Good question to ponder upon. Whatever is depicted in films is too far from reality. There is a yawning gap between our lives and stories shown on the big screen. Very rare have I found reality in movies. The way people emote on the screen is no where near the real world. Emotions such as love, fear, anger, happiness, sadness, depression appear to be very made up. Just imagine yourself singing aloud for your loved one on the streets. People will declare that you are mad!!! Dressing up like the heroines in some cases is a strict no no. And then there are those dream sequences ( like any other gi...
So, having a lot of cash in your purse?? Take out a single currency note and just think who all owned it before it landed into your wallet. Isn't it a strange thing? Especially in India it becomes a lot more easy to trace a INR note. You can find people immortalize their loved one's by writing their names on it. Just yesterday I saw a Rs.5 note with a 'GUNA SISTER' written on it in capital letters. Writing numbers was a norm but now even names appear. Xyz loves Zyx , I know quite silly but true. Just like how at historical places you find hearts engraved with lovers' names. Not only does it spoil these precious monuments, it is a very cheap way of publicizing one's love. ...
How to Start Saving Money - I Began at 5 Papa: Hello beta, look what I have got for you? Me: What is this, Papa? Papa: It is a piggy bank and I will give a rupee to drop into it everyday. Me: What will that do, Papa? Papa : When you grow up you will have a lot of money! The above was the conversation between my father and I when I was 5 years old. He had returned from work and brought a piggy bank for me to inculcate the good habit of saving money in me. It was at that time when I started to understand what saving money is all about. I would ask him for a rupee everyday and put into the piggy bank. Later on too, whenever I got money, it would all go into it. You know, the trick is to catch them young and that is exactly what my Papa did! By the way, I broke my piggy bank when I entered college (with a heavy heart of course!). There were a lot of coins that were used in buying my bus tickets for my daily commute. :) Okay, so from piggy...