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I didn’t die, thankfully, because it was not poisonous. I promise, I didn’t know then that an ounce of poison would be enough to kill a person. I plucked the fruit from the (False) Ashoka tree and ate it so cautiously, little by little and I survived. Now I can say that this fruit is edible but not tasty. It had all happened in my school days. We had a very old park behind our school and that was our lunchtime play area. It got place for all the games and we mostly played the run and catch (Tag) game. We took rest on the branches of the Ashoka trees when the catcher is not good at climbing the trees. That was actually unfair but we had no rules to stop it. These old trees got too much of fruits - in bunches like the grape cluster, and we couldn’t resist plucking them and throwing, after all, what else you would do as a kid? I perfectly remember the old mango tree in one of our schoolmates home. It was great pleasure spending time under that tree. We used play Marble and Top game...

Love is Blind. I am sure those who believe in this will never attempt to define what love is. And those who never believe in love won’t be interested in defining it either. Let me take an exception and try to get the definition of love, love in the context of men and women. It is an absolute trouble to be in between and try to define it. Anyway, no harm in giving it a try. What is love? Let me share few of my friends’ love stories and try to extract some insights that can enlighten me a bit. D and C were in love. Their parents didn’t approve of it. C is so religious. She was waiting for God’s mercy instead of a register marriage and made D too wait. She got married to someone else (God’s will!) and then D too married another girl. They both are leading a happy life of their own now. Thought: Can’t there be anything else superior than love, like C’s belief in God? Can the love turn into hatred? J and R’s marriage is a love marriage. They got a lovely daughter now and I am sure they ...

★★★★☆ Self-help books are easier to read. It becomes simplest if you keep reading many of them. About 100 pages long, I was happy the moment I got book “Life is Tremendous” since I felt I would finish reading this book in few hours. That was indeed done. But what surprised me is the spark of inspiration found in the book here and there and powerful enough. Major portion of the book deals with the 7 laws of leadership and the rest is to discuss about the three significant decisions that we need to take in our life time — “Who is your life long partner?, What is going to be in your life?, and what is your life for?”. I am still not in a position to have my personal answers but these decisions make sense. Here are the 7 Laws of Leadership mentioned in the book: You must get excited about your work  If you don’t use something you have, you will eventually lose it.  Get your work to perfection  Give and you will get more  Allow yourself to experience more...

★★☆☆☆ I chose this book because I wanted to read all of Preeti Shenoy’s books. Since I have already read couple of her books, I can say that this book doesn’t have her touch. It is a bunch of articles written for Financial Chronicles column Sex and The City. The books talks about various love — relationship issues. It is obvious that the author has spent a lot of time on researching for this book. This book let you know of various problems that exist in love relationships. As the book covers so many sections in so few pages, I think the author doesn’t have space to give in-depth explanations and solutions. After reading few chapters, I thought I would pick the movies and books mentioned in this book and share. There are quite a number of mentions about songs, research papers, arts but they are little alien to me :) I don’t have any takeaway from this book apart from knowing there tons of issues exist. Books The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kunde...

I find it really challenging and interesting to read books in the predefined order. I tried it with my first list and I completed them successfully. Here is the second list of books. Of course, no promise that I will read them in the order. If I get some interesting new book I may start reading it. If I do so, I shall update it here in this post. 1984 George Orwell ★★★★☆  my note Why We Love The Way We Do Preeti Shenoy ★★☆☆☆  my note Life is Tremendous Charlie “Tremendous” Jones ★★★★☆  my note Great Stories for Children Ruskin Bond பிறகு பூமணி To be decided later -1 The Pillars of Consciousness Osho Standing on an Apple Box: The Story of a Girl among the Stars Aishwaryaa Rajinikanth Dhanush Paper Towns John Green To be decided later -2 The Room on the Roof Ruskin Bond The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate: Viewer Guide Gary Chapman சர்வம் ஸ்டாலின் மயம் மருதன் Delivering Happiness : A Path to Profits, Passion...

★★★★☆ How about the past tense of “run” is “runned” and “drink” is “drinked”? And opposite of “Good” is “Ungood” and that of “Cold” is “Uncold”? I love it. How can I “unlove” it? 😜 This was what they were doing for the Newspeak language mentioned in the book 1984 by George Orwell. War is Peace Freedom is Slavery  Ignorance is Strength  I can find the above slogans throughout book. Of course, that is what the book is explains. You can find a note on the slogans here . 1984 is written around World War II time, warns about the totalitarianism . It is really scary to imagine a life in the totalitarianism society. George Orwell wonderfully captures it through his protagonist Winston Smith. After reading the book, I watched the movie version of it directed by Michael Anderson. It is a good film to watch after reading the book. I think it would be little hard to appreciate the movie without prior reading of the book as the movie sequences are little faster...

As usual nothing unusual here :) I never thought I would get a chance to see a book like “ The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up ”.  I had gone through it. Interestingly I don’t find anything new in it for me! Of course, after all, I have been doing this tidying up work for several years now. My current challenge is in the form of digital contents. Yeah, I look like a mad person in this regard. Here are the things I wanted to do Clear WhatsApp images/videos/text Delete similar and common photos, basically if I don’t have time to rename them, they can be deleted. Remove screenshots that are not necessary Go through the songs and movies collections and reduce ruthlessly ;) It is really hard to say whether social networks are addictive or not. Oh, no no… it is easy to tell they are addictive. Last year, I thought I would check Facebook once in a week. But I was less frequent than that. I wanted to be more active this year. I hope I won’t get addicted. I didn’t read group ch...