Do you get it?
Last night, a friend commented that after watching the recent movie Home Run* one can really appreciate the value of a pair of shoes. Useful advice for shoe-lov...
Category: Off Beaten Track
Group-think
Sometimes, I do wonder about how we can make use of group intelligence? I mean, how can we best take advantage of the unique experiences and expertise of each p...
Adventure
I will be in Europe for the next two weeks, starting next week. In view of the upcoming trip, the following seems a rather appropriate reminder: “It takes...
Surprise
Was very pleasantly surprised this afternoon when I received a reply email from a long lost friend – I was in fact worried that the email address I have i...
Second best
Was chatting with my sister the other day. I made the remark that, for young kids, it may not be so good if they are the best among their peers all the time. My...
Appearances
When we are young, we’d try anything to look older than our actual age. When we are slightly older, and not just restricting to women, we realise our earl...
Fishing
I really don’t recall when it started, but it seems that as far as I can remember I always had this mental picture of human relationships being like the c...
Once and again
Was over at my friend’s place tonight. We had some red wine and pizza and, after a while, started discussing relationships and in particular breakups in l...
Shaking off the dirt
In this morning’s edition of a newsletter which I subscribe to, there is a story about a donkey which I found very interesting. It goes like this: One day...
Free-ness
No, there is no spelling error in the title of this entry. And yes, there is no such word, but the choice was deliberate. Free is such a pervasive and yet often...