Ramon Sampedro chooses Death over Life
movie The Sea Inside about the life of quadriplegic, Ramon Sampedro, who decided to end his life because of his physical disability. In the movie, he is brilliantly portrayed by Javier Bardem, one of my favourite actors. The director Alejandro Amenábar is a favourite of South African movie critic Barry Ronge, and when you see […]
From Q&A to the Slumdog Millionaire
Arthur Goldstuck told me about the book Q&A by Vikas Swarup. What amused him was that the character’s name is Ramon Mohammed Thomas, similar to mine. And that I was on the South Africa version of the Weakest Link around the same time that the book was published. This book is on my to-read list. […]
Lesbian Love in The World Unseen
I’m re-posting this directly from the Times Multimedia because I have been struggling to write anything original longer than 140 characters. Another reason for this is that my friend Natalie Becker has a small role in this film, and she informed me about it beforehand, and because I love watching movie trailers, this grabbed my […]
From Attraction to Romance and back again
David DeAngelo, an American dating coach, has a famous saying online, Attraction isn’t a choice. Those words, in fact, became the title of the 2nd ebook he published after the hugely successful Double Your Dating. Both of these books were the starting point for what has turned into my life purpose: improving my own dating […]
School for Scoundrels looses the plot
I recently watched this comedy, School for Scoundrels, and was only mildly entertained by it. The more important lesson is that a shy, nerdy, insecure guy can become confident, social and improve your success with women. So many of the guys who ask me about my coaching programme are infatuated with ONE girl. They miss […]