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Growing up I have learnt that when one speaks about the holidays, the true innuendo is family, lovers and friends. I am currently sitting on a big black chair that somehow swallows me up and a huge brown desk, this much space is all a luxury to a student. Just like any other situation that … Continue reading Trust your harness and cable this Holiday

In a nest a chick cracks an egg; on the hay a little lamb is born. On the grasslands, green starts to sweep over brown. Plants and trees are budding, flowers blooming. Bees buzz, birds sing and soon the harsh landscape will be washed clean. Defiant snow-caps start to melt, and new gurgling streams will … Continue reading A New Spring in your Step

How many times do you hear men saying: “Oh gosh – its Womens’ Day everyday”? Quite often we hear vice-versa and I tend to agree more with the latter. Not because of my moral bearing, but through fear that my wife will read what I write here! We make light of these idle gender-based banters … Continue reading Women Rock

June 16th was Youth Day in South Africa. Now if you are a committed Dad like me, you would agree that every day is flipping youth day, right? Of course, this particular day commemorates the uprising in Soweto, and is now a celebration of the role played by the youth in liberating SA from the … Continue reading The Future is Young

Humans are weird. Well more the choices they make than anything else. Take a global view – look at Earth from space. What do you see human-wise? Do you notice they live all over the globe? Little bare-foot guys running around in deserts, others in the tropical sweaty jungles. Fur-clad cousins out in the freezing … Continue reading Frost, Fire, Friends – Winter in the Berg

When I hear the word Freedom, my mind goes to the dramatic scene in Braveheart where William Wallace screams it out just prior to losing his head. It was the pinnacle point in the movie where the hero paid the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of freeing his people from domination. The words terrorist and … Continue reading Braveheart

Adventurers, treasure hunters and documentary film-crews have, for decades, searched for the Holy Grail. Nobody really knows if it exists, yet the Grail is given this mysterious be all – end all status that will change the course of mankind. If there really is a holy grail though, it should be “Unconditional Love”. Consider that … Continue reading Love Conditioned