07 April 2012
04 April 2012
The golf season has begun
The golf season has begun
This is a late entry. I was supposed to post this last sunday but it got holed up on my wife's Ipad but had trouble figuring out how to post it on my blog. No excuse for my ignorance...
This morning waking up, I had this terrible pain on all of my joints from my knees, ankles and down to my toes. I had a round of golf yesterday for the first time in a very long time. As the golf season has just begun after the winter lull, I was actually looking forward to this game when one my ambassador friends invited me to join him with some others. Not to feel embarrassed by the prospect of having to play the game with a respectable crowd, I actually went to a driving range practising the golf swing a couple of times before yesterday trying to remember how golf was supposed to be played. With more than 6 months or so without touching any golf club, it did feel like I just got up from a very long comatose when I tried to swing the clubs. The muscles were just too stiff and the knees very wobbly which if you ask any golfer, not a very good thing. But the point about golf and diplomacy is if someone respectable invited you to join the crowd, you should feel very honoured as there is more to it than just the game. Diplomats often use golf to establish friendship and to discuss things in a more informal and cordial environment. After all you don't wear a three piece suit to a golf course with a gamut of entourage that follows you from behind. So I went ahead knowing full well that I wouldn't return a respectable score. With little exercise before this, walking more than 7 kilometres up and down the hilly fairways felt like the london marathon. The golf course was a walking course up and down on the hill side in a place called Bonmont about 25 Kms from Geneva. It is a beuatiful course overlooking lake Geneva which on a sunny day you can actually see Mont Blanc in the horizon.
My usual macho gait didn't quite hide the pains I had all over. I do feel like a hobbling pensioner with backbone arthritis jerkily making his way downstairs with a permanent expression of misery which is my way of telling mrs and the kids that dad's golf season has just begun...
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27 March 2012
25 March 2012
Lake Geneva
So as usual our sunday outing is to head to the lake for a picnic...
29 February 2012
Simple thinking
Simple thinking
History has shown that the best inventions are usually the result of simple thinking. Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably used a Post-it at least once in your life. Those handy little sticky notes actually started as a failed adhesive at 3M - the glue wasn't sticky enough. 3M's Arthur Fry began using the glue to add removable sticky notes to his reports, and fellow employees quickly started requesting them for their own use. There was also another anecdotal story that went around some years ago that NASA the US Space Agency whose annual budget surpasses many nations' spent millions of dollars trying to develop a pen that could work in zero gravity in outer space. Whilst the NASA crackerjacks were busy cracking their heads trying to figure out the solution, the Russians simply gave their cosmonauts the ordinary lead pencil that you could purchase in any stationery shops! Now whether there is a shred of truth in this story, I will leave you to figure it out but I wanted to get my point across that sometimes in life or at work, a solution for a seemingly complex issue would simply just require a simple thinking.
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