First Post

          I have finally succumbed to peer pressure and am commencing to blog. Why did I resist so long? In this age of electronic communications and instant messaging, I still cherish the good old fashioned handwritten letters, meetings and heated arguments, backslapping and (even) backstabbing, the general bonhomie of meeting  like minded people over a beer and the imperfect but interesting world of smoke and sweat.

          The thought of writing stuff on the screen for everyone to read is a wee bit scary. A hundred ‘what if’ scenarios run through your mind.One of my friend  quoted an ancient chinese(?) proverb which says something like ‘A journey of a thousand miles is begun with a small step’. Wise people those ancient Chinese be! They have managed to give a cloak of respectability to my efforts.