I sat in a court room today, for a brief moment, and listened to lawyers debate about whether my father was legitimately my father. My birth certificate was produced and another one whereby my father legally recognized me, 19 years after my birth and one year before his death. Respecting the rules of the court, …
Wealth Discrimination – our ultimate destruction
The situation with the Bangladeshi workers in Seychelles this week reaffirmed a thought which has been on my mind for a while. Just in case you’re not in Seychelles, allegations of foreign workers not getting paid and living in poor conditions have made headlines – and it’s not the first time. Someone from a human …
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The Church. A different kind of government with its own breed of dirty politicians.
The incident which has prompted me to visit my very dusty blog due to hardly having any spare time to write these days happened just over an hour ago. I have experienced enough of life to know that I must never act when I am in rage. However, if I wait and I calm down …
Baby No 2 – Where are you? The long wait for Theo Watson
I have always felt uncomfortable to speak up about my pain of trying to conceive. It never seemed right given the fact that my story took place after I’d already had a child. How could I possibly know the torment women who desperately try to have one baby go through? It would be selfish …
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The Power of Power
I have a story from my days as a second secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) which to this day (9 years later) I have been unable to forget or shake off. With my most recent post #metoo, touching on the subject of power, this story to me illustrates very well, the choices …
#metoo Speaking up about sexual predators
Sexual harassment has never had as much attention as it has gotten in the past few weeks in the midst of the Hollywood Weinstein scandals. When you have names like Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow speaking up about their own experiences, the world goes in shock and then it listens. How on earth could powerful, …
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Know your place. Stay there. It shall all be well.
Since starting this blog I attempted two articles on the issue of race. In the first one, I went off the rails with my ramblings and figured that no one was going to understand what I was on about and in my attempt to keep it ‘light’ in the second one, it got way too …
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The Curse of the Working Mother
A shocking comment was made in a conversation I had a while back while discussing the ills our society faces. ‘Working mothers are the problem,’ my acquaintance said in a tone that suggested it was a fact. I know what you are wondering. Did my slap across his face leave a mark? Well, here’s the …
International School Graduation Speech – Class of 2013
Four years ago, I was asked by the-then headmaster of the International School of Seychelles to deliver the graduation speech for the class of 2013 in my capacity as a former student as well as the-then editor of POTPOURRI magazine. Sharing it on my blog today. Good evening everybody. It is at once an …
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‘Kids these days’. A cop-out comment.
After an STC Hypermarket run this afternoon, I found myself in my kitchen preparing a fruit bowl for my kids. Just to taste the freshness of the grapes, I bit into one and to my horror, I bit into a seed. Since when do the red ones have seeds? I almost cried as I realised …
