When Cab Drivers Blog

I didn't know the city well
I often asked customers to tell me the way.
- Ihsan Aknur, Cab Driver

I was amused when I learned about Ihsan Aknur from Travel and Living. He is a cab driver in Istanbul, Turkey. And he has a website entitled The Best Taxi Driver. It is basically a website about his routes around the city and the people he met. Ihsan started it last 2000. He fondly remembered how his fellow taxi drivers laughed when he began to learn English back in 1982. Most of the words he learned were romantic like: "I love you," "You have pretty eyes," "Are you married," "What are you doing tonight," and "I've never seen a pretty woman like you". Then when he created his own website, again his friends laughed. Now he is working with Çiragan Palace Hotel Kempinski taxi station and he just acquired a new taxi.

Ishan's making of website got me thinking that perhaps the cab drivers in the Philippines could do likewise as well. They would probaby do great in making travel blogs. Though my guess is that they would likely produce political blogs.

People Are People

It's funny sometimes how people are able to categorize people. Starting now, I'll be posting a collection of this classification.

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This is from Jeffrey Archer's False Impression.

When you're a doorman, you have to make instant decisions about people. Do they fall in the category of "Good morning, sir" or "Can I help you?" or simply "Hi?"

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Seth Godin mentioned here about two kinds of people - those parking right out front or those parking down the street. And speaking of parking, I also tackled here about the kinds of parkers.

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Guy Kawasaki also mentioned here about people having two kinds of mindsets: growth or fixed.

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The balut guy usually shouts at night and the taho guy in the morning. So you might just call a nocturnal the former and a morning person the latter.

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Someone I call as the TrueLove Finder once told me that there are two kinds of people that you either end up with:
1. The one you love
2. Or the one who will be there.
You're lucky if the one you love is also the one who will be there.

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The modern psychologists are the bartenders. See a compelling post here. While the modern politicians, especially in the Philippine setting, are the taxi drivers. Ask them about current events and they might just give you a detailed personal political platform.

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And from Laughter, the Best Medicine (Reader's Digest).