I stood up from my swivel chair and went to the mini bar in my office. I needed a drink. Five hours of sitting and getting down to business without a taste of my favorite cognac Camus Cuvee 5.150 is not giving me even an ounce of pleasure.

I forgot to bring one in the middle of an online meeting with our European counterparts which lasted for almost three hours. I couldn't leave the forum even just for a second because of succeeding calls from the consultants in Japan. I was planning to take the famous capsule hotel to the Philippines and Japan being the pioneer of this is the...