It’s a date: How to find love online
Here’s a reprint of an article that quotes my research into online dating industry in South Africa… Clean-shaven, straight teeth and a friendly smile … in a word, handsome. After a week of vigorous SMSing and long phone conversations, “handsome” and I decide to meet. Eager to see each other in real life, we meet […]
Tiger and the Snow
I just found an article about a new film, Tiger and the Snow by Roberto Benigni who won an Oscar for Life is Beautiful. I rented the DVD of Life is Beautiful after listening to Tony Robbins’s Get The Edge. I remember I didn’t want to watch this movie when it came out in theatres […]
The Art and Strategy of Being a Superflirt by Tracey Cox
Watching two people flirt is kind of like watching a car wreck. There’s all the discomfort, the unmistakable fear and the inability, for the life of you, to look away. But that’s until you learn the tricks of the trade, according to dating (and sex) expert Tracey Cox. Review by Faraaz Mahomed… ‘Superflirt’ is one […]
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I used my eBucks to buy Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind DVD which is my favourite Jim Carrey movie next to Truman Show. I loved it when it was in cinema’s last year and I’ve been dying to complete my collection of Jim’s movies. This is an amazingly funny movie and Kate Winslet […]
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
Why do we have sex? One of the main biological reasons, contends Ridley, is to combat disease. By constantly combining and recombining genes every generation, people “keep their genes one step ahead of their parasites,” thereby strengthening resistance to bacteria and viruses that cause deadly diseases or epidemics. – Constance Rinaldo, Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, […]