I'm watching the live telecast of the academy awards as I type this. Every award ceremony is an elaborate celebration of success. It's tough being a loser here, isn't it? You've got little time for the loser unless you're the one who lost it. Think of yourself as a nominee who didn't ultimately get it. You're nominated a month before the actual awards night. You start day dreaming and night dreaming about the awards night. Of course, winning in...
Do you think sun signs have any significance? I'm a piscean. So I'm an unexciting sober introvert who is not a great company. Well, not entirely true as I was good enough to a find a non-piscean girl. Sun signs do talk about personalities. Some may find it ridiculous to group the whole population in twelve types of personalities. But I don't think it's entirely wrong. I mean, the people I know, I would fit them all in five or six categories, not...
Have you ever boarded a train with no destination in mind? I have. Travel for the sake of travel. I think you should love travelling to be able to do that. When you travel with no destination in mind, you can feel lighter (not just from the baggage pov). You can take time to appreciate things better. You have no worry of whether you'll sleep off, you have no doubts of which side to alight etc. If the train gets too crowded or makes you...
It's maintenance day today. That doesn't mean there is no post today. You can't even doubt that because you're reading it. I was working on introducing the 'subscription by email' thingy which took me some time. (I've removed it temporarily because IE did not like it, will fix it tomorrow). Now what you can do is to add your email in the invisible text box on the sidebar. No amount of crying 'I'm only human' would help, you need confirm that...
Pardon my ignorance. Yesterday was the first time I heard about 'Flash Fiction'. This is also known as sudden fiction, micro fiction, post card fiction etc. Normally flash fiction are short stories told under a 1000 words. There are variations. Some expect flash fictions to be under 750 words. There is also a version that says flash fiction should be less than 100 words. Ernst Hemingway wrote this famous shortest story: "For sale: baby...
"Anyone can cook" says master chef Gusteau in the movie Ratatouille. What he means is anyone can become a cook. A good cook can come from anywhere. All that you need is passion to cook. Writing is no different. In fact, writing is not so difficult and demanding as cooking. I've never tried cooking. As a law-abiding person, I don't think I'd ever do. But I write. With the growth of internet, everyone is a writer. See, I'm a writer. If you own a...
This is one of the best pieces I've ever come across on the net: The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become...
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