10 Reasons Bookworms should be Shot !!

These creatures are fearless, deadly and stubborn. They are always around you, aware of your every step but hypnotized and captured by books. They won't let it go, even if there is a situation of higher importance. They can be found lying around in bizarre body postures reading endlessly. Book to bookworms is like alcohol to a drunkard. Such creatures can make your life miserable by doing nothing but reading. 

These are some reasons why such maniacs can be shot:

1) They are lazy and obstinate. Let alone working, they won't even move their leg from above the table for you to pass. Do not expect them to get groceries, get the air conditioner repaired or even answer a phone call.  

2) All their senses except eyes are cut off from the real world. Their eyes fixed on the book and mind floating in the fictional world created by picturizing the text, they will never   hear you call or scream. If you are in grave danger never call them, they might not even look up from their book. You keep jabbing about all you miseries and they will reflect it like mirror.

3) Being lazy makes it impossible for them to get up and take a bath. They are unaware of their smelly clothes and messed surroundings in the course of completing their read.

4) Having read a lot, they turn into one of the most dangerous species or breed that existed on the earth, Grammar Nazis. They nag you constantly on small grammatical mistakes and never let anything slide by without correcting.

5) Obsessive readers always leave nothing for others. You might be searching for a book to     start for ages, but alas! that bookworm would issue or borrow that book first.

6) They are over-protective about their books; beware if you dare to borrow their books. They will lecture you with the strict do's and don’ts, and will know even if a single page           has an extra crease.

7) During your conversations with a third person they just can't control their urge to share relevant bookish examples from literature or history and make you look like an illiterate       jerk.

8) They are horrible weekend partners. Buried in their books, they don't wish to go out for a movie or shopping. Weekend is the best time for them to read uninterrupted, forget food they just get up when the nature calls them.

9) They carry their book around, living room, bathroom, bus, train and office everywhere. It is annoying for people around them to see them always reading.

10) They are social loners by choice, they like to be alone and if you try to give them company you end up outraging them.

Prologue - Who am I ?

Hola !

Greetings to fellow earthly people and to the aliens who just came to earth for free wifi.

This is an introduction to my blog "My Onion Soul". Well, who am I and why this blog? 

I am a keen observer. 

I see people striving hard to find ideal jobs, good life and meet others' expectations. All that is obligatory in today's world, to do what is expected of you for your own better future. But in that struggle to achieve our goals, we forget who we really are and what we really like to do. I believe in preserving our real self. Sustaining our childhood hobbies helps us rejuvenate our self and fills us with new energy to achieve what we strive for. 

I have tried to keep my hobbies alive; they make me feel stress free and useful. Writing blog is the recent addition to my list of hobbies. This blog is my amateur attempt to the field of writing excluding the essay competitions at school and my small personal diary. My posts might not have any morals to teach you but they would take your mind off from worldly heebie-jeebies. Not being a professional writer, I expect the readers to be encouraging and not strictly judgmental. There is no particular genre of my blog. All thoughts expressed here are inspired from real life thoughts and incidents from my life. I am open to reviews and suggestions from fellow bloggers and readers.

Happy Blogging! :)

I'll be back!! (#Arnold voice)

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Procrastination- An extract from the life of a B.Tech student

I was waiting for the weekend to write another post. Not that I was busy, I just could not start working, stuck in the "making-up my mind" phase. Procrastination doesn't spare anyone. Following is a short expression (it's quite long actually) of how a typical engineering student prepares for a test in college. 

I have a test tomorrow, need to score good in this one because others didn't go well. There is a full day and full night to go so I am relaxed. I plan out my schedule, decide to start preparing from today evening after having sufficient sleep to pull an all-nighter. But no, I have to go to the market to buy some stuff I have been postponing and better to do that today because I have to "study" later. I go to the market, and I find some really cool stuff too which wasn't there earlier so I have to buy that (Obviously!). I come back by 5 pm. I should have started preparing by now but I can't because I had to sleep to be awake at night. So I sincerely set an alarm to wake up after exactly 2 hours of sleep. After having a a very good nap I wake up hungry, but how can I be hungry? Because it's dinner time already. May be my alarm tone was so charming that it sent me into an "inception dream" (there is no such thing, don't Google it!). #MovieReference

Dinner lasts for another hour, find some friends on my way back from hostel mess to my room, had to ask their preparation status. They say they haven't started, I know they are lying. Yeah, I have a lie detector fixed in my head; I borrowed it from Nick Fury. So I am a little tensed now, just a little. But I am confident enough; it's just a small test. 

What do I need now? I start looking for notes to study from. I had them yesterday but can't find them now. Oh! I had lent it to a friend for photostat, I didn't get it back. I sprint to her room, ask for my notes. She is a fellow procrastinator; she is watching Friends (the tv series) to freshen up "before" starting to study. We discuss the episode and some other local gossips and another hour passes. I get the notes but I need coffee for maximum concentration. Got coffee now, all is set, I settle down and seriously go through the index, mark the pages to study and happily cross the ones not to be covered. Suddenly my phone beeps, some discussion has started on the group chat regarding the syllabus. They say another chapter is also included in tomorrow's test syllabus. Little more stressed I skip the introductory part of the chapter, let's start with the important topic. I go through the text, didn't get it, read it again. Nah! Still nothing. I need to google it, I am lost in phone now and have to check facebook occasionally because my friends are commenting on my profile photo so I have the moral obligation to reply them. 

So, this topic seems tough, it has a derivation which has five sections. Doesn't seem important. I skip the topic for morning. This continues for few hours. It's quite late now but I haven't done much. Feeling tired, I decide to take a short nap because I care about my health so much (only when it's not required). I'll get up in half hour and finish everything. To my disappointment I wake up half + three hours later. Sun is out already, my heart skips a beat. The test is in about two hours. Feeling horrified, I call a friend and get a list of expected questions and FAQs. I have no time now, but I can see the topics mentioned in these questions. Ultimately I haven't even covered half of the syllabus. I reach college and try to grab the seat closer to the geeks so that I can peek in their sheets. 

Finally, I write the test, trying to extract the most of my poor photographic memory. Hoping for the examiner to be either lazy or too happy so that he just misses the fact that none of the answers make any sense, here I am, proud of my "hard work".

Everyone’s story might differ from this but more or less it will be the same. Temptations and distractions overpower our minds very easily. Beating procrastination would require strong commitment and today with so many distractions around it's tough for students to be consistent with hard work. And why should we be, when last day studying gets us good marks. Thanks to our awesome education system where "if you cram, you top the exam". Procrastination has been a by-product of such system. Obviously, why to cram every day when it can be done on the last day.