I started reading Ulysses in July 2011, and after various sincere attempts to get into a routine of fitting this book around my daily life, I lost my enthusiasm halfway in. However, I have carried it...
2011, more than any other year, was a year of contradictions for me. This was the year I turned a quarter of a century, and when I was younger I assumed all 25-year-olds know everything and have thei...
The most life-changing events in our lives are not really down to us. I read a quote the other day from David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest, which beautifully elaborates on the seemingly...
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Facebook is so much more than a tool for communicating with friends. It’s inevitably also used to project an image of ourselves to best friends, childhood acquaintances, exes and of course the ...
One of the best (and worst) things about London is that there’s so much out there just waiting to be discovered. However many places you visit in the evenings and at the weekends, it just isn&#...
I wish I’d discovered The Fabulous Stains as a teenager. The film itself is pretty entertaining considering the fact that it’s low-budget, features inexperienced actors and took over a ye...
Since when has been trashing your own community and throwing missiles at your community’s police force been an acceptable expression of dissatisfication with the lack of opportunities in societ...
Amy Winehouse singing live at Cardiff Student Union I clearly remember the first time I listened to Amy Winehouse’s album Frank. More than any other album in my life, the songs and the clarity ...
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov My rating: 5 of 5 stars Vladimir Nabokov fascinates me. He had synesthesia, and literary synesthesia is defined as “a writer’s use of a metaphor of the senses”. It gave him...
There’s so many apps/websites utilising Google Maps in inventive ways. One example is Red Bull Street Art View, which describes itself as a “collaborative collection of Google’s Str...
For much of the year I view London as a chaotic, jumbling hive of activity; cold, impersonal and anonymous. But there are times when the the rain ceases, the clouds evaporate and it reveals itself to...
Dan Buettnor’s TED talk How To Live To Be 100+ explains some of the common dominators in the world’s ‘Blue Zones’, areas where people are living to age 100 at rates up to 10 t...
At a house party last night a few of us got chatting about how much has changed since our parents’ generation in terms of opportunities. It’s now almost a given that after A-levels you wo...
Photo via This Is Bossi @ Flickr When I woke up this morning and read dozens of headlines announcing Osama bin Laden’s killing and President Obama’s assertion that “justice had been...
What can I say that could possibly sum up my time in Berlin? I fell in love with the city, got bitten by the travel bug and am now more determined than ever to visit all of the major European cities....
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