Understanding Success (Audio)

Professional Jealousy (audio)

I, me and my digital cave

Who am I? I log-in as a user-name. My online identity. Key-in protected life-passwords to prove I am human. Elsewhere, it is a 4 digit PIN. I juggle ‘this-is-how-I-look-now’ profile images. Cry attention through Huff-puff-and-bluff posts. Tweet one-liners. I blog. An interesting post. A likeable quote. Post ‘I-did-this-but-you-didn’t’ picture. Even, show-off my faith. I blog, [...]

Forgiveness – What does it take?

Popular culture feeds on our instinct for anger and revenge. How do we deal with perceived ‘injustice’ and feelings of ‘getting even’. The christian message – to forgive runs contrary to the therapeutic suggestions offerred by psychologists. Is letting go one’s anger the best thing to do? Reservation Road takes us through a journey of [...]

My life will suck without you

Discusion on Kelly Clarkson – “My Life Would Suck Without You” Guess this means you’re sorry You’re standing at my door Guess this means you take back What you said before Like how much you wanted Anyone but me Said you’d never come back But here you are again Cuz we belong together now Forever [...]

The Second Chance

You don’t throw away a whole life just ’cause it’s banged up a little – Tom Smith in Sea Biscuit (2003) SEABISCUIT narrates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters’ fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. ( IMDb review [...]

There’s more to life! Keep Watching

You have spent more time on the tree than on solid ground There’s more to you than this obsession – Tom Fairchild in Sabrina (1995) ——————————————————— Sabrina (1995) is the story of Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of the Larrabee family chauffeur.The Larrabees are a wealthy and own a family business. While she was growing up, [...]

Don’t quit…

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining [...]

Nowhere to Run…

Commentary on Leona Lewis’ song Run by Samuel Thambusamy Video Lyrics I’ll sing it / One last time for you / Then we really have to go/ You’ve been the only thing/ That’s right/ In all I’ve done / And I can barely look at you/ But every single time I do/ I know we’ll [...]

What can I do with my life?

- Reflections from Sabrina (1995) When your mother and I first came here…She cooked, I drove and we had no expenses. After a couple of years we had $`15000. I was driving Mr. Larrabee senior at that time. And he never closed the window between us. He transacted a lot of business on the daily [...]