Category: CURIOSITIES AND INTERESTS

  • What I learned from my adventures as an accidental gardener

    What I learned from my adventures as an accidental gardener

    My love affair with gardening started by accident. It began with a handful of papaya seeds which I threw into a pot of pomelo in the middle of the hard lockdown. As a hypertensive patient, papaya is one of the fruits I eat with regularity and I thought nothing of throwing seeds onto soil. A…

  • How an old fart became a global phenomenon or why I love the Bernie Sanders meme

    How an old fart became a global phenomenon or why I love the Bernie Sanders meme

    Of all the the images which came out of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president of the United States, none had as much impact as Senator Bernie Sanders sitting by his lonesome, masked and mittened. Most of the major players chose their attire deliberately, making sure they had their messaging right. Kamala Harris took…

  • What I love about the Samurai Gourmet

    What I love about the Samurai Gourmet

    When I saw the title Mid-Day Beer at a Restaurant, I knew I had to sit down and watch. I had just come home from a meeting and was planning on finishing some work before dinner, but Samurai Gourmet pulled me in. Before I knew it, I had gone over four episodes with my son,…