The walls are green and I feel golden.

What time has brought to me in the form of gratitude has finally established as a clear thought: I love Prague. Yes; this is the first time your very own Papa Shanghai is disclosing a location but it is just too much to pass up on. Also, you still won’t find me here. Maybe I am the waiter, maybe the bouncer.

The subliminal message that is spread over this city is filled with history, culture and longing. Longing for independence, longing for its place in the world. It has faced many struggles and you can see that. Just as every single thing on this planet, Prague has been shaped by its environment.

I am becoming cheerfully melancholic when I sit and soak in to this adopted place of home. As in many cases, facing challenges is easier together, even just connecting passively. Feeling that we are all struggling at it. Struggling with our place in life, the inevitability of failure or finding connections.

So let Prague pierce through the thick skin you have built up, sit in a coffee house, Café, see how people are struggling, celebrating, suffering, winning. Just like you. You are welcome.

The Coffee Houses are the living rooms of this city.

As I make my way through the clouds, I can’t help but think of the perception of time. How come the small animation of the plane is almost not moving at all on the big blue planet but I am moving through life at exactly 911 kilometres an hour?

How much is a day in comparison to a lifetime? How much is an hour in your week? The immeasurable pendulum of time keeps swinging. That is also the exact same reason why I am writing this review now. It is Sunday and I hope you enjoy another leftover takeout from Papa Shanghai.

The week that has passed went by as fast as the plane I am sitting in. But I am wondering, how much is time worth when you are living day to day? How much is an hour worth if you don’t know how you can put food on your table the next day? Is time encouraging then? Depressing? Is it master or slave? Are you able to control it?

One thing I have noticed is that, mostly, time gets more slowly when you constantly observe it. Maybe time is a shy mistress, one whose powers you cannot estimate. Always there, always watching. Surely, powerful but also a victim to our judgement. So why not become friends with time? You want to know how?

Maybe look away for a while. Don’t notice time and see what time will do for you. As any obscure mistress, she might treat you just right. But don’t take my word for it. I am just an observer of things myself.

As I sit in an abandoned airport in the middle of the night in Eastern Africa, I reminisce and try to think how this has ended here.

Sometimes a week is just a mere shimmer in the takeout box of life. It might be that last piece of Pakora that was hiding away in the corner of the box. Small, surprising, tasty nonetheless.

It’s been one of those hidden Pakora weeks, I think to myself while sipping on a can of Habesha Cold Gold (look it up to see where your Papa is). I encourage you to look deeper into your last week, take a journey, together with me. Let the memories live once again before they fade away into the abyss.

This week’s theme will be change. I sure hope that while you are reading this, you encounter change as well. For many it brings confusion, even fear. But face it confidently and I can tell you, there will be a reward. Whether it is location, attitude, or even just trying new beers. Face it, give into the thing that will happen anyway: CHANGE.

Some of you might have expected for the review to get into detail, what politics have moved and what I did. But does it really matter? Do you read these texts to be informed about the whereabouts of Papa Shanghai (which I already gave you)? This should push a button, and not even a significant one. So be aware, this is not a network. And frankly, I don’t care about what you did. In fact, I don’t even care if you read this. But when you do, know that I appreciate it. Because the next time we will meet, I will listen to what you did. A review of some sorts on your life.

So be aware: if you are sincere, I will be too. If you are interested, I will be as well. So this week, listen to the theme, change. Let’s do it together. Actually, stand up, go to a window. Now open it and shout: CHANGE!

See you next week, my friends.