10 Reasons Why Magic Rocks..!!

1. You get to walk through a wall. have an owl as a pet, and basically get free rein to be weird (without judgement).

2. Who needs elevators and lifts when you have moving staircases?

3. Where else can people in photos walk and talk and even move to other frames?

4. One word for it: Quidditch!!!

5. Cheat the traffic - Just Apparate..

6. Wands: Remember - you don't choose them. They choose you.

7. Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes : for all the pranks and practical jokes that you could ever think of ! (and some that you would NEVER think of..!!)

8. Dragons, Flying carpets, Mermaids, and Unicorns would no longer be just fairy tales

9. Where ghosts and poltergeists are as common occurrences as cabbages and corns.

10. You'd get to meet Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore - mind you, he in his portrait would be more compelling and brilliant than half the people you'd meet in the Muggle world.

Parcel...

The day began as any other. Long discussions and numerous arguments about what work to do and how to do it. And there was me- trying to absorb all the relevant information while filtering out the mundane. Many hours later I got the time to check my over-flowing inbox. 

Something caught my eye: A mail about collecting a courier. I ignored it - deducing it to be a brochure of the many colleges that I had applied to. After all, I had my work for the day cut out for me. The long discussions had to be put to "billable efforts". I forgot all about the mail and got neck-deep into work.

Afternoon came- and with it came the reminder to collect the courier. Deciding to get it over with, I went to the mail-room. And there it was. Wrapped in a white-and-yellow glossy polythene. The things I had ordered about a week back but had totally forgotten about it because of the grueling office hours. My face broke into a huge grin and I could not wait to sign for it and tear it open to see the contents with my own eyes.   

I got out of the mail-room as soon as possible and ripped open the parcel. Ripped open the gift-wrapping even faster. And finally saw my contents. The glossy cover. The smell of the pages. The anticipation of the story.

Yes. My two books were finally delivered today. The first time ever I did online-shopping for the books.

And the feeling of holding an yet-unread book: Priceless!

Can't wait to start "The Shiva Trilogy" by Amish Tripathi

Yes. I am a book-worm and proud of it!

4.30 am and Insomnia's my friend!

Well Well.. Here I am. Never thought that the day would come when me- the paper and pen girl- would start blogging. But thanks ( or curses) to someone special - Here I am.

I am already high on the excitement of creating my first blog and even though my eyes are drooping down, my brain is ever-alert. It doesn't matter that it's 4.30 in the morning, doesn't matter that I have to catch a bus at 8.15am to my office, doesn't matter that once there, I will have to work in front of a computer for 9 more hours. What matters is the right here and the right now. This one little thing that I did today broke the monotony of my existence. It gave a sense of joy to my otherwise mundane week. It made me happy, content and satisfied.

And if we really are honest with ourselves, isn't that what we are all looking for? The quiet satisfaction of a happy life and the courage to break the monotony?