So we are back from the weekend, everyone around me seems to be finding a little harder to cope with their lives, they are stressed out, tempers being easily tempered with. Why can’t we all just get along?!

Speaking of which, I am not one for celebrity gossip but some people take being a business too far. Celebrities are, essentially, who they are because of who they are but if you take celebrity and make a business out of it then wonder why everyone is in you business, maybe you don’t like who you are because everyone is in your business because of that. We all have pressures but being married for 72 days and then realising that you didn’t like it after all somehow seems to me like it was all a bit of a wind up. Then we come to find out that the wedding pictures were sold for $6.5million it becomes harder to understand the ingenuity of the whole marriage in the first place. People want to know how it is that people can do such kinds of things, 72 days!

Today I was discussing corporate governance with a group of future managers from around the world and it was striking to hear that in the 8 countries that are represented in the group bribes and bribing is considered part and parcel of the business environment in their country. Which led me to ask ” is corruption a common factors amongst all nations?” How do you feel about it? Having been in a society were corruption is not as commonly practiced for the last 11 years, I have come to realise that everything runs smoother when there is transperancy in the access, allocation and use of resources. The ties to my mother land confirms this opinion even more so, we watch people speaking of how Zimbabwe has the best resources per capita ratio in the world but that is only fantasy because the reality that the ratio of resources per capita on the ground is heavily skewed in favour of the rich minority. If only the resources were evenly allocated across the population, only then would the people of Zimbabwe benefit from this glorious statistic that politician use to lace their speeches with.

Corruption is the reasons why the villagers in Marange live in fear because their homes are built on the richest deposit of diamonds the world has discovered in recent times instead of being hopeful that their lives will improve because of those diamonds. Corruption is the reason why there is fuel shortage in Nigeria when the country produces oil for the rest of the world. How is it that only a handful of people hold nations at ransom, have we all bee bribed to accept this mediocre state of affairs or are we too busy paying the bribes for short term gains. Politics!

How about the football?, I told you we would beat chelsea! Now onto the next