Editor's Letter: July 09

Now's the time to put aside Spring/Summer and embrace this Fall with blissful warmth. If you're to provide warmth in your arms, you've to arm your wardrobe with the proper season attire like, say, parkas and scarves.

It's seriously time to browse through the Fall collections during your retail therapies these days, and not be distracted by the Spring/Summer sale section with an internal mental dispute with the devil's advocate over whether or not to fall for the final reduction bear trap. It's so depressing to see the major crowd vibrating like molecules in close proximity over at the sale corner, leaving me alone with eager sales assistants rendering their widest smiles to me while I stroll through their new collections. Yes, S/S sale is probably one of God's best gift sent to us fashionistas and shopaholics (that I agree!), but I think the date is drawing close to the end of the flamboyant and vibrant season. After all, you'll only find yourself stashing all your best buys and great steals within your closet by the end of this month. So it's time to wave goodbye to it and keep it out of your mind until the day when future season runway shows call for its rise (yet again). By then, it's not only trendy. It's also vintage.

In my opinion, a man who travels beyond his childbirth nation usually makes a better man than one who doesn't (leaving out those rich egoistic chauvinists whose main aim in traveling is just out to put others down, of course). Not only does a traveling man benefits from cross cultural exchange, it also widens his knowledge horizons and will probably be capable of making better decisions and opinions on daily life matters. Traveling will add on to the better fulfillment of a man's life journey. Didn't our fore-fathers step out of their comfort zones and ventured out to strange lands in aim of a better life? For these great men, many of us paid them their due respect even till today. Maybe it's time you earn yours as a new age modern man.

Despite having the notorious H1N1 presence of recent, I think it's best for us to take advantage of the falling travel expenses and go for a nice vacation trip. As long as you travel responsibly, taking precautionary hygiene measures, you may come out of it with a memorable trip for keeps. Don't forget to bring back stories that you can retell either via recounts of a special encounter with a fellow globe trotter or in the form of inspiring visual prints. Stay here with MSR to learn more on travels and related essentials that will be made available once in a while, as we provide the window of travel inspiration to all of you. We'll be happy even if we manage to just create passing travel considerations in you, at least it's a start to all great journeys.

Till a better time, wear your masks and wash your hands with soap regularly.

Travel responsibly. Travel like a Man.