Contributors
My name is CLÁUDIA CAPELO, and I
love to wake up early!
Not long ago I read somewhere that the
secret to being a powerful woman
is waking up early! Are you familiar with
Michelle Gass? She is the president
and recognized innovator at Starbucks. She
wakes up every morning at exactly 4:30 and
goes running. Like her, there are many
women who forfeit the
comfort of the bed for some kind of personal or professional activity early in the
morning. If success is associated directly to
people who rise and shine early in
the morning, certainly my name should also
be included in that list!
“Go to bed early and wake up early” is my
motto. It’s better for your health and
it promotes positive growth in all aspects of
your being. That´s why I wake up
every day at 4 am!
4 JULY 2014
I´m VALENTIN FISCHER
and for this Magazine I have a
question for you.
Have you ever wondered what
you are made of? The answer is:
You are made out of stardust.
Elements like Carbon, Nitrogen
and Oxygen, which make up
over 80% of your body weren’t
created at the beginning of
time. They were created inside
exploding stars millions of years
after the Big Bang. As Lawrence
Krauss put it: “The stars died so
you could be here today.” Most
likely the atoms in your right
hand come from a different
star than the atoms in your left
hand. Being aware of that greatly
enhances my experience of looking at the night sky.
This is BAPTISTE LABORDE BALEN...
Can you eat spicy?
When I first got to Thailand I
struggled to eat Thai food because
my mouth wasn’t used to chili
taste at all.
Every time I ordered something, I
always asked “may pet!” (not spicy),
then I understood western and
Thai people don’t have the same
definition of what is not spicy…
But after getting my mouth completely burnt for hundred of times,
I became able to eat naturally any
food at local restaurants, and even
add more chili to my meals!
So be careful to the chili addiction:
now I stopped saying “may pet”
but rather “may pet, may kin” (if
not spicy, i don’t eat). Unfortunately my home countries’ cuisine
has became totally bland for me,
I’m still wondering how to announce that to mom…
My name is MARIA LYNN
EHREN and the ‘one’ thing I fear
most, are things faster than me.
This leaves room for so much.
Insects, planes (more specifically
turbulence), lions, and so much
more. This is why my parents like
to call me “chicken”. Yes, it is
embarrassing; but I’d like to think
that the older I get, the braver I’ve
become. I used to run wild when
a mosquito came near (is it sad I
feel like mosquitos are faster than
me?!) but now I leave the running
to flying cockroaches. I don’t think
I’ll ever get over that one. They’re
fast, multi-legged, take flight PLUS
they’re unpredictable. Maybe that’s
the scariest part of it all, the scariest
part of life…its “unpredictableness”… but hey, it’s also all part of
the fun!
DANIEL is Canadian, which means he
is polite for only the first meeting and
then its downhill from there. He has
a talent for remembering trivial facts
about science fiction universes, ranging
from Battlestar Galactica to Firefly. He
irrationally hates celery with a passion,
believing that it may be the root cause of
evil in the world. Also, he is not completely against bei