"As a worker at the Engineering Research Building (ERB), I often passed this sign: "TO ERB". One day, I noticed that some philosophical soul had pencilled in: "Is Human, to forgib, divine." "
- "Peterborough" in 'The Daily Telegraph', London, taken from Readers' Digest, June 1984

Now this is an intelligent joke. And it is a joke of longetivity. You will smile every time you hear, for the sheer intelligence of that worker who came up with such a one-liner. And thats why, I love reading this stuff from Readers' Digest, over and over again....

"Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend,
Somewhere alone in the bitterness,
And I would have stayed up with you all night,
Had I known how to save a life."
-The Fray, 'How To Save A Life'

Its a song thats close to my heart, 'coz I believe that things happen in our lives, that drive people away from us. It might be just a small sentence, or an exclamation, or a just a small action which really puts a strain in your relationship with others. And where you know that, that person is the one you'd have stayed up all night with, just to save him, you've now lost him in the bitterness and you don't even know what you've done wrong.... There are friends I've got now, who were so close to me about two years back; so close that we'd share everything with each other. But now every time I meet them, I have the feeling of having lost them and don't even know what I did to make me feel so, or what they did to make me feel so. But, the feeling's there and quite real..

"Did no one come to save me just because they missed me?"
- Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean, At World's End

Perhaps the most lovable of all Pirates, Jack, sorry, Captain Jack is. And so is this one single line. The question of the simplest kind, something that one would just take for assumption, he asks. Not because he wants to know, or because he thinks its something different to ask, but because this is what makes him HIM. Of all the lines spoken by Captain Jack, this is the one that endeared me to him most, because of its sheer innocence. The innocence is so characteristically Jack Sparrow, that you cannot help but marvel at the strength of those words.
Captain Jack Sparrow is my most favourite character of the world stories. This line just proves me completely right. Long Live Captain Jack Sparrow!!!!! Yo Ho Ho!!

"Courage was mine, and I had Mystery;
Wisdom was mine and I had Mastery;"
- "Strange Meeting", Owen Wilson

My most favourite poem and the best lines in it. The first time I read this poem, these two lines stood out like I'd read them somewhere before and now couldn't remember. But, the fact is, that this is my most favourite poem. We learnt this one in Class 10, a poem that speaks about war, against it, and in the least of words is able to describe the horrors of war and 'dogs of war unleashed'. The two lines above almost are the central idea of the poem. The soldier had the courage to look for the true meaning of life and happiness and when he solved this, he had the knowledge which enabled him to step away from the reality of war. However it was war that cut short his life, which he would otherwise have spent, in spreading the knowledge he had gained.

I've never appreciated war, and neither have I been able to appreciate poem which talked against war by describing it. Because, they were never able to appeal to my heart. But this poem was very different, because it was sort of real and not exaggerated. I found pages on which I'd written this poem down after my exams got over two years ago, so that I'd never lose it, even if I lost my textbk. All that anti-war thing just comes back now......