tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21380172002629996342024-03-13T12:03:20.976+11:00Only the Crazy Survive!!!"The rest melt away"dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-89765773187787166672016-09-28T14:08:00.002+10:002016-09-28T14:11:55.723+10:00[Short Story] An Unsafe Bet - Chapter 5<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://observationzz.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/short-story-unsafe-bet-chapter-1.html" target="_blank">An Unsafe Bet - Chapter 1</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://observationzz.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/short-story-unsafe-bet-chapter-2.html" target="_blank">An Unsafe Bet - Chapter 2</a></span></li>
<li><a href="https://observationzz.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/short-story-unsafe-bet-chapter-3.html" target="_blank">An Unsafe Bet - Chapter 3</a></li>
<li><a href="https://observationzz.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/short-story-unsafe-bet-chapter-4.html" target="_blank">An Unsafe Bet - Chapter 4</a></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">We inched closer at 20 feet away from the tree
we stopped. Gopal - "Do we want to take this risk?" "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">Yes, let's abort. This is not worth it. We can
create story from here as well", I said hoping to turn back and walk as
fast as we can. But Ravi said, "We are close to principal's office and now
we cannot turn back. Let's do this." Gopal agreed and I had no choice but
to go ahead with them as walking back alone is just as dangerous as going
forward with these guys. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">Time seemed to stop still. We were now right
beside the tree and were moving quickly crossing the tree with our heads down.
A voice called out - "What are you doing?" in a coarse thick accented
voice. We froze as the sound pierced the silence of the heartbeats and the
rustle of the leaves. We looked at each other as none of us were sure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">In the distance we saw a lone hunched figure.
Nothing else could be figured out in the moonlight. The sound again bellowed -
"What are you doing?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"Guess he is must be one of the
farmers" - Ravi said. Gopal replied back to the figure pointing to me-
"We are going to the college ahead to look for a book this guy lost"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">Moving closer we could say he was dressed in
traditional farmer's attire. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"Why at this time of the night?" - He
asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;"> Gopal again replied - "He wants to
read today as he has to answer questions from it." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"I thought we were going there to piss on
principal's desk" - I muttered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"What? What did he say?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"Nothing he just said it was mighty
important to him to answer the questions and thus the book" - Gopal
replied looking at me with contempt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"Do you know you are not allowed here at this
point of time?" he bellowed again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"No, we didn't know. Why?" Gopal
replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"Gopal - This is not your graphics
lecturer that you are asking questions to impress him" - I muttered again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"It's a long story and I don't have time
for it. But since you are here, I have something to give you boys", he
replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"What is it?" - Our only brave
spokesman asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"You are the curious one. Come closer I
will show you."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">Ravi lips moved after what seemed an eternity -
"No Gopal."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"What is it?" - He again asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"Come closer." saying, he opened his
palm showing the gift.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">Gopal started moving towards him and we
followed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"Yes closer, please".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">We strained our necks to decipher the item as
we went closer. We were within 5 feet of him when I got a glimpse of what he
was holding. Before I could react Ravi let out a scream and he started
running. I looked again and Gopal was already running away from both the
guy. Then Ravi called again - "Run" and that was only I heard before
I saw all three of us running towards the college. We heard two other screams -
"Come here, motherf***ers!" from the guy and one loud wail drowning
all other noises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">None of us looked back and we ran. We saw the
lights from the campus but we kept on running towards not daring to look back
until we were under the bright lights of college campus. Looking back, we did
not see anyone or anything following. Relieved, we slumped on the damp grass
but still shivering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">We waited for another 10-15 minutes to be sure
nothing was following us. "We did it" - Gopal exclaimed.
"F***er, we just saved our lives. I saw what it was in that guy's
hand." - I said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"I can't believe it. I was closer to him
but I couldn't see", Gopal said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"You have glasses and yet you couldn't
see. I could make out it was the bunch of hair and you were the chosen
one and with you we would have also got the hair and before I could respond he
screamed" pointing towards Ravi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"What happened, Ravi? Your scream saved
us." - Gopal questioned Ravi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">Ravi was still shivering when he said - "I
saw the girl right above Gopal." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"Let's go back through the main road"
- I said and got up to walk. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">Gopal replied - "But before that let's at
least do what we came for."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"Are you serious? After all this we went
through, you want to pee at Principal's desk!" - Ravi exclaimed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">"You only gave the idea. Let's do it"
But I disagreed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">We looked at each other for a moment and then
it happened in all its glory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">One after the other, Gopal, me and finally
shivering Ravi peed at the door of the principal's office.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;"><i>PS: That's the end of this series. This was my first attempt at writing a story. Please let me know through your comments your thoughts on this. All the links are given below:</i></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://observationzz.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/short-story-unsafe-bet-chapter-1.html" target="_blank">An Unsafe Bet - Chapter 1</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://observationzz.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/short-story-unsafe-bet-chapter-2.html" target="_blank">An Unsafe Bet - Chapter 2</a></span></li>
<li><a href="https://observationzz.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/short-story-unsafe-bet-chapter-3.html" target="_blank">An Unsafe Bet - Chapter 3</a></li>
<li><a href="https://observationzz.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/short-story-unsafe-bet-chapter-4.html" target="_blank">An Unsafe Bet - Chapter 4</a></li>
<li><a href="https://observationzz.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/short-story-unsafe-bet-chapter-5.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">An Unsafe Bet - Chapter </span></span>5</a></li>
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-32926114954975685752016-09-27T11:35:00.003+10:002016-09-27T11:35:32.358+10:00[Short Story] An Unsafe Bet - Chapter 4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is continued from here:</span></div>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://observationzz.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/short-story-unsafe-bet-chapter-1.html" style="line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">An Unsafe Bet - Chapter 1</span></a></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://observationzz.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/short-story-unsafe-bet-chapter-2.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">An Unsafe Bet - Chapter 2</span></a></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://observationzz.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/short-story-unsafe-bet-chapter-3.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">An Unsafe Bet - Chapter 3</span></a></li>
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<span class="s1">During the night, the boy whom the girl loved so dearly came to her and saw her body. Tears rolled down his eyes. In an inexplicable moment, he pulled out saw blade and cut a chunk of hair, which he admired so much. He walked to their beloved bnayan tree and buried the chunk of hair underneath the banyan tree. The next day, nobobdy noticed the missing hair and were more concerned about burning the body and it was done with swiftness to let normalcy return to the village. However, as the village returned after burning the body, they saw the banyan tree's trunk age like it has been there for centuries. Instead of the roots, it is said that the hairs of the girl grew from it. The next day all the village leaders and women involved in shaming the girl were found dead with a chunk of hair on their lips."</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The remaining villagers terrified deserted the village except for the boy who loved. He remained under the tree and hid from his family when they came searching for him. It is said that the boy lived under his death at 100 under the tree, regaling travelers of their love and the story of the roots. The roots however, no longer looked like hairs but they never reached the ground. They just remained hanging there. It was also said one night every month during a full moon, the roots again turn back into hairs and the girl would visit the boy until his death. However, after his death, she comes searching for him and leave a strand of hair who is found underneath the tree</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Gopal looked up and said slowly - "Today we have full moon". </span></div>
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<span class="s1">"Things are looking up for us. At this rate, we are about to be the proud recipients of the chunk of hair" - I said.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">In midst of this inspirational conversation, we missed the haunted tree becoming visible over the distance. The banyan tree with its hanging roots looked ominous as we came closer to it. Our pace reduced to baby steps as the banyan tree grew larger in our eyes. The wind still swayed rest of the fields. Rustling of the leaves reached our ears as well as the beating of our hearts. Ravi had gone mute and Gopal started checking the height of the barbed wire again. My mind was now noting the observations that Gopal was making as that was our only hope at this stage. Running back was no longer an option as we have already come too deep to escape with our legs. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">As we went ahead, the hanging roots became larger. The nearer we got the rustling and heartbeats only got lot louder. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Next Chapter - </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><a href="http://observationzz.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/short-story-unsafe-bet-chapter-3.html" target="_blank">[Short Story] An Unsafe Bet - Chapter 3</a></span></div>
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-23346342870381045692016-09-22T12:54:00.000+10:002016-09-23T10:34:13.213+10:00[Short Story] An Unsafe Bet - Chapter 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-67373963612157267212015-05-17T00:49:00.000+10:002015-05-17T00:49:23.391+10:00<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/482976.A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" border="0" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1333373713m/482976.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/482976.A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn">A Tree Grows in Brooklyn</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2327917.Betty_Smith">Betty Smith</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1280848770">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
This is one of those books that I can read, read and read again. I never got tired of this one. It is the story of one Francie Nolan growing up in the poorer neighborhoods of Brooklyn and her coming of age. The story has struggles, pain, fear, courage, humor and all the other things that make up a good book. But what it makes it great is everything is so subtle. All the emotions are just below the surface lying there for us to experience. This is what makes it readable multiple times as we can delve deeper each time we read it. <br><br>All the characters are made endearing through Francie's eyes despite their weaknesses. It also revealed her strengths as a person. She was aware that she would always come second compared to her brother when it came to mother's love. Yet she bore the hurt, loved her brother, and mother all the time. As a reader, you felt for Francie. But like Francie, you eventually agree that Mother was right even if it hurt.<br><br>There is no grandeur nor any mystery in the book. It only describes the plain everyday existence and survival of the family. Yet, you feel you are the friend that Francie never had, experiencing the joy and pain together as if one. You want Francie to be happy, safe from any hurt and pain. <br>Other characters - Aunt Sissy, Francie's dad whom Farncie loved much, and Katie - like Francie remain with you long after the last page turns.<br><br>This book is not a page-turner and am glad for that as it can be relished slowly taking in each of the emotions and the book allows us to grow up again with Francie.
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-84889223692177346082014-11-28T23:42:00.000+11:002014-11-29T02:04:02.383+11:00<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70933.The_Wind_Up_Bird_Chronicle" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" border="0" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1275947583m/70933.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70933.The_Wind_Up_Bird_Chronicle">The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3354.Haruki_Murakami">Haruki Murakami</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1110954182">4 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
It was a surreal book and although the overall pace slow, the pages went on turning at a nice pace. This the first novel I picked up from Haruki Murukami and I liked the way he built up his glass palace. He introduced characters miserly, however, each of them played their parts to perfection in building of the glass palace. However, if you are religious about cause and effect, this book might disappoint you a bit as some of things in there are there only to be believed.<br><br>The story is of Toru Okada who quits his job in a law firm and stays at hoe However, the story starts with losing a cat, searching for it and eventually his wife. However, the story is as much about the daily life of jobless Toru Okada like his ironing the shirt when restless, spaghetti cooking as much his struggle in getting his wife back. The pace is languid and you somehow enjoy the serenity of his life with surprises coming from some or the other corner. <br><br>This book is not a fast paced so may not be to everyone's liking. But it more than makes up by those hooks and the interesting characters that sprouts every now and then in Toru's jobless existence. Meanwhile, I will definitely go for Murukami's other works.
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-25939713666314747192014-07-12T17:16:00.000+10:002014-07-12T18:04:11.942+10:00<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7151763-the-time-traveler-s-wife" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Time Traveler's Wife " border="0" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1289550510m/7151763.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7151763-the-time-traveler-s-wife">The Time Traveler's Wife</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/498072.Audrey_Niffenegger">Audrey Niffenegger</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/992188488">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
The book is big jigsaw puzzle with different pieces falling in place at different points of time. As the book moves on, you feel the pieces falling in place and you can see the full picture. It is a story of Henry DeTamble who could time travel due to genetic disorder. It is also the story of Clare who first meets 40 year old Henry at the age of 6, falls in love with him and wait for Henry to appear from the future all her childhood and teen life. With Henry keeping pursed lips about the future and about himself, little Clare is left with her imagination to understand a mysteriously but endearing figure appearing in her meadow.<br><br>The most endearing part of the book was Henry talking about his multiple visits to the time when his mother died and seeing his younger self escape just because of time travel. The characters are beautifully etched and you feel that you ought not to leave them even if it means reaching work late. After a certain time, you feel the book itself is time travelling. All this points to a meticulously thought and brilliantly written book.<br><br>It is a must-read and the best about it is you can pick it up and read the book from anywhere and it would still make sense due to jigsaw nature of the book. And yeah there is a movie adapted from the book. However, reading the book makes you feel that you are part of the action rather than a mere spectator to the action. I will be watching the movie soon though to reminiscence my reading experience.
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-15427415315990705012014-06-09T15:06:00.002+10:002014-06-09T15:09:39.499+10:00<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13240504-the-hungry-tide" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Hungry Tide" border="0" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358490567m/13240504.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13240504-the-hungry-tide">The Hungry Tide</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3369.Amitav_Ghosh">Amitav Ghosh</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/945916725">4 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
The book is like the tide it describes. All the characters stays with you until the book is complete and then all that remains with you is the tide, forests, rivers and dolphins. <br><br>The story is of Piya a cetacean scientist who comes to Lusibari to study Irrawady dolphins, Kanai, a not so ideal guide who is in Lusibari to read the letters left to him by his late uncle Nirmal and of all the people living in the tide country of Sunderbans.<br><br>The writing is smooth as it transports you through the tide country and the life in it with the tigers, struggles, and the mythical story of Bon bibi. The passage of conversation between Fokir and Kanai leading up to leaving Kanai alone in the forest and the one between Kanai and Piya after the tiger attack were pick of the reads in the book.<br><br>The quoting of Rania Maria Rilke's Dunio Elegies at the end of Nirmal's letters describing the circumstances left you with something to think about.<br><br>There are smaller beautiful stories of places and people interwoven through the main narrative which are like the stories that you get to hear from guides at historical places. <br><br>Overall, a beautiful book worth every second of your lazy Sunday afternoon.
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-88510580012814660762014-06-09T15:03:00.000+10:002014-06-09T15:11:25.530+10:00<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1039461.The_Book_Thief" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Book Thief" border="0" src="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1327917377m/1039461.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1039461.The_Book_Thief">The Book Thief</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11466.Markus_Zusak">Markus Zusak</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/914344424">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
a beautiful book..never wanted it to end... story of a girl, the book thief who loved stealing books and many more who lived on Himmel street, when Hitler reigned narrated by Death haunted by humans
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-15539853775404269192013-11-13T20:44:00.000+11:002013-11-13T20:44:32.588+11:00<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17722080-every-computer-performance-book" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Every Computer Performance Book: How to Avoid and Solve Performance Problems on the Computers You Work with" border="0" src="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1365401767m/17722080.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17722080-every-computer-performance-book">Every Computer Performance Book: How to Avoid and Solve Performance Problems on the Computers You Work with</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3862616.Bob_Wescott">Bob Wescott</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/740237827">3 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
This is a very concise and to the point book about application performance. It has captured the essence of performance of applications and capacity planning for an on field engineer. Additionally, Bob Wescott has also provided insightful tips on giving presentation tips especially when telling the bad news. It is a good read and any newbie in performance can take this as a starting point for understanding performance and capacity planning of applications
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-87496898095905720682013-11-06T00:46:00.002+11:002013-11-06T00:46:43.150+11:00<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2924467-jeeves-and-the-feudal-spirit" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Jeeves, #11)" border="0" src="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1320390523m/2924467.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2924467-jeeves-and-the-feudal-spirit">Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7963.P_G_Wodehouse">P.G. Wodehouse</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/743422944">3 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
I always connect with Bertie Wooster.. He ties himself into knots till jeeves steps in to untie the knots. Aunt Dahlia and the analogy of circumstances gave me the most chuckle and like all jeeves books, Wooster and co. along with a mug of coffee makes a Sunday afternoon worthwile.
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-35488436355209077912013-11-06T00:43:00.001+11:002013-11-06T00:44:27.927+11:00<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17565916-best-kept-secret" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Best Kept Secret" border="0" src="https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1362800472m/17565916.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17565916-best-kept-secret">Best Kept Secret</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4820.Jeffrey_Archer">Jeffrey Archer</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/740237721">3 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
The start was griping and Jeffery Archer again reminded me of what a great story teller he is. However, the pace of the story grags a bit after election of Giles Barrington and Alex Fisher. However, it gets compensated with an abrupt ending leaving you to try reading the blank pages in the end. <br><br>Overall it is a nice read and it is just about worth spending a weekend reading it! <br><br>PS: This is part of a trilogy and I haven't read the prequels of it. So my next stops will be the prequels!<br><br>
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-65657382125146083412013-05-01T04:24:00.005+10:002013-05-01T16:31:46.527+10:00[A-Z Challenge] Z for Zero<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So what does this guy has which others don't? It has nothing. That is what makes it special. It describes nothingness. You are quantifying nothingness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It sits right at the middle of the number line. It defeats its only contender 1 in this. It doesn't have a negative counterpart unlike 1. It is unique. But the value it brings to table remains 0.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It remains at the beginning of most things in life. You start with zero. You are born a zero. A new day starts with zero. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In the game of cricket, you can never score zero runs. If you have a zero against your name, it means you haven't scored and it will called as a duck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Zero is the only number on which if you perform a mathematical operation, it will result in infinity.It is the divide by zero operation!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you try teaching a kid about numbers,you show 1 bead and say that is 1. Then you show 2 beads and say it is 2. But what about zero? Only at the end, when child understands the concept of numbers, you would run a scenario that when all the beads are removed, then you say there are <b>0 </b>beads. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thus although the value of zero is 0, it is invaluable. Thus like zero, this challenge has brought immense pleasure to me. The only place I have never wanted a 0 was on my mark-sheet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I do intend to write Reflections post for this. However, to present a gist, it has made me aware of my own strength and failings. More importantly, it has exposed me to so many wonderful people and their varied thoughts on so many different subjects! Thanks a ton to A-Z Hosts! It was truly a wonderful effort from you guys! Cheers!</span></div>
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late. As humans we have created a standard time which had nothing to do with us
just as it has nothing to do with the cow. Yeah - the cow. The cow has all the
time in the world to chew on one straw of grass and yet they are not able to
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then there are birds that forage for food in the early morning only to
return to the nest before sun-down. Yeah they follow time. But they have 12
hours where the only useful things they do are to eat and drop bombs. Instead,
we slug it out, fill in time-sheets for the work done every hour and yet return
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do we differentiate between them and humans? Well, we have such big egos
which tell us that we are better than the rest of the species on earth.
If we consider the vast expanse of the universe<span style="font-size: small;"> t<span style="font-size: small;">hen this superiority does<span style="font-size: small;"> not amount to anything</span></span></span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We believe, if nothing is time-bound there will be only chaos. Don't we
already have chaos by following time? </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here, I rest my case!</span></span></div>
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some centuries, I do agree reverting to a care-free, no time zone will take some
time and am not putting any time limit on that. However, I do request you folks
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with X is the letter 'X'. Reading on it, I found it to be very fascinating as it has different origins and has been used differently in many cultures. This is part of April
A-Z challenge details of which is present </span><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #7c93a1; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">.</span></span></div>
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-13715328050000797202013-04-30T11:50:00.001+10:002013-04-30T11:50:14.527+10:00[A-Z Challenge] W for Window!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">A memory of a childhood<br />It is<br />For you could sit by<br />And watch the world passing by<br /><br />An audience you become<br />For the actors of the street<br />As you watch the drama<br />Happening before you<br /><br />The<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>play begins<br />With the first ray from sun<br />The birds taking flight<br />As the first actors arrive<br /><br />Actors <span style="font-size: small;">fill the<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">stage</span></span></span><br />Playing their part<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Emoti<span style="font-size: small;">ons galore- </span>L</span>aughter, cries<br />And occasional silences<br /><br />Yet none aware of<br />Being <span style="font-size: small;">p</span>art of the play<br />For an unknown face<br />Beside the window<br /><br />The actors leave the stage<br />As the night arrives<br />Bringing millions of stars<br />Making the little heart smile<br /><br />For the sky is adorned<br />With million little jewels<br />Giving birth to million dreams<br />Lulling the tired eyes to sleep</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span><span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;">Quirks of Life</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> starting
with W is Window Virus which has always kept me fascinated. Sitting by a window with a coffee in hand still is one of my favorite pastimes. This is part of April
A-Z challenge details of which is present </span><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #7c93a1; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">PS: After the talk that virus gave, the venerable one also decided to give my body a visit and had been a painful visitor for the past few days. So fell behind in the challenge for the second time.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-36321688123586501422013-04-26T03:56:00.002+10:002013-04-26T03:56:45.839+10:00[A-Z Challenge] \/ for Venerable Virus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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with V is Venerable Virus which has existed from the beginning of life and still needle proud humans every now and then. This is part of April
A-Z challenge details of which is present </span><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #7c93a1; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pulling it out from the crevices of various living cell, I have managed to get one virus talking for the A-Z challenge and having seen one and all, it surely is the Venerable Virus! </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the times when a living cell originated in sea, I was
there needling the living cell. I have continued the needling across the
centuries needling all the organisms across all kingdoms including huge
dinosaurs and the current rulers of earth - humans. However, in terms of pure
numbers, I rule the world. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A very simple makeup consisting of DNA/RNA, protein and
lipid layer is all that is needed to make me. This makes me highly adaptable to
various circumstances that earth can provide. Now this is called elegant design
by the Universe/Creator, whichever school of thought you come from. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Only by
changing a small set of combination of DNA/RNA, I can turn into numerous
different types ranging from absolutely lethal to harmless ones too. However,
whatever the case, it is always a pain for the host.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">However, humans being the smartest of species have created a
digital version of me. Like me, it is created by few strands of software code
that has the ability to reproduce and propagate. But it is a bawdy copy of me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The software code is unsustainable and these viruses have very little
shelf-life. Humans, however smart they consider themselves to be can never come
up with the elegant design that Universe/Creator could conjure up. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More importantly, there are now species of me that can
immediately clean up huge number of human population. Strategies have been devised
to counter me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But I cannot be killed. How can they kill something which is not
alive in the first place? <span> </span>The only thing
that humans can be done is wait for my next juggle of RNA/DNA and voila they
will be spending billions to counter me. Ha ha to that!</span></span></div>
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-38685835439336403792013-04-25T04:50:00.002+10:002013-04-25T04:50:49.543+10:00[A-Z Challenge] U as in Uncontrollable Urge!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;">Quirks of Life</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> starting with U is Uncontrollable Urge. The urge to do something which we are not supposed to do is always there. Difference is some of us know to control it. Rest of the mortals like self succumb to it. Here is a micro-fiction of 55 words celebrating just that. This is part of April A-Z challenge details of which is present </span><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #7c93a1; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">.</span></span></span></div>
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shooting over goalkeeper's head remained. He had controlled. But then he had
the ball. Suddenly, everything blanked out. He saw himself shooting the ball. He
was helpless. He looked back for reproach but instead saw a happy coach.</span></span></div>
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-15069475097119458732013-04-24T16:19:00.001+10:002013-04-24T16:26:09.418+10:00[A-Z Challenge] T for Towel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;">Quirks of Life</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> starting with T is Towel. This is part of April A-Z challenge details of which is present </span><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #7c93a1; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was Douglas Adams who identified my true talents and made me famous across the world. 25th of May is also being celebrated as a Towel Day.The immortal words can be found <b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day" target="_blank">here</a></span></b>. So what does an humble towel has that much more celebrated items that man has invented does not have. Well apart from the obvious and words dedicated by Doug, I do come in picture during many of the marital tiffs. An example is given below:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First Year of Marriage</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He has left his wet towel on the bed. Guys will be guys!
Everything has to be taught to them. Without me, how can he live? So sweet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He forgot his wet towel on bed. He needs to be more serious
in marriage and take more responsibility to live a meaningful life.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Third Year of Marriage</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is twice in two months that he has left his wet towel
on the bed. We are going to have kids and he is still behaving like one. When
will he learn?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There is this baby screaming. I have to do all these chores
and above everything else he still has left his wet towel on the bed. He is
treating me like a maid.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fifth Year of Marriage</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Four times in last two weeks. Can't you do one little thing
right? How many times have I told you not to leave the wet towel on the bed
like that? Kids are growing but an old man is turning into a kid.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sixth Year of Marriage</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is it. You keep on treating me like a maid and I am
done with this marriage. I will take my kids and go. Then you will remember not
putting the wet towel on the bed.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Seventh Year of Marriage</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wet Towel on the bed and an empty house!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So thats done with the example and now leave you to ponder about my existence!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PS:<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">I wanted to write something absolutely pointless. Not that the other were not pointless but I wanted to climb the peak of pointlessness! Moreover, I wanted it to be aligned it to the theme - Quirks of Life. Somehow, felt the towel fit the bill perfectly.</span></span></div>
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-7531308811612976252013-04-22T19:29:00.000+10:002013-04-22T19:31:22.422+10:00[A-Z Challenge] R for Running<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;">Quirks of Life</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> starting with R is Running. Running - one activity that we engage in from the beginning and somehow it stays with us throughout our lives. This is part of April A-Z challenge details of which is present </span><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #7c93a1; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From the time we learn walking, we want to run. We want to
reach somewhere faster than our walking legs would want to take us. It may be an
allure of a toy, or a sweet or maybe a simple hug from our parents. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We run for
it because we want it more than anything else at that point of time. In school,
too the first competition we are put in is where we have to run faster than
rest of the kids around us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Overtime, this running translates into chasing our dreams.
Few of us give up at an early stage. Fewer still keep on running for it hoping
for luck. Some of us will be in a perennial stop-start-stop mode. Fewer still
will go the distance. Yet some of us who abandoned chasing our dreams are put
into another race. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This race designed by society where you are given the
responsibility to study, get a job, get married, acquire wealth as much as
possible, have kids and tell the kids to do the same thing over again. It is a
peculiar race where getting to each milestone means you have to run harder than
before. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There is no stopping in this race. Your friends and families, ask you
to go further and further so that you are better your peers and other people.
Some of us live out our entire lives in this race without stopping missing out
on the smaller intangible pleasures of life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Some of us get an epiphany, and we
realize this running is not worth and get out of it sooner and start running to
chase their dreams. This restart of an abandoned race will be done with more vigor
and resolve than before. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Maybe we forget to
stop in this race. We never stop running until our body gives up. In the movie - The Pursuit of Happyness, there is a scene when the voice over describes - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"This part of my life is called running." May be we forget that running is still only the part of life in that sentence!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PS: The entire idea for the post came from that one line - This part of my life is called running. Somehow that line had stayed with me and it came back when I thought of writing this.</span></div>
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-8761301332084006612013-04-21T18:34:00.000+10:002013-04-21T18:34:23.500+10:00[A-Z Challenge] You are in Queue<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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with Q is queue. Somehow we are placed in one of the many queues of the world knowingly or unknowingly. This is part of April A-Z challenge details
of which is present </span><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #7c93a1; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">.</span></div>
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it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lady at the hospital when we
were born would put us in one of her queues based on her priorities. During the
kinder-garden days, you are put to queues so that the teachers can manage a
group of bawling and screaming kids. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As you grow up you see your parents being
put in various queues and you realize that by staying in queue, you attract
order and civility in life unless you are in India. Queues are one of those things in India whose meaning gets
so much distorted that only people living in India can understand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For
centuries, India had followed a caste system. So when the concept of queue was
introduced by British, the caste-system manifested into this queue as well. The
whole point of staying in queue waiting for your turn was lost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The main objective became find ways to beat the queue.
People use their wealth, connections and sometimes even a small bribe to the
peon who is looking after the queue to beat the queue. After all with a
population of India, it may cost you a lifetime if you diligently wait for your
turn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Moreover, even the
sperm that reached the egg first would have jumped the queue. So jumping the
queue can be blamed on our genes. But then there is a silver lining to this
dark cloud as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There is special community in Kerala that follow the queue religiously.These are the regular consumers of alcohol who form a queue in front of a wine shop. This queue is followed religiously as breaking this
queue here getting more than a single bone broken.There is also a mark of respect here as people acknowledge that their need is as strong as other person's and so let us respect this strong need and stay put.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">With the advent of technology, system-generated queues came
into picture and now there is whole branch of study to optimize the service
time and reduce the lengths of the queues. However, even the laptop you are
using is putting your requests on a queue from time to time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The processor happily puts your innumerable requests such as
playing a song, browsing a website, opening document into a queue and services
at its own convenience. Even the websites that you visit put you in different
sets of queues that you can hardly imagine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So even if you think you are not in queue, the environment
around you has been designed in such a way that eventually you are in queue
perpetually!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>You are born</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Into Me</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>My powers</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Omnipresent</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>I manifest</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>In myriad forms</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Emotional and</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Professional</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Success is assured</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>For those</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Who handle me </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>With respect</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Yet I am</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>A slippery customer</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>For I can creep</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Silently in a burst</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Keeping a cool</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Is the only way</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>An unending vigil</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Can keep me at bay</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>A huge self-belief</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>My only nemesis</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>For it shatters</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>What I build</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>But time - my ally</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Either not enough</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Or so much that</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Wear you down</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Strong shoulders</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>I like; for I can sit </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Put; until time </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Wears them down!</i></span><br />
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-63478768468250939262013-04-19T20:22:00.000+10:002013-04-19T20:25:32.173+10:00[A-Z Challenge] O for Oval Shape<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In a world where perfection and idealization is celebrated,
I am an oddity. Nobody likes an oval shape. Maybe, it is uncomfortable to
define. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Even the letter O does not want to oval. The perfect O is always a circle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Maybe an oval ball does not do things as expected. Most sports use
perfectly spherical ball except for rugby and American football. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With different
dimension at different place, people find difficult to handle me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But this
behavior is only limited to human beings as rest of the Universe find me
interesting.Even the Milky Way has an elliptical bulge at its centre
though it spiral out afterwards. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The earth is also not spherical. It also has a
oval into it. The author of this post also never liked that the earth is not
perfectly spherical. But then universe
is not perfect and the real world definitely is not perfect. So am I. I am also
not perfect. My oddity needs to be celebrated and not put it as a special
condition that has to be treated separately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From the early days of schooling, I am never introduced.
Children learn about all other shapes except for me. The one who can draw a
perfect circle becomes a popular guy. But an oval shape? Most of them wouldn't
have heard about me. Yet when most of them draw they only get an oval shape.
But I am treated as a blemish that needs to be corrected to make it a circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, even nature is liberal towards me as I help nature
achieve things that a perfect sphere cannot achieve. I can give you an example
that will show you my importance. The process of laying eggs is made easier if
the shape is an oval both from biological and physics standpoint; details of
which I will not delve into. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But consider this, if the eggs were spherical,
they would roll off away if the hen doesn't take proper precautions. My shape
makes it difficult to roll off and also to stop faster than a spherical ball
would do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So although the universe and nature are utilizing me for
their own designs, I live in relative anonymity among the humans waiting for
the spotlight to fall on me!</span></div>
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dishitdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264189119142948024noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2138017200262999634.post-71629505019600942732013-04-19T00:46:00.002+10:002013-04-19T00:47:26.986+10:00[A-Z Challenge] Nobody and Nowhere!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: red;">Quirks of Life</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> starting with N is Nobody and Nowhere. This is part of April A-Z challenge details of which is present </span><a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #7c93a1; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The one place that I want to find is nowhere. As the years
have rolled on my existence on earth, somehow many of things that belong to me
have gone to nowhere. It is like a dead-end. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can't search after that. The list of things that have
reached nowhere is innumerable. It is the black hole of the earth where once
things go, you can never get it. People call it carelessness, absent-mindedness
and what not. But somehow, nobody understands my perspective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now, there is this person
called Mr. Nobody. Now this guy is the super-cool guy whose primary job is to
move all my things to nowhere. Somehow, I have to keep my things falling into
Mr. Nobody's hands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The magnanimity of keeping Mr. Nobody’s hands free of my
things can be understood if you will know the pains that I took to unearth my
things going to nowhere. Before I knew, about the presence of Mr. Nobody, the
only thing that I knew was that my things were going to nowhere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Asking
everyone about my things, the answers that always came was nobody. Finally I resigned to the fact that like dark
matter there is this person called Mr. Nobody who is responsible for my things
to be moved to nowhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I tried hard to find Mr. Nobody to ask him to put an end to
this business of taking my things to nowhere without my permission. Alas! I was
only able to detect the presence of Mr. Nobody and that too after Mr. Nobody
has done his deed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now there is a different side to Mr. Nobody that I found
recently. This side has pained me more than his taking away of my thing. In
this side, what he does is, bring out things that I want to remain in nowhere.
Not only that, he would bring such things to people from whom this was supposed
to be hidden. My marksheets teacher’s note and many other unmentionable
things were brought to the notice to my parents by this uber-cool gur, Mr. Nobody. This is completely uncool. Even if he is what he is, he has to adhere to bro code.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now this is an open request to all. If you are able to find
Mr. Nobody, please bring to his attention this post so that he doesn't pain me
more!</span></div>
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