Category: Us people
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World Goth Day
Asterix and Obelix go on a quest to find the kidnapped Druid Getafix, they go to Goth that was the first time I came across this term, there were Visigoths and Astrogoths. I looked up the dictionary to see what “goth ”meant well my friend philosopher guide, the Merriam-Webster tells me that… Goths are members…
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Paying Cinderella
Its Pay Time — Cinderella All my commitments and targets are not really met, simply because a large chunk of my time goes in playing spider solitaire and I play solitaire whenever I have to get back into a working frame of mind. Housework I realized did eat into a chunk of my time. of…
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Athiti Dev(il)obhava
Athithi devo bhava… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Bq_eBlYM Really? What about the responsibility of tourists, nobody talks about that, not even the effervescent travel bloggers. Yesterday we went Basilica Bon Jesus at Old Goa, the place was swarming with tourists. The guidelines to tourists are placed all over the Basilica, “Do not photograph people” being the most prominent one.…
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International Nurses Day
May12th is the birthday of Florence Nightingale who gave dignity to the nursing profession. This is commemorated as the international nurse’s day to mark the contributions nurses make to the society. In 1953 Dorothy Sutherland an official in the department of health, education and welfare proposed this, and the then president Dwight Eisenhower did not…
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Who Empowers?
Merriam-Webster says to empower is to give official authority or legal power to act on ones behalf. It could also mean to enable It could also be to promote the self-actualization or to influence. Do we need someone to really empower us? Doesn’t the constitution already empower every citizen of the country immaterial of the…
