Category: diva di’vine

  • World Hijab Day – 2020

    World Hijab Day – 2020

    February 1st. The world Hijab day.   Every year I find something new to add to my previous ones. Like I have often mentioned before, too many people behave like the hijab has bizarre powers, maybe something is sewn into its microfibers, it kind of transforms the Muslim girls into Unidentified Covered Objects, and creating…

  • Toast to the world’s first programmer.

    Toast to the world’s first programmer.

    My workspace seemed to filled with IT personal and people speaking of AI for while I assumed AI was Air-India then I learnt it was artificial intelligence. I am told by these kids who create computer programs that computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no…

  • In Memory of Emma Nutt.

    In Memory of Emma Nutt.

    I am looking at the eating area of 91 springboards. Where everyone is a mobile phone glued to their ear. I still have an issue with it and I think telephones are a instrusion, they ring just when you think you are safe. On second thoughts imagine if we were still in the messenger boy…

  • Bouncing back

    Bouncing back

    BACK FROM A BREAK My cousin calls me Lady Bounce back.  My professional life spanning from 1988 to 2019 I have had 4 breaks. And bouncing back each time meant different things. 1988 was when I qualified. Those days I did what most of my peers did, joined the nearest dental college as staff. Then…

  • Refusing the Laurel’s Wreath On Mother’s Day.

    Refusing the Laurel’s Wreath On Mother’s Day.

    Mother’s day With all that hype about Mother’s Day… I would really loved someone sharing the play “Thai Retire… whatever” but the Magna Mater rules the world. A very spiritually inclined acquaintance shared a sermon by some Bramhachari Lynne … I do not know who this Bramhachari Lynne is and I frankly could not care…

  • Ten Commandments on No Housework Day

    Ten Commandments on No Housework Day

    April 7th is celebrated in the land of Uncle Sam as No House Work Day. How wonderful. Today being Sunday which is most people’s catch up with the week’s stuff day, it is rather ironic. the definition of housework is work done in housekeeping especially cleaning and tidying. It would be an interesting carrot to…