Sacrifice

Have you noticed how there are definite differences between people brought up in a faith and those who are born-again or converted. People who’ve grown up in a particular religion adopt more of a buffet approach to the rules, they pile their plates with the parts they like and generously leave the rest for others. [...]

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Modern Way

There was an article in the paper on Sunday where journalists tried to see how well they would survive without one of the trappings of modern life, and give up one for just a week, it didn’t really sound like much of a sacrifice but they struggled all the same. And the terrible sacrifices?
Digital [...]

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Journeys to Anywhere – Bintulu

Tell any Malaysian that you’re going to Bintulu for a holiday and they’ll look at you with incredulity. The polite ones will gape a little before catching themselves and pretend to nod interestedly, while the others will look at you in horror, they’ll look at you as if you’re out of your mind, they’ll look [...]

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A Single Vote

I was watching an election programme and they were interviewing an American political expert and he was talking about how we had such a confusing system, he was amazed that the whole population understood and used it so well and so effectively. This puzzled me as I thought that while “first past the post” was [...]

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The Party

In the beginning was the Party and the Party was good. It knew what it wanted and it set out to get it. The people loved the party, it was out there fighting for them, it gave them their freedom, it gave them hope, it gave them a land to call their own.
All the Party [...]

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Microfilm

Many years ago, say microfilm to someone and you’d conjure up images of fast cars, explosions and scantily-clad women, it was the stuff of spies and espionage. You couldn’t be a self-respecting spy and not have a tiny microfilm camera hidden about your person, ready to take pictures of secret documents, secret military bases or [...]

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De Cat in De Hat

Being a balding pasty-white Irishman poses a little bit of a problem when out in the hot midday sun, it requires a hat. Me and hats don’t agree, I can never find something that’s me, the good old woolly hat seems to look okay but it doesn’t seem to work as well in the tropics…
And [...]

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The Writing on the Wall

Peel back the wallpaper in the hall and a story will be unveiled.
In 1979 my father stripped the wallpaper from the hall and stairs and replaced it with new fresher wallpaper. Before he put up the new paper he wrote a little note on the plaster, a simple heart with the date and four names, [...]

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In Search of Greatness

I’ve always had an affection for crazy people. Not just any crazy people but seemingly normal people who get notions and decide to follow these ideas to their ultimate end, no matter no odd or strange they may seem to others. They are perfect examples of thinking outside the box, in some cases I’m pretty [...]

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Snakes…

….on a plane. Yes, I think the title just says it all. Since I watched “Crank” a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been in the mood for another totally preposterous film premise. Enter “Snakes on a Plane”
A man witnesses a murder but isn’t seen by the baddies, he doesn’t tell the goodies either (corrupt cops, [...]

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