Analects - Emil Rem

Waiting for Godot

by Emil Rem | Mar 5, 2026 | Analects

Yay! The FIFA World Cup is coming! The FIFA World Cup is coming! Yet I still remember Qatar 2022 and one specific soccer game: the semi-final France v Morocco on Dec. 14. Morocco were the upstarts charging out of the African desert. France, the practiced Ancien...

A Success? Who me?

by Emil Rem | Feb 26, 2026 | Analects

In one way or another, we’re all snobbish. My snobbery revolves around intelligence. Of all my clients, the one I admire most in that category is Garry. Garry understands concepts in a flash. He has an unerring instinct in assessing people. All this has enticed him to...

Two Funerals in Calgary

by Emil Rem | Feb 17, 2026 | Analects

My father died on 1 April 2012. Being an Ismaili Muslim, the community took charge of the entire ceremony at no cost. Discovering that my wife was Filipina, they kindly gave her a “cheat sheet” to memorise all the responses in Arabic for the funeral. What...

SoBe

by Emil Rem | Feb 12, 2026 | Analects

As a veteran accountant, devoted to a lifetime of combatting errant tax returns, my sincere advice to you is NEVER spend Christmas in South Beach (SoBe to the initiated), Miami, Florida. It was all a ploy to steer The Monster, my younger son, away from the back...

Dulce et Decorum Est…

by Emil Rem | Feb 5, 2026 | Analects

In an era when war was romanticized, Wilfred Owen, an Englishman and First World War soldier, became the greatest of poets by denouncing that lie. Owen described the horror he witnessed: “If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace behind the wagon we flung him...

Iced

by Emil Rem | Feb 4, 2026 | Analects

Here in Canada, the Land of Oz, we are told that our law-enforcement squads will not pursue a vehicle if doing so could endanger the life of the driver or that of the wider community. Its number plate is recorded. The car is followed at a discreet distance until the...