007 is not everyman (or woman) and never should be
Haunted by a Honda
If you’re like me, you believe some cars have souls – so could they come back to haunt you? I think so. I believe so. I know so.
We’re all just Clowns now, aren’t we?
The snare of social media, a digital affliction, an inescapable addiction.
How to be hated on YouTube
I wish to share with you the fact that I’ve recently had some rather positive feedback on YouTube – and the reason this is significant is because such an event is usually a rare and momentous occasion!
Sizing up equality
Imagine the scenario. You’re in the clothes section of Carrefour supermarket in Mirdif City Centre in Dubai. You have picked a skirt off the rack and suddenly you see the right woman. You stop her with barely an ‘excuse me please’ and before she’s even had a chance to respond you stick the aforementioned skirt directly right up against her waste to size it up and see if it looks okay.
Three things about The Man from Uncle
I do remember the original TV series, in the same way I just about recall the 1960s Mission Impossible series. Straight up I have to say I really enjoyed this big screen reboot of The Man from Uncle. But here are three things I have to get off my chest about it.
A Question of Love
This is my first work to ever get published. I actually wrote it in October 1985 as part of a school assignment. But later a London community organisation published it in its monthly newsletter after my mother submitted it. I’m reproducing it here with a few edits.
‘Friendship is like a vase, once broken it maybe repaired, but the mark will remain’, I once read somewhere.
Why I don’t turn off traction control anymore
They are no longer add-ons but essential and integral parts of the dynamics –
Ramadan Quranic Quotes – and what they mean to me
Everyone equates Ramadan with fasting and feasting, and in part that wouldn’t be entirely inaccurate. But it’s also a celebration of the miracle of Islam, which is the revelation of the Holy Quran. In the last 10 days of the special month, I decided to pick out some key favourite Quranic quotes and present them in a very unique style using Bitstrips cartoons. Here’s a compilation of the translations/interpretations with my own personal thoughts about each of them.
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