Classical music is nothing to cough at, it is often seen as a serious affair, with many dressing for the occasion. On Friday I went the Royal Festival Hall, London, to see Daniel Barenboim and the Berlin Staatskapelle. The performance of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto was wonderfully sublime, whereas the critically successful performance of Schoenberg’s symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande was not to my liking. But this post isn’t about reviewing the music, as I am no expert in this field and review by ‘professionals’ can be seen in related …

It’s 2010 and recently I’ve been thinking more about what seems like a shift in foreign policy and global politics. I love conspiracy theories, from aliens to JFK, the Beatles to 911. This post largely will centre around the theory that we are slowly entering a 5 state ruling political system. 1984, great book, great author and an interesting social commentary on what might come to pass. Extreme as 1984 is, the book worked so well because I could immerse myself in the belief that this isn’t too far removed …

This isn’t about politics. This isn’t about religious ethics. This is about human lives. This is about my olive harvest trip to Palestine in October 2009. This is about how the Nazi holocaust has been fashioned into an ideological weapon to immunise Israel from legitimate criticism.
My trip certainly opened my eyes to what is actually going on behind those blurry censored mass media cameras, the news corporations don’t want us to see for some still unclear, foggy reason.

Just getting into Palestine via Israel is a slight struggle. The reason for …

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I think sometimes I ask way too much of a computer, then other times I despair at fairly simple mistakes. This one comes in the form of incapitability of Microsoft Office 2007 with… well, Microsoft Office 2007. Allow me to explain. I was fortunate enough to have someone in the office that didn’t mind spending 20 minutes listing out my contacts on to a spreadsheet, which was collated from an array of business cards, collected over the past 3 months. This then was going to be imported into …

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 …

I spend countless hours travelling on trains and pounding the streets of England. Mainly in and around London, where I’m sure the problem is amplified. But England really is full of rubbish, everywhere I see small mounds of trash. It makes you wonder where the respect for the country, nature and others has gone.
It is one of my pet hates and to that extent I can’t honestly ever remember a time where I purposely threw litter on the floor. Unless I take into account when walking in woods and …

truly a hectic month in the life of me! A month both filled with utter joy and immense stress, I find it funny how life and work life can be at such dichotomous ends of the spectrum of human emotion; both parts giving emotions totally separated from each other. The title of this post “Sucking on a Revolver”, is I guess, the best description of what the past weeks have been like, and an awesome name for a song, book or film.
My work life is turning into a wearisome …

like you can see a storm roll over the hills and descend on the valley where you stand at complete peace, well this how I see this week looking. On Thursday last week, I could see the clouds gather and I have had the weekend to allow the calm before the storm to ensue but as I look forward to the weeks ahead I see the first waves caress the side of the ship.
I wonder how positive I can stay as the waves wash over me with increased intensity. …

for at least the last 10 years I have been hearing about Britain becoming increasingly more obese. I for one don’t have to see statistics to know that it is true. Today the British government launched their latest initiative to try and reverse the trend, cunningly they have devised a marketing campaign warning people of the dangers! The BBC details more about this campaign, but in essence it will be a public health warning like any other, “do this for long enough and you’ll die.” It seems to be this …