Last week we heard the news that Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife pledged a hefty sum of $3 billion to battle and to end all diseases by the end of this century. They joined the likes of Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda whose foundation has been involved across the world since the year 2000, providing…

Every now and again I de-clutter my house. One of the ways I do this is by listing things on an auction service on the Internet, where potential buyers place their bids and the highest one obviously wins. Online bidders cannot have a close look at the listed items, as they would have the opportunity to do at local auctions.…

A car with the red letter ‘L’ attached to its boot stopped in an awkward position, wedged between a parked car, a narrow drive and another parked car. Clearly the driver had not honed his or her driving skills – and that’s something you can expect. However, the driver couldn’t reverse – the only way to rectify the situation –…

In the light of Jesus’ demand in today’s gospel, I cannot be His disciple because I love my mum; you know, she’s the only mum I have! On the other hand, I could have qualified for that sort of discipleship when I was an angry teenager; I hated my father, and I believed I had good reasons for that. But…

‘Do you know who I am?’ asked a man angrily at an airport check-in desk. A resolute attendant manning the desk grabbed the microphone and asked over the PA system: ‘Can anyone help? This man doesn’t know who he is.’ This is an old joke, but I couldn’t find one any better than this; and it pops into my mind…