Last Night.....  

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2:33 am, 2 nights after full moon : My room was lit by the silvery moon with 3 windows of my room wide open to let the 'still' breeze in. After a brief reading of N. G. Mankiw's 'Principle of Macroeconomics', I moved onto seeing a Telugu film (with subtitles of course). The film was nearing an end and suddenly I heard 4 knocks, sound heard when somebody knocks onto the wood. The first thought that came to my mind was '"Did a ghost just knock on my window?". For a brief moment I got entangled in a state of indecisiveness and then my curiousity of seeing a ghost took me over. Looking through my window saw nothing else but stillness of the night against a flickering tube competing with the moon.

The marginal benefit of seeing a ghost would indeed be greater than the marginal cost involved in going sleepless through more than half the night.

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20 comments

yes.. they exist in your mind as well as in your mirror..

June 21, 2008 10:26 PM

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Might be a ghost like in Monsters Inc. Scare him away with a Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

June 21, 2008 11:55 PM

@ ajith

mirrored ghost?
:-? :P

@abhi

I liked the monsters in Monsters Inc ;)

June 22, 2008 10:49 AM

ghost stories have been fascinating me since chidhood..n i really want to see one on my own.mot lucky enough till now..

June 22, 2008 12:18 PM

@drunken mind

see ur self in the mirror....(a comment tat i got ;) )

June 22, 2008 5:29 PM

Can't say for sure. Might be coz of the temporary constructs of your intellect!! :P

@ Abhi
Monsters Inc, LOL!!

June 23, 2008 11:55 AM

@hari

athe athe... :D

June 23, 2008 12:10 PM

Btw might like to see this!
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2008/06/wee-hours-of-morning.html

June 23, 2008 2:37 PM

@ramnikarora

Wow...that was totally unexpected :)

June 23, 2008 4:55 PM

:P What made you think that you could see a ghost? For all you know, the ghost would have been giggling at you when you tried to look for it at your window and got disappointed :)

Nice analogy!

June 23, 2008 7:12 PM

@GWBE
It would have been costly to miss out the opportunity, so took a chance and a hope :)

June 23, 2008 7:17 PM

hmmmmmmmmmm..........wow......

u saw it...

yaar y dat luck dint struck me??????.......SHIT.....

June 23, 2008 7:36 PM

@yaaron

because it is luck ;)

June 23, 2008 7:52 PM

Maybe a chathan gave you a visit!

June 23, 2008 11:49 PM

nothng better than a horror experience.. the experience of fear of the unnatural.. it happens sometimes in our hostel rooms, when we start talkin ghost stories and switch off al the lights..

at that point, any small sound has a probability of being made by a ghost to us :-)

June 23, 2008 11:51 PM

@ak

Then I would have seen it :P

@hari

As we haven't had any real horrifying experiences, can it be said to better or worse? ;)

June 24, 2008 9:39 AM

Nice ghostbuster post! The best part is the 'economics-sytled definition' All your 'quest' posts shows that you really worked hard and devoted a lot of time before getting em published. I wish I could write like nice, prepared posts. (nice ghost! pic) .. cu soon.

June 28, 2008 9:46 PM

Thank you :)

July 15, 2008 1:02 AM

u tellin dat uve never seen a ghost? never lukd into a mirror??? amazin!!!!!

May 9, 2009 5:08 PM

Looking in the mirror and seeing a ghst doesn't happen with everyone. You are lucky that it happens with you :D :P

May 10, 2009 1:54 PM

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