that there are basic humans needs like food and shelter and once you fulfill these needs then there is love, follow by spiritual needs and I don’t remember what other higher callings there are. For my parents’ generation they struggled for 40-50 years for basic survival and the focus is…

  • Travel By Train Or Plane

    After reading http://seat61.com/ and watching the movie  Before Sunrise, I had a very romantic notion of traveling by train.  My first trip on the Eurorail from Paris to Copenhagen took me 15 hours and  tor·tur·ous moments where I’m telling myself to get some sleep or I’ll be hallucinating in the bike train. Hmm, I still…

  • Poison In My Body

    My body is boiling, poison has seeped through ever since yesterday. poison that I thought were long gone. How does one purge this? With the power of positive thinking? With denial? With counting ones blessing? No, with work, being consumed with what I love. No, with running, doing what I love. No, with music, listening…

  • Parisians are just like Americans

    Well I could safely say that I understand Parisian life a little bit more after running through to 140 metro stations, getting a hair cut, buying food at the local markets, going to shop at their farmer’s open air markets, biking around town on my bike for 30 days. Here is the recap and sorry…

  • Coffee Obsessed In Copenhagen

    The photo is of Reg Barber tampers I saw in Risterit in Denmark.. ooooo.. soo cool.  I’ve been hearing about these babies on coffeegeek all week. Ok, I’ve been obssessed with coffee lately.  Listening to coffeegeek and http://www.portafilter.net podcasts talking about professional baristas, bean roasting, barista competitions.  The 2006 barista champion actually works in Copenhagen.…

  • Dreaming Away On Eurorail

    This weekend I was planning to head over to Barcelona for some bike riding and tapas, but of course the train was fill.  Then I asked the ticket person Madid? No. Lisbon?  No.  uhh, Denmark?  where? What’s the capital of Denmark?  Copenhagen?  OK, I’m going to Copenhagen then. So, my Brompton and I are on…