Things I Learnt In 2007 (That Are Still True)

Things that are just never ‘right’

• Office chairs
• Filing systems
• Tea made in most canteens, restaurants, dispensers
• Bras

Things that shouldn’t but do enough work well enough

• Men (the desi type not the ultra-smooth yurrrgh type) who sell women’s lingerie but don’t know how to pronounce the names
• Hard mattresses or the bare ground when your back is killing you
• An 80s hit disco number in the late afternoon and the ‘slow sappy’ playlist at 11:00 a.m.
• Walking around for 4 minutes (no more, no less) in weather you’d normally consider unpleasant – hot & sweaty, drizzly-muggy or pouring rain.
• Drinking hot water when you’ve bitten into a chilli and your tongue is on fire.

Things that are sure-fire bad ideas because…trust me, I’ve tried them!

• Laughing too much before singing. It clogs your throat.
• Listening to too much Jagjit Singh/ Micheal Bolton
• Reading books by the same author back to back.
• Too much time with a new boyfriend: Please note that this is defined as any of the following: Meeting/ phonetime for more than two hours, email/blog comments/SMS/chat messages that cumulatively take up more than an hour, thinking about/discussing with friends/blogging about more than once a day.
• Publishing a post and then attempting to delete it (people who subscribe to your feed still see it!!!)