Month: October 2007

Countdown

We’ve officially started the countdown clock for P + I’s big day (to the right). This past Sunday, we booked a date for the wedding, which is Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 3 PM in Brooklyn Heights. Please save the date. We’ve started down the path of booking vendors.

Restaurant Run-Down

Lantern on Montague Street: Weird but tasty brunch combo of Eggs Nova (Benedict with smoked salmon instead of ham) and Tom Yum soup. Delish. Will have to try their actual Thai food.

Sweet Melissa, Court Street: Had tea with 3/4 of my old time SCHK Dim Sum gang. Even with one of our members now in Taiwan, we have met at least once a year for the last 15 years. We’ve upgraded to English high tea, including scones, quiche, and small cakes. The garden in the back is great if the weather is nice.

Weekend!

Congratulations to Al Gore (and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) on winning the Nobel Peace Prize! Now comes the (continued) hard part of somehow trying to save the world from itself.

Saturday: Friend and I went to Tea and Sympathy. So worth the wait. Clotted cream and scones. Earl Grey tea. Welsh rarebit. Delicious!

Sunday: CultureFest 2007, in Battery Park, downtown Manhattan. Every arts and cultural institution must have had a table at the event. Great stuff.

Time Magazine’s cover article on “The Incredibly Shrinking Court” by David Von Drehle – I may not agree with the article’s thesis that the US Supreme Court has less relevance in the lives of people, but it is an interesting read.

Singapore Sling

End of week 1 in a two week company training course – leadership and strategy.  Staying at the Rasa Sentosa Singapore. Not much time to look around. Full-on days from 8:30am – 6:30pm. We had a fantastic lecturer/facilitator, Bill Fischer, who happened to be a Yankee’s fan. Had fun checking the Yankee’s series during the class but upset they again failed in the 1st round of the post-season. Looks like it’s Joe Torre’s last. Great run.

Had dinner with a colleague and her husband last night and then having a quiet Saturday morning. Woke up at an obscene 6am (!!!) by my own and surfing the web and catching up on all my readings. Time for some breakfast and arrange to see my relatives here.

Then later tonight we start up with week 2 of the course focusing on hands-on leadership. No evening breaks so it’ll be pretty intensive.

So much to catch up and do though….