Archive for August, 2009

Are you a slumdog millionaire?

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

There’s a scene in the movie Slumdog millionaire that I just can’t shake out of my head.

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In it the hero recalls how he and his brother are led to believe that they’re being trained to become professional singers but in reality they were being prepared for a life on the [...]

Are you picking your own berries?

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

I was in the supermarket about to buy fruit when my mind suddenly
sent me a picture of the bushes in my garden,
currently overflowing with juicy red berries.