Female over-achiever arrives at chambers and is told by her clerk that he has just received

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Female over-achiever arrives at chambers and is told by her clerk that he has just received a call from a solicitor who wants to instruct counsel for a complicated fraud trial at the Old Bailey. What do we do now, says one idealistic and naive over-achiever? Cash in on them, says another over-achiever So they go off in search of the best jobs. One of them ends up at the Bar and thinks, right, now the world is my oyster - we've all heard that barristers earn a sackful of money. Fast forward to 10 years later. One may ask where they all are when we look at who occupies the top positions in society. Let's wind the clock back to graduation with hordes of fresh-faced Asian graduates armed with their degrees. Some of them are even going to Oxford at the age of nine! So we are told that there are a disproportionate number of Asians running around with trunks full of degrees and professional qualifications.

Fans of the programme will recall various sketches depicting Asian "over-achievers". That ethos has recently been satirised by such television programmes as Goodness Gracious Me, co-written by Meera Syal, who was made an MBE in the New Year's Honours list. And the moral is - never take advice from a woman whose children can't blow their noses.. STUDIES in America have shown that Asian children often do better at school because they come from a culture which believes that you have to work hard to be successful. "What's the matter with her? Is she going to be sick?" panicked Sally.

"I think you'll find," I said in my best experienced-mother-of-four, smug-psychiatrist tones, "that Daisy is just voicing her displeasure at finding Toby the centre of attention". "Oh, do you think so?" breathed Sally in pathetically grateful mother- of-three tones, just as Daisy threw up the entire contents of her stomach into her mother's lap. A few words of sympathy from his mother and his two-year-old sister started screaming and crying. We were having lunch when her oldest son, who was ill, came downstairs looking pale and miserable. When trainers are involved I have learnt to vacate my body and hover above on another spiritual plane, leaving boy and cheque book to argue it out. This time the 11-year-old insisted on coming along with his own agenda. He wanted to make sure his older brother got ones that weren't "sad" and would therefore reflect badly on him, but on the other hand were not so cool that they were better than his Bless. A FRIEND OF MINE learnt a valuable lesson this week.