do not live your life fearing death
Two hotels in Mumbai were attacked over the past couple of days….my office is in southern India, Bangalore, so I rarely travel to Mumbai, but one of the hotels under attack, the Taj Mahal, is where I stay when I …
ode to confucius
Some of you have noticed and asked why i took off a bit of an angry ramble about my discovery of an old chinese friend of mine lying and stealing from me …. unpon reflection, not only was that part …
ode to edmond dantes
I am in Shanghai for a few days….China is very exciting and offers brilliant opportunity, esp. now with the world economy in shambles. I am extremely bullish on naseba’s future in China. In fact, to ensure naseba takes our china …
reassuring us with the failure of others…
One of the news sites I check each morning is Yahoo. (I notice it is also mentioned on CNN.com)
Yesterday, Yahoo’s headline news article was focused on Michael Vick, an ex-NFL quarterback, who is completely bankrupt. The article went into …
old school
Last week Sophie and I had dinner in Dubai with John Collins, a friend of ours from Monaco.
My english friends tell me, John is a famous scotish football player (retired) and successful manager. As a young manager, he recently …
Happy Birthday Jason Gorud
Each year, my closest friend, Jason Gorud and I take a 7-10 day trip some where focused entirely on eating and drinking great wine. Over the past few years, the two of us have driven all over Italy and France …
one cushy life
This morning, I watched BBC World as I ran on my treadmill in my gym. One of the top stories was on Gaza and how the power plant in Gaza has run out fuel, therefore, all power and electricity has …
a quick ramble on change
Today was the opening day of “Avex,” naseba’s first expo and airshow which is taking place on the red sea in Sharm, El Sheikh Egypt.
President Mubarak came and opened the expo this morning – thus Nic and I got …
ode to Marcus Evans: victimization
I am writing this blog in a crowded Starbucks in Cairo, Egypt .. I flew in from amsterdam last night because we have our first airshow starting tomorrow with the President of Egypt, President Mubarak opening the event.
As I …
a bit of a ramble in amsterdam
Sophie and I have a meeting on Monday morning in amsterdam so we decided to meet saturday morning and spend the weekend here — she came from dubai and I flew up from Nice (france) a quick 90 minute flight …