Thanks to social media, the number of invitations to reunions coming my way has increased dramatically over the last few years. Not that I am complaining and neither is my wife, for she too has been receiving the same and no less in number at that. These reunions, as is widely acknowledged, have […]
I do not know what it is but lately, I have been getting rather more philosophical than usual. Could there be something in the wind that affects me so? I mean its late June now and August is just around the corner, and for the Chinese, August coincides with the Hungry Ghosts Festival (if I […]
In case if anyone’s wondering, it’s the football World Cup season at the moment. That once-in-four-years moment when wives relinquish control of the TV remote (most households anyway) to their husbands and sons (and daughters too, maybe) and either join them to watch the football on the telly or quietly slip into a corner of […]
I guess it’s true when they say that time really flies when you are having fun. Fun, in this case, are my blogs and my posts, developing the story line and the ensuing write-up, selecting the ‘right’ images to aid in the story to be told, and all that is related to the article that […]
I recently attempted to compile a playlist of my all favourite songs. Why, as some of you are wont to ask? Well, there is a saying ‘Those who can’t do, teach’, which is rather unfair to those who teach actually. And according to my wife, those who can’t sing, compile playlists. Mind you, she said […]
From The Archives : First Posted on 21 January 2014 I would like to state here, for the record that I am one of them. ‘Them’ being those who can admit that they actually have hobbies and pour moi, one of my hobbies is the hobby of collecting stamps or more glamourously known as philately, […]
From The Archives : First Posted on 24 November 2012 Remember payphones? Those phones that would normally be found housed in a glass cubicle, especially in countries having four seasons, allowing you to make phone calls wherever you may be outside of your home. All you would need are coins of legal tender to start […]
