I watched two fascinating videos which emerged from TED. The first by Dan Ariely, entitled “Are we in control of our own decisions?” and the second is by Malcolm Gladwell who talks naturally on spaghetti sauce.
Both in there very own way tackled a question which is increasingly becoming interesting to me as I give it more thought and that is the question of choice, destiny and if what we choose is really our choice. It’s probabaly best at this point for you to watch the videos to get the …

Being out in New York for the first time reminds me of the first time I went to Universal Studios. Landing with excitement of a kid in line for the ET ride, I saw the Manhattan skyline in the distance, a scene that greets a great many visitors.
An impressive and familiar sight, something that NYC felt to me the whole time. Every corner you weaved, every street you crossed brought a sense deja vu. I guess our elicit diet of American culture has driven the city so deep into our …

As much as I love music, I seldom has reason to write about it, unless of course it is a piece of music that rocks into my life for some reason and becomes an intrinsic part of a moment. Balmorhea and Peter Broderick each in their own right play such pieces of music, I just can’t stop listening to it’s supple calming tones.
This is a beautiful song by Balmorhea, I’ll doubt that you’ll be able to find as chilled classical music anywhere else.

This is a duet of Peter Broderick and …

It’s Friday night and I have decided to pass on the alcohol for a while and last week I started my get over New York a Wedding and previously being a little unhealthy diet. It was when I was clothes shopping I realised I had gone up a jean size, so now plan to beat the weight off get back to fitting comfortably into 32″.
I hear about all these people on content diets and boy would I never want to be one of those people. My diet is consisting …

More men have stepped on the moon than imprinted their soles at the deepest depths of the earths Ocean. Why has humanity been staring at the heavens when the worlds most important resource surrounds the land we stand on. In this TED talk Sylvia Earle quotes the Poet Auden, “Thousands have lived without love. None without water” and goes talks with precision and humility about the enormity of the problem we all face. 97% of the Earth’s surface is covered in water and for the past millennium and in particular …