What Mauritius Needs

Secretly hoping that we don't die as old unmarried hags with cats in our manor! ;) ------------------------------------------------------------ My cousin (  +Jessy Islander  ) and I used to play this game called The Perfect Boy Game. We would both describe our ideal boyfriend in painstaking detail, assigning him characteristics ranging everywhere from physical attributes (What color were his eyes and hair? How tall was he? Was he chiseled or a little chubby?) to personality traits (Was he emotional or reserved? Was he super-confident at a party and super-vulnerable with you? Was he messy or a neat freak?) and interests (Did he play a sport or an instrument? Did he like popular music? Was he obsessed with movies? Would you care if he smokes recreationally?) Should he ressemble Ranveer Singh?(Ok, this last one's for +Priya Bhirgoo   :P. Even if it all started off during casual conversations at the beach, it was only last year that our Whatsapp c...

First things first, allow me to wish you a Dazzling Divali! :D This is not a post about Ramayana or the Gods. :) Divali has always been one festival that I held close to my heart. Lights are always enchanting and I particularly love the yellow nuances and dance on the lamps.  There's always been a mystifying aspect to light, especially that which comes from the flames. The yellow flames flicker and dance with no thought of the oxygen or the fuel they consumed. They have no appreciation of what has been given to them and no concern for what would be left after.  Yet, whilst it has the power to shine the path of someone, it also has the power to incinerate the path with its darting rays. As a three-year-old toddler, there was no way I could ever forget about that Divali and how much of a glorified event it was. Bizarrely, it has never been because of the feast of firecrackers that has the capacity to "wow" audiences, but rather out of the f...

1. Expectation: "He can give me guy advice!" Reality: Most of the time when you ask your guy BFF for guy advice, he will shrug and continue eating his slice of Pizza dirtying his mouth and probably T-shirt in the process. Guys don't have any more knowledge about how some dude he's never met operates any more than we do. Actually he will never be able to tell with even 65% certainty if he thinks another guy's behaviour means he probably like you from merely watching his behaviour unless your make best friend is probably crushing on you! 2. Expectations: ''I'll be one of the guys!" Reality:  I wish this were a thing, but truthfully you will probably just be his GIRL friend. Because honestly, let's admit it, your male best friend is no more yours to claim once he meets up woth his GUYS friends! Guys often have a really hard time differentiating "cool girl" from "girl I wanna sleep with." And just because...

  Well well, just when we thought that QEC folks are exclusively branded as the Cato Verts, it would be interesting to see the metamorphosis they undergo during the examinations period! :P The Hare This is the type of specimen who lends its three copybooks to its friends because it has already revised them and is now on the fourth one. It is the kind of candidate who has already completed the 2 hours paper in 30 minutes only and has worked out the paper thrice, ‘just in case'! The Parrot This one will go on repeating its notes, now engraved in its mind (an ever-ending storage device.) They are what we alternatively call the ‘Radio’, reciting the entire chapter! The Hibernating Bear These are normally the bunch of fellas who sit as far as possible from those holding books in their hands 15 minutes before exams for some last minute revision. They are scared to death that they might confuse whatever they have in their heads and they sit down quietly, los...

Hello everyone, I know that it's been a while since I last posted and I'm seriously sorry about that. Exams have been rocking our weeks lately and it was difficult to connect to you. It's been long and my hands have been itching to write so many things I have been conjuring up in my mind! Hope you like this one. I've spent an entire day to make it up to you. ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This has been my life's motto some 4 years back. When I queried some of friends about their feelings about this quote, this is what I got: My friend Rushaa describes this as the defense mechanism. "Because they pretend not to care but deep inside they do care. So acting like you don't care is not worthwhile as you are not only acting yourself in the process but you are also hurting the other one. But some people have such a huge ego that they prefer to act heartless. But in reality, they d...