Waiting to be released from the cage!!
Listening to “Ojos de Bruja” ( Eyes of the witch ) a group that play flamenco and new fusion music. Really good.
I hope I’ll catch my Friday evening song on the radio going home – “I can’t wait, for the weekend to begin”!!!
I need to crash.

Is it just me noticing this, or is everybody in business who watches “The Apprentice” slowly becoming a prick? Everywhere you turn there are people thinking they can do just as good a job as Sugar. And the funny thing is, Sugar isn’t even doing a good job. Any half-decent recruiter will tell you that an employer’s tastes are purely subjective. An employer may tell you they value honesty, but they’ll only be impressed by your tits. They might require financial acumen, but yet again it’s the tits that are the clinchers.

That may sound a bit cynical, but the point I’m making that there are no clear winners, except whoever Sugar thinks is a winner. And the contestants know that, so they toady up to him, which fact gives him immense power over them. You might argue the source of his power is his money, but it’s really the willingness of the contestants to take shit from him. Because they’d like a bit of his money.

I haven’t much experience of the catering industry but I imagine Ramsey’s ahem, “managerial style” has made proper dicks out of a lot of chefs as well, a fact confirmed by a friend who deals with chefs daily.

My kind of telly comedy just doesn’t get written anymore. Perhaps because there’s effort involved.

My kind =

Yes, Minister
The Office
Extras
Peep Show
Absolute Power

I know, this post is just a moan.

I have a record in office, as well. And all Americans have seen that record. September the 4th/2001, I stood in the ruins of the Twin Towers. It’s a day I will never forget.

–George w. Bush

Marlton, NJ
10/18/2004

A certain friend of mine has decided to open a business, based solely on the fact that he was interviewed by this half-Italian chick once who he fancied (and decided on the spot that this was reciprocated) and thought, “hey I could do what she does, I mean if this hot bird can do it….”

I have been very critical of his “business plans” so far, but when he left my place yesterday after a free consultation I thought to myself, “you know what, inspiration for success has come from far unlikelier places before.”

Then I guffawed, because so has inspiration for abyssmal failure. And its hard to tell the difference.

He’ll never stop cracking me up. Ahh, what a way to start the day!!

There’s an old saying in Tennessee–I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee–that says, fool me once, shame on–shame on you. Fool me–you can’t get fooled again.

–George w. Bush

Later:- I posted the above before our 8:30 general meeting. At the 8:30 general meeting one of our under-performing salespersons was forced to go the whole day in nothing but specially-bought pink underwear. Ahh, what a way to start the day!!

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I used to watch this cool Japanese animation cartoon as a kid in Kuwait. This is YouTube’s real value I think; re-living old favourites!!

This message in my G-mail window

Ioannis: What is the secret of Dubai’s success?

The desert.

[Sheikh Mohammed] said: “It is due to the vast desert spaces of his country, where the mind has the freedom to think, to explore and to dream.”

So those of you who guessed oil/cheap expat labour/absolute power were all wrong.

It’s sand.
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“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.”

Oscar Levant (1906-1972)

I realised my blog’s been going for two years. My first blog was on 9/05/05/
Two years ago on this day I wrote about another long day at the office. And here I am now on a Friday, winding things down at the office!
Ah Fate, this is one of those “Irony” thingies you do, isn’t it?