S o, 5 teams from my original picks for the quarter-finals made it through. I must say Fayyad was right when he said experience matters. I...

W e were in a sports bar near work, during lunch hour, catching the Italy-Australia game. It was packed with supporters, mostly Italian, wit...

W e all tend to have a bit of laugh at ourselves time to time, but recently Mumbai was accused of being the rudest city on earth. While it...

G oing back over the predictions I made at the start of the tournament, I managed to correctly pick out 13 of the 16 teams for the Round-of...

I was with some friends at the mall when one bought an England flag to attach to his car. "That's such a bad investment." Ano...

"Y ou should go to Bangladesh and marry someone there," advised a rather pompous uncle. "Girls here are too modern." An ...

I just finished watching the Bengali movie Shyamol Chhaya (2004), directed by Humayun Ahmed. To be frank, it was my dad who made me watch ...

I am talking with a friend about worthless movies. She asked me about the worst movie I saw this year. "Mistress of Spices," I re...

A t the risk of ending up with egg on my face, here's my World Cup predictions. First Round Group A - Germany, Costa Rica. Group B - Eng...

I had the chance to interview Hon. Stephane Dion, former Minister of Environment and currently a candidate running for the position of lead...

Y ou know the drill. You come home from one day, planning on just how your Saturday is going to go (out with friends for a 'good' ti...

I love summer. Give me +40 over -40 anyday. Last time when I went back to the Middle East, it was winter there - which was 25C. I was switc...

T ourism Toronto named their promotion campaign Toronto Un limited. Certainly not the situation in Toronto at the moment. It took me an insa...

F or most of us, the Plan is clearly designed. When the time comes, our parents will try and arrange our marriages. Our focus, they ensure u...

I t was a strange sequence of events that found me at 10.30 pm on this Friday night inside a mosque rather than inside a cinema theatre watc...

W atched the Da Vinci Code on Saturday evening. Even though I enjoyed the movie, I wish I didn't watch it then as I was really tired (w...

The smiles we wear ... I was in the bank today during lunch, waiting to deposit a cheque. In front of me were a couple. They looked lovingl...

T hey were showing the myths discussed in the Da Vinci Code on the History Channel and mentioned a document tracing the genealogy of Christ ...

T he new Canadian quarter. I got this amongst my change today. I wonder what would happen in a cricket match at the toss were you to use to ...

I f you like action movies go watch Mission Impossible 3 . Ditto if you are a guy. If you are a girl, Tom Cruise is in the movie. He's a...