Popcorn by itself is just something to munch on, but combined with a movie, it is an experience!
The eternal optimist that I am, I find that there is something to say for the constant change in one’s dwelling. The excitement of a new place, the challenges of making a house into a home and testing one’s own powers of adapting to new situations.
We form clubs for laughter and guffaw artificially to keep fit. We laugh with the canned laughter at inane and moronic jokes and antics on the tube if we are really desperate. Is it that we have nothing to laugh about, or we don’t have the time to be with those we love to laugh at shared moments of joy?
At times an event, an experience or a discovery can be the defining moment in an adolescent or teenager’s life. Feel the pride, emotion and the exhilaration in her words as a little girl, now all grown up, strolls down memory lane!
Sometimes we have no control over events. Joey came to us because he was destined to.
‘Have you heard of removing a thorn with a thorn, and treating poison with poison?’ asked the younger brat with a wise look. ‘But I can’t poison her, for heaven’s sakes!’ I said miserably…
Nagging being in my blood, I wanted to capitalize on it. What better way to to do it than to call my blog after it? So The Cyber Nag was born!
He gave me one look with all the anger his four-year-old eyes could muster and sputtered, ‘In this whole world you are ……’ I could see him searching for the most indicting word to describe his heartless mother; ‘….the baddest mother!’ he finished and burst into tears.
Switch on the TV and you have all the channels holding ‘discussions’ on one topic or other. I am sick of the same spokespersons of the various parties — of the brazenness of the ruling coalition, the self righteousness of the Opposition, the judgmental tone of the Left. Pots calling kettles black.
The ASM (Automatic Searching Machine) that he has become, all the L&M has to do is hear the first words of my whine, ‘I can’t find…’ before he jumps up like a wound up toy and begins looking for it without even knowing what he is searching for.
Anger has become synonymous with power, strength and superiority. What’s more, the angry person feels self-righteous about the emotion. Anyone who is accommodating and considerate is either considered weak or the behaviour dubbed as sham. Putting oneself before everyone else is a virtue and highly recommended.
Written by a teenager it breaks all codes for books for young people. It is stark, portrays ugly truths about social inequality and has several violent scenes both direct and implied including a murder.
The Cybernag 
Mirror, mirror, on the wall
Adults often don’t think twice before speaking in front of a child. And when it concerns the child herself and the comments not charitable, it can be very disturbing for her. Fortunately for this little girl, things had a happy ending — but not before creating a storm in her heart.