They have beaten and drawn with the top 6 clubs ; We will be ready 2019-2020 !

The underachiever club in the last 40 years. Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Having being promoted to the Premier League in the last 7 years, Wolves now sit in 9th spot. Their performance is very much akin to a Jeckell and Hyde character, showing flashes of brilliance when they are least fancied and then drawing or losing to the supposedly bottom 3 in the league.

Parc Guell atop Barcelona, Dec 2016. 

Wolves, you need to get your act together, move to plan B, tighten up the squad, and get Neve playing to his best. And, oh, find a couple of  hunter blue goalscorers like all the top clubs have, Hazard from Chelsea, Firminio Mane and Salah from 'Pool are some fine examples.

Its mid terms, get cracking guys !!!   

Crystal Palace 0 Wolves 1 

What Brexit will mean exactly ?

Outside Tower Bridge 2 years ago 

In about 4 months or less, we will have a UK which is outside of the EU, doing its own thing and what does that actually mean for its citizens, the many hundreds of thousands of working people inside the UK, the thousands of overseas companies who have set up operations in the UK ?

I am still trying to figure this one out. Watch this post.  

Excellent Meal - 20th Nov 2018

                                                                   Lobster Salad 

This is the fifth time I have dined at Kan Sushi, on the second floor of International Plaza. Thanks to an app called Eatigo, I am able to afford high quality Japanese food at slightly above Club prices for a top quality meal, as there are generous discounts off the meal if you book to eat at non-peak times or off shoulder peak times (that is, 11.30 am, 1.30pm to 3.00 pm). 

Discounts vary from eatery to eatery but I must say, that to enjoy the real discounts, the discounts normally are 10 to as much as 50% off the menu price, but does not include drinks and there will be Service and GST tax on top. 

As a result, my time management has improved quite a bit, on the whole as the establishments do take the timing very seriously, and if I am 10 minutes late, will not enjoy the deep discounts.

Hence, I have to firstly be on time, so this helps me in my time management very much and secondly, I have to plan my menu and possibly manage my hunger cravings till it is lunch time. 

Today's meal consisted of the following :

a) Ebi Tempura  (Prawn)
b) Lobster Salad
c) Spider Maki
d) Miso Soup.


Helmed by several Japanese chefs, I am very delighted to be having (in my opinion) Michelin starred quality meal at down to earth prices, especially with up to 50% discounts (on food before 10% service and 7% GST tax)

Hats off to Kan Sushi and Eatigo, for making my dining experience so much more varied and enjoyable !!  

                                                           KAN SUSHI
                                                         10 Anson Road,
                                                #02 - 54 International Plaza
                                                       Singapore 079953 

Think Quick, your house is burning, what will you save in 5 minutes ?

Put yourself in the shoes of the poor beleagured residents of Paradise. If you only had 5 minutes and needed to take whatever was important to you and only you what would you bring along in that precious 5 minutes ???  

I think this will give you perspective of what really matters in your (and my) life. Think deeply,logically and perhaps sentimentally before coming up with your answers. There is no right or wrong here, no multiple choice, no Oh yes, pass Go collect $200 and go straight to heaven, or Oops, down into the depths of the fiery inferno called Hell ! 

In fact looking at Paradise, that is Hell on Earth if there ever was one.

Paradise is Burning

The Fiery Inferno 

The month of November 2018 will be known as the month Paradise, a small rural community in California, burned down. I heard and saw the news and reacted with some sadness. President Trump's removal of US from the Montreal Climate Change Pact of countries sends a very clear and present message. You mess with mother nature and well, this is what happens, it was going to happen sooner or later. How shallow and unthinking can you get ? 

Countless people have lost their entire homes, their livelihoods and their precious loved ones in the blink of an eye. The fire storm was possibly caused by an electrical cable (some electrical company is assisting in the investigations right now) but the damage done is irreversible.

Aerial View of the Fires 

    There are 2 reasons amongst the many raised for this catastrophe. 

1. The forest filled with pine trees is now very densely, some say too densely populated 
    with trees.  Management of the forest led by strict anti-logging laws is one factor. 

Once the fire starts on the ground, especially dry ground which had been experiencing drought for some time now, a little spark can easily burn the undergrowth. Once the flames get higher, and reach the lower pine cones of the trees, it changes into a deadly catalyst leading to a much bigger fire. So the closer the trees are to each other, or the denser the forest is, that is, the number of trees per square kilometre, the faster and more intense the fire is expected to be, once it starts to get out of control. 

2. Climate Change ; this is long term and we have been pollutants of the green and ever sickening Earth for some time now. We have massive plastic dumped irresponsibly into our oceans. The growing middle classes especially in China, now want to eat red meat, meaning more farmed cows for quality beef, meaning we have more farmland for rearing this top quality Wagyu and Kobe beef. Well and good, but these cows FART, so massive amounts of methane (main gas in fart) are being emitted into the atmosphere, and contribute to the dreaded Greenhouse Gases further creating a gas cloud which prevents the heat from the earth's crust from rising up and dissipating into the outer atmosphere. 

Hence the incidence of hotter and hotter temperatures on average for the last 25 years.

Of course, cows farting are not the only cause of climate change. The use of dangerous ozone depletion refrigerants (in air conditioners for example) also add to the greenhouse gases once they (the air conditioner or fridge) are not in use and scrapped. 

The hotter climate has led to massive hot / cold fronts leading to more catastrophic cyclones,hurricanes and typhoons (they are all the same just of different intensity) as a result more catastrophic damage to our coastal towns, ports and villages.

Just last month, we saw the news that Venice, St Mark's square and Doge's Palace were all flooded because of rising tides again due to global warming and polar caps melting at a rate like never previously recorded in HISTORY.   

Think about Paradise Lost ; this small community of less than 30,000 whose entire lives as they know it, gone in minutes. 

It could and will one day happen to us. Let us think hard and start doing something NOW.  

Sydney May 2017

Sydney Harbour Bridge in Background

The Iconic Sydney Opera House 

I'll be Back - Florence

Last December in Florence Italy 

This city is famous for its statue of David, by Michelangelo, in the 16th century. The city centre's Il Duomo is imposing as it is magnificent. We have plans to come visit this historic city once again in a few weeks time, so I am really looking forward to that !