Lifestyle

Singapore Airlines’s inaugural A380 flight took to the skies a couple of days ago. But despite it being equipped with private double-bed suites in the first-class cabin, officials are reported to have said that passengers better not do the bouncy-bouncy in there … oh no! My recent interest in aviation and lack of Thought Leader […]

I’ve never had a whole lot of patience with people sending their regards. “Please send her my love!” “Tell him I say hi!” “Send her my fond regards.” I’ve always thought it was a bit naff, and a bit of a waste of time. I confess, I frequently forgot to pass on these messages of […]

The latest assessment by the United Nations of the state of the world’s environment paints the worst picture of the health of the planet yet, according to an article in the Independent. Since the last report, published in 1987, almost every index used to assess the planet’s well-being has worsened. The three worst problems are […]

Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry, upon seeing a distorted photo image in which her nose appeared large, once made a joke about how she now resembled her Jewish cousin. Although the footage was cut from Jay Leno’s Tonight Show, the “incident” was leaked to the media and all manner of shoe sizes has broken out. The […]

Most white South Africans (and a logarithmically growing number of coconuts black people) believe that driving through “shady” places such as Soweto or Hillbrow has a 100% predictable outcome; lying in a pool of one’s blood with a bunch of “locals” performing a wild dance around one’s soon-to-be-corpse. That’s why people talk about “driving into […]

Being the Sumo, and being a responsible member of society, I have many pressing matters to attend to on a daily basis. Such important matters as making certainly sure, personally, that the employment rate in the fast-food industry grows exponentially each year at the same rate as my gut. I manage this by keeping my […]

I have a stock response to the outraged SMSs and emails from Kenya, Zimbabwe and elsewhere I get on the death of reggae icon Lucky Dube: “He died of our society” — a society that is still learning to value life. I don’t quite remember where I got this from, but it may be a […]

Some of you may have noticed that instead of my almost-daily blogs I’ve been absent for nearly two weeks. While I’d love to say it’s just laziness, or busy-ness, or a hiatus somewhere sunny and tropical, that is, alas, not the case. It turns out I’m diabetic. Type one (the serious kind). I was diagnosed […]

No matter what you achieve in life, you will always feel that you have missed out on something. For me, it’s not having my own agony-aunt column. I would kill for the opportunity to give the geniuses who write in a more balanced response as opposed to the garbage they get from women like “Dear […]