Recently, I was invited to be a ‘VIP guest’ and speaker at the first official gathering of the newly formed Afro-Asian Association. Even though it was a last minute invite and then told of the speaking request a few hours before the dinner, I agreed and took on the...
I'm sure many students of the English language have heard of this idiom before. For those not familiar, it is an idiom used to mean that people who are similar tend to hang around each other- Asians with Asians, Americans with other Americans, intellects with other intellects, actors with...
A few days ago, I chanced upon a friend's Instagram picture of an article she was not too keen upon. In it, a psychiatrist, Dr. Valerie Taylor, was giving her professional opinion that people who constantly take pictures of their food, may be suffering from some kind of food...
Fatty boom boom! Chubby Checker! Roly
poly of fat! Wide load... These and many more are names that have
been labelled or put upon by both friends and tormentors because of
your size. Doctors
just call overweight people obese or morbidly obese, depending on
the percentage of overweightness.
Sticks and stones may break...
My mum was present at the birth of my second daughter, in England.
Most of us love our mums. We dedicate a whole Sunday to her in may parts of the world. In fact, the UK just celebrated Mothering Sunday a few days...
Photo Credit: Flickr/Mark Rantal
A very good and prosperous Chinese Lunar New Year to everyone celebrating this season! Even if you're not Chinese or believe in this season, it's a good time to learn a thing or two. This is the turn of the Snake to rule the new year...
