Month: September 2011

Go for goal!

Now with a new month emerging, who’s setting new goals?  Although I never have in the past, I am doing so this October: Build up my running mileage to 10 miles (16 kilometres) After a while of feeling like my workouts aren’t maximising my potential, I am ready to crank it up a notch.  Only …

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Pestocado

There are some foods which instantly transcend me back to my childhood such as pesto.  Not just pesto in any form though: spaghetti smothered in cream-based pesto.  When I was growing up in Nigeria, one of my favorite restaurants was Il Sorisso.  I actually wonder whether it is even still open.  Anyways my standing order …

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Kitchen toys

To put it nicely, my kitchen in Mumbai is cluttered.  Obviously the wise solution would be to get rid of those appliances and crockery which rarely see light of day.  However much to my “flatmates’” dismay, i.e. my mom & grandmother, I’ve taken it upon myself to contribute to this evergrowing collection.  Sometimes it’s with …

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iJack

It’s a fact: laptops and I do not get along…I’m on laptop number 3 because let’s just say 1 & 2 both suffered bad deaths.  The murderer? God-awful viruses, probably brought on by illegal downloading To avoid third time UNlucky, I refuse to go down that route ever again!  Even though Apple computers bring their …

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Perfection is overrated

“Congratulations!  You’re not perfect!  It’s ridiculous to want to be perfect anyway.  But then, everybody’s ridiculous sometimes, except perfect people.  You know what perfect is?  Perfect is not eating or drinking or talking or moving a muscle or making even the teensiest mistake.  Perfect is never doing anything wrong – which means never doing anything …

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