01.31.06
Belly Shaking
It’s so easy to label some one as ‘weird’.
Girl A – “Gosh! He’s so weird he didn’t even ask me for my number”
Girl B – “Gosh! He’s so weird he asked ME for my number”
(Cold pause)
(Giggles)
Chorus – “He IS weird!”
It’s even easier to laugh off a difficult situation.
Scene 1
You and your boyfriend’s cozy picture
Villain- your over-protective brother
Tragedy- he gets hold of it
Scene 2
The Taliban Bro. – “WHO THE HELL IS THIS!!”
You –“These are my two friends”
Scene 3
Laughter, laughter……
And there are people who would laugh at anything be it someone tripping over something, a slight slip of tongue basically at some one else’s cost.
And there are people like me who have the ability to find humour in the mirror 
Laughter comes in different shades and the best one is that howling one which embarrasses “khul ke hassi” itself. It’s too contagious and you try your level best not to go beyond your sophisticated giggle. But your wilderness escapes leaving you red, teary and with a tummy ache!
That’s what is being crazy, over the edge! Believe me this world is so much better on the crazier side. The senseless giggles, ear-blasting laughter and not too forget the foot stomping, belly hugging!
Oh yes! I am a laughter fanatic, I can make any one totally annoyed just by the “hehehe” I do. And if my company is good well…we are a riot!
I hope you had atleast a smirk on your face while reading it. And I’ll be cracking up just seeing your twisted smile! Don’t be such a miser, smile big and nice and come on give me some teeth. Oh yeah! That’s goooooooooood!
Who says jokes can’t be funny if they are not dirty
Mansi Raj Singh
The Complaint Box
The countless accusations one puts on circumstances, the unlimited grudges one holds against the time itself. All mount up and one day this bag of woes bursts leaving us emotionally wasted and mentally drained. All around the world women surveyed and testified a 24×7 cribbing process saves us from this annihilation.
All solutions come from the womenfolk, needless to say where the problem arises from. I am not trying to be a misandrist or something this how I perceive as the fairer sex.
And if you thought only ladies nitpick, well…
Men do it about the economy, the stock market, the inflation, the weather, the government and how Mallika sherawat turned up fully clothed! [Which has never happened, so is my example void ]
Tried listening to your best friend offer you breathless share of their problems? If you are a guy, you’ll instantly think of getting him drop dead drunk. Ahem! Ahem! If you’re a girl, you will launch your own ever-ready set of missiles.
It’s so tough being on the receiving end, but that’s only when you realize what your verbal diarrhoea does to others!
My word- Be simple just say you are pissed, followed by a free flow of explicit curses with an apology on the side for the innocent ears.
Mansi Raj Singh
The Life’s platter
Hoping to write something meaningful that would help others to realize the importance and the beauty of Life. It is a solemn attempt to make World a better place to live in. A place where there is no space for dejection and lost spirits.
A small stepping stone to make one realize the importance of one’s existence’s touch a person’s life in such a way so that he realizes all does not end if one hope is lost; when one dream dies, you still have the inborn desire in your heart to reach out to the world; to realize and to believe in one’s dreams; to face challenges headstrong; to make the changes where there’s hope for none; to make the wrong doings in life-the base for a better and a stronger future; to let go off the past and move on.
Life is like a plant with roots,leaves,flowers n thorns. As intended one sees n fears the thorns the most but at the same time one does not fail to notice the beauty of the flowers. Like a plant Life offers one more than just thorns, it gives you the beauty of the flowers, the variety of colours and fragrances. It is through the thorns only that one can reach up to the flower.
Failures and success are like two sides of the same coin. It does not matter how many things we have lost in life, what matters is how much we have learnt from our failures, (which should be our base for the next challenge we take up.)How many times have we motivated ourselves to go on and face the next challenge with our full capability?
Life’s like a crystal staircase, we step up to a beautiful mansion and me move down to a dark basement.
Where do you want to be?!
Juhi Saxena
01.30.06
You and I
“I love you,”
“Do you think you love him?”
“How can you be sure you love her?”
These are some of the few phrases that we come across everyday.
Well, I was having this conversation with a friend the other day and she asked me… “What is love?” Hoping that I would come up with a substantial answer. But all I could come up with was…
“I don’t know. I’ll tell you when I fall in love!”
That got me thinking. A lot of relationships end up in breakups. Some of them very ugly. Where one person usually suffers more than the other, trying to figure out all the while what his/her fault was, where he/she went wrong. What happens when one finds himself in a situation like this? How can one be sure that this won’t happen again?
In a Hope to try understand, how to make the next relationship more meaningful, more mutual. In hope to find a true love
We come to the most important question -
What exactly is love? Fairly-tale type?
Thinking about the person all the time, wanting to be with the person all times
- I’d say Infatuation.
Wanting to do anything to get the person, to be with the person
- Obsession.
Living for the person, your life starts and ends at the person
- Impractical or too idealistic for life.
Purely physical attraction, we all know that’s lust. Why I say purely is because physical attraction is an important part of a relationship (beauty being in the eyes of the beholder) but what I think the three most important ingredients are (you might disagree)
Respect, Understanding and Compatibility!
Love to me is nothing but an intense form of liking and well, building on this trio makes life a lot easier.
So the next time, you are looking for relationship, a long lasting relationship, think about it practically.
Love is something that grows with time with respect, understanding and well you might even find better compatibility.
Be patient and don’t rush into things and when you are sure, don’t give up!!
Love is beautiful, the more you work on it, the more beautiful life would seem!
Ridhima Thakral
01.28.06
Destined to Doubt?
People often wonder about the reason behind their subsistence, the difference between what’s wrong and what’s right and about what is meant to be, in other words destiny.
While a part of us believe in making our own destiny, the rest often find it very handy for shifting the blame. Some of us find ourselves helpless in front of our destinies. Misfortune and bad luck is seen as a part of our predestination. In other words, a belief, that we human beings are not responsible for our own actions. Thinking that our life is nothing but a pack of cards, with its Ace’s and Jokers.
Banking upon destiny is very simple, but when does it occur to you, that we are in a way treading away from the path of our conscious action?
Isn’t it very convenient to believe that an outer force, an unseen power is controlling us? Believing that no matter how much effort we put, things will not change, that our efforts are nothing but meaningless and insignificant. That we are mere puppets in the hands of say…God? Quite a coward conclusion isn’t it?
While believing in providence, it’s also necessary to believe in the competence of our own proceedings. There is nothing that we can’t achieve, as far as we believe in ourselves, belief comes with time and effort.
You have to do enough good, to get good in return, that’s the only way you’ll believe you deserve what you want.
Ridhima Thakral
