My bet for the Winter Olympics

Once upon a time, many years ago, I was not a bad skier. Hard to believe I know, there aren’t many mountains in the Netherlands! If you think that is unlikely, take a look at my tip for the people’s favourite in Vancouver:

Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong is the first Ghanain Winter Olympian ever! The Snow Leopard only saw snow for the first time 10 years ago, and that was in London. He says:

“I think it was like sending a Ghanaian to the moon. I feel great about competing and all my friends in Ghana think it is really cool. I’m very proud of my heritage and being a role model for other Africans and Ghanaians to follow their dream. Nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it.”

Kwame’s ambition is to return to Ghana from Milton Keynes to open a dry ski slope.

If you’re going to have a dream – have a big one.

All blogged out as clouds gather…

So now a report from the US states that blogging for the young is a thing of the past:

‘One student said teenagers had lost interest in blogging because they needed to type quickly and “people don’t find reading that fun”.’

Sounds depressing doesn’t it!

BUT, it is good news apparently for the mobile phone industry. Ex-bloggers would rather send short, quick messages via internet links on their phones.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8497427.stm

We have more snow here, it’s not such a novelty anymore. I’ll be glad to get to Barcelona next week for a change in temperature – it’s been a long winter.

We also have low cost sim cards available. An absolute must for all those teenage cloud computerholics out there!

Are you getting 5 a day?!

This fruity little number claims to be the smallest qwerty phone available. The Blueberry has more features than you can shake a stick at, and we are selling them at the lowest price on the market.

Trade to Africa continues to build, and I am looking forward to seeing all my customers at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – por favor! I’ll have loads of samples for you to check out…

It will be a relief to escape for a few days, we have new neighbours and Armageddon continues relentlessly next door. Shocking!

A great week for United, but my buddy Tiger continues his stay in his sex addiction clinic:

Caption: “I think he’s cured, it’s been days now, and he hasn’t made a pass at any of us”!

Van Gogh, no?

Well what do you know? Back on terra firma and feeling good about the start to the year so far. I’m going for a new image, and thought I looked rather suave – I’m growing a beard, well, designer stubble, but she who must be obeyed has just commented that’s it’s growing through ginger and I look like Van Gogh on a bad day! So that’s the end of that then.

It’s OFFICIAL!!!

PMB is now supplying sim cards at the LOWEST PRICE currently available… in the world.

How’s that for a deal?

And not only do we supply the cheapest entry level phones on the market, we now have amazing prices for Mobiles at the higher end of the market, with the latest android  phones soon the be launched by us.

Call our Sales Office for the latest on prices and specifications.

In the mean time, enjoy the view that I have marveled at  for the last couple of days from my ‘crib’ in the metroplis that is called Hong Kong…what a city…multi cultural, clean and very friendly!

You have to work for it…

Well the meeting went as well as I could hope… you can lead a horse to water… watch this space!

In the meantime, I met up, and played golf with one of my biggest customers, well, he is 1.97mtr!

and two suppliers. It was a bit of an epic, the golf course is quite a trek, and the traffic in Jakarta is on permanent meltdown, but you know me – any excuse to wield a club, and a very pleasant time was had by all.

Fly to Hong Kong tomorrow – a few more hook ups with suppliers – then home sweet home.

Keep on keeping on, and in the meantime, I can always take the advice of my old friend Homer Simpson:

Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They’re about to announce the lottery numbers.

-15C !!

The coldest place in Britain yesterday was -17C in Woodford – just 5 miles away from us. It’s so cold your breath freezes on the inside of the windscreen, and the gearbox has frozen stiff in the Mini.

Not quite as cold as the coldest place on the planet, Vostok, Russia at -89C.

So, as the country has ground to a halt, it’s lucky I am on the other side of the world and wallowing in +40C!

It is raining in Jakarta though, so golf was off the menu!

I’m looking forward to hooking up with my good friend Denis from the mother country, and then meetings all next week  in China with clients and suppliers. I’m looking at the latest top quality handsets which will be badged in our livery and shipped post haste, to our Bric chums…

Oh, and I have to try and squeeze in a trip to the Mulberry factory, not that I need any new handbags, but Her Indoors doesn’t seem to need any excuse!!

http://www.mulberry.com/

Snow loungers…

The view from our house this morning. Chaos here. All airports and major roads closed. The kids’ schools shut.

Snowed in.

The Mrs and Me – off sledging!!

Happy New Year!

I’m back – thank goodness! Normality, well nearly…

I’m not being a grinch, but that did go on and on and on… there’s only so many mince pies and in-laws I can digest. And round this way the ground is frozen harder than an eskimo on a motorbike, which of course means that any escape to the golf course was completely out of the question!

Well, I hope you all had a wonderful break, and are raring to go in 2010.

I have got very positive vibes for the months to come, despite the doom and gloom on all the news channels, we have orders in the pipeline…

I am off to Hong Kong next week to meet manufacturers, testing new products and looking at some very exciting new kit.

LET ME KNOW YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS!

Here is mine:

‘Say yes to everything’

-10

Ten days and counting. Christmas is a little over a week away, but you wouldn’t know it in our house.

Santa’s Grotto it is not.

I think we’re going for the minimalist look.

The Christmas Spirit seems to exist only in the egg-nog at the back of the drinks cupboard.

There’s no tree/tinsel/baubles or holly.

But. There is snow. Tomorrow. It’s going to snow. The salt mine five minutes down the road supplies all the grit for all the roads in the UK when it snows. Winsford. You never need to go there, but it’s famous for salt, and the factory is open 24/7 this week. It’s going to snow.

And what more could you ask for under the tree this year than the PMB phone of the year?!

LET ME KNOW YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS! FANTASTIC PRIZE FOR THE BEST ONE.

Wonder what my buddy – Tiger’s resolutions will be – twelve over par – natch!