Hitchhiking In The Afternoon

One must always try to help one's fellow creature, but it's hard not to have your guard up when letting a random stranger into your car, or when getting into a car with someone you've never seen before. For the paranoid out there it does little to calm the mind when someone mentions that you …

It’s Rewind Time…

2018 has been an interesting year. I started this blog in Jan, 2017 and I said that I would put up a post every week. If you really want to do something, don't make it your new year's resolution. But here I am, on the 26th of December 2018, making a fresh decision to start …

The Girl On The Train – Book Review

If you haven't watched the movie nor read the book, read the book first. I'd already watched the movie when I got this book and I won't say it spoiled it for me, but it certainly took away a huge chunk of the overall experience. Books are generally better than the movie and with good …

‘Complex Plain’?

2018-01-21 It's been a week since the semester started, 3 weeks since 2018. I have a book on my desk which I've been reading for 2 weeks now and I hope to finish it in the next couple of days. I'm a slow reader. I have nothing to say today. I'm not a writer, and …

Irish Cofffee

There are few things more satisfying on a cold winter evening than a hot brew of rich strong coffee with a dash of fine Irish whiskey. Although people have been adding whiskey to their coffees for a long time, the Irish coffee as we have come to know it has it's origin in the 1940s. …

First Post

2018-01-04 Christmas vacation went by in a matter of days. Then again, it really was just a matter of days. We had two weeks of vacation after an exam that lasted over a month and now it's time to get back to work. I'm doing an internship at the moment and so far it's been …