Far East Cynic

Memory Lane

Greetings from North Carolina. Finally got here and got past my jet lag. The good news is that my father’s high speed internet connection works with my lap top. The bad news is that it is supposed to rain today. This is going to put a crimp in our plans

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Changing of the guard…….and crying in my beer.

Harry Hopkins had a phrase he said when Roosevelt met Churchill at the Argentia conference, he called it the “Changing of the Guard”. Later at the conference in Tehran, he would talk about putting the spoke in Churchill’s wheel, which was a euphemism for the expulsion of the British Empire

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Catching up

Long day today getting from Hong Kong to San Diego. Actually was not too bad just LAX is a real nut house. There has to be a better way to get folks through airport security. After arriving in San Dog, went through the usual rental car stuff and came straight

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I’m still here……for what reason I do not know.

Why I am not 100% sure. Today is a very unreal day. Very Very depressed and there is no real good reason for it. Went out to dinner last night with a co-worker. We went to the Boat Quay. Which is over priced and touristy, but still a lot of

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I'm still here……for what reason I do not know.

Why I am not 100% sure. Today is a very unreal day. Very Very depressed and there is no real good reason for it. Went out to dinner last night with a co-worker. We went to the Boat Quay. Which is overpriced and touristy, but still a lot of fun

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A different departure

Out the door in a few minutes to catch the train to Narita. Journeying down to my favorite spot on the planet, Singapore. Usually I’m excited when I travel, this morning I’m apprehensive. I don’t know why……..perhaps it just goes along with that sense of foreboding I’ve been having that

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Under the weather……

No post yesterday for a couple of reasons. Stupefication and sheer amazement at how you can tell someone something 10 times, in 10 different ways and they go ahead and do something really stupid……… Utter astonshiment at trying to do a good thing for the people you work for have

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Slogans and cliche’s…….

The high muckety mucks are outta here!!!!!!! They are on the train to Narita, meeting is over, so now: Like making sausage, getting to the end product is immensely painful, nobody wants to see how its made , but everyone wants a piece of the end product. And, if I

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Slogans and cliche's…….

The high muckety mucks are outta here!!!!!!! They are on the train to Narita, meeting is over, so now: Like making sausage, getting to the end product is immensely painful, nobody wants to see how its made , but everyone wants a piece of the end product. And, if I

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Busy Busy Busy!

Work is still quite busy, but for sure today was better than yesterday! Thank goodness! One lousy day a month is my limit. Hoping for good weather today since I would really like to get out to the driving range and remember what a golf club feels like. I have

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