Well this post is just about the travelogue I am reading. I just completed it.
It is titled " Smokes and mirrors" . It is authored by Pallavi Aiyar and It is about her seven years stay in china from 2004 onwards.
I was eagerly waiting for the book and eventually I found it my college library. I liked her articles which used to come in the Sunday Magazine which comes with the Sunday edition of The Hindu.
It deals with her experience living in China witnessing the change as china passed through events like SARS, The Beijing Olympics and everything.
Till now most of the travelogues we read are all written by western writers and It truly offers a different view of china. The view from the eyes of a Indian.
Project gutenberg where I volunteer
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Optimism
The optimistic mood was slightly marred for a couple of days turning me pessimistic and snarly.
When i am in a snarly mood which is itself a rarity I snarl at everyone, talk in a cryptic way, bug people, loathe interference.
Luckily I have a great actually awesome band of friends. living in a hostel with no hope of seeing your siblings and parents for 6 months makes my wingies (as people in the same wing of hostel are called) your family.We go out together for eating, for those night snacks, play games, sometimes just chitchat. This is itself a stress buster.
Once I am out of my snarly mood I feel weird because I might have hurt someone close to me and that person might be doing a good job keeping up with it. I might have uttered something nonsensical which again hurts sometimes. SO I have devised my very own control process of channelizing my anger playing "Call of duty".
For those of you who don't know It is the most awesome game invented. It is a FPS shooter game and post some on laptop violence i feel considerably better. I am a pacifist by ideology but I do admit there has to be some way to channelize the hurt and this is my way.
But again back to optimism..
optimism makes you believe there is a bright future ahead. It causes you to innovate have a positive outlook to life.
I remember this paragraph of a well known Hindi song a best suited one I would say.
Hum hain rahi pyaar ke,
chalna apna kaam,
Pal bhar main ho jaayege,
Har mushkil aasan,
Hausala na haarenge,
hum toh baazi maarenge.
When i am in a snarly mood which is itself a rarity I snarl at everyone, talk in a cryptic way, bug people, loathe interference.
Luckily I have a great actually awesome band of friends. living in a hostel with no hope of seeing your siblings and parents for 6 months makes my wingies (as people in the same wing of hostel are called) your family.We go out together for eating, for those night snacks, play games, sometimes just chitchat. This is itself a stress buster.
Once I am out of my snarly mood I feel weird because I might have hurt someone close to me and that person might be doing a good job keeping up with it. I might have uttered something nonsensical which again hurts sometimes. SO I have devised my very own control process of channelizing my anger playing "Call of duty".
For those of you who don't know It is the most awesome game invented. It is a FPS shooter game and post some on laptop violence i feel considerably better. I am a pacifist by ideology but I do admit there has to be some way to channelize the hurt and this is my way.
But again back to optimism..
optimism makes you believe there is a bright future ahead. It causes you to innovate have a positive outlook to life.
I remember this paragraph of a well known Hindi song a best suited one I would say.
Hum hain rahi pyaar ke,
chalna apna kaam,
Pal bhar main ho jaayege,
Har mushkil aasan,
Hausala na haarenge,
hum toh baazi maarenge.
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