Continues from 2023 update. Well, it certainly didn’t feel like fourth gear during 2024, going through lots of bureaucratic steps for the house while waiting to have saved up enough money. Watching the grass grow again. But our new baby girl Isabella (affectionately called Izzy for short) was an exciting addition to our family, although … Read more
This page continues from synopsis 2002 to 2022. Sending this out during the Christmas season, so have a great next year everyone! The year started off rather slow, to the point that I often joked with my wife it felt like we were squatting on the lawn watching the grass grow. Most of our tours … Read more
Spelling variations of this family name include: Cosmas, Cosmos, Kosmin, Kosmas, Cosimo, Cosumano, Gosmin, Gosmas, Kusmin, Kusmas and many more. First found in Silesia, where the name gained a significant reputation for its contribution to the emerging mediaeval society. Kosman Czech and Polish: from an altered form of the Greek personal name Kosmas (a derivative of Greek kosmos ‘order’, … Read more
My great great grandfather was an albino genius judge who remembered all the laws in his head, but he was a choleric tyrant who traumatised his Jewish wife, who eventually died from the abuse. More on the Kosman family history. After WW2 and under the Russians, as a student of electronic engineering my father fine-tuned his … Read more
When I first learned about Bitcoin I was living in Thailand, around 2013. I spent two hours reading about it and became instantly excited because it seemed a way to escape the tyranny of the executive class, with its corrupt politicians and an overall rigged system against little Joe. I spent another two hours trying … Read more
On the long Easter Weekend of Saturday, April 20, 2019, I Karel Kosman will be marrying the ever lovely Melasel Gerdane Espinosa at Padi Beach Resort in Oton, Iloilo City. Just go to Oton along the main road (yellow one in map above), past the Gaisano Oton (shopping mall), take the dirt road across the 7/11 … Read more
Visited mom in Vancouver and she made me go through my big precious box from childhood that she has been lugging around so many years while moving from place to place in Vancouver and paying for the storage. Most of it was photographs, but I did manage to greatly reduce the box of sentimental paraphernalia … Read more
As a growing boy/man at one point I became interested in understanding myself better and how that interacts with other people around me, which has baffled me for the longest. I started contemplating about psychology and eventually got around to reading a book, 20 years in the making, written by the father of psychology, Carl … Read more
A quick recap. The last place I had a viable option of setting up a dream resort on a paradise beach is in the Perhentian Islands. But the Muslim owners typically frown on my beer consumption, and are somewhat unsettled by my ambition. Everything must go slow they say. They already revealed to me that … Read more
A quick synopsis, I was leaving Thailand on the motorbike I owned on an island for two years with a long held dream to drive around Asia. But when I got to the Malaysian border they did not let me continue because not everything was in order concerning my bike papers. I drove around looking … Read more