Singapore 10October2025: Breakfast at Singapore’s Shangri-La Beyond Belief: Dazed and Confused With a Happy Gut So much for the fantastic sleep even with the little white pill. Woke up at 02:30 and 05:30. Dealing with a 12 hour time difference. Stumbled down to breakfast and the bright colours of the breakfast dining room Line RestaurantContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):Singapore 10October2025: Breakfast at Singapore’s Shangri-La Beyond Belief: Dazed and Confused With a Happy Gut”
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
RKS 2026 Wine: A Good Perspective on Portugal’s Douro?
2025 witnessed a dearth of Douro wine in Ontario for reasons unknown but we start 2026 with a LCBO Vintages 10January release with 5 Portuguese wines 3 of which are from the Douro. What about Perspectiva 2020 Red from the Douro? Does it offer a good perspective of a Douro red? Aged 12 months inContinue reading “RKS 2026 Wine: A Good Perspective on Portugal’s Douro?”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):SINGAPORE ARRIVAL 9October2025
SINGAPORE ARRIVAL 9October2025 Arrived in Hong Kong from Toronto late afternoon. Beaten and bedraggled after 15 hours on Cathay Pacific. Huge airport. Boarded Cathay Pacific for a 3 ½ hour flight to Singapore. Bulkhead seats. Bizarre curry chicken over rice. Close to spoiled fruit salad and browned lettuce with processed ham slices on a bedContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version):SINGAPORE ARRIVAL 9October2025”
United States National Guard Seizes Canadian Portion of Niagara Falls and Wine Growing Regions of Niagara
Spoof News Services: 12January2026: National Guard detachments based in Buffalo and Finger Lakes, New York seized control of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Niagara-on-the-Lake and all wineries in Niagara on Monday 12January2026. White House spokesperson Cary Leaveit stated the military action was required to protect the security of the United States given that invading troops could launchContinue reading “United States National Guard Seizes Canadian Portion of Niagara Falls and Wine Growing Regions of Niagara”
RKS Literature: Frankenstein’s Creation Laments His Deformity (Mary Shelley)
“I had admired the perfect forms of my cottagers-their grace, beauty, and delicate complexions: but how I was terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool. At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror: and when I became fully convinced that I wasContinue reading “RKS Literature: Frankenstein’s Creation Laments His Deformity (Mary Shelley)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AFTER GERMAN SHEPPARD ATTACK
POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AFTER GERMAN SHEPPARD ATTACK Bob and I were taking one of our many daily walks. Bob is of the view a tired dog is a happy dog. He sure has that one right. On I trundle on a miserable winter day and I feel Bob tighten up. Like the Beach BoysContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AFTER GERMAN SHEPPARD ATTACK”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)
THE TOUR DIRECTOR: The glue that binds the group together Your tour will have a tour director travelling with you for your entire tour present when you arrive up to your departure and handle all administrative details in between. Part drill sergeant. Part parental figure. Part diplomat. Caregiver. Interpreter. Friend. Part object of blame. TheContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY INSPIRED BY THE SOUND OF MUSIC!
RORY INSPIRED BY THE SOUND OF MUSIC! I had been listening to radio and television advertisements promoting a revival of the musical “The Sound of Music”. Bob groans in pain hearing the refrain, “….climb every mountain” and on occasion he howls like a wolf after he listens to it. Well I find it catchy. IContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY INSPIRED BY THE SOUND OF MUSIC!”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: MATTERS ARE NOT WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE: OUR SECURITY TEAM AND BOB’S GLOCK
MATTERS ARE NOT WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE: OUR SECURITY TEAM AND BOB’S GLOCK Bob is fond of saying we inhabit a “modest cottage” on a quiet street in Toronto’s Bridlepath area. Bob and Fay purchased the late musician Gordon Lightfoot’s home and gently renovated it a few years ago. That musician Drake is ourContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: MATTERS ARE NOT WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE: OUR SECURITY TEAM AND BOB’S GLOCK”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY SAYS CAREFUL WHEN YOU USE THE EXPRESSION “NAUGHTY PUPPY”
RORY SAYS CAREFUL WHEN YOU USE THE EXPRESSION “NAUGHTY PUPPY” I continually hear the expression “naughty puppy” bandied about by humans. It implies malicious intent on innocent little puppies. Indeed, we can be mischievous, rambunctious, silly and even destructive but that is in our nature as puppies. There may be actus rea but rarely isContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY SAYS CAREFUL WHEN YOU USE THE EXPRESSION “NAUGHTY PUPPY””
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