The `There’s More To Life Than This’ Feeling

This feeling has come roaring back this past week and I know it’s not your ordinary post-holiday blues. I know there really is more to life than this. But I’m.

15 years ago

Attack of the Asian Baby Snatchers

Once they spot the baby there’s no escape. They work themselves up from gasps and oohs and titters, gradually building the courage to creep forward. Soon they are crowding.

15 years ago

How Bad Hair Gave Me Best Friends

“If you’re going traveling, you’re going to have bad hair,” Alice told me. “You have to prepare yourself for that now.” Alice is slender and elegant. She is so.

15 years ago

The Perfect Schedule (No Camel Required)

Shielding my eyes against the glare, I look at a distant peak, so far in the distance it’s just a shimmer of purple, a suggestion of a mountain rather.

15 years ago

Why Dropping Out Was The Best Decision I Ever Made

At the end of 2006 I was a wreck. I was bowed down by financial commitments, a huge workload and deadlines. I felt time poor and hugely burdened by.

15 years ago

My Matrix Moment

Two guys loudly discuss who to CC into work emails. I read a bit more of the paper, eat a bit more of my expensive salad and try to.

15 years ago

Sneaky Smiles On The Bus

We were wedged in between a grumpy-faced Chinese lady and a dark Malay worker with downcast eyes, bumping along from one side of Singapore to another. I had Miss.

15 years ago

Cycling Through Cambodia

Small children, in superbly composed groups of three or more, line the side of the dusty roads. First they are mesmerised by the crazy Western tourists – lycra-clad, red-faced.

15 years ago