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An incredible journey has come to an end.
It was great fun developing and training a great team of chefs for this TCM/French Restaurant project for the Eu Yan Sang Group in Singapore. I’m honored having crossed path with wonderful souls and a great traditional culture that is newly discovered as essential in health care and in the maintenance of human wellbeing. I wish this baby all the success it needs to survive without me.
Towards the end – my attempts to stay involved on a consultant base did not work out favorably, foremost for the lack of receiving a clear draft of my future involvement brought forward by the management; I was forced to accept a very difficult decision to end my participation. As sad as I am about the final quarrels about my departures – still worried about compensation – I certainly support everyone involved with this concept; truly a fascinating idea. I had great fun as long as it lasted. Good luck!
A short visit to Bali was an amazing and relaxing journey. I stayed at the meditative Four Seasons Hotel in Sayan, build by a river into the jungle – if ever there is paradise… 
I’m off to new adventures. I am still writing on the TCM cookbook and having great fun with it; I will start a TCM website as soon I have enough material to entice some curious minds about my working with herbal remedies. In the mean while I have added a few links of media clippings currently in the news about my cooking for RWP. Even Times Magazine honored me with a short reportage. I have pitched my idea to a new level, new corporations and hopefully soon will have a clear outline of work on my horizon.
In the short term I will be going to Sulawesi, still in beloved South East Asia and finally finishing my Dive Master class which I had interrupted when moving to Singapore last Fall. Soon you will read a blog on diving with great pictures, since now I even have an underwater camera! 
Life is great fun and with every door closing, it seems another one immediately opens up. I am blessed the spirits that keep me sane, humble and foremost kind to others, regardless of how difficult situations appear to be.
Happy mothers day Mom. I love you!
No excuse I forgot you this year!
Son Raphael
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