February 28, 2010 (Day 8004/5)

This is the end - the end of all things inessential.

February 9, 2010 (Day 7985/6)

People generally prefer wandering around in the wilderness over confronting their fears. Strange. I have always felt petrified while doing the former and fearless doing the latter.

February 8, 2010 (Days 7984/5)

An environment of incompetence breeds indifference, indifference breeds sleep, sleep breeds contentment. Hence, mediocrity is desirable.

February 7, 2010 (Day 7983/4)

I once had a crush on a beautiful girl. Would you believe that the infatuation lasted more than 24 hours? No wonder I started thinking that this was some serious business going on. I asked her out. I spent a couple of hours with her and my life changed for ever. I was no longer the same human being. I was transformed from within. Every moment of my life from then, I could smell the fragrances of joy, live with the debonair spirit of childhood that I had long forgotten. I learned what my deepest desire was. And I learned how to fulfill it. I was reborn. I became a new human being.

Because in those two hours I learned enough to resolve that I would never get involved in a relationship. (Following this resolution wasn't such a difficult thing to do though, because of the skeletal frame I have been blessed with and the female obsession with Herculean mesomorphic body types. If any girl came along for whom immaculate body structure was not an important criterion to be had in a boyfriend, then all I had to do was be my natural self. Then all would be well.)

Why did I write all this uninteresting crap today? Because today is the 5th anniversary of the divine incident. I like to call it as my re-birthday. Happy returns of the day to me.....

February 6, 2010 (Day 7982/3)

Why? Why? How can anyone do this to oneself?

February 5, 2010 (Day 7981/2)

A friend is someone whom you trust enough to give him / her the password for your email id.

February 4, 2010 (Day 7980/1)

Beware of a man whose only passion in life has been masochism. You can break his body (which he will enjoy), but his soul has already broken beyond repair. You can't inflict any pain upon him, for he has nothing to lose. He will just smile at your feeble attempts to mutilate his ego, which he himself had killed long ago. For him, death would be just the next enjoyably painful adventure.

February 2-3, 2010 (Days 7978/9 - 7979/80)

One day, you suddenly notice that the world has become quite dull. Then with a stroke of mental brilliance, you figure out that it is the dust on the spectacles which is creating that illusion of moroseness. You muster all your strength and commitment to remove the grime accumulated from years of neglect and desuetude, off your gateways to the world of normal vision. When you are done with it, you find that the world is a lot brighter and a lot happier place to live in than you had previously thought. But you never see the dust coming again and settling on the plastic, grossly non-identical surfaces. Dirt keeps accumulating yet again. Then one day, you suddenly notice that the world has become quite dull. Then with a stroke of mental brilliance, you figure out that it is the dust on the spectacles which is creating that illusion of moroseness. You muster all your strength and commitment to remove the grime accumulated from years of neglect and desuetude, off your gateways to the world of normal vision. When you are done with it, you find that the world is a lot brighter and a lot happier place to live in than you had previously thought. But you never see the dust coming again and settling on the plastic, grossly non-identical surfaces. Dirt keeps accumulating yet again. Then one day, you suddenly notice...........

Well, you got the basic idea, didn't you?

February 1, 2010 (Day 7977/8)

You realise that sleeping horizontally is one of life's greatest gifts, only after you haven't had that privilege for two nights in a row.

January 28-31, 2010 (Days 7973/4 - 7976/7)

You feel a bit foolish when four girls eat away all the icing on your cake when you were busy trying to figure out its ingredients. But you find solace in the fact that you still have the cake and someone to share it with.

January 27, 2010 (Day 7972/3)

If you are absent-minded, you might have decided once that you will never forget to switch your mobile from the silent / vibrating mode to general / loud mode once you come out of a lecture or a seminar or a meeting. So you might intend to place a reminder on your phone for the same. Then you realise that your BlackBerry Curve 8520 doesn't have the facility for a reminder - you need to install an add-in for that. Crap. You then decide to set a simple alarm. The lecture finishes. The alarm rings. You can't remember what the alarm was for, until two hours later, when the number of missed calls suggests that it might be too late.

January 26, 2010 (Day 7971/2)

The ability to pretend is man's greatest liability.

January 23-25, 2010 (Days 7968/9 - 7970/1)

'Arranged marriage' is a euphemism for 'marriage for the sake of marriage'.