Writer's notebook

  Games have come a long way in terms of gameplay, graphics and the whole experience in general. Games were just for kids and weren't that realistic just 10 years ago but now games feel more realistic that real life. People are playing games day in and day out. Here are the top 6 most sold games of all time.               6. Super Mario Bros:  Super Mario Bros was first published in 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). This was the predecessor of the widely popular 1983 game Mario Bros. At first only released in Japan and some parts of the U.S. it got broadly released in 1987 all over North America. The game was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka and was praised worldwide and managed to sell more than 58 million copies which was a huge milestone at that time.           The game follows Mario, the protagonist of the series. In the multiplayer Mario's brother Luigi is controlled by the second player. The objective is to rescue Princess Toadstool from th

It's the middle of the night and you are having a nice sleep after a long, exhausting day and suddenly you feel a heavy weight on your chest, you can't move your hands or your legs. You open your eyes and see a ghostly figure sitting on your chest or standing beside you, you try to call for help but you can't move your mouth either. You are scared and wondering what you are going through. Well that was a sleep paralysis you just experienced.  Most of us have experienced this kind of incident in our lives because 4 out of 10 people have confessed to experiencing the night-hag. So the night-hag or the old-had is a situation in which the victim feels the same things as a sleep paralysis, that is why it is commonly associated with sleep paralysis. This demon can be either visible or invisible to the victim. The best depiction of this is in Henry Fuseli's painting "The Nightmare".  Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781 Here you can see a demon sitting on its victims ch

 Dogs are undoubtedly human's greatest and closest friends. From cuddling in the bed to pulling sledge or guarding there is a dog breed for everyone's needs in all shapes and sizes. When you come back from work, tired and frustrated by the world and the infinite number of projects by your boss and colleagues, you see your dog welcoming you with a wagging tail. He/she gives you some sniffs, jumps all around you and gives you some not so gentle hugs. Dogs are not shy expressing their joy and excitement seeing you and when you see their eyes, filled with love and care that has no other intention but love and protect you with their lives, all of your tiredness, frustration vanishes in a second.      Image credit:Petfinder          If you are a dog lover/owner, you should also know that that cute poodle you are holding shares 97% of its genes with a wild wolf. Yeah! One slight genetic mutation will change your dog into a ferocious predictor. All the current wolves and dogs are direc