Entries Tagged as 'The World'
I never took birthdays too seriously until I turned 30. 30 was the milestone that made me take the case for celebration seriously. Like that pathetic of all heiresses I celebrated it in three cities. Not so much Paris, London and New York, but close enough. Perth, Melbourne and the more
Up-chuck, chunks, chorkle, chunder, call it what you will but the act (and in some cases art form) of vomiting is a very primitive instinct that we have all experienced at one stage or another. The definition of “vomit” is literally: the forceful expulsion of the contents of one’s stomach through the mouth. Also known more
Two iron fists hold tightly my lungs, wringing them out like a waterlogged t-shirt. They are heavy on my heart making it hard to breath. I haven’t coughed this bad before. After 11 days of hacking cough I have only just decided it’s the “worst cough ever”. The previous record being held by that time in Goa, more
Stick my head under a dripping tap for a few minutes and I might go crazy. Cover my head with a black sack and let me loose to a pack of raging pit bulls and it may pack a punch. I will be scared shitless but for once that zipper mouth aided by a certain stubbornness will remain tightly jammed shut. Expose me more
There’s a quiet revolution in the wings and it’s one that has been bubbling for a while among the less highly evolved in the animal kingdom. Once worshipped as Gods and deities Man has put the rest of the animal kingdom in second place since the birth of Christianity. But animal lovers are beginning to notice a rising angst more
The definition of science is… “Systematic and formulated knowledge”. And a scientist is a “student or expert in science”. But the interesting thing about the word “scientist” is it always seems to create connotations of white lab coats, test tubes, and crazy hair. The public image of Einstein himself. more