Good Omens: Well Worth All The Fuss

I just read a brilliant sentence describing the selfie as being a diabolical invention, and absolutely agree! But that is beside the point. I wanted to find out what all all fuss was about surrounding Amazon Prime´s Good Omens. If the pious Christian groups are to be believed, the devil incarnate has taken over the blasphemous entertainment world, setting Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman loose on the innocent and hapless mankind. Nothing could be further from the truth, considering that the two authors of the book on which the series is based are the most brilliant minds of their respective…

Internet Linguistics

June 21, 2019June 24, 2019 Categories: community service · Culture Vulture · Existentialism · Linguistics · Social Condition · social media · social selling · Through Frog EyesLeave a comment

A plethora of words born or invented after the internet have unfortunately become an intrinsic part of our lives. They have made their way into our daily language and I dislike them intensely, beginning with the word welp. What the hell is welp? Who uses it and why? A lot of people on facebook and twitter, I discovered this morning. It may not be in the dictionaries yet, but it is on the Merriam-Webster radar of words to watch. Here’s what they had to say on the matter: “We regret to inform Twitter that welp is a word, even if it’s not…

Commuter Adventures: Rollator Rights & Fights

February 24, 2019February 24, 2019 Categories: a woman's strength · Berlin Through Frog Eyes · community service · commuter life · Culture Vulture · customer service · Existentialism · Social Condition · Through Frog EyesLeave a comment

I have no idea why, but the past weeks have provided me with very interesting insights into life and society while riding the bus around Berlin. I shared my recent experiences with the unpleasant and disturbed man beside me, as well as the day a passenger beside me collapsed. There is yet another incident that made me contemplate the future. Both my mother-in-law and my father used a rollator, and my mother swore she would use one the day she could no longer walk on her own two feet. Here in Germany, a country that takes walking and independent movement…

When Holidays Are Not Holidays

December 28, 2018December 28, 2018 Categories: Adventures in my own home · Animal Tales · catsitting · community service · Existentialism · Living with cats · Social ConditionLeave a comment

When I registered as a cat sitter this year, I didn’t realise it would be the demise of my holidays as I knew it. It takes a lot of work and the greatest of efforts to gain the trust of both my human and feline clients, and I appreciate them both tremendously. The humans are able to travel worry-free, knowing that their pets are in good hands, and will no freak out when they return from holidays. The felines are content with the fact that they continue to receive the daily service of food-water-clean toilet, with the additional perk playtime…

On The Sixth Day of Christmas… Simbang Gabi Went Online

December 17, 2018December 17, 2018 Categories: a woman's strength · Adventures in my own home · Battling depression · Christmas Season · community service · Culture Vulture · Existentialism · Nostalgia · Philippines · prayer and photography · Religion and Faith · Social Condition · social mediaLeave a comment

Social Media Missionaries… that has to be the strangest and most bizarre term I have heard thus far, and had I not heard it myself yesterday, I never would have believed it. But I am getting ahead of the story. Yesterday, not only marked the third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday), but also the beginning of a yearly and hallowed tradition in the Philippines of the dawn masses called Simbang Gabi. For the next nine days leading up to Christmas, Filipino Catholics flock to the churches at 4:00am, a sacrifice in every sense of the word. My daughter and I…

Taxi! (Berlin): Nurhan

December 3, 2018December 4, 2018 Categories: a woman's strength · Berlin Through Frog Eyes · community service · commuter life · Existentialism · Photography · Social Condition · Taxi Drivers of Berlin · Urban Exploration1 Comment

Of all the taxi drivers in Berlin that I have had the privilege of driving around town with, Nurhan was the first female taxi driver. Don’t get me wrong, there are several hundred female taxi drivers in Berlin, I just never had the opportunity to be sent one. Her friendliness and lovely sense of humour was to my immediate. liking and she had a way of carrying on a conversation that did not feel forced, strained, superficial or dull. On the contrary, it seemed as though we were long lost cousins trying to catch up on the latest family gossip….

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