The Days of Rant

The good thing about having female friends is they are always trusty for a solid girl-to-girl yabber-y session. Most times it is a ten minute quickie and on some fine occasions it could end up a four hour debating marathon that leaves us thirsty and starving in equal parts.

There is me .... living in my own special time-zone where things do eventually get done after a certain legal fashion.
There is N .... holding the balance to keep the lid on volatile discussions while dabbling in a med-engineering lab.
Next is D .... pushing the envelop on divisive themes and ever despairing of her uni students getting buzzed up on the intellectual highs of academic knowledge.
We also have M .... the most driven of the lot, questioning everything including the steadily increasing mound of accolades to her professional and research achievements.
S is one of the most careful of the group .... easily bilingual, she 'hyper-analyses' the threads of each discussion and delivers basic truths that are often quite profound.
T with eyes forever starry and bright is easily the youngest member of our group, she has alert brain cells and an unquenchable energy for nightlife.

During random drop-in sessions we play host to several other guest participants who add or detract, as the case may be, to our lively word-tussles. In this category would fall O, F, A-1, A-2, R-1, R-2 and many other fair lovelies that add spice and colour to our circle.

From my friends, individually and collectively, I have come to appreciate more about that state of being described as ... human.

We do not pull our punches, though we are careful of one another's sensibilities as we rip open and examine diverse taboo, mundane and not so extreme issues. Where I and my girls are at, these are some of the topics you would hear discussed.

Sunday, 12 February 2012

Of Eggs and Tadpoles - Part One

When should you let your little girl in on the intricacies of sexual development and its attendant complexities? The debate on the appropriate age for teaching sex education to young females rose up again this week, when we stopped for a bite at the city centre outlet of a renowned unhealthy-food restaurant chain, during an impulse window-shopping session.

While we all 'sort of' agreed that the task was most aptly suited to the little lassie's immediate family in the first instance, it still begged the question of 'when?'.
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