Secret to Happiness – To Each Their Own

Happiness is what the soul craves for. Happiness and the sense of fulfillment. And it is a rare human among us who actually feels happy every moment of every day.

Alas, I am not so spiritually advanced and still have a lot of goals to accomplish before I can be truly happy… if ever. But we all do have some things in our lives that delight us.

So today I have decided to talk about three things that always makes me shine like the sun:-

1. Reading Books

india calcutta bookstore (Photo credit: FriskoDude)

Reading is my life. I love it when I enter a bookstore and run my fingers along the colorful spines of the books in the shelves. I love it when I buy a new book and hear it whisper merrily when I turn its crisp pages. I love it when I raise it up to my nose and sniff at the delicate smell of bound paper and ink. I love it when I let the smooth words on the pages imprint themselves on my mind’s eye and play their wonderful symphony. I love it when

Fictional Pears: Hercule Poirot

Reblogged from Angry Pear:

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To keep up with my one-post-a-day schedule, today I decided to scourge the internet and reblog for the first time ever. As expected, I dug up something truly hilarious.... or should I say pearlarious.

The Name Dilemma

Another post after another long wait… well, I keep surprising the readers, don’t I? Anyway, let me dive straight into the point — naming characters is hard. I am sure those of you who are parents would know what I am talking about.

The name has to be just right because if it isn’t the tides can turn on you and your character will be stuck with a crap name forever. And we all know what happens to people with crap names. They get bullied. Period.

Thankfully, after too many trips down Google’s Baby name’s pages and irritating my roommate as I bounced names off her every two seconds, I have named all my characters and they fit perfectly.

But that is not the hard part.

The Comeback

Hey guys! Wassup? Guess what happened this time – my internet pack (courtesy: Manipal University) got over. Yup, all 15GBs of it. I know, I know, careless of me but I learnt my lesson fair and square and have come out of it with abundant sympathy for the addicts who go cold turkey and have to deal with the consequences of their actions.

If you want a funny tale, here’s my cold turkey experience:-

Day 1: No internet???? Why am I being punished???? Why? Why? Why?

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Day 3: Ah well, can’t do anything about it. Might as well focus on writing about Fortis (story world in Rage: the book I am writing).

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Day 5: Two weeks of no internet? Oh please! It will be gone in a blink and I will be reunited with my dearie.

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Day 7: (Scene: In our hostel room)

Me: Please, can I use your internet for a while?

Roommate: Ah, ok, but not right now. I have to complete my presentation. (Genuine reason, don’t worry, she is nice.)

Me: I just need to send in the articles. (I am currently working for a student-run newspaper called What’s Up Manipal.)

Roommate: Just wait a while.

…5 hours later (or maybe it was just half an hour… I dunno, withdrawal screws up your internal clock)…

Me: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You are an angel. (I definitely do not remember saying those words but I do remember feeling them when she turned her laptop my way).

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Day 9: (Scene: A Behind-the-doors-alcohol-party)

Me: Shit! You are drunk!

10 Things Indian TV Soap Operas Teach Us – Part II

Following the wild success of the previous installment, I have decided to update you all lovely readers with some more wild things Indian TV Serials teach us. So let’s not waste time dilly-dallying and get on with the show:-

1. If a guy and a girl hate each other they will always end up getting stranded in the middle of a forest and *BAM* a thunder-storm would turn up and the two will somehow end up finding a barn (no idea how it got there and why so many haystacks are piled up inside). The rain will end up doing something weird to their hormones and most times than not they will feel a heavy sexual tension and by the time people turn up to rescue them they would feel the first stirrings of love.

This entire line of thought stinks of a post-apocalyptic world where you are the only two humans left alive and must now propagate and refill the entire planet with your kind. Ugh!

2. The rich girl will party for the better part of the night and at the end of it will have to walk back home down a lonely highway with wolves and coyotes howling in the background and maybe a sketchy guy stalking her, no idea how she ended up on the road and what happened to her car or cell phone (…and the crowd she was partying with).

Makes me wonder if she was partying in the Bermuda Triangle where there is no network.

3. No one dies. I mean they do but they always mysteriously