Another end and Another beginning

There goes another year, as always.It may be a cliché to say time flies but the truth is it does , faster than you think .You cannot do anything about it but only feel sad that you are another year older . My age is my most hated number. Definitely !!. I turned 25 this year and it pained when I thought “I am quarter of a century old” . It is just one more than 24 but the number 25 hit me . May be it is because till 24 I was the same what I was at 20 . There were no significant changes in me and I didn’t give a heck about it either. But turning 25 I felt like age is catching up and that the world is a lot younger than me unlike till the day before my birthday when it looked a lot older . Gone are the days when all the achievers on TV were older than me and I thought when I am their age I would do something at least half as good as what they did . But now Sania Mirza and Wayne Rooney are already world famous and super rich and both are a cool half a decade younger than me . Cricket teams used to be made of old people but now many captains are younger than me. So should I stop kidding around , be more serious in life ,act like a responsible adult and try to achieve something .May be but I have no idea how to do that . I feel like a fool.
So should I plan for the whole year now ? I cant, even if I want to . I don’t even know what is going to happen a month from now and how the heck can I plan for a year . I think I should at least be making some New Year resolutions .Oh no , no way . I don’t make any new year resolutions and I wont ever. I cant live a whole year without binging on junk food , I cant get up before 10 in the morning or stop ogling shamelessly at girls. I didn’t plan or make any new year resolutions last year but I think I had a good if not a great year . I came back from UK , went to my first rock concert , had a good time in Mumbai for nearly 3 months , quizzed a lot, went places , made lots of friends , shifted jobs and with that shifted to a new city .There were a few failures and a few heartbreaks but then it is abnormal only if you don’t have them . So all I am going to do is eat some cake , drink some cola , greet everybody “A Happy New Year” and sleep expecting to have not a great year ahead but just another great “Tomorrow”.


WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR .STAY BEAUTIFUL.

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Enchanted

The last book I read was “Freakonomics” by Steven D. Levitt . A very unconventional and interesting book from one of the best minds living today . But the book took me more than 20 days to complete and was a bit of shame for me considering it was only a 200 page book . I am reading the 6^th book in the Harry potter series right now and I am sure I am gonna finish it today .I just started the book a week ago and it is a 608 page book and I don’t want to finish it either. I just cant put the book down and it is the only thing I have looked forward to after finishing work everyday in the past week . So why the difference ?. What makes Harry Potter so interesting ? Why are even adults engrossed in the book while it is meant to be a children’s book ? So why do people who think it is kiddish to read Harry Potter turn fans just after they read the first book ? Whats so gripping about this book that kids connect so much with the main character that they don’t want Harry Potter to die in the last book.

These are the reasons why I think so.

The Magic World - Not many stories in the world can boost of creating a world of its own that makes many kids think it may well be true . This according to me was one of the primary reasons why this book became a phenomenon . The meticulous effort of the author that has gone into creating the magic world is definitely laudable .The magic school , the ministry of magic , quidditich – the game played by the wizards , the Hogwarts express , the moving photographs and many more have all become a craze in the real world . I really understood why a movie cant really stand up to its adapted book how ever high tech it is made when I saw the first potter movie . I really enjoyed reading the authors description of the magic world but the movie didn’t even create an impression and felt sorry for those who are seeing the movie without reading the book. I have stopped watching potter movies or for that matter any adapted movie.

The main character Harry Potter - People or rather Muggles who don’t follow Harry Potter think it’s the story of another Super Hero . The fact is he is not even portrayed as a talented boy . He is an ordinary kid who is ill-treated by his guardian family and somehow couldn’t come into terms with the magic world he is told he belongs to .A very normal character with emotions that you can expect from any kid. In fact , if I remember correctly not in all the first 6 books has Harry done a great act of wizardry considering that he is the main character . He doesn’t do that well in exams , cant understand the classes properly and is always helped by someone or something to get out of trouble . Every character in the book pities Harry Potter and it is same with the reader too . But this is the reason what makes me wait impatiently for the next book . I really am interested on how the seventh book is going to be knowing well about this character and how it is going to do what it is supposed to.

The story telling and narration . If you think Harry potter books are written one and one , you are definitely wrong . At least the main characters , happenings and twists were well conceived during the first book it self ,at least according to me . The book has many back and forth references that really amazes you and which is not possible if each book is stared afresh after the previous one . I can put a few examples here but it would be too technical. Also the narration is as gripping as it can ever get . Each book throws out a lot of mysteries and even though many are solved and many answers given you still have a feeling that only the last book is going to answer it all.

Well by now if you have got a feeling that I am a jobless and useless Harry Potter fan , you cant be more right .

So for all you muggles who haven’t read Harry Potter still ALOHOMORA!

If you are a potter fan reading this I really would like to know which potter book is ur favourite.

I liked the second one "Chamber of secrets " the most.