Cookies and Cold Coffee

Ttttringgg Ttttringgg goes the alarm right at 7 am. I snoozed the alarm to ten minutes and went back to sleep. After some time I rolled on the bed and glanced the alarm. It's 7.32 am! I got up hurriedly and said, "Oh my god! I'm late. Jake?! Darling?! Why didn't you wake me up? What about breakfast? And I'll be late for the office too." My husband says, "Darling, you snoozed the alarm three times already and I tried to wake you up 10 minutes ago but you just went into deep slumber. Were you so tired yesterday?" "Yeah I was... but then..." "That's okay Stace. I have already prepared it. Just get up and get ready for office." I exclaim, "But.. I wanted to prepare something special TODAY because..." "It's Thursday today. Nothing more than that and what a cool weather it is! Just have your coffee, you'll be fine." "Okay, no problem Jake." But of course, I am unhappy. How can Ja...

Aristotle quoted “Anybody can become angry, that is easy, but to be angry with right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.” Anger is a normal, healthy emotion, but when chronic, explosive anger spirals out of control, it can have serious consequences for your relationships, your health, and your state of mind. Anger is a very powerful emotion that can stem from feelings of frustration, hurt, annoyance, or disappointment. Anger is also a mixture of both emotional and physical changes. Anger is like fire, it can burn you if it is not controlled. It can create disasters so it needs to be channelled productively. For e.g.- Fire when used in a controlled way aids in cooking food but uncontrolled fire may lead to destruction. Anger takes everyone in its arms. Whenever a person is angry, the people near him get angry too. Anger makes everyone a slave and a...

It was 4.36 pm in my watch. I was in Karjat fast train. My semester 1 exams were on. Today i had Economics Paper which was very bad. I had worked hard on it since i am bad at it but somehow my efforts went down in drain when i saw the paper. I was sad. I didn't want to fail in this subject. I was on the verge of tears and suddenly the train stopped....... Dadar station had come and people were rushing in the train like black ants who rush for food....... Then i thought that now i should distract myself and look at the crowd. I have been thinking a lot so i wanted to have some peace of mind. I saw two girls who were discussing their Biology paper; three ladies were discussing their work problems; a girl was talking on the phone with her boyfriend; a married girl was talking to her friend about her problems at home on how her in laws don't like her as she has done inter-caste love marriage; two girls were discussing about their marriage shopping list as one of...

Generosity is the trait of being willing to give money or time. Generosity means to be noble. We feel sympathetic towards the poor and donate them food or money. But is this enough? Will they ever settle in their life after our noble help? No! So what should one do to help them permanently? The answer lies in the short story below: There was a female beggar who used to beg everyday at a railway station. She was in her 40’s or so and she used to beg the whole day with her 10 year old daughter. I used to give money or food to her. One day I was waiting for my train to come. It was 20 minutes late. I saw an old lady who must be in 50’s or so, talking with that female beggar. They were having an animated conversation. I was curious to know the topic they were talking on. I was about to go there but as I heard the announcement of my train coming, I rushed off. The next day I saw her begging as usual but after 5 months, she vanished. It was a mys...

Thomas Alva Edison Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in search of a filament for the light bulb. When none worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained, “All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing.” Edison replied very confidently, “Oh, we have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We know that there are two thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb.” We must always remember this lesson. Even though we get failures in our life, we should never lose hope. Even if we fall down in the race of life, we must get up and run. The one who gets up after falling down is the real winner. It’s all about learning from your mistakes.

A person said, " Erasers are made for those who make mistakes." The other replied, "Erasers are made for those who are willing to correct their mistakes." While a third one had an another point of view about erasers. He said, "Erasers on pencils are deliberately small for you to remember that chances are limited."

I LOVE COFFEE It may amaze you that why the name of my blog is "Cookies and Cold Coffee". The reason is, i like cookies but I LOVE COFFEE. In India, tea is the main beverage of most of the population. Coffee is the beverage of mainly the southern part of India. We are taught in economics that tea and coffee are substitute goods and when prices fluctuate, people change their preferences. But i don't think so. I don't think that tea or coffee drinkers ever change their preferences. At least i don't switch over! Researchers have given many views on coffee- good as well as bad. One research says that if you drink a cup of coffee everyday then you can get away with certain types of cancer. Another research says that coffee stays in your digestive system for a week, which is bad. I don't know whom to believe but i know one thing that anything in excess is bad for health. So do drink coffee but not too much of it. I drink coffee only on...