Thoughts of a minibus traveller

You know you are a good person really and you want to be helpful to people and kind to people and do at least 7 hours of voluntary work in helping people a week. You see all the nice things about 100 things to say to a depressed person and 500 things not to say to a depressed person and you know that there are people who are depressed or mad around. You are annoyed because you do not want be guilted out into doing something about people around you who are mad depressed. 1. Manage  your social media account - Facebook is good Unfollow those Facebook friends who are posting those links about what to say and what not to say and how to listen to depressed, mad people. You can unfriend them if you like, that way you would not feel too guilted and be reminded that you should be trying something. Be careful that you do not become Facebook friends with actual mad people because you could then become inundated with really crazy posts when you are not awake ot moderate your page...

A young man who is studying for an Economics degree messaged me on Facebook to ask about consultancy and work in general. I had quickly responded about getting a job and experience and so, but then was thinking more about the work advice I could give . Yeah.. I am at that age where giving advice is the excuse for thinking what I could have done differently if I knew then what I know now and so on.. Dear Youth man... 1.  Don't take my advice I might not be the best example of a successful consultant - in fact I don't like to use the word too much because it has different kinds of implications in terms of the money and so. I like some of the consultancy work which I have been given because there is an opportunity to stretch your boundaries. The difficulty though is when your recommendations are not followed through. Two times this year, I have had to find responses for people who asked me .. "So whatever happened to... ?" and I feel foolish saying ...

Presentation delivered at Research Seminar organised by the Centre for Communication Studies at the University of Guyana , 28 May, 2011

[I do not like giving speeches nor do I like listening to them usually, I prefer to have conversations with people. Nevertheless, I could not say no. This is perhaps the most difficult thing I have done in my life. In the evaluation, two current students and one old student said that it was 'okay'. this is not a verbatim of the speech, somethings changed 19 Feb, 2009} .. Chairperson, Distinguished guests, staff members, students, parents, friends all [In the Hindu tradition, I would like to acknowledge my teachers. To Mademoiselle Pearson, I say Je Suis tres hereux de vous voir". And I also acknowledge Mrs Crawford, who now we communicate on the maintenance of the only website on the history of chinese immigration in Guyana] I am deeply honoured by the schools' invitation to participate in one of the most significant events in the school's annual calender.. When I told my mother , also an old student of the school,   that I had been asked to give this address,...