"My first prediction has to do with the field
which some people say I have distinguished myself in for more years that I care
to remember, and it is namely this: retired bankers will continue to distance themselves
from the current crop, so that you wouldn’t know the two groups were related in
any way, shape or form.
My second prediction is closely related – and I
promise you it will be my last one about banking! Retired bankers will continue
to display sour grapes about the current crop raking in larger sums than they ever
managed.
Okay, now onto a topic very dear to my heart, the place I am proud
to call my home, and which is I think rather proud in return to call me “Dr Eldon”
and a Gold Bauhinia Star! I predict that I’m going to claim once again that one
of my predictions came true when it didn’t quite. Folks will doubtless recall
that last time I predicted that Hong Kong would overtake both New
York London
I’m going to really go out on a limb here and
predict that 2012 will be the year in which Jiang Zemin goes from looking like
a marble bust to becoming a handful of dust. (Excuse me for slipping a bit of
doggerel in there, but the muse comes but once or twice a year, and when it
does come a-calling, one must heed the call, or one might be permanently
museless before one knows it!)
My final prediction concerns me – yes, I can
hear what you’re saying, that I’m letting that lamp out from under its bushel
again! I predict that I will pick up one or two more non-executive directorships in
2012. Heavens knows, one isn’t getting any younger and the odd HK$360,000 or so
p.a. – which my colleague tells me is the going rate for these things – comes
in very handy as one journeys round the world trying one’s best to make Planet
Earth a better and happier place. Like one big happy family, or, as we like to
say chez Noddle, like one big bank – without those horrid bonuses they all
pay themselves these days."
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