2012- Review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 1,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 3 years to get …

Book Review: Fear is the Key

Book: Fear is the Key Author: Alistair MacLean Year: 1961 "My red rose had turned to white." That is how the story begins in this vintage MacLean thriller. Set up in the Gulf of Mexico in the year 1958 it has, like many other MacLean books, the sea as an important part of the story. The love affair …

Ayesha-Rehan: 19.11.1996

Rehan, I got the news just yesterday. All I could ask God was "What's going to happen to his daughter?" In spite of all the misgivings and discomfort, I finally gathered the courage to visit her. What do you tell someone who has lost so much? Is there any possible thing that one can say …

Regret…

There are times in life when one doubts the very fabric of ones existence. Not only are they scarier than having a dead body in ones closet they have this bad habit of jarring ones sense of comfort and well being. Such jarring eye openers make us stop and wonder the very question that we …

I told her so…

I felt her warmth was just right, It was such that you couldn't let go. She was my secret delight. I told her so. I felt her tears were precious. That she should know That her soft demure was a suspense. I told her so. Her clinking laugh was beautiful And It made her glow. …

Journal Entry Two

Hello again! For those who haven't read Journal Entry One here it is! So, like I said, I listened to this shubh-chintak of mine and began writing a little more seriously. I had a blog which I ignored for a long time. There was a year, 2008 I think, where it was barren. Like totally barren! …