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THE GLOBAL TIMES | MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2019
scrounge, so keep searching for
the School Lounge!
U, Me Aur Hum Whose life is it anyway?
Illustrations: Deepak Sharma, GT Network
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t’s always safe to assume that food which sugar, sugar and more sugar; Mudit Aggarwal
looks good tastes good, and food which they literally make you go for AIS MV, XII A
isn’t pleasing to the eye won’t exactly be God’s cake!
pleasant for the mouth either. But then there
are exceptions to every Limburger cheese
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rule. So, here it goes. With a soft, creamy texture, t’s an extended weekend,
and a fancy name, it is very much and you don’t have any
Dragonfruit possible that you might dump this work to finish up. You pick
Commonly known as in your cart while grocery shopping. up the phone, call your friends,
Dragon Fruit, Pitaya is But as you prepare your famous deli- and decide to go on a road trip,
quiet the let-down for cacy (read: cheese maggi) and grate the hoping to create unique memo-
foodies. The only thing beneficial cheese over it, you will find that Limburger ries. Sure, here is how it actu-
coming from it, apart from the rich has actually deceived you. This breed of ally goes down!
nutrients, is a lesson to never set cheese will only appeal to your smelling and
expectations as high ever again. tasting senses if you’ve completely lost them. STAGE 1
At the extreme brink of tasteless- Otherwise, it’s just another item which stinks #FoodOverHumans
ness, this fruit offers you no up your fridge. Everyone has gathered around
joy, neither does it compen- the car, bags in one hand, eata- road, and everything seems to
sate for the amount of hard Breadfruit bles in the other. Dry fruits, be running smoothly. You
work it takes to cut. Every once in a while, everyone likes to fruits, chips, paranthas, cook- begin to enjoy yourself just as
show off their taste in food – going from the ies, snacks and instant-noodles: someone shouts: “I need to go
Chocolate (100%) basic Apple to something as new and exciting check. Fafda, peanuts and to the washroom.” This isn’t
A bitter disappointment, as Breadfruit. But child, this fruit is not stair- pickle: check. annoying (at first). However,
Illustration: Deepak Sharma, GT Network
quite literally. Pure choco- way to food heaven. Infact, the Wall Street Kitchen, gas stove, not-yet-in- when it happens for the 2077th
late, made from 100% Journal has described it as ‘all but inedible’. vented-23rd-century-cyborg: time, each at a gap of 5 min-
cocoa lures you exactly Nobody wants this, trust us. check. Seats: Oh Crap! The utes, all you can think about is
the same as any other chronic lack of seats is defi- how did these infants get their
chocolate – with its lush Fondant nitely not helped by the fact voter ID cards?
brown goodness. However, the TLC’s Fabulous Cakes made it every kid’s that 7 people want to go on a
way it bites you when you bite it, is an expe- dream to have their birthday cakes as fancy road trip in a 5-seater, 4 of STAGE 4
rience only a few can forget. Also, get ready and big as they come, with, of course, the fa- which are taken up by food. #JustJammin
for a desert like dry tongue. mous fondant that uplifts your standards in- But still, we can’t compromise After calming everyone down,
stantly. Sadly, standards are the only good because food is life. you move onto the actual high-
Edible flowers thing that comes with the sugar sheet, be- way and finally have a chance
Pink, yellow, blue…they literally bring cause when it comes to taste, your guests will STAGE 2 to behold the scenic beauty of,
spring to a dessert. Alas! They don’t spring go back home disappointed.G T #ToPlayOrNotToPlay wait-for-it, traffic! Yep, the
The next hurdle you have to same traffic that has been mo-
cross: choosing the perfect tivating people to walk since
song. Every song you select is 1968. After being totally un-
Is Making A Cliché On A Cliché Still A Cliché? wolves, there exists at least one
fellow road-tripper who hates
STAGE 5
#Gotcha
the song at least a little bit. (4th Are we there yet? Are we there
Dhairya Chaudhary, XII C & the mould of ‘trying too hard to way past the typical pieces; yet than just making the writing law of Thermodynamics) yet? Where are we going any-
Deeksha Puri, XI F, AIS PV be edgy.’ As we all come across, in the course of our umpteen at- dry- they make it worn out with way? All the hard work, sweat,
most of the new generation sto- tempts to stand out, to balance almost no meaning left to de- STAGE 3 and blood has paid off. After 5
#RestInRestroom
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e stood still, gazing ries have their plots revolving the substance with a glint of liver to the readers. hours of hitting the breaks and
at the chasm roaring around what they think to be drama, there comes out the With great number of people caressing the gas pedal, the
back at us. As writ- novel and non-cliché but are, in same age old melancholic plot. Browsing through each kind of comes great probability of time has finally come for you
ers, we have always known the fact, bizarre. Like a ballerina twirling, the typical writing piece, from that wanting to use the restroom. to stop. You have reached your
art of dodging its existence. plot turns, twirls and finally col- abyss of clichés with the short You’ve finally gotten on the ultimate road trip destination:
However, it was too late to back The ‘point’ed type lapses with just a little too much cut way of plagiarism alluring Gurgaon (*cough* Gurugram
out now. We’d have to risk the Lists seem to be convenient. of sensation, just like always. us at every step, we managed to *cough*), because of course,
lives of our work, for conduct- These help us organise our- emerge unscathed, without any that is the only road trip desti-
ing this clandestine but totally selves, memorise content better The fairytale type cliché clinging to us, our re- nation Delhiites can go to.
authentic research. Taking a and get clear pictures. Let’s Seldom do we find a story search completed, because, hav- Well, don’t be disheartened,
deep breath, we jumped in, and leave it right there. Nowadays, which, fortunately, has not taken ing made a cliché on a cliché you still have a return journey
bumped into this pitfall of all writing seems to be seeing so place ‘once upon a time, in a has certainly made us immune in peak traffic hours to look
writing: the dreaded cliché many lists that sometimes eyes faraway land’. This ‘out of the to clichés, dont you think? forward to.
along with its mannerisms. It’s are forced to see an array of bul- box’ story is devoid of what we
time for an insight! lets and arrows instead of the call the ‘happily ever after’.
relevant content. Let’s not cause However, such stories
The pronoun type the world more pain that it is al- are rare. Mostly, the
Well, who wouldn’t want to be ready seething in, and move writers try hard to in-
constrained in a small box filled from lists to paragraphs for a corporate ambigu-
with all sorts of generalisations? change. #MoreWordsLessLists? ous elements in
The act of generalising is based their plots with,
on an individual’s physical or The existential type of course, the to-
social attributes. Of course, all In an attempt to stir the plot in a tally unpre-
women are inborn damsels in different route from those com- dictable plot
distress, and all men are suppos- mon, initially being careful with twist. These
edly the ‘knights in shining just a pinch of drama, the story repetitions do
armor’, isn’t it? And it is pre- begins uniquely. It whirls its more
cisely this easy to fall into the
trap of this type of stereotype.