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The End 11 Sep 2012 | 05:30 am

This is my last post. It’s my 300th one. (Can’t you hear that bugler in the distance?) All good things, as they say, must come to an end. Everything falls away. That expensive new car you bought will ...

Hot Chicks! 29 Aug 2012 | 06:39 am

A friend and I were at a café. Across the road was a billboard plastered with the gorgeous face of a, obviously heavily Photoshopped, young woman. The words “Hot Chick!” leapt at us, followed by the u...

Girls Pressured to be Rauncy, Dumb and Looks-Obsessed 14 Aug 2012 | 09:05 am

“Celebrity culture and social networking sites risk spawning a generation of dumb and shallow girls, a leading headmistress warns.” Those first lines in an article in The Times from last year. Our hea...

Is Today’s Music Meaningless and Boring? 31 Jul 2012 | 08:06 am

My 15-year-old daughter is not going to like me for this. She even refused to read the article in the newspaper. But frankly, today’s music, whether rock, pop, metal, hip-hop or electronic is “samey, ...

Blink the Eye 23 Jul 2012 | 11:41 am

 That’s right, blink the eye and the years go by! That’s what came to me at a friend’s 50th birthday party. It was wonderful because I met friends whom I hadn’t seen in 25 years. It was strange how ...

Are You Really Facebook Wise? 5 Jul 2012 | 09:46 am

I went to a cybersafety talk the other day. Much of the focus was on Facebook. What I found out was most worrying! It’s all about your own privacy. For a start you don’t want the whole word to see ...

Book Street and the Biography 25 Jun 2012 | 09:30 am

Businesses like this still exist. Imagine. No website. No Facebook page. No Twitter. Not even an email address? Stepping into Puan Natrah’s bookshop is like stepping into the 1980s. Perhaps even 196...

Viagra versus Vairagya 7 Jun 2012 | 07:58 am

Viagra is a great fix if you can’t get it up. But others use it recreationally, to increase their libido and to become real tigers in bed. But isn’t “Vairagya” a better cure for erectile dysfunction?...

When I Was Small … 22 May 2012 | 10:51 am

I used to listen to the Bee Gees. I was six and we had the soundtrack to the movie S.W.A.L.K. My favourite song was “My World”. My brother’s was “Melody Fair”. I was a big fan. Seven years later, in ...

Happiness – Part 2 10 May 2012 | 11:59 am

So are you Over-Desiring? Do you yearn for too much? If you want to be happy it may be time to drop some of your desires. Or to put it another way, these desires may be making you unhappy. If we’re...

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