Ah!!bugger...

I was young and a sucker for ghost stories. Its not that I got really scared by them, but I enjoyed the chills that you get, that rush of adrenaline when you walk into a dark room moments after watching a ghost movie or hearing a chilling tale of death and vengeance. So one night, living with my elder brother, I was going through his computer when I came across this picture. I was alone in the room and it was well into the night and the lights were dim, so no point denying it, I got the chills staring at this photograph. My brother walked in and I asked him what it was all about. He told me that this picture was clicked in the Sunderbans right off one of the watch towers. The moment the person taking the picture snapped it, he had a fit or something, fear and horror etched all over his face and fell to the ground. Before they could get him to the hospital, he was dead. The guy in the picture knew nothing of what might have caused such as sudden reaction in his friend. Well, not for

I'm really bored!

The first rays of the spring sunlight splashes the first wave of colour onto the world around us on this warm March morning. You can hear the taps running, the water flowing and the colours. A sea of every imaginable colour heaped into those churning waters as people prepare for the festival of colours. Holi or “Dol” as we call it, has arrived. Shops set up weeks in advance, boasting an arsenal of “pichkiri’s” and balloons.  But the star attraction of each is the myriad of colours. Heaped in vessels, packed in boxes, grainy, shiny, smooth and of every variety imaginable, ready to be applied onto a fellow reveler or to pour down upon an unsuspecting victim. Share colours, share joy.  A day when caste, creed, race, colour and personal indifferences are forgotten and replaced by the dab of “abir” on the forehead and the smile glowing bright on the people’s darkened faces. For those, for whom the thrill of revelry proves too much to take, are more than compensated by observing from a

Update 1: 7mins. 1-0. Koscielny!!!! BRillIAnt! Update 2: 26mins 2-0. Rosciky!!!!!! Oh my.. This cannot be happening!! you ARE listening?? Update 3: 43mins. 3-0. VAN PERCIE!!!!!!!! OH FUCK IT!! YOU'RE AWESOME!!! :'D Update 4: Alright. So its halftime. 3-0 win here but losing 3-4 on aggregate. 2 more goals. please!pretty please! Update 5: 59mins. How, Van Percie... how? 4yards from goal and you miss! COYG! Update 6: 75mins. Chamakh for Oxlade-Chamberlain..NOooo!! I'm losing hope now! Update 7: 90mins. And it ends 3-0. So close. 1 goal away from leveling the scores but not to be. The usual so near, yet so far, But fighting display today. Here's a proud and a mighty disappointed gunner fan signing out.