January 15-18, 2010 (Days 7960/1 - 7963/4)

It's a pity that we are wasting our greatest treasures, day in and day out, and yet are unable to do a damn thing about it, despite having the power to make the tougher choice, even for just a single life-changing moment, which would perhaps have sufficed.

January 11-14, 2010 (Days 7956/7-7959/60)

A father lets his sons win in a hand-wrestling match, and the sons think that they are stronger than their dad. The dad never lets his sons know that that is not the case. However, the sons do realise the truth as time goes by.

January 10, 2010 (Day 7955/6)

For the sun and for MBA students who wish to be 'successful' (as per the conventional definition), there is no day or night.

January 7-9, 2010 (Days 7952/3 - 7954/5)

For a prodigiously talented person, his/her social network might turn out to be a liability, which can't be written off except by death (self or mutual).

January 6, 2010 (Day 7951/2)

It was Eve who made Adam eat the 'apple'.

January 5, 2010 (Day 7950/1)

All my life, I have never paid any attention to compitetion. See, I can't even spell it correctly.

January 4, 2010 (Day 7949/50)

Greenery looks better from a distance. Hence it makes sense to be satisfied with what you have rather than going after what appear to be greener pastures. Doing the same is what trapped you where you are, in the first place.

January 3, 2010 (Day 7948/9)

A thing of beauty is sorrow forever, when you know that you will never be able to acquire it.

January 2, 2010 (Day 7947/8)

The human brain, with its capability to create an illusion that the person it inhabits has some consequential significance in the scheme of the Universe, is something that certainly cannot be taken lightly.

January 1, 2010 (Day 7946/7)

Very few people would celebrate the 'New Year' if they themselves had to clear the mess that they create.

December 30-31, 2009 (Days 7944/5 - 7945/6)

The world would have been a much better place to live in, if people could walk faster.

December 23-29, 2009 (Days 7937/8 - 7943/4)

The crimson paradise had never been threatened by any 'demons' outside as it is being now by the 'angels' inside.

December 18-22, 2009 (Days 7932/3 - 7936/7)

If God exists, then He must be extremely talented and eccentric. It's a pity that He doesn't have a Facebook account.

December 13-17, 2009 (Days 7927/8 - 7931/2)

You are not exactly relieved when you run out of a long, dark tunnel only to realise that there is a steep fall at the opening.

December 8-12, 2009 (Days 7922/3 - 7926/7)

'Reading' and 'studying' are two mutually exclusive activities and anyone who uses these words interchangeably, is a criminal offender.

December 3-7, 2009 (Days 7917/8 - 7921/2)

Discussing the question paper after an exam is like regurgitating your most-disliked food item that you had the misfortune to eat just now.

December 1-2, 2009 (Days 7915/6 - 7916/7)

Not doing what is required, is forgivable; doing what is not required, is not.

November 27-30, 2009 (Days 7911/2 - 7914/5)

With every effort, one loses the opportunity to experience the serendipitous benefits of laziness.

November 23-26, 2009(Days 7907/8 - 7910/1)

One's level of incompetence can be recognised by what qualifies as 'humour' for him/her.

November 22, 2009(Day 7906/7)

A nihilist cares about nothing; an enlightened nihilist cares about just one thing, which obviously can't be something as ridiculously trivial as examinations.

November 21, 2009 (Day 7905/6)

Mediocrity is the refuge of the insecure and the uncreative.

November 20, 2009 (Day 7904/5)

Sitting in a lecture with your eyes closed means that you cannot see the professor - it does not mean that the professor can't see you. Feline ignorance can be dangerous.

November 19, 2009 (Day 7903/4)

A lecture is the only time and place in which one is focused enough to sleep in peace.

November 18, 2009 (Day 7902/3)

A lecture is the only time and place in which one is focused enough to read the newspaper in peace.

November 17, 2009 (Day 7901/2)

In normal circumstances, 'dedication' and 'perseverance' are names given to things that people resort to, when they don't have enough self-confidence to believe that they can be successful without needing to slog their asses off.

November 14-16, 2009 (Days 7898/9 - 7900/1)

Those with limited ability and resources should refrain from imitating their superiors.

November 9-13, 2009 (Days 7893/4 - 7897/8)

In most anthropological cases, the future is similar to the past, only more unpredictable. Similarity with the past makes it so. Makes sense because it is contradictory.

November 5-8, 2009 (Days 7889/90 - 7892/3)

When one has everything one can possibly desire from life, arrogance could be born and burn everything to ashes. Now that is one alternative fuel that hasn't been thought of.

November 3-4, 2009 (Days 7887/8 - 7888/9)

There can't be anyone more powerful than someone who desists the end of adversity, except another one who desists the end of adversity.

November 1-2, 2009 (Days 7885/6 - 7886/7)

All formal organisations and systems in this world exist in order to beat, thrash, punch, whip, pummel, torture, excoriate, burn, water-board, circumcise, castrate, and brutally murder even the last iota of individualism from an individual and consign him/her to the socialistic mediocrity envisaged and championed by the impotent non-forces who have the power and the audacity to earn for their incompetence.

October 24-31, 2009 (Days 7877/8-7884/5)

All this time, I had been thinking that sub-sea-level expectations and selective underperformance were the keys to success. Now I see that there is no door and hence no lock and everyone's gone through the doorway while I had been searching for the keys. I breathe a sigh of relief, have a beer, turn back and keep the keys in my wallet for the rest of my life.

October 23-25, 2009 (Days 7876/7 - 7878/9)

Recorded human behaviour suggests that the quantums of partying and festivities are inversely proportional to sadness, depression, frustration, misfortune, dread, despair and many more such figments of man's (and more so woman's) imagination. The tendency to wholeheartedly desert common sense and sound logic, by the human race (with exceptions, thankfully) is indeed the greatest mystery of our times.

October 16-22, 2009 (Days 7869/70 - 7875/6)

Overt, ostentatious display of relieving of one's frustration can be quite pleasant (and even sanctimonious) to look at, but comes with the potentially spinal-cord-haemorrhaging combo-baggage of slatternly choked-up alleyways, left-lung cancer and twice-decimated sperm-count.

October 13-15, 2009 (Days 7867/8 - 7869/70)

The experience of delight and relief on reaching a destination usually implies a comprehensively screwed-up journey.

Oct 8-12, 2009 (Days 7862/3 - 7866/7)

Killing an unborn expectation also is a crime.

October 1-7, 2009 (Days 7854/5 - 7861/2)

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Get going where?

September 24-30, 2009 (Days 7847/8 - 7853/4)

Dreams are not those which you see when you sleep. Dreams are those which don't let you sleep.

Then what should I do if my dream is to sleep?

September 16 - 23, 2009 (Days 7839/40 - 7846/7)

Every time you go through a tough phase and come out of it, you learn a lesson. This itself warrants a good hard celebration - hard enough to make you forget the lesson before you wake up the next morning.

August 11 - September 15, 2009 (Days 7802/3 - 7838/9)

You spend a hour sitting with a friend, you feel that only a minute has passed. You spend a minute sitting on a frying pan, you feel that a hour has passed.
So, never spend a minute sitting with a friend on a frying pan. Or for that matter, never spend a minute sitting alone on a frying pan. But, if you insist on doing something with a frying pan, you might as well stand on it, preferably wearing a thick, leather-soled shoe. And off course, if you happen to get one of those brainwaves of superhuman creativity, you could fry a fish on the frying pan. Not after standing on the frying pan wearing a thick, leather-soled shoe, though. So, ultimately, you need to prioritise.

July 29 - August 10, 2009 (Days 7789/90 - 7801/2)

Sometimes, an extremely powerful external stimulus is needed for you to really know yourself.

July 27 - 28, 2009 (Days 7787/8 - 7788/9)

There is only one thing worse than doing something efficiently which doesn't need to be done in the first place. And that is, doing something inefficiently which needs to be done.

July 20 - 26 (Days 7780/1 - 7786/7)

Squandering away the present in the hope of a bright future but with the experiential expectation of a dismal one, isn't a great strategy. The obviousness of this fact can be comprehended only in hindsight, though.

July 19, 2009 (Day 7779/80)

Despite the fact that it sucks, the Earth is a beautiful place to live in, or at least, I have trained my mind to believe that. No difference.

July 18, 2009 (Days 7778/9)

The penchant for searching for patterns where there are none is perhaps the second most annoying feature of a human being. The most annoying being his mere existence.

July 17, 2009 (Days 7777/8)

Why do humans have to be obsessed with whether life is good or bad? Can’t life just be?

July 14-16, 2009 (Days 7774/5-7776/7)

The fact that almost every human has the option to not only enjoy every single moment of his/her life but also end his/her life the moment he/she can’t, contradicts the fact the human race is on the whole a pretty miserable lot.

July 11-13, 2009 (Days 7771/2 – 7773/4)

Reading and studying are two entirely different tasks, and any confusion between the two should be made a criminal offence.

July 10, 2009 (Day 7770/1)

You know you are a true nihilist when you are not the slightest bit thrilled about solving a cryptic crossword completely for the first time in your life.

July 7-9, 2009 (Days 7768/9 – 7770/1)

Human irrationality is perhaps the biggest mystery of the universe, after human arrogance.

June 27, 2009 (Day 7758/9)

Normally, future plans remain just those: future plans.