Category Archives: THE OFFICE
ANOTHER ODE TO VALENTINE
About, say, fifteen years ago, I started working in the Ports and Shipping Company of Iran, as part of some totally random and arbitrary project sponsored by UNDP, about the Caspian Sea. My job was to sit there and to
ANOTHER ODE TO VALENTINE
About, say, fifteen years ago, I started working in the Ports and Shipping Company of Iran, as part of some totally random and arbitrary project sponsored by UNDP, about the Caspian Sea. My job was to sit there and to
SHE MOANS AT PUBLIC EVENTS
For professional reasons, I have attended a gazillion public events over the past years, and if all goes to plan, I will probably attend another boatload in the upcoming years. So I have developed a neat classification of the type
SHE MOANS AT PUBLIC EVENTS
For professional reasons, I have attended a gazillion public events over the past years, and if all goes to plan, I will probably attend another boatload in the upcoming years. So I have developed a neat classification of the type
COLLEAGUE BURPS
Working day in day out with a more or less the same bunch of people, and you become privy to whole load of information that you never really asked for, and which your actual intimacy and affection does not warrant.
COLLEAGUE BURPS
Working day in day out with a more or less the same bunch of people, and you become privy to whole load of information that you never really asked for, and which your actual intimacy and affection does not warrant.
REQUIEM FOR ELEPHANT AND CASTLE
-”I didn’t know how to break the news to you. I knew you’d want to go there, and I was thinking, oh dear. Thenewcomer really loves the Elephant and Castle. Apparently they went bankrupt. So where do you wanna go?”
REQUIEM FOR ELEPHANT AND CASTLE
-”I didn’t know how to break the news to you. I knew you’d want to go there, and I was thinking, oh dear. Thenewcomer really loves the Elephant and Castle. Apparently they went bankrupt. So where do you wanna go?”
STOP STABBING AT MY LEGS WITH YOUR BROOM
The world is divided into two groups: the cleaners, and the lazy people they clean for. Who are incapable of tidying their own mess. I remember reading somewhere that if there ever is another revolution by the poor hungry masses
STOP STABBING AT MY LEGS WITH YOUR BROOM
The world is divided into two groups: the cleaners, and the lazy people they clean for. Who are incapable of tidying their own mess. I remember reading somewhere that if there ever is another revolution by the poor hungry masses
POWER WOMAN
They say that even as your income grows, so do your expenses. And I proved this axiom when in the space of one week, I received two bills, each for over $1000. I had broken the glass ceiling. Staring with shock
POWER WOMAN
They say that even as your income grows, so do your expenses. And I proved this axiom when in the space of one week, I received two bills, each for over $1000. I had broken the glass ceiling. Staring with shock
MAN PROF
In men, good looks are often to be found in inverse relation to social and economic status. So, you often see homeless men wandering round crossroads shaking empty coffee cups looking like an unwashed version of Axl Rose: long dirty
MAN PROF
In men, good looks are often to be found in inverse relation to social and economic status. So, you often see homeless men wandering round crossroads shaking empty coffee cups looking like an unwashed version of Axl Rose: long dirty
WORDS OF WISDOM
ON MONEY After spending every last cent we had on furniture and stuff for the new place: -So princess, do you think its better to keep money in the bank or to spend it on pretty things for our new
WORDS OF WISDOM
ON MONEY After spending every last cent we had on furniture and stuff for the new place: -So princess, do you think its better to keep money in the bank or to spend it on pretty things for our new
IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE…
It is a dull grey weekday morning. The kids have just gone to school. The sheer effort of getting them ready and out and in school has left me fatigued, at the verge of craving death. I am in the car. I
IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE…
It is a dull grey weekday morning. The kids have just gone to school. The sheer effort of getting them ready and out and in school has left me fatigued, at the verge of craving death. I am in the car. I
BE AFRAID. BE VERY VERY AFRAID.
I am sitting in Killam library now, finishing off the final format reviews to my thesis. However, the initial euphoria and delight I had enjoyed after defending last month has worn off, giving way to a complexity of nostalgia and
BE AFRAID. BE VERY VERY AFRAID.
I am sitting in Killam library now, finishing off the final format reviews to my thesis. However, the initial euphoria and delight I had enjoyed after defending last month has worn off, giving way to a complexity of nostalgia and
