So in the shower earlier today, where most of my epiphanies happen, I realised why the world is screwed and there’s something we all can do about it. Pray a little less. Yeah less, not more. God, that poor old chugger up there is overwhelmed. Actually I’m headed to a Holy communion of a dear friends son a little later and the thought that ignited this realization was “when was the last time I ever visited a mosque?”. I happened to know exactly when that was, 27 June 2008. Ria, the elder daughter was about to be born (about a […]
Yearly Archives: 2019
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Life is now, in this moment. Cliched? Yes. But then stop for a second and think… do we really live or are we just keeping ourselves busy going from one problem to another trying to solve the problem that we’ve made of our lives… eventually in the end death is the solution no matter what the problem because beyond that final resolution there is nothing you really need to worry about… well at least nothing that you could effectively do anything about really… so do we want to be stuck solving mundane stupid problems that we ourselves created or would […]
Klaus the house mouse lived in the brick house at the top of the street. He rarely if ever left his home however he was known well to each and every resident on the street. They knew him as the loud mouse. Everybody had heard Klaus, dare I say, loud and clear. He made no concessions even for the odd funeral procession and when he got started in the shower there was no amount of cotton in the ear that could save your eardrums. For Klaus was a noisy mouse indeed, whatever he did was LOUD. Every resident on the […]
After almost a month of making checklists and then ensuring that the elements were all checked it was now the day to finally push off. I had promised the little one that I would not smoke even one cigarette during this vacation. I smoke two a day which is really just about one a day now, given that I’ve switched to ultra-mild slim ones with a view to completely give up at some point. The dilemma on the previous evening, and this did not figure on any of those aforementioned lists, was “what if I really feel like smoking?”… So […]
someone I know was recently gushing about how “I ran my PR at the PBR Marathon, the best 10K marathon I’ve even done… God bless the organizers”…. I’ve been there done it all and now I am on a break from the running circuit coaching the wife and kids so that at some point we can all four of us go running ultras…. but yeah along the way I’ve been an inspiration to many and they do come over and yeah they gush…. I was a little intrigued though, was there an actual marathon at the end of the rainbow? […]
I woke up at 3:30 in the night today morning (sounds familiar? :D… I know, poor fellow)…. I was in a thoughtful mood so went ahead made coffee and settled down to write…. then started getting pings from team members in Australia (they are 5+ hours ahead so for them that was like almost 9AM and when they see me come online that early for them it’s like lottery lagi aaj to)…. anyway long and short of it I never managed to write the story/write up I was planning on…. however just got done with the Bundoora walas so switched […]
If you always have a book to read, you will never know the meaning of the words “loneliness” and “bored” so cultivate a friendship with reading before going out there to look for friends (or something like “Outside of a dog, a book is probably man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read”…. man can be replaced with woman/child/whatever we’re not nitpicking here). So a handicrafts exhibition and book fair opened it’s doors yesterday morning. The tent is pegged exactly 1747 steps from home and we had been eagerly staking out the place once we found […]
keeping up with the Joneses is so futile specially when sometimes we don’t even know what it is that the Joneses are upto…. In this new age world where we run marathons every weekend and start/support a change.org campaign every Tuesday and Thursday it’s pretty difficult to say who we really are. We’ve stopped running because it makes us feel good now we run because there’s a cause and a medal with lots of pictures and social media credibility at the finish line. We’ve stopped having opinions because we truly understand and believe in a certain point of view we […]