Singapore seems to have a fascination with heights. Indeed, the city state lends itself to being viewed from above, what with all the trees covering the land and the distinctively architectured buildings dotting the landscape. When you’re on ground level you get a limited — albeit still fantastic — view, but go a hundred meters [...]
You know how they say Singapore is “a city with no soul”? I wanted to find out the truth for myself during a familiarization tour sponsored by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) for me and two other journalists on March 27 to 31, and I think I succeeded. Ours was the “family” tour, which I [...]
As a worship leader, I have specific requirements for an acoustic guitar. One, it must sound great; two, it must play well; and three, it must be a snap to use – no fussy setups or a lot of additional gadgets just to make it sound decent. As a family man who needs to carry [...]
In my last fun run I decided to ditch my Vibram Fivefingers (VFFs) and run the entire 5 kilometer distance completely barefoot. The route was on concrete road so I felt confident that I wouldn’t hurt my feet, but it is not something I would be able to do on a regular basis since I [...]
The people of Davao City are hailing Mayor Sara Duterte as a hero for standing up for them — and rightly so. She was not afraid to go to the extreme of hitting a sheriff who had made the mistake of implementing a demolition order without heeding her request to hold it in abeyance for [...]
“I thought it would be noisy, but it’s surprisingly quiet up here,” I told my wife as we floated up and away from a speedboat and into the Lapu-Lapu City skies. Parasailing over the city’s hustle and bustle, we marvelled at how peaceful it was hundreds of feet in the air – quite different from [...]
Lapu-Lapu – the hero, not the city – is invariably pictured as a proud but relatively primitive man, wearing nothing more than a bahag and a headdress along with a shield and sword. He is always pictured as barefoot, and whether this is accurate or not, I decided to emulate him during my visit to [...]
We started running at a little past 8 p.m., and like thousands of fireflies we spilled out of the parking lot of SM City Davao and into the night, our Energizer headlamps lighting our way. It was the Davao City leg of the Energizer Night Race, and it was literally opening with a burst of [...]
I’ve been running exclusively in my VFF KSOs for six months now, but last week, thanks to my cousin Arjun, I found myself in possession of a pair of Chaski sport sandals made by Japan-based Columbia Sportswear Company. I had already been eying these babies since last year but never got around to buying them, [...]
George Tujan wears many hats. The co-founder of technology startup Neuraltech Innovations is an IT consultant, a gifted guitarist, a devoted family man, and a barefoot runner.
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