Cheers To Life As I See It!

In my family, we have a practical habit which has now become a tradition, which is that of covering all our books with old newspaper. Well ...

The summer heat beat down on the ramshackle old car as it moved along the road, squeaking and squealing every step of the way. The driver, ...

I wrote this a long time ago on the back of a bus ticket printout. Just found it recently while cleaning out my desk, so thought I'd pu...

I just discovered that it is just as hard to try to fall asleep when you are wide awake as it is to try to wake up when you are fast asleep...

I have searched all day for inspiration for this post but have only drawn blanks everywhere I have looked. So I thought I'd write about...

I have often begun writing stories only to realise about halfway through that I am unconsciously basing my story on people I know or situat...

As this blog turns four years old,  the author is in a contemplative mood. So I do what I do best, stretch out on the couch, put on some so...

It was Thursday, the end of a very long day, not helped by the painful ankle caused by the car door slamming on my foot, the weekend no...

I am constantly amazed by the things you can do with +Google ! Yesterday I discovered Google Reader and Google News. I knew they existed ...

So here comes another year. Time to make (and break) all those new year resolutions. My new year resolution is very simple and not very ...

Dreams are the most magical and beautiful things for the simple reason that they may never come true. We may spin as amazing stories ...

Just felt like listing a few of my favourite things... Sunny days and clear blue skies The smell of wet earth just before the rain...

Everyone of us has a story to tell and no stories are the same. Each and every life and it's story figures in the tapestry of human his...

Writing about yourself is the hardest thing you shall ever have done. Just the very thought makes my forehead  frown and my stomach grumble...

I just discovered 2 things about myself today: I really need to write tasks down on paper to be able to complete them I really need to w...

There is one school of thought that subscribes to the theory that everything in life is about chance and that nothing is planned. So it doe...

Sometimes when life gets you down, it's good to count your blessings and just celebrate everything that is good about it, so that is ex...

It was a beautiful morning, sunlight filtered through the fresh green leaves which swayed gently in the breeze. As I looked out of the larg...

To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour... -...

When I look at the world around me today, I see a lot of amazing things happening. And yet there is something in me that yearns for times t...

There are days, not the best of days, which you wish would just end so that you could collapse into bed and it would be behind you. And the...

When night falls, the stars come out. There is no other word for it except spectacular, you can see them all around bright and sparkling an...

Getting away from the city is always refreshing but when the place you are getting away to is God's own country it is positively heaven...

Classrooms are magical places, they bring together people in a way that nothing else can. From the moment you cross that threshold, the out...

I visited Crossword bookstore yesterday and the sight that greeted me was heartwarming. The normally straight laced and perfectly ordere...

Moonlight shone brightly through the window and cast shadows around the room. The curtains fluttered in the gentle breeze from the open wind...

The phone rings, wakes her from a deep slumber. She reaches across to the nightstand and checks the readout on the caller ID, what could ...

Have you ever taken a bus ride in the middle of the day? It's absolute bliss, the roads are practically empty, the bus itself is empty, ...

(continued from... http://garbbled.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/rigmarole-vol-i/ ) ...creature called Twerp. He was a strange one, kept to hi...

So I have found the perfect solution to new year resolutions. Make the resolution in January but implement it in April. That way you have t...

Modern air travel has always fascinated me, the entire process from origin to destination is one that fills me with wonder. From the moment...

I heard a lot about Chennai before I went there. The heat would be unbearable, the roads would be narrow, the language would be a problem a...

What was so amazing about the falling rain? That all lovers claimed that the monsoons were the most romantic season of the year? He hated ...

There is dialogue from the movie 'Shall We Dance' that I really love. It goes like this: We need a witness to our lives. There...

You walk down the road, you purposefully turn left at the crossroads, you know exactly where you are going. You ignore all the emptiness th...

There is much sense in the saying 'stop and smell the roses'. That, along with many other sayings all say the same thing: enjoy the...

I should start off by explaining that without my glasses I am practically blind, hazy shapes and fuzzy colours are about all I can see! So a...

Just yesterday I was thinking of the most pointless things to ponder about. It started off with seeing a facebook status which was contempla...

The Sunday evening drew slowly to a close. The pale yellow light from lamp on the table by the far corner shed its warmth all around. The p...

Its official! Monsoons are over. October is almost here and the weather seems to know it. Clear blue skies, bright sunshine, fluffy white cl...

We come into this world with nothing, but as we go along our way we gather a lot of things but 'things' may be a bit ambiguous. Wha...

What is it about destruction that attracts us? Nobody ever wants it to happen to them but nevertheless everybody eagerly follows the news w...

There are many reasons to love the internet, I particularly like the fact that I can download sitcoms that I might not ordinarily have acces...

The last few books that I read (especially the order in which I read them) has really got me thinking. The simplest things are the easiest t...

Her fingers raced across the keys on her laptop. Even from the flickering reflection in the window of the bus, it was obvious that she was h...