It started with a bad romance. You tell me Lady Gaga is your favourite artiste. It wasn’t the songs or whatever meanings they held, you say. No, it was more the drama and the theatricality of her videos that caught your attention. Is this a little shallow of you, you ask. Maybe it is, you …
I celebrate the hours and the days and the weeks and the months and the years that I am alive. I celebrate all the minutes and seconds in between that I fill with laughter and good work and with simple moments of joy. I celebrate the rain that falls and nourishes the earth so that …
“On such a full sea are we now afloat / And we must take the current when it serves / Or lose our ventures.” William Shakespeare. Julius Caesar. Words given to Brutus to speak. A warning. A warning for us. Opportunities come and opportunities go yet truly we are surrounded by fortune if only we …
She’s never satisfied, they tell me. The weather’s too hot and she has sweat-stains under her arms with no jacket to cover them before she enters an important meeting with clients. The weather’s too cold and she’s gonna catch the death of a cold and die before she finds a man. Good men are hard …
We are all our own heroes in our brave little hearts. When we are alone, that is. Usually in our quiet minds, we tell ourselves this. We are good and we are beautiful. We are fun and we are truthful. We are heroes. But the mind does not stay quiet forever. More often than not, …
There is so much noise. It’s not merely the demands of a workday – meetings to attend, proposals to draft, reports to write, talks to give – nor is it simply the many, many temptations and trappings of social media – another Facebook friend’s latest status update, another photograph captured, cropped and sent out to …
I am learning more and more, day after day, that work is sacred. Work can protect us when stuff goes wrong, teach us to face calamities with calm and always with a battle plan, even if the strategies change at every move of your pieces across an unknown chessboard. Work can be a welcome distraction, …
Kenny Mah believes in the good in people. He has been blogging for over ten years. No, his hands aren't tired. Yet.
