The Garbage Collectors  It is incredible how much rubbish we throw into the garbage bin. It always seems to be full. The smell can be quite strong. So we are very thankful to the garbage collectors who come and remove the garbage. They norm ally come thrice a week. If they miss a day or two, then the garbage bins in my neighborhood overflow onto the road. This invites stray dogs...

Confined To The House It all began with a blister on my lower eyelid. I happened to rub it accidentally and it was painful. Soon after blisters appeared on my hands and neck. I suspected that I must be coming down with something. My mother examined me and immediately pronounced “chicken-pox”. I had come down with chicken-pox. She took me to the doctor to make sure. The doctor said that what...

The Way We Eat The way we eat our food is habitual. This means that we are usually not aware of it. I have notice some of the ways people eat and they range from elegance to gluttony. My father slurps his soup. It is disgusting but we never dare to say anything and will be sorely offended if we did. On the other hand, my mother is so graceful in...

Turning Over A New Leaf Rohit was the naughtiest boy in our class. In fact I would say that he was the naughtiest in the whole school. He always seemed to get in trouble with the prefects and teachers. The prefects avoided him and the teachers had a hard time while controlling him. He was destructive, to say the least. Our classroom did not have a single window pane as he...

An Autobiography of A Motorcycle I was made in a factory in Haryana. I was one of 1.00 c.c. motorcycles that were sent down to Kuala Lumpur to be sold. So I found myself waiting patiently in a shop for someone to buy me. A few weeks later, a man came and bought me for his son. The boy was barely seventeen but his father was rich and could afford to...

Five Things I Like All of us have our likes and dislikes. So have I, and my dislikes are many. But out of my likes I have five on the top. These are poetry, music, excursions, meeting people and reading thought-provoking books and magazines. Being a student of literature, I have read Wordsworth and his poems have left their lasting effect on me. Other poets of nature who have impressed me...

A Nightmare  Don’t eat lust before going to bed!” my mother used to tell me. “You might get a nightmare.” never believed her until it happened to me. One late right, I felt very hungry. So I made myself a peanut-butter sandwich and a large cold glass of milk. After consuming them I went to bed. Soon I drifted off into a troubled sleep. I dreamt that I was with a...

My Neighbors Many of us live in housing apartments. I live in one of the apartments independently. The one thing about living in a housing apartment is that we have many neighbors. Next to my house on the right lives a family whose parents seem to be always scolding the children. Never a day passes without hearing the children crying and the parents shouting at the top of their voices. On...