Top Reasons Why You Should Quit Everything and Watch The Night Shift!

That I love TV shows is no surprise. That I exaggerate certain things *everything* is also not unusual.
But when I say drop everything and watch NBC's, 'The Night Shift' right now, I mean RIGHT NOW. 

The show is riddled with cliches pertaining to this particular genre, a bad ass, good at heart, brilliant doctor with a devil- may- care attitude, an uptight administrator, with whom he constantly clashes, and a host of diverse characters with emotional baggages of their own. Sounds familiar?

There have been a bazillion number of TV shows of the 'Medical Drama' genre, so what makes The Night Shift different?

Read on to find the top reasons why The Night Shift is one of the best things on television right now.

• Eoin Macken

I had sworn to myself that I would keep my unhealthy obsession with this particular man out of this list. But I failed.

I am only human.

Eoin 'Gwaine' Macken, with his gorgeous hair and his said bad-ass-ness, plays TC Callahan, the rules- be- damned doctor, with a heart of gold. He is ex- army, loved by all and is generally just busy being awesome. I admit I started watching The Night Shift only after I found out that he is going to be in it. I am shallow like that. But seriously, Macken is brilliant, gorgeous hair aside, he is absolutely terrific as the highly skilled, yet emotionally damaged character, TC. 

• 'What The Hell' cases

TNS *abbreviations are cool* features the happenings of the night shift at the ER of San Antonio's hospital, which is situated near a military base. So the cases that the characters handle are always absolutely crazy and thrilling. Blood and gore, aplenty. You were warned.

• The characters

The show features a diverse range of characters, right from a still- in- the- closet- gay doctor, to a couple of liable interns and a group of other distinctive characters, you instantly take a liking to.

• Everything Topher does 

Ken Leung's character, Topher, is one of my new favourite characters of television of all times. He is 100% sarcasm and 0% damns.

He is funny, smart, sassy, sarcastic, and generally awesome. Topher FTW

• Eoin Macken

Sorry! Last time, I swear.

• This

Every cast member's instagram is flooded with totally awesome pictures of the set, the cast and crew chilling or just messing around.

Not that I stalk them all the time.

Maybe I need help.

• It's just all round fun

If you're looking for romance, yet low drama, high octane emotional scenes, absolutely crazy medical cases (however medical inaccurate they may be), or are just bored, then drop whatever you're doing right now, and watch The Night Shift now.

GO!

Last, but DEFINITELY not the least,

• Eoin Macken

OK, Now I'm done.

So go and tune into The Night Shift, and you can thank me later. 

Top Reasons Why You Should Not be a Jerk and Sacrifice Your Friendship For Love.

Men may come and men may go, but best friends stay forever!

Wiser words have never been spoken.

Human beings function on two major levels, social and romantic, so there is no question of choosing between your boyfriend/girlfriend and your friend. It’s like asking to choose between Harry Potter and chocolate.

The worst kinds of people in the world are who forget their friends when they enter into a relationship. Your friends have been there for you longer than any other person. They’ve seen you in your worst, and been with you at your best.  If someone asks you to choose between your friends or him or her, by someone I obviously mean your boyfriend or girlfriend, then the choice is very clear.

Who am I kidding? I would sacrifice all my friends, if that would get Hugh Jackman to love me. I am shallow like that!

But if you’re not me, then here’s a list of top ten reasons why you should never sacrifice friendship for love.

Enjoy

1. No judgment!

You can wear the worst pair of pajamas you own and may be having a bad hair day and your friend wouldn’t bat an eyelid. No protecting the ‘feminine mystique’ or dolling up required. You can do anything and everything in front of your friend, and she will not judge you. I am not saying that you have to be somebody else in front of the person you love, but there is absolutely no chance of any form of judgment with your best friend. And if you are lucky enough, then maybe you would end up with a person who is like that. But there is more chances of me sprouting wings and flying up the chimney than that happening.

I’m way too cynical for my own good.

2. Ogling at Chris Hemsworth’s abs.

Colin Morgan’s cheekbones, David Tennant’s hair… you get the drift, right? You can spend forever drooling over Hrithik Roshan or discuss in detail, each and every part of Jake Gyllenhaal’s anatomy with your best friend. That is not cheating, that is just fantasizing, you can do it with your best friend, but never your boyfriend, I can bet my T.A.R.D.I.S t shirt that your boyfriend wouldn’t really appreciate you drooling over Hugh Jackman. Every woman needs a vent where she can objectify and ogle at men, without any consequence.

3. Long shopping trips.

The thought that we can take as long as we want browsing through books, or go through twenty thousand stores before we find that perfect dress, without someone grumbling at our side, is nothing short of perfect. When you go out with your best friend for shopping, you can not only spend hours deciding which earring would go with what item in your closet, because FYI, she would be aware of each and every item in your closet, you can also do it without any guilt that your boyfriend might be getting bored.

You can go for shopping with your best friend, and try on a million clothes AND get a good opinion too.

4. Always a standing date for lunches or movies

You can always rely on your best friend to drop everything and join you for a movie or for a quick lunch. Whenever you feel like getting out of the house and go for a cup of coffee, your ‘loved one’ might decline, but nothing short of an apocalypse or a meteor crash would stop your best friend, if you call her. That’s just the way things are.

You know your best friend will go to the horrible movie you love for reasons that nobody could understand, without any question.

5. Does not believe you are crazy/weird

You can quote every line from Harry Potter and you know obscure trivia about Star Wars, your best friend will accept this and love you for this. I have spent so much time pondering over the future Sherlock episodes, I have discussed in details the infinite possibilities of there being a T.A.R.D.I.S, and the Doctor being real (he is), the point is, I’ve done all this with my best friend, I don’t think any guy would understand how I feel for all these fictional characters. This was my quirk, whatever your quirk maybe, your best friend will never think of you as a batty lunatic. More than what you can expect from your ‘loved one’.

6.Knows the true ‘you’.

Your best friend knows that you cried like a baby at the ending of Merlin, she knows that you hate cold coffee… she knows you. It’s an instinctive best friend thing. Just by looking at your smile, she can guess that there is something wrong, or something that you’re not telling her. It’s something that every friend just gets, a natural instinct, programmed into the systems of best friends, if you will.

She knows every little or big thing about you, which might take your boyfriend million years to get, even then there is a ninety percent chance that you confuse the hell out of him.

7. ‘That’ look.

You know what look I’m talking about? The look your best friend gives you when your crush walks by. The look she gives you when a person you both dislike is talking. The look you exchange when you are asked to partner up for a group assignment. Or someone says something that is a shared joke between the two of you. It implies that you think the same way about most things.

It is priceless.

8. Your enemies, her enemies.

She may not even know the person you hate, but as soon as she gets to know that you hate her, that person becomes her mortal enemy.

Nobody can get away with hurting you; your best friend has always got your back. Cosmo did a survey amongst men, and found out that one of the most confusing thing about women is that they will hate someone for almost no reason other than their best friend hating them. This concept is lost on most men, and we don’t blame them, but this is one more reason why friends always trump your boy friend.

9. You don’t need to change

You can be anything and nothing and that would be enough. No need to change.  One of the things I have observed in my friends who are in a relationship, is that at first the person would like everything different about you but gradually, those differences start annoying them, and they expect you to change. Your best friend loves you for all that you are and aren’t. He/ she doesn’t expect any change from you.

10. I’ll be there for you, cause you’re there for me to!

The Rembrandts have it right. They’ll always be there for you. No mater what. Even if you’ve fought, said things which you regret, the moment you need her, she will be there for you. However cheesy it 

Top Things to do to Effectively Kill Boredom!

Boredom is quiet possibly the worst thing one can encounter, after power cuts that is. Boredom reduces you to a trashy romance novel reading mess. I am NOT talking out of experience. Hmph!

So boredom. How to combat boredom? Here's a list of some effective suggestions that might do something to lift the dark shadows of boredom out of your lives.

Enjoy.

  1. Planning your survival tactics for the impending zombie apocalypse.

Since it's inevitable, why not utilize the time rendered useless by boredom in crafting out a survival strategy for the dark days to come?. It's a win win, if you ask me. 

  2. Movie Marathons!

O.K so this is a very subjective choice, but since I'm the one giving out these suggestions, you can go and cry in a corner. Movie marathons are another effective way of killing off boredom. You can stock up on popcorn and cold drinks, and pop in the Harry Potter DVDs, just saying. I, myself, have been trying to stave off the big 'B' by watching all superhero movies consecutively. Time well spent.

  3. Decide what you would do if granted 3 wishes by a genie.

One of the worst fear in my mind is finding out a magic lamp, freeing a genie and then being unable to come up with worthwhile 3 wishes!

You cannot waste the 3 wishes on something momentary right? You have to plan and strategize, so as to not waste the golden opportunity! So utilize this time in thinking out three good wishes, that the genie may grant. There.

 4. Blog

Sharing your thoughts about how much you love Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone together, or venting out your thoughts about Twilight, on your blog is a great way to get rid of boredom. 

 5. Stare at Chris Hemsworth/ Hugh Jackman/ Andrew Garfield/ Daniel Radcliffe/ Bradley James/ Eoin Macken....

Colin Morgan/ Liam Hemsworth/ Tom Hiddlestone/ Benedict Cumberbatch/ Christopher Eccleston/ David Tennant....the list will go on and on. (This is my personal choice, individuals may add their own swoon inducing humans). 

The point is, the boredom will automatically vanish. It works. Trust me. Now excuse me while I wipe off the drool from my keyboard.

  6. Read.

Now some of you might decide to give me a kick in the rear for suggesting something so obnoxious as READING..*shudder*...note the sarcasm.

  7. Read up on inane movie trivia.

I have a special relationship with IMDB and I boast about the knowledge of the silliest trivia of most movies. Yes. I am proud of it.

I have to much free time.

 8. Venture in the great outside!

This might be a little far fetched. Bordering on downright insane. I know most of you will just ignore this one. 

You can go outside and connect with the real world. There I've said it!

Tearing myself apart from the world of fanfics and Supernatural, I realized that how much I've been missing while glued in front of the laptop screen. But don't worry, people of the world. I came right back to where I belong.

 9. Make plans on over-powering your bullying little siblings.

So your siblings are a bunch of conniving, little bullying devils. Speaking for all the harassed older siblings, we have to come up with a fool proof plan on over powering these little imps. 

Next step. World Domination. *insert evil laugh*

  10. Create a list!

Ha!. Yes, this list IS a product of boredom. And yes, all the above suggestions have been tried and tested by yours truly. 

Create a list. Lists are fun. Share it with me so that I can be reassured that I am not the only one who thinks making lists is an effective way to kill boredom.

Top Things That Are Just Wrong

There are a few things in this world that are just plain wrong. You question their existence and frown at their presence before you.
Here's a list of all such things, which are just wrong!. 
Enjoy!

 1. Cold Coffee 

It is coffee..which is cold?..I know everybody LOVES a cold frappucino on a hot summer day, but IT IS COFFEE WHICH IS COLD!..

 2. Aishwarya Rai's accent

Aishwarya Rai's non placeable accent makes an appearance in the many crossover movies she has done, perhaps more prominently in The Pink Panther 2.

 3. Twihards

They love Twilight. Enough said.

 4. 300 haters

Epic battle scenes, Gerard Butler, multiple 6 packs, Gerard Butler, awesome effects, Gerard Butler, incredible cinematography...and did I mention Gerard Butler.
Hating 300 is like hating chocolate..just wrong.

 5. Justin Beiber, Nicki Minaj, Rebecca Black

I don't need to elaborate on this one. No, I don't.

 6. Favorite characters dying unexpectedly

*Spoiler* Fred, Dobby, Mad-Eye, Lupin, Tonks, Sirius, Dumbledore, Cedric, Hedwig, Snape, Colin, Finnick, Prim, Rue, Ned Stark, Robb, Catlyn, Robert, Dale..and so many more!...

 7. Parents who think their naughty (devil) kid is SO cute

That is one thing I hate the most.  A random kid will come up to you and say something rude or hit you, and their parents will be cooing and beaming like their kid is a freaking genius, and then patronizingly shake their heads and look at you and say 'Kids...'.
Wrong Wrong Wrong

 8. Miniature Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

Miniature?..They are so tiny that you can eat a million of them and not be satisfied. 
Ugh, now I am craving for one.

 9. Exams

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong

10. Non Punctual people

Allocated time is for a reason!.

Top Ways to Determine If Your Friend is a Zombie

We talk about surviving the impending zombie apocalypse (duh!), but have you ever thought how you would determine if your friend or partner is an undead or not.
Yes. This is perhaps the most useful list of all times.
You're welcome.
Enjoy!

 1. He or she has a mysterious bite mark and when you ask about it, he or she is evasive about it's source.

 2. He or she walks staggeringly, when sober and has a vacant look about them.

 3. He or she can't enunciate anything other than a heartfelt 'BRAINS'.

 4. If he or she has a perpetual vacant look on their face and may not notice when walking into walls or doors.

 5. If they can't climb stairs.

 6. They stink and don't get embarrassed when you pointedly gift them deodorant on their birthday.

 7. You catch them trying to eat your cat or your mom.

 8. They have a bias against The Walking Dead.

 9. They don't die when you accidentally shoot them in the stomach.

 10. They had died two days before and now they're watching television with you.

Top Foolproof Ways To Beat the Heat

It's April and we're melting. Sun is slowly sucking our will to live and THIS. IS. WAR.
Here's a list of some foolproof ways you can win against the inhuman heat!
Enjoy!

 1. Migrate to the North or South Pole

Hello Polar bears and penguins. I know I may be committing a lot of geographical blasphemies here, but I am not in my correct senses as I am sitting in a temperature in which I can easily cook an omelette on my head. Moving to either of the poles is one foolproof way to combat heat issues, if you don't mind the inhuman cold. You can't have everything, you know.

  2. Hostile takeover of Soft drink companies

Free cold drinks for everybody!...Philanthropy is cool, which in turn makes you cool hence beating the heat. You get it? You get it?...
I am so lame, I don't know why my friends are friends with me.

 3. Invention of pocket refrigerators

One of the main travails of summer is keeping chocolates or ice creams from melting. I have a single tracked mind and it focuses only on food, particularly junk food, so it is a huge problem for me when I have to drink my KitKat instead of eating it like normal humans.
Please Scientists, Pocket refrigerators, please.

  4. School and colleges permanently shut down during summer months

The idea of spending all day, lying on the bed, sleeping, in an AC room, with cool drinks...is nothing short of ,for the lack of better term, AWESOME!

  5. Watch Game of Thrones

With Ned Stark proclaiming 'Winter is coming' and watching Jon Snow battle the Others on the cold, cold Wall, you don't feel so hot anymore.

  6. Stay away from Twilight

What you choose to stay away from is relative, for me its obviously Twilight, but the idea is to stay away from anything which makes your blood boil. 
Yes. I have exceeded all normal standards of lameness ever recorded.

  7. Watch Silence of the Lambs

Or any horror movie for that matter, it s sure to send CHILLS down your spine!

 8. Go Bald 

In Tyra Banks' words- It's edgy, it's high fashion and it's fierce.
There you go!

 9. Watch Harry Potter

I don't know how that would help combat heat, but it's Harry Potter..and it should be here. Period.

 10. Avoid movies featuring Hugh Jackman

Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Henry Cavill..you get the drift right?..These men are too hot for summers..total ban!

Top Things You Can Say To Annoy a Harry Potter Fan

I would sincerely advise you not to speak out any of the following lines in front of an HP fan. The result won't be pretty.
Enjoy!

 1. Harry Potter is for kids.

 2. Twilight is way better than Harry Potter!

 3. Robert Pattinson is better as Edward Cullen than Cedric Diggory.

 4. 'I just LOVED the 8th book'

 5. Daniel Radcliffe is not a good Harry Potter.

 6. Harry Potter promotes evil and witchcraft.

 7. OMG!! Team Edward or Team Jacob!

 8. Twilight is such a well written piece of literature.

 9. OMG! OMG! I am such a HUGE Harry Potter fan!..I have watched all the 8     movies...books?..There are books?

 10. Stephanie Meyer is a better writer than JK Rowling.

 11. David Tennant looks ridiculous.

 12. Severus Snape is so ugly..eww who would like him?

 13. Quidditch is stupid.

  14. I think the movies are better than the books.

  15. Harry should have ended up with Hermione.

  16. Ron Weasely is so annoying!

  17. I don't like Gingers.

  18. What is Starkid?

  19. James Potter doesn't deserve Lily
  
  20. Dumbledore is stupid.