“If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.” — Taylor Swift.
Bullying is the undeniable cancer of the workplace.
The passive-aggressive variety well, even more decisive as it’s masked by subtlety, innuendo and sarcasm. And once you’ve been bullied, you can never go back to being ‘unbullied.’ You’re tainted in a way that others don’t get unless they’ve experienced it themselves.
But you’re not on your own, mate.
Your now part of a collective involving others who’ve been bullied too, and knowing you’re not alone is genuinely comforting.
Sure, you navigated your way through it, having never been bullied in your life. You were keeping things professional as possible for the…
“I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.” — Neil Gaiman, Signal to Noise
These are unprecedented times…
Unprecedented times these are…
I’ve personally NEVER heard the word unprecedented so many freakin’ times in my entire life!!!
Except for studying a Double Masters in International Law and International Relations to which the terms precedented and unprecedented were thrown around (academically speaking) quite a fair bit. Can we please find some alternative expressions for such a bizarrely weird time we’re all living in?
Did we think we would see the day where we would be incarcerated in our current locations? Ah no. The first time in our entire lives we’ve not been able to fulfil…
“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.” — Roger L’Estrange, Aesop Fables, 1692
The gravity of the situation didn’t strike until I was well out of the country. Celebrating the ‘Silly Season’ and New Year’s in sublime Thailand. My long-awaited end-of-year Vacay baby!!! It wasn’t until I was constantly bombarded with a daily international tripartite consisting of, Al Jazeera, BBC and Fox News that I acknowledged the media sensationalism that had regurgitated from the bushfire calamity. The media out of control. Igniting everything in its path. Just like the fires.
Indeed, what has been swept firmly under the carpet is the knowledge that the Australian bushfire crisis is a multifaceted culmination of multiple…
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart…
“If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.” — Marquis de Sade
Yes, ladies, we have undoubtedly experienced this on many occasions. Unquenchable sexual desire. Otherwise known as lust baby. For that man pumping iron at the gym. For the man in the bar, we are eyeing off hungrily. For the co-worker, we have gotten just a little bit too familiar with. Oh, dear God, for that fine specimen walking along the beach…
He who then becomes eroticised in our subjective…
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” — Marilyn Monroe
To not give a shit what other people think about our chosen life path takes herculean guts and resilience. Let’s be honest; most of us give an enormous shit about what other people think. If we say we don’t, we’re lying, because it’s human nature to want to impress upon others. Have them believe in our everyday façade. The different characters we portray. The masks we put on. We are struggling to let people see what lies beneath and beyond our masks. Underneath it all lies deep-seated vulnerability. And we sure-as-shit don’t do vulnerability. We’d much rather hide behind the…
Stuck in an obsessive self-defeating and self-perpetuating cycle of trying but never getting. It decimates your self-belief. It exacerbates your self-doubt. You no longer have the motivation to continue chasing your dream. It’s all too f***ing hard, and you’ve lost all f***ing hope. When the penny finally drops you realise it’s YOU that’s the problem in this dream-killing mess!!!
A toxic obsession with anything intangible is never good.
There is nothing wrong with putting yourself out there and taking yourself out of your comfort zone. Honouring what it is you are passionate about or even relocating to bring that dream into fruition. It’s what you do to try and make your dream a concrete reality. The odds don’t enter the equation because the will to succeed in fulfilling a dream takes precedence over everything.
Like all good buildings, there needs to be a solid foundation to build a solid structure. The dream-chasing foundation needs to be rooted in self-belief…
“Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits” — Edmund Burke
R-r-relocation. Nobody ever said it was easy. In fact, most people are smarter playing it safe. As in not relocating. Sticking to what you know. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it right? Then, there’s a small minority of us itching to dip our toes into the unknown. We take-off. Even if we are shitting ourselves inside about doing so. Eternal wanderlust. Searching for something more profound. Even if we don’t exactly know what that profoundness is. We relocate. Somewhere new. A million miles away from…
“Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.” Hugh Grant
Brexit. Put a match to it. That flawed idea. That flawed concept. The defective vision. Let it burn into a thousand tiny fluttery charcoal pieces. Let us pretend the UK was blinded momentarily. That common sense will prevail.
Not a Brexit lover. At all. Why would I be? I am part of the privileged EU-Passport-Club currently bound for London town. The EU-golden-ticket is allowing me to live and work in the cosmopolitan bipolar capital. For now.
Rocking up a few days before the March 29, 2019 deadline with no idea of the hyped-up shitstorm awaiting me is probably not the…
“Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying ‘like’ all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster.” — Tina Fey
Time to face the music ladies. Toxic feminism is NOT the way forward. It ain’t gonna further #MeToo-and-equivalent-causes. It’ll butcher them. Repugnant as it is socially regressive. Hate to break it the toxically intoxicated sisterhood, but, it’s true.
This pernicious brand of feminism gives intoxicated women, an ideologically-lethal justification for annihilating all men for being men. Indeed, these nasty-pasty toxic feminists revel in annihilating each other when it suits. Yes, women-on-women-bashing is a thing and it’s just as repulsive as women-on-men-bashing.
The Great irony in all of this, both genders have been rendered impotent by age-old toxic patriarchy. Women and…
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.” — Erma Bombeck
Singapore is a fabulously delicious hawker food mecca for those of us enamoured with the “Lion City’s” vibrantly diverse street food scene. “Hawker Culture” a firmly entrenched feature of Singaporean society. Part of its DNA. In the Country’s gene pool. And us globetrotting foodies wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s just not Singapore without them Hawkers!
Here are 4 of the best food centres in this small island nation that packs a mouth-watering food punch!
1. Tekka Centre (Bukit Timah Road, Little India)
The best of this delectable…
Julz Cukrov
A Mover And A Shaker, Not A Faker. Enamoured by all things literarily different. A lover of boundary-pushing. A despiser of sugar-coating. Seeker of the truth.
