As the 21st March snuck up on me again and I turned 29, I wanted to take time to reflect on what I have accomplished during the past decade and the lessons I have learnt and also, what I look forward to accomplish. Well, tbh, I do feel it to be a little bit odd to have a birthday in a pandemic. It, kind of, takes away the spirit of the traditional sense of celebrating one. And… I have been “blessed” to celebrate my birthday twice in confinement, THAT TOO , when both times, my birthday happened during the weekend. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH FUN I HAVE JUST MISSED? Seriously…Uggh! But that’s fine. I guess that the lockdown just gave me all the time I needed to do as much reflection as I wish to do. BUT I still cannot get over the fact that an entire 12 months have lapsed since my last birthday. I feel like the days tend to drag on when we’re in them but when I look back, it’s as if no time has passed at all. And it already feels like the countdown to my thirtieth has already started...

  Today's blog-post is dedicated to all the wonderful women out there... Every year, on the 8th of March, we commemorate women's achievements across all fields and we use this day as a reminder to the World to renew our commitment to gender equality.  While today is a day to celebrate the strong, powerful, wonderful women; a day to admire them as we come across their stories in a magazine, in the media or on our timeline on our social media; I would like to address this blog-post to the woman whom you cross-path with while on your way to work, to the woman whom you see rushing to be on time to work, to the woman who sits next to you in the public transport with her earphones plugged in and lost in her own thought, to the woman dropping her kids at school, to the woman striving so hard to get things done right for their family, their friends, their children or for themselves. YOU. As women, we have many amazing attributes- strong, gentle, empathetic, resilient, including selfle...