Closing a book

01 July 2015 0 comments

She is three times her size when we meet. Grown fat and slow with the passage of time. I enter slowly, unsure about this place I called home for nine years, unsure about how she will react to seeing me....

Same same but different

01 May 2015 0 comments

Last night a police van stood at the entrance to my building. The building manager was running around the foyer, in his pyjamas, lobbying some questions. While passing I asked the security guard what was going on, he replied that...

Category: Musings | Tags: Courage, Men, Shame, Violence, Women

Pain

02 April 2015 0 comments

If you get close enough to the shallow ledge of a deep well and look below there is nothing but dark. Nothing but nothing. It is so deep that you do not know if there's water or it's dry. You...

Category: Musings | Tags: Courage, Identity, Loss, Love

Paws for thought

01 April 2015 0 comments

He’s busy licking his balls. He then proceeds to use the same tongue on the rest of his body before ceremoniously biting small invisible ticks with the aplomb of a magician making things disappear. His forelegs flail under him, he...

Category: Musings | Tags: Cat, Dubai

Under 120 so still alive

01 March 2015 0 comments

It’s a damn Lexus. It’s often a Lexus, unless it’s a Mercedes, an Audi or a puke yellow Porsche. Behind the wheels of these cars sit assholes. These assholes think they know how to drive, because someone at the Road...

Category: Musings | Tags: Driving, Dubai

For God’s sake

21 February 2015 0 comments

God is contentious. Believers, atheists, agnostics and all the in betweeners– every person somehow is in a relationship with God. Every type of idea towards God, is in fact a relationship with God. So why am I going all capital...

Category: Musings | Tags: Freedom, God, Identity, Religion

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