COMMENT Each year, we see new and wonderful events occur, like silver coats with golden linings, in a glitzy cavalcade that decorate our vibrant national social-political landscape.

And just like the glittery coats that leave the shine of bright colours in the psyche of those lucky enough to behold them, these events would leave impressions that reinforce and shape our outlook, and give rise to popular euphemisms about life itself, to those unlucky enough to experience them.