Why Dating is like Solitaire

A POST I PUBLISHED at the end of December 2014 has (surprisingly) been my most viewed in 2015 – Why Dating is like Minesweeper. Following in the same vein I decided to compare the bane of most single people’s lives to another ageless game that dominated my teenage years – Solitaire. The game came pre-installed with […]

Wrist Bubbles, Glitter Cubes and Human Lie Detectors

INTERESTING TO SEE NYT Best-selling author Neil Strauss doing the media rounds lately promoting his latest book – ‘The Truth‘. Strauss is probably best known for infiltrating a secret underground society of ‘pick-up’ or seduction experts and documenting his journey from shy, introverted, unlucky in love geek to the world’s best PUA (pick-up artist) in […]

Rating and Dating an Ex(ercise)

BIG GYM AND I have been dating for the best part of ten years. Truth be told, I haven’t been a good partner – flaking badly on dates, failing to return calls, blaming my deviant behaviour on a lack of time, work stress and even atmospheric conditions. Matters weren’t helped by my flirtation with others.

10 Lessons I Learnt From Starting My Own Business

Quitting a cushy well paid job at American Tech giant Oracle to start a new venture in an industry I had no knowledge of might, to most people, be considered risky if not a little bonkers. And you’d be dead right. I wasn’t entirely alone on this mission to build a business empire in the Summer of […]

Puke Free Since ’03 – An ode to my Kevin Costner

Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Or so the saying goes. Although I tried my absolute best to batter my liver with wild concoctions of booze in my late teens. My jaunts around the world at various times in the past decade have exposed me to cultures that are at odds to my own […]