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Setting aside essential body functions like breathing, eating / drinking, sleeping, blood coursing through veins etc., we can live without just about everything in this world. However, there are some things we consider to be essential and would hate to live…
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I have twenty-one filters that I deploy in pretty much all interactions with people socially, and professionally. I will only list them without elaborating on any because I think they are self-evident however, if you need me to explain one…
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Have you ever been chased by a snake? Ok, have you ever heard of or read about anyone being chased by one? It is likely you haven’t because it hardly ever happens. Yet, almost all of us, are inherently scared…
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Once you cross your Rubicon, there is no return. That’s what happened to Julius Caesar when he crossed the River Rubicon in North East Italy, defying the rule set by the Senate that prohibited a general from moving to a…
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At one stage in my life, I did not open official-looking envelopes that contained bills or bank statements. My thinking at the time was simplicity itself: if I didn’t know about it, it would not bother me. Simple logic it…
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Colin was a high-maintenance member of staff who took a lot of energy to get him to do anything more energetic than chasing a tortoise. On one of many similar occasions, I had a complaint from a fellow manager that…
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Disclaimer: You may have read this post before under a different title about four years ago. If you had, I suggest you go get yourself a drink instead, it will be a better use of your time. At the Immigration Desk…
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Saturday night in a university students’ house anywhere in the world is likely to bring a random group of young people together for booze and debauchery mixed with loud music and junk food. My housemate and I had been to…
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Crossing the border over the River Jordan, after clearing the Israeli checkpoint, I and six other travelers took a seven-seater public taxi to Amman. After loading our luggage in the boot and on the roof of the car, I found…
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All was going well; my landlady (a high school head teacher) invited me to a small Boxing Day gathering in her main house, where she told me she promised her other guests, of mostly teachers, that the new tenant (me)…
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