M.P. Sharma's Blog, page 9

It’s a beautiful world …

I went to the city over the weekend, taking my grandparents around Circular Quay and the gorgeous coat-hanger (Harbour Bridge), the famous Opera House and the Rocks.

Isn’t it funny how you often overlook what people spend thousands of dollars and travel across the world to see when it’s in your backyard?

There are so many gems Mother Nature has tucked away for us to enjoy but we’re too obsessed about taking that perfect selfie -_-

Remember to enjoy what’s around you guys because contrary to popular belief, that is a lot more precious than those pair of Louis Vuitton’s you’ve been saving up for!

20,000 words!!!

So I think I’ve compiled about 1/4 of my next novel’s first draft.

I’m feeling slightly elated and a little bit��more supportive of my main protagonist now.

I haven’t really been able to stand her up till about 5000 words ago, but her evolution is finally starting to make sense to my critical brain’s emotive sensors.

This is the first book I really haven’t got a solid plot set out for��which is slightly nerve wracking to be honest but I’m so busy with work at the moment, I’m just letting the whole journey play out.

Hopefully it will work, if not, it’s back to the drawing board for me.

So, how are all of your personal endeavours going?

I have been a very good girl today.Woke up at 6:30 am an...

I have been a very good girl today.

Woke up at 6:30 am and went for a walk in the rain and mist. Now it’s time for all of you to congratulate me on my superb achievement please :P

On a more serious note, or at least as serious as I can be, there is something wonderfully romantic about walking in the fog and rain, wouldn’t you agree? Especially early in the morning, reminds you how lucky and amazing it is to be alive.

Have a wonderful weekend my beautiful peeps :)

An Eye for an Eye makes the Whole World Blind …

Too bad we still haven’t heeded Mahatma Gandhi’s warning from all those years ago.

The great Father of the Nation (as many of us Indians refer to him as) was most likely not the first to share this sentiment and will no doubt definitely not be the last.

Though I don’t condone what Myuran Sukumaran & Andrew Chan did to get them into jail, I certainly don’t support their enforced demise either. The last time I checked, killing absolutely never, ever solved any problems.

As someone who could see the few pros of the death penalty earlier (I am ashamed to admit) for hard core criminals, the Australian case of Van Tuong Nguyen set me straight causing me to do a complete 180. Why? Because the people who suffer are not the perpetrators but their innocent families and friends who are condemned to a lifetime of desolation and misery that they are definitely not deserving of.

Rest In Peace Myuran Sukumaran & Andrew Chan. All I can hope for is that as a species, we soon learn that ending one another’s lives��should definitely not be in our hands, just because��we can. #IStandForMercy.

Remembering the ANZAC’s …

As some of you may know, it was 100 years on Saturday here in Australia for the Anzacs.

Commemorating those who died before us so we could live is always taken very seriously��here in Australia and for good reason.

I’d like to think their humungous sacrifice (probably the biggest one I could think of for any human being) has taught us about the lasting severe devastation war has on generations of families and how really, nothing ever good comes from fighting and killing one another.

My Granduncle was an Air Marshall for the Indian Air Force and this gem brought tears of pride to my eyes when my sister sent it my way late Saturday night.

The honourable Gian Dev Sharma can be seen from 1:56 to 2:16 in this video broadcasted by the Australian War Memorial that has only recently recognised the sacrifices Indian Army personnel made towards the global military causes.

My earliest memory of my granduncle? As a six or seven year old, I slit my knee outside my grandfather’s house on the pebbled driveway and was balling my eyes out at the gross injustice Mother Nature had just hurled my way. My uncle bent down and cleaned my wound while blowing on it considerately the whole way.

“Wow, Mituri” he said. “You are so brave, I have never seen a wound this dire in my life before. Any other normal person would have to get stiches for this one but not a brave grown up girl like you”.

I still have the scar and the precious story to go with it to remind me of him every time I brush my fingers against the irregularity on my knee cap.

Lest we forget.

After days of flash floods, it’s finally sunny and bright...

After days of flash floods, it’s finally sunny and bright!

See, I’m not the only one happy the weekend is here :)

Have a wonderful, safe and dry weekend my lovelies

Do you think Characters are an extension of their Creators?

Because if they are I think I may be seriously clinically depressed.

I’m not sure if I’m entirely in love with my newest character at the moment, not to say that she’s not growing on me but if she is anything like me, I’d like to know why you’re my friend.

You are my friend right? Pleeeeaaaasssse say you’re my friend!!!!

Damn she’s … I mean I’m insecure :P

It’s pouring and it’s foggy – a stay in bed all day kind ...

It’s pouring and it’s foggy – a stay in bed all day kind of Monday. Damn conscience and that incessantly relentless new character that won’t take no for an answer!

Today is the yesterday you will probably romanticise tomo...

Today is the yesterday you will probably romanticise tomorrow as your nostalgic past, so it’s probably best if you romanticise the moment and enjoy it while you do so.

The Best Thing about working through the Weekend?

No Mondayitis!!! Because I’m a glass is full kind of gal :)