Different places, different faces but the feeling is still the same :)

So you sailed away ( Read more... )

I usually have a couple of contemplative days over new year to be totally self-absorbed, go sit by the beach, take long walks and figure out the impossible knots in my head. But events kinda usurped habit…. Like a big ball rolling down the hill that you keep tacking bits onto, increasing its momentum until it’s in some state of unstoppable freefall ( Read more... )

Walking in past ponds and pools, it’s a different world, bathed in light and white, e.y sings, voice echoing in the chamber as raindrop fall on the glass above, three guitars and a flute in a different room, listen to the tune, the lyrics Shakespearean… about love found and love lost, heartfelt and private. Actors off their stages, performing ( Read more... )

Goodbye 2006, it's been a truely insane year.

It’s like we’re trapped in some never-ending masquerade ball, going round and round, changing places and faces, but dancing to the same tune. This generation, endowed with choice, options, but not decision. Choosing to keep on choosing….

After watching lost in translation, every time I’m in a hotel room with a nice view and a reasonable window ledge I inevitably find my self sitting on that ledge at some odd hour in the morning reading a book and watching the city sleep. But windows are cold and ledges usually hard so I end my lost in translation moment shivering with a sore bum … ( Read more... )

Orson Welles once observed: "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love -- they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock ( Read more... )

I’m looking out the window, listening to Hotel Costes.. watching the city sleep and the blinking red lights of the world’s tallest building outside my window… am I an insomniac, well no I am bloody doing work ( Read more... )

And so I find myself in Taipei, another flight another country another hotel room. Another chapter in my nomadic existence this year. Flew out on a days notice, hopped off the plane and went straight into a meeting room literally overflowing with I-bankers, PE people, lawyers and accountants. Blah Blah Blah everyone takes turns to say smart ( Read more... )