Tag: Navel Gazing

  • The difference between nice and polite

    It is difficult to like hospitals, and government general hospitals are even more unlikable because of their labyrinthine nature. You could walk for hours and end up in the same place and then ask someone in uniform where a particular ward is when it just so happens you’re standing right next to the ward you…

  • Be right back

    Be right back. Incommunicado for good reason.

  • Men’s Health: Man2Man: I Quit!

    Originally published in Men’s Health (July 2007) A few weeks ago I had a very bad dream. I was walking back home from Holland Village, just a stone’s throw from where I live. It was getting dark, and it was a bit drizzly, and between the knuckles of my index and middle fingers of my…

  • Men’s Health: Man2Man: Fear & Loving

    Originally published in Men’s Health (May 2007) You know how as kids, we were indoctrinated at a young age about how truth and honesty trump untruth and dishonesty? I was such a believer I decided to put that into practice when I was about five. And who else to demonstrate that new found knowledge to…

  • My favourite colour is very nice

    This is an exercise in self-awareness. I still have the habit of not answering questions properly. No, let me clarify that. I still have the knack of not answering questions – by giving an incongruent answer. E.g. Q: What’s your favourite colour? A: My favourite colour is very nice. Q: Does it taste like tomato?…