As I wander around this wild west town on the steppes of Kazakhstan, I am constantly amazed at the number of new businesses springing up. When the remont has finished, without fail, they all put up some kind of sign indicating they are open. "Мы открылись!" Some are large fancy canvas banners, some are small hand written post-it notes and of course, some fall in between those two extremes. What surprises me about this is that they are never advertising that something NEW has opened. It's always the same old, same old. A cafe, a bank, a building supply store, an automatic gaming casino. Where's the imagination? The innovation?
Perhaps anyone reading this might wonder the same thing about this blog. Yet another blog with someone else's ramblings? Where's the imagination? The innovation?
I'm asking the same things myself.
We'll see.
