C. Suresh's articles The Comparison game Like all of us, my first introduction to this comparison game was as a child. Of course, I had no idea that this is the game I was expected to play, and excel in, all my life. In fact, this was what most people called life. There I went, grinning from ear to ear and […] August 20, 2018August 20, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Moral of the story As a kid, the words I used to dread were, ‘So, tell me, what is the moral of the story?' Invariably, whatever I understood from the story turned out to be absolutely wrong and would end up with a long dreary lecture…when the adult telling the story is in a good mood, that is. When […] August 13, 2018August 13, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Impressing people – the easy way You know, every time I see people looking at me, impressed with my intelligence or my sense of humor or whatever, I do not even have to pinch myself. I know I must be dreaming. The thing is, it is so damn difficult impressing people. I mean, when someone has shared a thought, I have […] August 6, 2018August 6, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked A license to be rude It is either that there is a strong streak of masochism in me or that I feel it is better to be criticized than to be ignored. AND, believe me, I do know there is that alternative of being praised but THAT is an alternative that seems to exist only for other people. So, there […] July 30, 2018July 30, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Only what I owe "People are so demanding. They are never content", I burst out as soon as I sighted my friend. ‘There he goes again', I hear you saying, and how right you are. My friends seem never to disappoint you in invariably disappointing me. "What now?" Why that world-weary tone creeps into the voice of my friends […] July 23, 2018July 23, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Communication Lessons III You know, this wiring diagram idea of human reactions really had something in it. I know, I have not had much success with my phrases but I think that there are these words that act like buttons that evoke defined reactions. My friend has a theory about it. The chap says people really hate thinking, […] July 16, 2018July 16, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Communication Lessons II I have always been a people-pleaser. Or, more realistically, a people-pleaser-trier, if that makes any sense. You know, the sort of guy who always tries to please people but… So, of course, I was finding it tough to understand why I do not succeed. Why, despite that permanent ingratiating smile on my face, and those […] July 2, 2018July 2, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Communication Lessons What is the one question that almost all human beings seek the answer for? For most of their lives? Yeah, I know, there are those strange beings who want "Who am I?" answered or even,"Why do I exist?" or, if they are really verging on insanity, "Do I exist?" (And, no, I do not think […] June 25, 2018June 25, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Bilbliophilic elitism You know, the worst of claiming to be a reader is that people assume you are well-read. The problem is the books that they expect you to have read. Murakami makes me yawn, Arundhati Roy puts me to sleep and Salman Rushdie stresses me out more than my job ever did. Things have come to […] June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Quantum Facts You know, as usual, I am behind the curve. If that is the right thing to say of my sort of person. You know, the guy who wears narrow trousers when bell-bottoms are all the rage and proudly struts around in bell-bottoms when the world is gaga over jeans. That sort of person. So, yes, […] June 11, 2018June 11, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Confidence Lessons-III The times, they are a changing. And, in the process of changing, they can rob you of confidence as well. Not merely as in finding that your nephew knows more about how to deal with the world than you do because the world now prefers to be dealt with by a smartphone rather than in […] June 4, 2018June 4, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Confidence Lessons-II Maybe my friend is right. I have not even taken the first step towards appearing confident. I mean, when I do not even think that I have a right to my opinion, how can I ever appear confident? Even the baby in diapers, these days, is sure that it has a right to its opinion […] May 28, 2018May 28, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Confidence Lessons This confidence thing always has me beat. Not the thing about ‘being confident', that's relatively a simple affair especially when you stick to doing what you know how to do. Like sleeping. The bugbear for me has always been ‘appearing confident'. Like the time when I was first appearing for interviews. About the first thing […] May 21, 2018May 21, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Empathy? I was reading this poem that kept popping up on my timeline on Facebook. I know, I know, I hardly ever read poetry because I never really understand it. But, what can you do if it keeps popping up? If you do not read it, you will be left behind and cut a sorry figure […] May 14, 2018May 14, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked How you ought to live – IV There are those people who have a rather wholesale idea about thinking up ways for ‘How you ought to live'. Most people are content dealing with people on a piecemeal basis but these…they are more ambitious. They prefer to deal with ALL people; to tell ALL of them how they ought to live. There was […] May 7, 2018May 7, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked How you ought to live – III This micro-managing of life, it is not all about ‘How you ought to eat' though that has been the most vexing thing for me. I mean, yeah, I am of those who ‘live to eat' but I do not much fancy the idea of living my whole life learning how to eat. I have accepted […] April 30, 2018April 30, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked How you ought to live – II I had no idea that there was so much micro-managing possible when people set out to decide how other people ought to live. I was sort of relieved once I got to college, assuming that being told how I ought to live was all done and dusted now that I had succumbed to all that […] April 23, 2018April 23, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked How you ought to live By now it is no surprise to anyone that the only two grey cells in my brain are not on talking terms with each other. So, I obviously have great difficulty in deciding how I ought to live. Thankfully, though, the world is full of people who spend a lot of time on thinking about […] April 16, 2018April 16, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Timely Help Kaalatthaal seidha udhavi siridheninum gnalatthin maana peridu – Tirukkural Timely help, however low in value, is worth more than all the world – Loose translation. There I was, as usual, with a friend asking for advice. (I know, by now you are wondering why I go to the guy since I invariably get the stick […] April 9, 2018April 9, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Becoming modern You know, as you keep aging you keep getting dated. The bell-bottoms, which were the acme of fashionable dressing, make people think that you are a clown escaped from a circus. The hair poking out of the neck of your shirt is no longer macho – only a sign of bad grooming identifying you as […] April 2, 2018April 2, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Discussions I may have mentioned this before. I really do have very peculiar notions of most things in life. No wonder whenever I am in a group of people, there is this air of people in a zoo looking at the duck-billed platypus or some such rarity. So, it really is no surprise that what I […] March 26, 2018March 26, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Homo Contradictus God must have been in a particularly capricious mood when he created us humans. Or, perhaps, like all of us, he left everything to the last moment and, when he felt the deadline pressure of those 7 days, bunged in the brain without properly debugging it. As usual in such cases, it is we who […] March 19, 2018March 19, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Opinions I really need someone to explain this opinions thing. I mean, yeah, it is not like I never had any, I have some but the problem seems to be that I am one of those mundane guys who can only have opinions about things that directly impinge on me. You know, like this summer is […] March 12, 2018March 12, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Change I hate change! Oh! I know, you guys will all come around preaching sententiously that change is the only constant and I should not be such a stick-in-the-mud and all the huge collection of cliches that pass for wisdom in the world. But…I HATE CHANGE. Maybe, just maybe, if the darned thing happened in small […] March 5, 2018March 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Writer's block I kept hearing of this thing called ‘Writer's block', which keeps writers from writing, and wondered exactly what it could be. Possibly laziness, possibly boredom and given a nice fancy name so they could feel important about it, I supposed. I mean, come on, ever heard of an ‘Accountant's Block'? Where the figures suddenly danced […] January 15, 2018January 15, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Another Humorist There is this problem with being a humorist. You keep guessing the punchline, expecting kinky ways of describing things and so on, to the extent that when someone says that there is another guy who writes humor, you are almost like, ‘Oh! Yeah! Let me see." Not because of any competitive envy but because when […] January 8, 2018January 8, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Aadhaared I thought technology would make life easy for me. "Aha! That's what YOU think", they say, and get to work to ensure that life becomes even more complicated. Take this recent rush of Aadhaar seeding for all investments. (Ah! No! No! ‘Bhakts' need not foam at the mouth nor ‘sickulars' drool, this has nothing to […] December 10, 2017December 11, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked A trek to Kudremukh When you board a train for a trek and, within minutes find someone else claiming, "25 is MY berth" only to later find that his berth is 26, it can be smiled away. Half an hour later if another person comes and says indignantly, "25 is MY berth" and later discovers that he has 27, […] December 4, 2017December 4, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Parsimony I have never understood why we are so unjust to some words. I mean, look, we have words meaning practically the same thing and one word we sort of consider embrace like a long-lost friend and the other we twitch our skirts away and walk around as though it is a turd lying on your […] November 13, 2017November 13, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Dogged by the discerning Into everyone's life some rain must fall. The problem, though, is that when it comes to my life it falls continuously and with all the fury of a Bombay monsoon. This particular occasion, though, I intend shedding copious tears about how little appreciated I am. You know, everybody seems to have a crowd of people […] November 6, 2017November 6, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Low hanging fruit There are two ways to be considered learned. One is to know things that most people do not know. The other is to talk of things in a manner that people do not know or readily recognize.You would be pardoned for thinking that all of management consists of finding out pithy terms for things that […] October 30, 2017October 30, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked This game called Bridge Ever heard of this card game called Bridge? One of the stupidest games I have ever heard of, let me tell you. I mean, yes, I know games need not necessarily be about real life. Like, nowadays, people seem to play about in dungeons with dragons and all, so, yes, it can get real weird […] October 23, 2017October 23, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Acronyms You know, it is difficult to imagine what the world would be like without acronyms. Especially in the social sciences. I rather fancy that 90% of the work of social scientists is devising the acronyms to capture the attention of people. It certainly seemed that way in Management. There was this time when an ‘alphabet […] October 16, 2017October 16, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Freedom of Speech I wish I had been born a generation later. So many things have changed for the better for the child that it would have made a tremendous improvement to my childhood experience if only I had not been born too early to take advantage of it. "Suresh! What is Boyle's law?" "It explains why milk […] October 2, 2017October 2, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Argumentum ad populum THIS should certainly have got the academics into hot water. I mean, ‘Vox Populi, Vox Dei' (The voice of the people is the voice of God) after all and these guys have the gall to say that to consider something correct because it is the popular belief is a logical fallacy? Come on, did anyone […] September 25, 2017September 25, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Survivorship bias You know, there are some things that seem so apparent when someone says it but never as clear when it happens in real life. Take this ‘survivorship bias' for example. It is a widely prevalent logical fallacy. Like all logical fallacies, this too is one of those things which you nod wisely when you hear […] September 18, 2017September 18, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Argumentum ad baculum Academics are such spoilsports. If you find an easy way to do things, they find a way to tell you why it is wrong and why you should not be allowed to do it. Of course, not that what they say stops you from doing what you really want to do but…you know, it is […] September 11, 2017September 11, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Tu quoque (There seems to be a promo by Amazon of my book "A Dog eat Dog-food World" which has been made available at about 30% of the list price. So, for a princely sum of Rs. 29/= you can possess and read the ebook. Click on the yellow book-cover to the right) Have you wondered why […] September 4, 2017September 4, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Vicarious I have always been a big fan of living life vicariously. Real life is so damned messy. I mean, it is much easier to do things vicariously – people behave in predictable ways when it is all in the mind. You know, like parents can go all gaga and support love marriages on movies cos […] August 28, 2017August 28, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Life is like this! Fate does play some scurvy tricks on you. I mean, you do know that sort of thing. You visit someone's house along with friends, the meal is…err…the sort of thing that you have to swallow like medicine with copious draughts of water and one of your friends makes fun of the cooking. You, later on, […] August 21, 2017August 21, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Loading Load more
The Comparison game Like all of us, my first introduction to this comparison game was as a child. Of course, I had no idea that this is the game I was expected to play, and excel in, all my life. In fact, this was what most people called life. There I went, grinning from ear to ear and […] August 20, 2018August 20, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Moral of the story As a kid, the words I used to dread were, ‘So, tell me, what is the moral of the story?' Invariably, whatever I understood from the story turned out to be absolutely wrong and would end up with a long dreary lecture…when the adult telling the story is in a good mood, that is. When […] August 13, 2018August 13, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Impressing people – the easy way You know, every time I see people looking at me, impressed with my intelligence or my sense of humor or whatever, I do not even have to pinch myself. I know I must be dreaming. The thing is, it is so damn difficult impressing people. I mean, when someone has shared a thought, I have […] August 6, 2018August 6, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A license to be rude It is either that there is a strong streak of masochism in me or that I feel it is better to be criticized than to be ignored. AND, believe me, I do know there is that alternative of being praised but THAT is an alternative that seems to exist only for other people. So, there […] July 30, 2018July 30, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Only what I owe "People are so demanding. They are never content", I burst out as soon as I sighted my friend. ‘There he goes again', I hear you saying, and how right you are. My friends seem never to disappoint you in invariably disappointing me. "What now?" Why that world-weary tone creeps into the voice of my friends […] July 23, 2018July 23, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Communication Lessons III You know, this wiring diagram idea of human reactions really had something in it. I know, I have not had much success with my phrases but I think that there are these words that act like buttons that evoke defined reactions. My friend has a theory about it. The chap says people really hate thinking, […] July 16, 2018July 16, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Communication Lessons II I have always been a people-pleaser. Or, more realistically, a people-pleaser-trier, if that makes any sense. You know, the sort of guy who always tries to please people but… So, of course, I was finding it tough to understand why I do not succeed. Why, despite that permanent ingratiating smile on my face, and those […] July 2, 2018July 2, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Communication Lessons What is the one question that almost all human beings seek the answer for? For most of their lives? Yeah, I know, there are those strange beings who want "Who am I?" answered or even,"Why do I exist?" or, if they are really verging on insanity, "Do I exist?" (And, no, I do not think […] June 25, 2018June 25, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Bilbliophilic elitism You know, the worst of claiming to be a reader is that people assume you are well-read. The problem is the books that they expect you to have read. Murakami makes me yawn, Arundhati Roy puts me to sleep and Salman Rushdie stresses me out more than my job ever did. Things have come to […] June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Quantum Facts You know, as usual, I am behind the curve. If that is the right thing to say of my sort of person. You know, the guy who wears narrow trousers when bell-bottoms are all the rage and proudly struts around in bell-bottoms when the world is gaga over jeans. That sort of person. So, yes, […] June 11, 2018June 11, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Confidence Lessons-III The times, they are a changing. And, in the process of changing, they can rob you of confidence as well. Not merely as in finding that your nephew knows more about how to deal with the world than you do because the world now prefers to be dealt with by a smartphone rather than in […] June 4, 2018June 4, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Confidence Lessons-II Maybe my friend is right. I have not even taken the first step towards appearing confident. I mean, when I do not even think that I have a right to my opinion, how can I ever appear confident? Even the baby in diapers, these days, is sure that it has a right to its opinion […] May 28, 2018May 28, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Confidence Lessons This confidence thing always has me beat. Not the thing about ‘being confident', that's relatively a simple affair especially when you stick to doing what you know how to do. Like sleeping. The bugbear for me has always been ‘appearing confident'. Like the time when I was first appearing for interviews. About the first thing […] May 21, 2018May 21, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Empathy? I was reading this poem that kept popping up on my timeline on Facebook. I know, I know, I hardly ever read poetry because I never really understand it. But, what can you do if it keeps popping up? If you do not read it, you will be left behind and cut a sorry figure […] May 14, 2018May 14, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How you ought to live – IV There are those people who have a rather wholesale idea about thinking up ways for ‘How you ought to live'. Most people are content dealing with people on a piecemeal basis but these…they are more ambitious. They prefer to deal with ALL people; to tell ALL of them how they ought to live. There was […] May 7, 2018May 7, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How you ought to live – III This micro-managing of life, it is not all about ‘How you ought to eat' though that has been the most vexing thing for me. I mean, yeah, I am of those who ‘live to eat' but I do not much fancy the idea of living my whole life learning how to eat. I have accepted […] April 30, 2018April 30, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How you ought to live – II I had no idea that there was so much micro-managing possible when people set out to decide how other people ought to live. I was sort of relieved once I got to college, assuming that being told how I ought to live was all done and dusted now that I had succumbed to all that […] April 23, 2018April 23, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How you ought to live By now it is no surprise to anyone that the only two grey cells in my brain are not on talking terms with each other. So, I obviously have great difficulty in deciding how I ought to live. Thankfully, though, the world is full of people who spend a lot of time on thinking about […] April 16, 2018April 16, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Timely Help Kaalatthaal seidha udhavi siridheninum gnalatthin maana peridu – Tirukkural Timely help, however low in value, is worth more than all the world – Loose translation. There I was, as usual, with a friend asking for advice. (I know, by now you are wondering why I go to the guy since I invariably get the stick […] April 9, 2018April 9, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Becoming modern You know, as you keep aging you keep getting dated. The bell-bottoms, which were the acme of fashionable dressing, make people think that you are a clown escaped from a circus. The hair poking out of the neck of your shirt is no longer macho – only a sign of bad grooming identifying you as […] April 2, 2018April 2, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Discussions I may have mentioned this before. I really do have very peculiar notions of most things in life. No wonder whenever I am in a group of people, there is this air of people in a zoo looking at the duck-billed platypus or some such rarity. So, it really is no surprise that what I […] March 26, 2018March 26, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Homo Contradictus God must have been in a particularly capricious mood when he created us humans. Or, perhaps, like all of us, he left everything to the last moment and, when he felt the deadline pressure of those 7 days, bunged in the brain without properly debugging it. As usual in such cases, it is we who […] March 19, 2018March 19, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Opinions I really need someone to explain this opinions thing. I mean, yeah, it is not like I never had any, I have some but the problem seems to be that I am one of those mundane guys who can only have opinions about things that directly impinge on me. You know, like this summer is […] March 12, 2018March 12, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Change I hate change! Oh! I know, you guys will all come around preaching sententiously that change is the only constant and I should not be such a stick-in-the-mud and all the huge collection of cliches that pass for wisdom in the world. But…I HATE CHANGE. Maybe, just maybe, if the darned thing happened in small […] March 5, 2018March 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Writer's block I kept hearing of this thing called ‘Writer's block', which keeps writers from writing, and wondered exactly what it could be. Possibly laziness, possibly boredom and given a nice fancy name so they could feel important about it, I supposed. I mean, come on, ever heard of an ‘Accountant's Block'? Where the figures suddenly danced […] January 15, 2018January 15, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Another Humorist There is this problem with being a humorist. You keep guessing the punchline, expecting kinky ways of describing things and so on, to the extent that when someone says that there is another guy who writes humor, you are almost like, ‘Oh! Yeah! Let me see." Not because of any competitive envy but because when […] January 8, 2018January 8, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Aadhaared I thought technology would make life easy for me. "Aha! That's what YOU think", they say, and get to work to ensure that life becomes even more complicated. Take this recent rush of Aadhaar seeding for all investments. (Ah! No! No! ‘Bhakts' need not foam at the mouth nor ‘sickulars' drool, this has nothing to […] December 10, 2017December 11, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A trek to Kudremukh When you board a train for a trek and, within minutes find someone else claiming, "25 is MY berth" only to later find that his berth is 26, it can be smiled away. Half an hour later if another person comes and says indignantly, "25 is MY berth" and later discovers that he has 27, […] December 4, 2017December 4, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Parsimony I have never understood why we are so unjust to some words. I mean, look, we have words meaning practically the same thing and one word we sort of consider embrace like a long-lost friend and the other we twitch our skirts away and walk around as though it is a turd lying on your […] November 13, 2017November 13, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Dogged by the discerning Into everyone's life some rain must fall. The problem, though, is that when it comes to my life it falls continuously and with all the fury of a Bombay monsoon. This particular occasion, though, I intend shedding copious tears about how little appreciated I am. You know, everybody seems to have a crowd of people […] November 6, 2017November 6, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Low hanging fruit There are two ways to be considered learned. One is to know things that most people do not know. The other is to talk of things in a manner that people do not know or readily recognize.You would be pardoned for thinking that all of management consists of finding out pithy terms for things that […] October 30, 2017October 30, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
This game called Bridge Ever heard of this card game called Bridge? One of the stupidest games I have ever heard of, let me tell you. I mean, yes, I know games need not necessarily be about real life. Like, nowadays, people seem to play about in dungeons with dragons and all, so, yes, it can get real weird […] October 23, 2017October 23, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Acronyms You know, it is difficult to imagine what the world would be like without acronyms. Especially in the social sciences. I rather fancy that 90% of the work of social scientists is devising the acronyms to capture the attention of people. It certainly seemed that way in Management. There was this time when an ‘alphabet […] October 16, 2017October 16, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Freedom of Speech I wish I had been born a generation later. So many things have changed for the better for the child that it would have made a tremendous improvement to my childhood experience if only I had not been born too early to take advantage of it. "Suresh! What is Boyle's law?" "It explains why milk […] October 2, 2017October 2, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Argumentum ad populum THIS should certainly have got the academics into hot water. I mean, ‘Vox Populi, Vox Dei' (The voice of the people is the voice of God) after all and these guys have the gall to say that to consider something correct because it is the popular belief is a logical fallacy? Come on, did anyone […] September 25, 2017September 25, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Survivorship bias You know, there are some things that seem so apparent when someone says it but never as clear when it happens in real life. Take this ‘survivorship bias' for example. It is a widely prevalent logical fallacy. Like all logical fallacies, this too is one of those things which you nod wisely when you hear […] September 18, 2017September 18, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Argumentum ad baculum Academics are such spoilsports. If you find an easy way to do things, they find a way to tell you why it is wrong and why you should not be allowed to do it. Of course, not that what they say stops you from doing what you really want to do but…you know, it is […] September 11, 2017September 11, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Tu quoque (There seems to be a promo by Amazon of my book "A Dog eat Dog-food World" which has been made available at about 30% of the list price. So, for a princely sum of Rs. 29/= you can possess and read the ebook. Click on the yellow book-cover to the right) Have you wondered why […] September 4, 2017September 4, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Vicarious I have always been a big fan of living life vicariously. Real life is so damned messy. I mean, it is much easier to do things vicariously – people behave in predictable ways when it is all in the mind. You know, like parents can go all gaga and support love marriages on movies cos […] August 28, 2017August 28, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life is like this! Fate does play some scurvy tricks on you. I mean, you do know that sort of thing. You visit someone's house along with friends, the meal is…err…the sort of thing that you have to swallow like medicine with copious draughts of water and one of your friends makes fun of the cooking. You, later on, […] August 21, 2017August 21, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked