Category: musings
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Having been a student of a government institute, I quite know the woes of tackling the administration people there. Quite a lot of people will nod their head, when I tell similar stories of how they would make you wait for silly stuff like getting an examination form signed or submitted, or paying fees or…
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We never really seem satisfied with what we have. Howmuchever we struggle, fight, achieve things we want in life, there is always something! And we let that ‘something’ make us unhappy and sad.It may be a job we don’t have, or admission to that prestigious institution or the special someone we don’t have to share…
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“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.” – Bilbo BagginsP.S. I badly…
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Whenever I am down in the dumps, I have this habit of remembering all these nice and sometimes queer things/incidents. As you might have deduced I suffer from incurable nostalgia. But these normally work as a good ego massage 😉 Few of the ones which resurface by default are 1. A senior from COEP. She has the…
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1. The other day was talking to a friend and he started telling me how his mother gives my example as an ideal girl (in terms of independence) to his younger sister. Boy! If I was his sister I would have hated me. Seriously, when I was small and dad/mom used to tell me ‘see…
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1. Came across this and started wondering, what disturbs me the most about Mumbai (the pathetic security issues apart). Its the mall culture! I remember a journey taken alone from Vasai to Thane in a shady MSRTC bus (guess it was 2007) and the only thing I noticed during that shaky, uneventful ride was the number…
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Does this happen with you ?When a friend is telling you some story/incident and then you are in the same boat with them, in the river of memories, swaying nicely and then suddenly, a bifurcation comes and they leave the boat and start swimming in that direction. You also want to go with them, be…
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We all live in some.We all need some or the other.Everyday, they help us in filtering various experiences of life.Some of us who are evolved enough, understand their importance and take them into account.I think like hope, assumptions are necessary to make existence bearable (the trying to add point to the pointlessness bit).But how often…
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There are some people in the world, who always manage to say the meanest possible thing to you. No matter what! And I wonder, what happens to me, when the time comes to get even with them ? No, No, no “”Holier than thou” syndrome here! It’s just that I somehow cant remember (what the…