Published in March 29th, 2008
Ciao Italy!!
I’m here!!!
I’m here in Rome and taking the domestic flight to Verona…temperature’s approx. 2 degrees Celcius and there is no bloody direct connection via an air bridge to the plane! Had to walk on the tarmac of the airport - this is European airports for you!
2 mins out of Fiumicino Airport Rome, and we […]
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Published in March 23rd, 2008
Day 3 of the detox was not bad at all. I did the same routine, and managed with salad and plain yogurt for lunch and dinner. I was feeling quite good actually.
Day 4 - the final day for this phase of my detox. The recommended period is actually 7 days but because I’m off to […]
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Published in March 21st, 2008
It’s day 2 and yes I’ve survived! Today’s Friday and a work day so it gets a bit complicated as I have to lug my detox stuff to the office…
All ready to go to the office now!
It’s 2pm now, and I’m really not that hungry but I have to follow my schedule and I […]
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Published in March 20th, 2008
it started a couple of weeks ago at a meeting of a group which i belong to, and mac (one of our buddies there) brought up this idea of a detox….we had another buddy edward do that many months back and we really wanted to try it…anyway, we needed to capitalise on a buddy system […]
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Published in March 17th, 2008
showing bill & wendy chambers the twin towers after our meal at petroleum club level 42
it’s always great to host such down to earth winemakers. they produce one of the best dessert wines in the whole wide world and i just can’t get enough of their rare muscats of which our allocation per year is […]
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Published in March 17th, 2008
it was a fairly standard sunday morning where i took the wine dogs for their usual morning walk…wine dog e was trying to sniff out truffles as usual but he doesn’t understand that he’s in tropical malaysia. anyway, in that 20 minutes, little did we know that a cute little squirrel had wandered into our home.
as […]
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Published in March 12th, 2008
my friends and i ran 42kms for the Singapore Standard Chartered Marathon and what i learnt is that in addtion to the thrist quenching iso tonic drinks and the power bars and the power gels to keep you going….the best drink to end the marathon is still a nice cool beer….hehe….
enjoying our first can of […]
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Published in March 12th, 2008
our waiting list (previously mentioned http://www.ronkhoo.com/blog/?p=11) for our andre lurton dinner increased from 22 pax to 32 pax, and we just had to create a second day event due to popular demand. customers just did not want to be turned away, and because wine cellar values her customers so much, we have now created a […]
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Published in March 12th, 2008
it’s the time of the week again TGIFFW (thank god it’s friday for wines!)….this week, wine cellar is showcasing a couple of chilean wines from the vineyard of Hacienda Araucano,
and an interesting range from the South of France called Chateau de La Negly - undisputably one of the best in the Languedoc region.
tasting details:
friday, 14/3/2008 […]
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Published in March 9th, 2008
my partner macland and i took a trip to visit vinexpo in bordeaux in 2005, and decided to detour to germany first to visit the mosel. this was a hectic road trip which saw us staying at one town no more than 1-2 nights. we flew into frankfurt and got picked up by fritz hasselbach…stayed […]
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