Expressions….

From within…..

SENSE OF HUMOUR

Posted by Anshul on June 24, 2007

 

WIKI-DEFINITION: A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an individual will personally find something humorous depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education, and context.

With era of Phattas and PJs flourishing, I thought it wise to explore this topic. Sense of humour is a unique quality. It is a powerful weapon against stress, tension and problems. It forces individual to look life from a different angle. It lightens the mood and refrain us from being pessimistic. Humour titillates us; it is the way to add life to every situation.

Do you have good sense of humour??? If not, how to build on this???This is really a difficult question to answer. I can only share my views.

I think improving upon your wit and humour is an ongoing and never-ending process. There are various forms of humour and every being has his/her own way. Sometimes I say things which I think are funny, but others don’t and vice-versa. First thing to develop your sense of humour is to have confidence that you are witty and smart. There may be some people around you, who are wittier and funnier than you, but ignore that….you have your own style!! :)

Being fluent with your language and thoughts is a must for possessing a good sense of humour. We must be able to play around with words and sentences and decorate them with puns, oxymorons, satires, irony and enough of sarcasm. We should be able to think of humourous situations close to that. Your way of interpreting an otherwise normal word/sentence may tag it funny or humorous.

Laughing frequently and appreciating other people jokes and wit is also important. Encountering any situation, you must be able to cook up a humour in your mind and laugh in your head. This will also add fun to everything and you seem to be enjoying each and every thing you do. Watching comedy shows and movies also have some effect on improving sense of humour.

Let me remind you these are not the ways to crack Phattas or PJs. These are the ways to amuse everyone including self, with quality and wits. It’s an art and we must master it, but our humourous talks shouldn’t be offensive and cacophonous. Otherwise instead of adding liveliness it would subtract mates.

PS1: This piece on ‘Sense Of Humour’ is not at all humorous!!!

PS2: Vacations are about to end and I am feeling excited ( returning to college :) ) as well as sad (I’ll miss home :( ).

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Vacations @ Home….. My First Post

Posted by Anshul on June 10, 2007

Hello everyone!!!

This is my first Post, so to start with firstly let me introduce myself.

I am ANSHUL BANSAL, born and brought up in Indore, doing B.Tech (CSE) from IIIT, Hyderabad.

The reasons why I started blogging are more or less common- expressing myself, improving English and writing skills, have other people opinions on my thoughts and bla..bla..bla……In short I followed the suit :) .

 

Let’s begin with my life in the vacations.

We all were excited about our two and a half month vacations and why won’t we? Although we had great fun in the campus, we all needed a break. The 2nd sem squeezed everything out of our head….too hectic …My GOSH!!! Hearty Welcome loaded with loads of love, care, fun and affection was waiting for all of us at home. Some chose to stay for the project but I preferred home!!

Finally I reached Indore- “Home Sweet Home”.

The atmosphere at home recollected the old day’s memories. Meeting old friends, relatives and spending time with parents was all so contenting.

Few days passed, I had my plans and was ready to work on them.

I had a good start. Initially I started reading books. We have a reading assignment for Human Values, but as I like reading so I thought this was not going to trouble me…but was it?? I could read only 1 till now out of 10 I am supposed to!!! Actually it is the assignment tag that is taking all the fun away, I prefer reading other stuff!!

Next on my list was learning rather mastering C++ and Python, but all in vain. I had a good start and this continued for about a week, but then all ended!! No Pressure- No study.

Moving forward in my ‘To do’ list, next comes ‘Movies’. Ahhh….at least here I am going the right way. I have seen almost every new release and been watching many others downloaded on my lappy. CDs and DVDs are also helping me to improve my score.

Television….I have lost charm for past 2-3 years, but now being at home, watching it for sometime.

These vacations also allowed me to brush up my driving skills. With much more confidence and a ‘genuine’ driving license in my hands, now I am ready to drive anywhere. Next falls orkutting and chatting. Well this is an open option and I can’t resist myself. I have no regrets to ‘utilize’ my time over it….after all “Man is a social animal”.

Cricket…the fun rediscovered!! Yeah….the morning sessions of cricket with friends or some work-out starts the day with good note and it’s good for my health. I am glad that getting up early is not a problem for me.

Word Power Made Easy…..an effective tool for improving vocablury. Well I have started working with it recently, so can’t say much about it. But it is worth and I wish it continues without fail.

Sleeping….this is added timepass for my vacations. Is it the effect of food at home or its scorching heat or combined effect, I don’t know, but the drowsy feeling after lunch is drenched only after about 1-2 hrs extended nap!! :)

Hang-outs and freaking out with friends…..This needs special mention. Many of my friends are free and we spend fair enough time together at various joints in the city, especially Treasure Island Mall and Lotus Hut Cafe.

This is my life in the vacations at home. I can say that it is hard to manage time with all these; there is lot to be done. This piece of writing may give some ideas over spending or killing time for all those who are finding there vacations boring!!

I hope things work out for me and I have enjoyable, fun-filled and productive vacations.

 

P.S. – This is my first blog, so please forgive me if I bored you or made any mistake. Looking forward for your comments….Thanks.

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