Andrew Parsis Conquers

Bus Queue Hello!

The other day, a very, very bizarre thing happened at my local bus-stop. Something that nobody, at eight am was ready for. It all started when a stranger arrived.

See, the thing you have to remember is that our bus stop is like any other. In other words, at 8am in the morning, the last thing anyone does is smile. Much as we spend at least half an hour with each other every day, in good old traditional English style, More

Children’s Books: A Great Source Of Amusement & Education

This post was triggered by the ravings of a man on the underground to London Victoria the other day. I had made the mistake of sitting next to this man who had an annoying face, and it turned out that his personality was every bit as annoying as he had at first appeared. Immediately, upon my sitting down, he started ranting about how only “true literature” can teach “one” how to journey through life. I thought, “clearly you’ve never read More

Make The Journey Easier

As you will know by now, the journey through life is riddled with difficulty. The worst thing is that the complex stuff is usually the easiest, while the REALLY simple-looking things are a total pain and catch you off-guard every time you turn a corner! I’m sick of it myself, and try to live by a few key rules so as to minimize the emotional impact. They are as follows. Feel free to borrow my ideas and use them to More

Oh, Alex

“Oh Alexander Millar ,” our teacher used to say, Mrs Hobbs I think she was called. I remember because it rhymed with KNOBS, as in door knobs. She had a face like a gnarled old knackered door knob, come to think of it. “You’ve got it right yet again!”

I hated Alexandar Millar. He always got everything right. While I struggled with the simplicities of basic Maths, Alex was doing work that the year above us shied away from.

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Facebook Versus Email

I’m sure you’ve been in this situation: you’ve sent an email to someone. A friend, a work colleague, a daughter, it doesn’t matter who. Then you sit back and wait. And wait. And when that email does finally arrive it’s as if the receiver didn’t even read your beautiful words! I don’t have any statistics to back what I’m about to say up, but I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if this has led to divorce in some More

Are You Shy: Here’s How To Network For A New Career

Recently a met a chap who was relating to me how he was job hunting and because of his shyness he has not been able to secure a job. So I got out my Pantone espresso cups and poured us some brew and tried to help him out. Here is what I told him and hopefully it can help you.

Being shy has its disadvantages. You seem to have no confidence in yourself and More

Backwards Or Forwards?

The journey through life can fall into a few distinct categories: either you can find yourself on a high-speed shuttle train that is perfect in every way, or you can find yourself on a National Express couch where the toilet doesn’t work and getting from one side of the country to the other takes far longer than crossing the Atlantic. You get no choice as to what train you get on, just as you can’t choose who your mother or More

Love To Hate The Banks

There was a time when, if you happened to meet your local branch bank manager in the street, you wouldn’t want to immediately smash his face in then throw him in front of the path of a marauding bus. This was a long time ago, of course, before Fosters tv appeared – those great little adverts they do always brighten up my day – and back when trains were late as hell, but also twice as cheap as today. I More

Warning: Don’t Do What I Did!

As you know, this blog is all about the journey through life, in all its shapes and forms. It can be about the time I heard two business-men in their late fifties discussing Laser hair removal – and how it can get you “hot younger chicks!” – or it can be about what happens when you overhear a man in a pub talking about how he once wrestled an alligator (only for you to laugh and the man to not More

Like That Film, The Stormy One

Recently I was what I like to call “Internet bored”. By that I mean I was in a kind of web-induced trance, shuffling my way about cyber-space, going nowhere, not really taking anything in. I even got so bored at one point that I Googled “ Liposuction surgery “ followed by “ why are tigers so mean to all the other animals, I mean unnecessarily MEAN?” Google didn’t come back with much. I think it was falling asleep and had More