Don’t Stop Until Its Over

It’s amazing how things that you enjoy can keep you up and awake for so long. I have been on 5 hours of sleep in the last 3 days and I do feel energetic still.

It might be this cheesy relaxation podcast I downloaded a few days back. It is 15 minutes of crickets chirping and wilderness type of music where this man tells you to relax and breathe systematically. I recall that I always fall asleep at the same moment and wake up about 2 hours later feeling way fresher. HEH!

C’mon Rosh! Screw Applied Econs. It fucking sucks anyway. <3

The Happiness in Melancholy

Why do I feel like… Like there is something missing?

Like there is no meaning in anything anymore? There is no purpose in what I do. I am getting more and more disappointed with everything around me. No more zest. No more spring. Just cold routine behaviour which is becoming alien as the days close onto themselves. I close my eyes and a multitude of scenes fill my head. What was, what could have been and what will never be. Wistful, wishful thinking.

The Arabic word found as ḥuzn and ḥazan in the Qur’an and hüzün in modern Turkish refers to the pain and sorrow over a loss, death of relatives in the case of the Qur’an. The Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk in ^[7] further elaborates on the added meaning hüzün has acquired in modern Turkish. It has come to denote a sense of failure in life, lack of initiative and to retreat into oneself, symptoms quite similar to melancholia.

I have been having this feeling for the longest of times. Some times I think I court melancholy. There is a strange twisted happiness in feeling morose. Me, myself and my thoughts. It makes awesome company to wallow in your own.

Plus it doesn’t help that I am having a massive flu-induced headache and I don’t want to do the mountain of work facing me. And the fact that I feel I have disappointed myself.

There Is No One Reason For Having Sex. There are 237.

Reading the article, it is amazing that having kids is not even one of the top reasons for having sex. The study was done in the U of Texas on a ‘fairly homogenous sample’. 400 students gave reasons and another 1500 rated their importance. Researchers divided the responses into 4 categories: Physical, Goal Attainment, Emotional, Insecurity. The top 10 reasons were the same for both genders, ranging from, ‘I was attracted to them’ and ‘I was sexually aroused and I needed the release’. Lame ones include ‘I needed the exercise’ and ‘I was on a dare’. Heh.

Here is the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/science/31tier.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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I was just thinking  that if there wasn’t the consequence of getting pregnant, the taboo of abortion and the cost of bringing up a child single-handedly, more women would be promiscuous. If women didn’t have the ‘burdened end’ of the casual sexual relationship…

Famous Insults

Stumbled upon these on someone’s blog. Awesome!

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” – Winston Churchill

“A modest little person, with much to be modest about.” – Winston Churchill

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” – Clarence Darrow

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” – William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time in reading it.” – Moses Hadas

“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.” – Groucho Marx

“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” – Mark Twain

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” – Oscar Wilde

“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play. Bring a friend… if you have one.” – George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is one.” – Winston Churchill, in response

“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.” – Irvin S. Cobb

“He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” – Samuel Johnson

“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.” – Paul Keating

“He had delusions of adequacy.” –Walter Kerr

“There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.” – Jack E. Leonard

“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.” – James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” – Mark Twain

“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” – Mae West

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever…” – Oscar Wilde

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts… for support rather than illumination. ” – Andrew Lang

“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.” –  Billy Wilder