Blog Post #175: Thanks Always For Every Moment 🥰

Dear Readers,

Though it’s been almost four and a half months since my previous published blog post, I don’t forget to give thanks always to God for every moment of every day 🥰

I will now share some of those blessings via a nice selection of happy photos 😊

Beautiful Cherry Blossoms in Tokyo, Japan, in early April 😍

Celebrations with friends and relatives in Tokyo 🥰

20th Wedding Anniversary Celebration in Buggenhout for Patrick & Roberta 🥰

Jenny & I celebrated our Pearl Wedding Anniversary this summer 💕

Geraardsbergen Senior Chess Prizegiving Ceremony, 7 August 2025 😊

Special congratulations to Johan Krijgelmans (centre picture) for playing really fabulous Chess 👍

FM Johan Goormachtigh, Gerard Milort (or GM for short! 😁) and IM Aleksander Alienkin all played excellently, too 👌🥰

Many sincere thanks to Dirk Flamée (pictured above on the right & in photos below) and his wonderful team of expert arbiters and very kind assistants who make the annual tournament always so enjoyable and memorable 🥰

**Marc Bils** (pictured left, above) has been a superb arbiter
at tournaments in Geraardsbergen for 32 years! 👌

It’s Black to play and win beautifully 😍, from a training game that I had a few weeks ago

Another beautiful puzzle that I saw (and solved! 😁) some weeks ago. Enjoy cracking it too! 👍

My youngest niece (in England) is predicted to achieve A* results in all of her A-level subjects. Given her immense talent and super-hard work to make great use of everything,
I think she’ll be smiling a lot when she receives her results tomorrow 😊😊😊
Then she, and other keen Maths enthusiasts, can enjoy solving the
trigonometric exponential equation given above. No calculator is needed at all!

I’m very proud of my AS-Level Maths students at Musica Mundi School (MMS), for they all worked extremely hard and got well-earned, high results too 🙌😊

My IGCSE Maths students at MMS also worked hard, and their results will come from Cambridge next week.

Prayer number 100 from a beautiful book of 1000 prayers
that I bought in England this summer 🥰

A beautiful Bible verse to conclude this Blog Post #175 ❤️

Author: Paul A. Motwani

My name is Paul Motwani, but my colleagues, my students and their parents mostly call me "Mr. Mo"! My middle initial, A, stands for Anthony, because I was born on the official feast day of St. Anthony of Padua, the patron saint of miracles and of lost souls. I love teaching Mathematics and Chess, and giving fun-packed talks and shows in schools and clubs. The popular ingredients of Math, Chess, Mystery and Magic are my "Fantastic Four", and I give prizes too! I am an International Chess Grandmaster, and (loooooong ago!) I was the World Under-17 Champion. I am the author of five published chess books and hundreds of newspaper articles. I live with my wonderful wife and son in Belgium. I also love music, movies and puzzles. I blog at paulmotwani.com. My e-mail address is pmotwani141@gmail.com. You can find me on Facebook, too. View all posts by Paul A. Motwani