I love a clever impromptu response. The kind that is funny, cutting and proportionate to what has just been said to trigger the response. Some people have the facility to come up with such retorts while the majority of us…
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The saying goes: ‘Be careful what you wish for’. The literal meaning is that if you wish for a state of being or an event, your wish may be granted, only to find out that the wish brought with it…
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It is almost a cliché to say that everyone had a favourite teacher who left a positive impression on them. Cliché or not, I can boast no less than three such teachers who did just that and to this day,…
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Early evening on Tuesday 5th January 1971, a young man who had just finished school in his home country, arrived at Heathrow Airport to prepare for university the following year. At school, he had studied English as a foreign language…
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Last December, I posted a short blog wishing everyone a happy 2020. I reflected on 2019 and realised I was lucky to have survived a number of health scares. I declared that no longer would I take life for granted. …
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Here is a trick question for you: what is the reason for every death that had ever occurred throughout human history? Remember, I said it was a trick question. Your first reaction is to say: ‘are you serious? People die…
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A conversation With a Swallow A Few days ago, I had a dream, and in that dream, I was dreaming. I know it sounds weird but, that’s what happened; let us call them outer dream and inner dream. In the…
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Governments issue corporate governance guidelines, academics write books about it, institutions hold conferences on it, organisations add extra pages to their annual reports claiming to be compliant with the guidelines and individuals, including me, take it upon themselves to train…
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In a previous blog, I used a poem by Robert Frost called ‘The Road Not Taken’ to illustrate the point that in our lives, many of us are forced to make a choice between taking a conventional path or a…
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the…
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