Category: Off Beaten Track

As the saying goes, “use it or lose it.” The “it” I am referring to is a hunger for challenge or knowledge. I suspect that the more we b...

It used to be that having a good memory was a good thing. You can, for example, do well in exams, dazzle people with obscure facts and figures, or simply have a...

I suppose, at some level, almost everyone craves for some form of “routineness” and “unchangedness”? “For I am as constant as the ...

Happy 2009! A feel-good story to start off the new year. Have to admit, as one of the commenters said, at first I was a bit worried for the two guys when the li...

The game Monopoly is probably well known to most of the people who is reading this? My memory of Monopoly was one of a number of board games I played in my chil...

What more needs to be said? Some (very creative) people have loads of time ont their hands, but much appreciated… can I say? 30 coolest and funniest tux i...

Another gloomy day in the western part of the island, but at least no rain for the time being. Very conducive for afternoon naps…