An NBA Wins Pool

Fantasy sports is time-consuming. You spend a bounty of time reviewing player statistics in the lead up to the ‘draft’, the…

Breathing in Love

Its Valentine’s Day. Amidst the grandeur and expectations of love, I don’t know what I’m supposed to say, do, feel or think. When asked by my colleague about my plans, I stumble through a cliche or two to dodge my accurate thoughts.

Season Two: Twelvefour

Midnight to 4am. The hours where creative expression is perceived to be most effective. The hours that I personally…

What We Do With Failure

I catch the basketball at the short corner, on the right side. There’s less than a minute on the clock. My team’s up…

Beauty in the Mundane

Beauty lies in the aspirations.

The dreams, the imaginations that manifest themselves into existence by the art of the action.

Through pursuit and determination, we aspire to be success personified. We portray, celebrate, exonerate this…

Reality of the Resolution

Society’s predominant choice of initiating change is arbitrary. Dare I say random.

The completion of an earth’s rotation around the Sun signals a display of fireworks and greetings of “Happy New Year!” to all who have chosen to notice this symbolic…

The Time Bank

It is a fair assumption that everyone understands money. Well, the spending part at least. We also understand banks to a degree (as the intermediary of our spending). This also includes the basic form of income and cost. Our varying degrees of financial literacy s integral to how we live (which is why…

The Year After (The Championship)

The sweetest moment of victory as a fan is the elation. And the moments before the elation — where victory becomes more than a possibility, but inevitable. Counting down from ten with a near-capacity crowd at Westpac Stadium, as the Hurricanes — my Hurricanes — were…

Wonder and Horror with an Oscar

Those precious seconds of Warren Beatty on stage, with card and unsealed maroon envelope in front of him, could’ve lasted an eternity.

He was the only one in the world who could spot an error. The stress and chaos running through his mind. If not…