Harry Potter and the half-blood Prince

I just finished reading the 6th Harry Potter book. Started it yesterday wondering how this one would turn out. The first 3 books were excellent and I just couldn’t put them down. But by the 4th and then the 5th I thought the author was losing her touch. So without much expectation I started this one and to my surprise couldn’t put it down till I had finished it. More so as the book came to an end I actually felt desolate and sad at the ending. On one hand it was as though I didn’t want the narrative to end, and on the other hand the story ending had been a sad one.

Well I am waiting for the 7th one now. Hope it releases real soon…

That's Life

If you are kind, people may accuse you of being selfish, and having ulterior motives,
Be Kind anyway.

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies,
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

What you spend years building, someone may try to destroy overnight.
Build anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it’s between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.

Humri gaayya...

You'll forget your English by the time you finish reading this. This is a true essay written by a Bihari candidate at the UPSC (IAS) Examinations. The candidate has written an essay on the Indian cow.

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Indian Cow

HE IS THE COW. "The cow is a successful animal. Also he is 4 footed, And because he is female, he give milks, [ but will do so when he is got child.] He is same like-God, sacred to Hindus and useful to man. But he has got four legs together. Two are forward and two are afterwards.

His whole body can be utilised for use. More so the milk. Milk comes from 4 taps attached to his basement. [ horses dont have any such attachment]. What can it do? Various ghee, butter, cream, curd, why and the condensed milk and so forth. Also he is useful to cobbler, watermans and mankind generally. His motion is slow only because he is of lazy species., Also his other motion.. gober] is much useful to trees, plants as well as for making flat cakes[like Pizza] , in hand, and drying in the sun.

Cow is the only animal that extricates his feeding after eating. Then afterwards she chew with his teeth whom are situated in the inside of the mouth. He is incessantly in the meadows in the grass. His only attacking and defending organ is the horns, specially so when he is got child. This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapons to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great velocity forwards.

He has got tails also, situated in the backyard, but not like similar animals. It has hairs on the other end of the other side.This is done to frighten away the flies which alight on his cohesive body hereupon he gives hit with it.The palms of his feet are soft unto the touch. So the grasses head is not crushed. At night time have poses by looking down on the ground and he shouts . His eyes and nose are like his other relatives. This is the cow.......
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We are informed that the candidate passed the exam and is now an IAS (Indian Civil Service Examinations), is in the state of Bihar in somewhere,..[sorry somewhere in Bihar]

Essence of Trust

A little girl and her father were crossing a bridge. The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter, "Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don't fall into the river." The little girl said, "No, Dad. You hold my hand." "What's the difference?" asked the puzzled father..

"There's a big difference," replied the little girl. "If I hold your hand and something happens to me, chances are that I may let your hand go. But if you hold my hand, I know for sure that no matter what happens, you will never let my hand go."

In any relationship, the essence of trust is not in its bind, but in its bond. So hold the hand of the person whom you love rather than expecting them to hold yours .

Sparky

I got back home at 10 pm. I had barely entered the building gate when something jumped on me. It was dark and I couldn’t figure out what it was. Suddenly I made out Sparky romping about in joy. Sparky being jet black I obviously had not been able to make him out in the dark and I had not seen him for near about a month so I had not been expecting him.

I had been occupied the last couple of weeks and had not bothered to go over and check out how he was doing. Sparky followed me home. As it was already late, I didn’t allow him in and locked the door. When I peeked out after a couple of minutes, he was still there patiently waiting. I gave in. I took a handful of biscuits, went out and fed him, then took him downstairs hoping he’d go home.

He dutifully went across and climbed up the stairs. I watched his progress to make sure he got home. However he turned, seeing I was not following he started to whine. As I still didn’t follow, he back tracked and came back to me whining. I couldn’t figure out why he was whining and decided to take him home myself.

On the way up, I couldn’t help but smile seeing how Sparky kept looking back to see if I was indeed following him. On reaching his floor, he sat down by his door and I rang the bell. There was no response for sometime. Then I realized perhaps they were not at home, I rang again and aunt opened the door sleepily.
That’s when I realized, that the occupants of the house had gone to sleep and poor Sparky was locked out. He may have gone up a couple of times, but obviously his scratching the door was not enough to wake them up. And obviously when he saw me, he knew I’d do a better job at knocking!

The ingenuity of the animal is indeed amazing!!!