Anyone with Asian connections will know all about the cult of pre-wedding photos in exotic and luxurious locations, but one couple has chosen to make theirs unique by having them taken at AirAsia's low-cost terminal in
The Blog is full of admiration at this scoop by fellow blogger Barbara Cockburn on Flight, since we both started our blogging careers at the Reed Charity Blogathon two years ago.
The photos remind me that when ICIS and Flight shared a
(photo: Dennis Yap/Flight)
Here is another sure-fire money-making idea from the fertile business brain that brought you The Solvent Calendar, and now "The Soundtrack to Paradise". It's going to be a strong seller along the lines of whale song recordings, which are supposed to be very popular with pregnant mums.
This one will be popular with office workers. It's a vivid two-minute recording on a mobile phone of surf crashing repeatedly on a distant sandy shore as palm fronds wave softly in the moonlight, the thin smoke from braziers on the beach wafts across your line of vision and (optional extra) a voice in your ear murmurs, "Can I top that up for you ma'am?"
Play it on headphones from your PC while you are working through lunch to get an Excel spreadsheet to add up.
This masterplan to enhance the corporate workspace follows on the original plan hatched with management training guru Paul Streeter some years ago in Singapore to improve the working environment in the ICIS London office.
We planned to take my photo of the view from the ICIS Singapore office at Millennia Tower, out over the South China Sea with ships plying their trade, tiny islands on the horizon, endless misty equatorial blue - and paste a giant life-size photo of this over the windows of the London office.
Months later Paul turned up to enjoy the new view but was sadly disappointed to see that the plan had not, and still has not been implemented.
It fitted perfectly with his worldly wisdom which he shares at the end of his training courses. If you don't write it down and do it straight away, you will never do it.
