I have always found the concept of selling uncomfortable but the truth is that we’re all selling, all the time. Whether we’re asking for a pay rise, ‘promoting’ ourselves on a dating site or simply getting dressed in the morning, we’re all sending very clear message about our worth. This is where things get tricky. [...]

Organising the funds to head off and travel with can prove hard enough, so if you find yourself struggling for cash as your tour the world; you are not alone. We have all been there and largely it is a case of ‘learn by doing’, so to speak. Tips can be especially useful as well, [...]

So I dated a really lovely guy for a while there. He was intelligent, worldly, classy and fun. He was passionate and chatty and we had heaps in common. It was going really well. That is, until he decided to get back together with his wife, thus contravening the dating rules for men in a fairly [...]

Being broke sucks. I recently moved and subsequently paid a massive chunk of change in bond and rent. Five days out from being paid, I have a zero balance. What’s interesting is that I am neither starving nor particularly worried. Why? Because I am surrounded by immense support. I have food in the pantry, I have [...]

I can’t think of anything more tiring than trying to be perfect. I was talking to one of my most inspiring friends the other night and she was saying that she worries about being too down-to-earth; too real. I know that feeling. When I worked in PR, I was one of the few people in [...]

I get to do some pretty fancy stuff these days but, as I realised recently, none of it means a good goddamn if you’re too tired, sick and overwhelmed to enjoy it. I had a couple of weeks that were jam-packed with activities; things I would normally love like overseas trips, glamorous parties, 5-star hotel [...]

Context is incredibly powerful in getting to know someone. That whole idea of a fish out of water applies here. To truly understand the fish, you need to know where it came from, how it evolved and why it’s the colour it is. Out of context, you don’t know whether the bright blue stripes mean [...]

I, for one, am totally confused about the way some people deal with the issue (and act) of sex. Sex is just sex, right? There’s a reason it’s near the top of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Humans are hard wired to desire, seek and consummate sexual acts. Lately I have come across some pretty weird (I think) reactions [...]

So I moved on the weekend. Another house but hopefully a home too. I struggle with the share house thing. I pay rent, I pay bills and I sleep and do laundry there. That’s pretty much where it ends. My work life is so busy that the thought of returning to a house where things are [...]

Malaysia really surprised me. I’ve always had a pretty foggy idea of what it would be like that involved orangutans and satay skewers but Malaysia – or at least Kuala Lumpur (KL) and Penang – are completely different to what I thought they would be. KL is completely modern. Unlike many Asian cities, it doesn’t [...]