the story begins

This is my story. It's also the story of people around me. Of people often swept aside by drastic changes and seen merely as a mass of statistics. Of people unknown from the popular pages of history. This is my story and theirs and how our worlds collide.

A friend suggested I should write about what I'm good at. It sounded so simple the way she put it. But it's more than what it seems. Instead of my usual musings, I'll instead write about what I see and feel; of how other people see and feel. I'm no expert on human affairs nor of grand things and ideas. As far as I'm concerned, I'm not an expert on anything. I know a couple of things here and there but to claim expertise on something gives me goosebumps.

I have interests just like most of you and they lie in the sea of human interaction. That's where I'll focus my energy and muster the courage to write about them. They would include topics ranging from local economic development to complexity science, from regional integration to community development. I would look at how the interplay of these topics merge, and later on, affect how people decide. I hope you would find this interesting because the upcoming posts will be about us.

Indulge me to add a little twist. I'll try to understand and explain them from an Asian's prism.

I hope you'll join me in my journey.