Imagine a glass cup filled with your favourite juice staring at you on a hot day. Everything about this is good except the fact that the iced fruit juice is not exactly what you think it is. Let’s start with a simple question: what’s your favourite fruit juice? I go…

One thing we all clamour for is happiness. We are all in pursuit of happiness. In our longing to be happy, we often forget to be happy. The elusive nature of happiness grasp our attention and we devise numerous means of achieving this ultimate state of being. However, what many…

Some things should be simple. Like lying down on your bed to sleep after a long tiring day. Like peeling down a riped banana? Or licking a coated spoonful of your favourite iced cream at the peak of scorching summer. Right? Well, I am not so sure anymore. The tub…

Empty Nest: A household consisting only of parents or parents whose children have grown up and left home. Google I watched as my son rushed out of the car barely waiting for me to park properly. Slamming the door as he rushed out to join tens of other students on…

My mind chatters just like yours, but not the soft whispers of yours. It wanders into the thorns and bushes of long-forgotten events of my life bruising my sensitivity. It sent disturbing lingering noises down my spine and I felt its every scream. …

Parenting was an easy plight when you don’t have kids. I thought I nailed the parenting business before my kids arrived but I couldn’t be more wrong. It was a long winding tunnel of challenges. My first girl arrived packed with punches. With extra two weeks overdue, I was induced…

I went for a job interview at a school not too far from where I live a few years ago. I wanted this job with all my might. The initial interview and the written test were all too easy for me. The last stage was to face the panellists. …

While driving through the dark cold road leading to my destination that Friday evening, I listened to the shrieking laughter of the presenter on my car transmitter. …

Over the years, I have tried perfecting the game of school shopping but nothing worked. I have kind of gotten used to the comfort of pushing school shopping to the last line at the bottom of my to-do list. The truth is I don’t enjoy shopping. Well, I mean offline…