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Triona Ryan

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Taxi! Nausea, Check; Body Odour, Check; Both Kidneys, Check

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E-bike season starts as spring arrives, ending winter hibernation and car reliance Pre-app taxi hailing was risky; scarce cabs, haggling fares, and urban legends Didi revolutionized transport with GPS, app bookings, and premium, sensory-friendly options Taxis improved with accountability, though occasional odd...
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Paying May be Painless; But the Scroll Must Go on

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Do you remember the good-old days, when you had to walk into a restaurant, sit down and wait for a real-life human being to come over and take your order?  The anguish of making eye contact, the ignominy of waving...
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I Swear by, I Swear at; An E-State of Zen

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Nanjing, the city I have called home from home for the last 11 years is the place where I learned to do something I swore staunchly never to do – ride an e-bike. Now, this daily transportation adventure is...
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Life Hacks 101; Organised Chaos

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It’s been quite some time now since I discovered that my particular brand of organisation has a name; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Now, I could fill tomes with how and why this name is not only inappropriate, but...
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Phones, Phears & Phriends: Announcements through the Ages

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Sharing is caring, as the old adage goes. Communication is at the heart of what it means to be human. Sharing stories, experiences, and information brings us closer together, allows us to progress as a species and keeps us...
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Theories of Humour; Incongruity Resolution

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Have you ever asked yourself, “What’s the funniest joke in the world?” Well, Richard Wiseman, holder of Britain’s only Professorship in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire has for his experiment Laugh Lab, 2002. He created the...
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Mindbugs & Blind Spots; Lessons from a Nursing Home & Beyond

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Many, many moons ago, when I was a fresh-faced graduate with a chunk of student debt to pay off, I worked for a while in a nursing home. It was a rather grand, if somewhat faded country home that...
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Is She a Work of Art or Scarred for Life?

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Let’s pretend I was 18 when I got my first tattoo. That’s still a considerable whack of years to have been inked.  The word tattoo means literally “a puncture, or mark made on the skin”, first noted in Captain Cook’s...
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About Me

Educator, writer, minstrel and Collector of Rare and Marvelous Moments; Triona Ryan, born in Ireland, moved to Spain for the summer back in 2003 and stayed for a decade. Now based in Nanjing, China, she spends her free time feeding her cats, picking cushions off the floor and pondering the paradoxes of the human condition. She also sings, often and everywhere.
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