In my diary my musings and ramblings will not follow any chronological order. I hope this site exists when I am 90 years old so that I can come back to this instant in time. Please give your valuable comments.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Friday, February 1, 2013
Categories of People
Category 1 : Egoistic and selfish, high self esteem. Good talkers with average intelligence, with little morals or emotional empathy : They can motivate people and sway them rather for their own benefit than for others. Unfortunately most people I meet fall under this category with shades in between. When this category of people do something which appears unselfish it should be examined rather carefully for traps and pitfalls.
Category 2 : Egoistic with high self esteem but unselfish and principled, good talkers. They are the friends I want to make, those who will stand by one when the rats desert the sinking ship.
Category 3 : Meek, low self esteem with poor verbal skills and assertivity, What they think or do or morals are does not really matter as they don't often sway people's opinion or get into positions of real power. Such people are easily influenced by others more dominating than them. I like to think that I belong to category 2 rather than 3 although my verbal skills are pretty poor and self esteem sometimes lower than it should be. These are the 3 categories of people mainly though they are shades in between.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Wednesday 30th Jan 2013
I started making calculations for the important event scheduled for friday. I wonder what will happen? Will all the hard work go down the drain or if it will be successful or even partially so & what will work & what won't. I went for an eye checkup to a pretty expensive eye clinic for the eye floater problems which I am having for couple of months lately. The did a couple of eye tests- pressure, vision etc and cooly charged six hundred bucks, telling me i needed to come back again for some more tests as the result was not fully conclusive! The receptionist stared at my well worn shoes and looked doubtful if i could pay the fees, and two or three orderlies escorted me every step in the clinic.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Interpersonal politics
Monday, January 28, 2013
Great characters in fiction
In popular fiction there are a handful of characters who have exceeded their creators in fame and popularity. Two such who easily come to mind are Sherlock Holmes created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Potter by J K Rowling. Sherlock Holmes, the original cerebral detective was created by Sir Arthur CD in 17th century, in an age where there was no visual media, yet he became the benchmark for all later authors of crime fiction. His deductions were so startling and surprising and his mannerisms and physical appearance and gestures so 'singular' that they became iconic. Harry Potter, the beloved boy wizard is so popular that almost every other child knows about him and his adventures. In the visual age, his character has been bought to life on screen very suitably by Daniel Radcliffe. Few characters are there in child fiction who are as popular as Harry. In Enid Blyton's books of course we had characters we all identified with and were interested in like George in Famous Five books or Fatty in the Five find outers and dog. But these books revolved more around the mystery or adventure the characters get into rather than the central character. What makes these characters stand out more than any other. One must be the sheer originality of the character sketch. Sherlock Holmes was THE detective on which Agatha Christie sketched Hercule Poirot's quirks and Miss Marple's character.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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