Of Clouds, Coffee and Chaos 3:00 AM ā The Alarm that Dreams are Made Of The hornbill alarm yanks you out of a beautiful dream where you were lounging on a sunny beach in Zanzibar, only to be replaced by the cold, harsh reality of your pre-dawn wake-up call. You squint at your phone like…
Why I Donāt Give a Flying Fudge: An Offense-Proof Guide to Modern Life
Is it just me, or has it become easier to find gold in your backyard than a person who doesnāt take offense at something? Seriously. Weāve all been there, walking on eggshells, avoiding certain words, blinking twice before posting a joke online, just in case the Internet Jury is watching. Itās as if weāre all…
Coffee, Calm, and Cardiac Arrest: A Flight Attendantās Guide to Keeping It Together at 40,000 Feet
You think your job is stressful? Try serving Diet Coke with a five star smile while someone seated at 40B goes into cardiac arrest, and you still have five more rows to go before the chicken teriyaki -or-pasta rigatoni showdown. Welcome to the high-stakes, high-altitude world of flight attendants, where the uniform says āpersonalised hospitality,ā…
Behind the Aviators: What Pilots Really Carry into the Cockpit
The next time youāre sitting in a window seat, sipping your orange juice and silently judging the person in front of you for reclining their seat too quite soon, take a break for a moment and consider the human at the front of the plane, the one with more than 130 tons of aircraft, and…
From Cockpit to Cabin: Whoās Taking Care of the Crew?
āGreetings sir/madam, welcome onboard!ā āGood morning ladies and gentlemen. This is your captain speaking!ā Passengers get hot towels, drinks, blankets, and a kind voice reassuring them that turbulence is āa perfectly normal experience.ā However, what about those serving the drinks or flying the aircraft? Whoās making sure theyāre really okay be it mentally, emotionally, and…
Keep Calm and Pretend Youāre on a Bus
Why Fear of Flying is More About the Mind Than the Frequent Flyer Club Letās be honest about one thing, flying in a commercial airplane is one of the most incredible things we do without giving it much credit. Youāre 40,000 feet in the sky, traveling faster than your Wi-Fi can keep up, seated in…
The Sky-High Mind Games: The Psychology of Being Cabin Crew
Flying is hard. Now imagine flying while handing out sandwiches, soothing crying babies, enforcing seatbelt laws like a law enforcer, and still smiling as if you mean it. Welcome to the mental Olympics of the cabin crew life. Letās get one thing straight: being a cabin crew isnāt just only about looking glamorous in a…
Up in the Air: The Curious Mind of Aviation Psychology
Letās take a moment to appreciate the unsung hero of the skies, not the overcaffeinated captain or the passenger in 16G who packed a turkey sandwich, but aviation psychology. Yes my dear, thereās an entire field of science dedicated to understanding why cabin crew and pilots do what they do, how air traffic controllers keep…
2021 Is the year of slumber
Hello London. Who says you need to pack a suitcase these days? Pack a backpack instead. Youāre gonna get quarantined anyway so pack you pajamas, keep them colourful coz youāll need yourself some cheer in your quarantine period; read a comical book and nap as you please.I got two single beds to switch as I…
When Life Hands You a Messy Sandwich, Take a Bite Anyway
Have you ever felt personally victimised by reality? As if you saw this gloriously photogenic sandwich on a yummy-food app, the kind dripping with cheese, glistening buns, lettuce placed just-so, and then what arrives at your door looks like someone sat on it, soggy, cried into it, and then wrapped in shame? Thatās betrayal. And…
Freedom At Last
I couldnāt wait to get out anymore, Iāve been dreaming of outside for days now. Itās true what they say; too much of something is dangerous and staying this long inside does drive me insane but not in the way one would think. Iām afraid of getting too comfortable being comfortable indoors. I feel like…
Gloomy day
I actually did take this picture today after shooting todayās quarantine series; Iām doing that on YouTube by the way…consider it a journey. Though, I canāt say I woke up inspired to have another video up, sharing my thoughts and all. I didnāt even post here yesterday. It wasnāt laziness at all, more like I…
APPREHENSIVE MUCH
Today is day nine of my quarantine and I only have one day left. Will I be doing another Vid test? I was assigned ten days and I’m not sure if I fancy my nose being jabbed again with a long cotton bud that looks like ‘Slender Man’ the movie. Honestly I’m feeling apprehensive about…
Whatās The Deal Digital Addiction?
Last year when we all got forced into home isolation, a part of me was relieved for a while. I never get to spend time in the house. Jeez! I even forgot how my cups looked like. My workload was tremendously reduced and I used that time to catch up to hobbies I had forgotten…
Keep Quiet
Betrayal has a bitter taste and a cracking sound to the heart. Have you watched this nerve wracking movie called ‘A Quiet Place?’ Well I do not want to give you any spoilers but it’s worth your time; and if youāre chicken like me watch it with someone. There is a part two of it…
YouTube Is Hard
Last year we all had plenty of time to catch up on things we left hanging like chasing that Youtuber dream because we were busy with other things; like work. I love making videos, always have and always will; but did you know despite loving that, it’s still a challenge to love some parts of…
My First Covid19 Test
You read that right, yes. I was lucky enough to escape the vid the entire 2020 and yes, I was healthy then as Iām still now. I know itās old news by now, I mean letās face it, people have practically forgotten that the virus is still out there adding numbers, thatās how I forgot…
SOUTH AFRICA BANS ALCOHOL
I know right? If you are a casual drinker like me then you’ll probably feel a pinch of pain. That’s what I felt on my recent trip to Johannesburg; and believe me I looked everywhere with no success, from restaurants walk in, hotels, uber eats, online shops, you name it. They called back to politely…
WORRIES SUCK
I have moments where I feel like Iām an introvert and I just want to be alone and do my own things, watch a movie under a blanket on Netflix, lazy around all day, eat in sleep, eat in again and do absolutely nothing and by the end of the day it would feel amazing….
WELCOME 2021
The start of 2018 Iād thought to let the year flow by and not make a single resolution. Indeed it was tempting to carry foreword a couple of unfinished goals that I left back in 2017 but I told myself I needed to trust the flow and go by faith trusting God will guide me…
A rose š¹ a day... 
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