Tragedy!!!!

Tragedy is when you are a celebrity hair stylist and you do not have a single hair (on your head )

Aalim Hakim

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Childhood memories – Hypnotism!!!!

Summer vacations were always the best part of my schooling days. This was the longest time that I got to spend at home considering the fact that I was always away during my school days. This was also the time when my aunt with her kids Mr. CR and Ms. LR visited us from Mumbai! It was fun time for us kids which included Mr.CR, Ms.LR my little sis Ms.SS and myself. We played all day long with games varying from lagori to cricket to hide and seek to ‘I shopkeeper’ where one of us became the shopkeeper and the other 3 were customers to the shop!!!! We the older ones always bullied the younger ones to be the shopkeeper while we played the irritating customers to the shop.  The paper cut into identical rectangles with numbers 10, 20, 50, 100 were our currency notes!!!

Of the 4 of us Mr. CR was the prankster who teamed up with either my little sis or me to play pranks on people. I shared a kind of love-hate relationship with him. I loved him when I teamed up with him to play pranks on others and hated him when I was the victim of his pranks and sometimes ridicule

One prank that Mr.CR played on our little siblings that I still remember is the HYPNOTISM prank. It still brings a smile on my face when I hear the word hypnotism.

One evening all 4 of us were lying on the floor and watching TV. I am not sure what we were watching but it showed a man doing  hypnotism on another! Both our younger siblings asked in unison what is hypnotism. It is always the duty of the elders to enlighten the younger ones, so we got into to the task of explaining it to them though  we ourselves knew very little

Just as we had finished explaining our siblings hypnotism, Mr.CR dropped the bomb!

Mr.CR : I know the basics of how to hypnotize. I had tried it on my friend sometime back and it worked. I made him bark like a dog.

Ms.SS & Ms.LR : Oh please stop it anna. We know you are bluffing as usual.

Mr.CR :Aree no no.. Trust me. If you don’t believe me, why not I try it on you both and then you can be sure if it works or not.

Here I am quick enough to extend my support to Mr.CR.

Me : Yes, let him try it on you both and then you can be sure if he is lying or not. What say?

Both Ms.SS and  Ms. LR seem convinced with my argument and they accept to be hypnotized. Meanwhile Mr.CR found a long string and a put in a key chain to the string.

Mr.CR (to Ms.SS and Ms.LR) : Now listen to me very carefully. I will move this string back and forth and you will set your eyes on the key chain and concentrate completely. I don’t want you all to be distracted once I have started with this process. Is that understood?

Ms.SS and Ms.LR now become serious and they nod to say they have understood.

Mr.CR’s hypnotism begins and both Ms.SS and Ms.LR  are concentrating on the oscillating key chain. After a while Mr.CR instructs them to close their eyes.

Mr.CR (to Ms.SS and Ms.LR) : Now I want you both to imagine that you are walking on a road all alone. You don’t know where you are and there is nobody else to ask where the road goes.

Mr.CR (to Ms.SS and Ms.LR) : Can you both imagine yourself walking on the road in no man’s land?

Ms.SS and Ms.LR : Yes.

Mr.CR : Good. Now as you are walking on the road you see that a deviation on the road where one route says that it goes to the sea and the other says it goes to the desert. Which route would you take?

Ms.SS and Ms.LR : I want to go the sea.

Mr.CR: Okay. You now take the route to the sea and after walking for a while you can see the sea at a distance. Can you see the sea now? Can you see the waves?

Ms.SS and Ms.LR nod their heads.

Soon after Mr.CR rushes to the bathroom comes out with two mugs  full of water and splashes it on Ms.SS and Ms.LR.

Ms.LR and Ms.SS are taken by surprise and start yelling at Mr.CR.  Mr.CR says with a smile,  that was a wave from the sea that drenched them. Now Ms.LR and Ms.SS are dumbstruck!

Mr.CR and I laughed our lungs out!

Those were the kind of fun/pranks we had when we were kids! Now they are just memories  Gone are those carefree days.

Mr.CR and I are occupied with our work, little Ms. SS and Ms.LR busy with their college. Summer vacations are now a thing of the past!!!

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What’s your blog name???

When I decided to have a blog of my own, the first thing stuck my head was what will I call my blog? I thought it is best to visit some blogs and find out what names have bloggers given their blogs. I came across a quite a few blogs with very interesting names.

For some it is the writers block  for some it is their name some say their blog is unpredictable and some name it after coffee but the name I liked the best was peppermint.

After spending some quality time on research, I had to figure out what will I call my blog. I didn’t want to give my name to the blog since the idea was to remain anonymous (being anonymous is fun more so when you can comment on people who you already know )

After much thinking  I decided on calling it “Rebel” I quite like the sound of it   I have been a rebel all the time doing my own things more often when people advised me against it.  It is so much fun being  a rebel.

Come join the rebellion

I found this quote very nice and apt for the context.

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Apple Inc.

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Cheers

A book review – Kane and Abel

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Kane and Abel is a tale of two men William Kane and Abel Rosnovski (born as Wladek Koskiewicz). The story revolves around these two men from their birth to death.

What the two men have in common apart from the fact that they are born on the same day is ambition, courage and their hatred for each other!

Kane born to a millionaire banker in Boston has a comparatively easy childhood and like his father is Harvard educated and goes to work in the bank founded by his family and later becomes the chairman of one of the largest banks in the world.

Abel on the other hand is an illegitimate son of a Baron and raised by a trapper in Poland. During the World War 1, Abel is captured by the Russians but manages to escape and finally sails to America where he starts from the scratch later to become the owner of one of the largest hotel groups in the world.

Both the men encounter each other on various occasions but what grows with their stature is their hatred for each other!

The author has done a commendable job writing accounts of each character’s life. He has also put the historical events such as the World Wars and the Great Depression very much a part of the story. These events play a pivotal role in the protagonists lives.

Read it to find out more about Kane and Abel.

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First Post!!!

Hello Folks,

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I have been wanting to have  a blog of my own for a time now. I have been following quite a lot of blogs like this , this, this and this (these were just the few favourites ) for a  few months now.  I so wanted to have a blog of my own.

Thank you all for inspiring me to have a blog of my own

I shall be back soon!