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The chaos theory of Mongolia

I returned to Mongolia 15 years ago after an absence of 13 years, save for the occasional 2-week leave from work, and that time I spent a semester and a half at a local university drinking endless cups of brown, watery 150 Tugrik instant MaCcoffee at the cafĂ© strangely, or perhaps egotistically, named "In my memory", writing the first and so far the only book that got us into trouble with the local intelligence who apparently had little else to do than to pore through the ramblings of teenagers to catch the tell-tale signs of drug dealery. But I digress. When you visit a country for a short period, be it home or not, you hardly have time to immerse yourself in the spirit of the country and the city and feel the nitty gritty and dirty shiny of it all. So after 13 years, it took me a while to readjust and finally understand what the hometown of my childhood had become.  The most striking, ubiquitous, and inescapable feature was and still, unfortunately, is the traffic. In 2008,

Technical Update

Just a short update on the new commenting system from Disqus. Blogger commenting system unfortunately does not allow people to reply to a specific comment. I am testing the new commenting system to see if it will better facilitate discussion. All older posts will retain the Blogger commenting system, as I cannot upgrade the commenting on older posts without losing all comments. Would be good to hear feedback on this new add-on. You do not need to register with Disqus to comment and I will not be blocking / moderating unverified comments, as I have not seen much spam messages on my blog so far. Cheers.

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