It was 3 am in the morning and I was lying on my bed with a subtle wetness in my eyes. Halcyon images from the good old days were playing in my mind resulting in a quivering smile on my lips. A few hours must have passed but I couldn’t care less. I had drowned in a river of nostalgia, trying to get a grip on a raft in the turbulent water in hopes that it would pull me back into the realm of present time.
This was kind of becoming like a daily routine for me. After a full fledged day of sitting on my bum, munching on snacks in front of the idiot box, I dreaded the time when I would have to hit the bed. A deep slumber is what I deserved after such a constructive and wearying day but as soon as I lay down on bed I found myself immersed in the memories of my school days. A couple of hours had passed before the sublime rays of a new day peeped into my room through the window. It was sheer madness and I had to put an end to all of this but I failed miserably and began lamenting the loss of those endless days when I would stand in front of the mirror with my friends fixing our hair. I looked back with fondness at the time when my friends and I would abscond from our class like prisoners in shackles into the jubilation of the outside world.
Plunging into frays with my bete noires without any rhyme or reason used to be my behavior of choice since I knew I had the support of my clique, perching on school grapevine in the recess was our favorite thing to do. Proposing mind-numbingly lame excuses to my teachers for incomplete assignments and homework was one of my top-most habits and luckily the gimmick always worked in my favor. I reminisce how we hated wasting our time standing in the mile-long queues for the canteen waiting to buy food, so we discovered an effective solution to our problem which was to push and shove others in front of us and then make our way to the top like hungry maniacs.
Once during an extremely long and boring period of biology when my teacher was giving us lectures on the vile subject about the bisection of a frog, my evil mind spun into motion. I took out a fashion magazine from my bag, astutely placing it on my lap so that the desk shielded it and my teacher was unable to see it. I began flipping through the pages, simultaneously nodding my head as if I was in rapt attention of what my teacher was delivering. Soon the word spread around the class and before I knew it I was receiving nudges from my friends who were begging me to handover this source of entertainment to them. The magazine was passed around the class and the lecture which previously seemed to stretch so long, ended quickly.
Sadly my school life is over now, I reckon I have to make myself come out of memories of the foregone years that are over shadowing my life. I realize I should look forward to a bright future and hope that it will be as blissful as my past. As much as I want to go back in time and relive all those joyous memories, I know that life goes forward and the world spins no matter what. Now all I’m left with are the little memories of those big moments.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Quotations!!
Over the past few years I have developed a love for reading quotations. As a child when I first them in a weekly newspaper I couldn't really grasp the true wisdom of the sayings but as time passed I began to comprehend their meaning. What still attracts me and urges me to read and collect them is the fact that how a few ordinary words, enclosed in a sentence, can truthfully render an inspiring message of a very high magnitude. Therefore, I'll share with you some of my favorite quotes from my little black book of quotations : )
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Mark Twain
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. Mark Twain
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. Edwards Deming
One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down. Proverb from Romania and Russia
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato
I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work. Thomas Edison
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Mark Twain
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. Mark Twain
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. Edwards Deming
One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down. Proverb from Romania and Russia
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato
I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work. Thomas Edison
Monday, August 4, 2008
Review: NEMESIS
The book 'Nemesis' has been masterfully written on a very complex subject by Shaun Hutson. It is a bleak novel about love, lust, hatred and revenge. The book revolves around the life of a troubled couple John and Sue who's daughter Lisa had been brutally murdered in their absence. In a desperate attempt of running a way from there past, they move to Hinkston which is a small town situated on the outskirts of London, in a forlorn hope of starting afresh.
The story is written in two time periods, first is in the 1940's, during the time of world war II where George Lawrence- a man appointed by the government of Germany is given the crucial task of working on a mysterious project. He compiles his research, experiments and results in a sacrosanct document named 'Genesis', but suddenly after a few years he is commanded by the government to cease his work. Upon receiving Lawrence's strong refusal, the govt. murders him and assumes that their secret had been buried forever, but they are gravely mistaken as the project is to be continued by someone else.
Now in present times, the town of Hinkston had become a prey of a middle-aged secretive man named Curtis who works in disguise as a reputable doctor treating women who have lost hopes of conceiving children. Sue who had become sterile after the birth of her first daughter, expressed her wish of having another child through the treatment provided by Curtis. John, her husband is dissatisfied with Sue's decision because for some mystifying reason there was something enigmatic about the children that are born by Curtis's obscure treatment.
The story takes a sharp turn when John makes a shocking discovery about Curtis' work; he frantically goes to his wife to inform her, only to find out that Sue has been abducted by their daughter's killer! What happens next is totally unexpected.
This surreal novel gets haunting at times and deals with bizarre schizophrenic perspectives of a disillusioned doctor who is determined to complete his father's unfinished task. Disturbing phenomenon unfolds, olds wounds get resurfaced and harsh realities are faced which makes this enthralling book a must-read.
The story is written in two time periods, first is in the 1940's, during the time of world war II where George Lawrence- a man appointed by the government of Germany is given the crucial task of working on a mysterious project. He compiles his research, experiments and results in a sacrosanct document named 'Genesis', but suddenly after a few years he is commanded by the government to cease his work. Upon receiving Lawrence's strong refusal, the govt. murders him and assumes that their secret had been buried forever, but they are gravely mistaken as the project is to be continued by someone else.
Now in present times, the town of Hinkston had become a prey of a middle-aged secretive man named Curtis who works in disguise as a reputable doctor treating women who have lost hopes of conceiving children. Sue who had become sterile after the birth of her first daughter, expressed her wish of having another child through the treatment provided by Curtis. John, her husband is dissatisfied with Sue's decision because for some mystifying reason there was something enigmatic about the children that are born by Curtis's obscure treatment.
The story takes a sharp turn when John makes a shocking discovery about Curtis' work; he frantically goes to his wife to inform her, only to find out that Sue has been abducted by their daughter's killer! What happens next is totally unexpected.
This surreal novel gets haunting at times and deals with bizarre schizophrenic perspectives of a disillusioned doctor who is determined to complete his father's unfinished task. Disturbing phenomenon unfolds, olds wounds get resurfaced and harsh realities are faced which makes this enthralling book a must-read.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008
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