Humble Beginnings

Brainwashing 101

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I

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Arthur C. Clark

“Database management is far more complicated in today’s world than we would want it to—“Samir passed the words from one ear into another as Professor Rakesh Chatruvarthy explained to class the challenges faced by a programmer in database management in modern programming. It wasn’t a boring lecture, definitely not. The united taps of the keyboards as his colleagues made notes on their laptops was palpable, everyone engrossed in the lecture. But not Samir, his mind wandered to the upcoming vacation this summer to his Aunt’s house, and her delicious homemade Tandoori Chicken. These lectures were useless anyway, the interesting bits never came up in the finals.

Fluttering above the android smartphone of Samir was a peculiar little creature the size of a wasp, shimmering yellow wings adorned its golden centre. From a distance it would fool you to be a wasp but on closer inspection it was clear, the wings were too shimmery, the sting wasn’t quite straight and a hundred other little details that were not quite right. It was like an impression of what a wasp would look like to someone who didn’t know what wasps looked like.

Samir’s gaze shifted from the window to his phone and he noticed the little creature. He focused on it more closely, the wings had caught his attention. He didn’t know much about wasps but he was sure they didn’t look like that. He nudged his friend sitting next to him, Rohina to check it out but she was too deeply indulged in the mysteries of data management. Samir noticed its shimmering wings, the geometrical centre and the curved sting, his curiosity rising with every detail he noticed.

It’s better than this useless lecture anyway he thought as he picked up his bag. He opened up a zipper on a small pocket and carefully brought it near the creature. Slowly, he captured it in the bag and closed it. He picked up his pen and poked a hole in the bag, he didn’t want the thing to run out of oxygen or whatever it survived on.

“-and that’s why the future of the database is cloud. That’s it for today. If you got any questions you can mail them to me.” Professor Chatruvarthy and the students started packing up their systems.

“The class is over genius.” Rohina said as she nudged him. Almost everyone had left the class, he really got caught up in that creature. He picked up his bag and rushed out of the class and caught up with Rohina.

“Hey, I need to check up on this bank work my dad told me to. I’ll catch up with you later today.” He told Rohina.

“You and work, Fool someone else.” She smirked.

He needed to be somewhere the creature couldn’t fly off but he didn’t want to go home either, so he went into one of the labs in his college, and sat in one of those little cubicles labs in colleges have.

He bounced his bag on the table eager to find out more about the little thing, he unzipped and opened the pocket slightly. The creature was silent as it sneaked its way out, Samir took out his android smartphone and opened the camera application, which as usual took a second longer than it should. He focused on it and captured the picture but all he got was a blank shot, it had moved! He tried again but as soon as he clicked the picture it moved out of the frame at an incredibly fast speed. The creature is intelligent and fast, really fast. Maybe it’s an insect from outer space; He chuckled as he thought about it. Curiosity got the better of him and he dropped his phone on the table. Slowly, he pointed his finger towards it trying to touch it, it wasn’t moving now.

His finger touched it and it transformed, the geometric wings curved around and fit perfectly into its body pushing something out through its head. The sting flattened, harmless now. The most curious transformation was the head, in place of the insect like body now transforming was a USB connector, the head pushing in and the USB connector coming out. The creature had now transformed into a fancy looking USB drive.

“Definitely not from outer space.” He said to no one. He booted the system in the cubicle, he wasn’t sure what he was going to find but he was sure it was something valuable.

The system booted up and he plugged in the USB drive.

II

The whole system went black and there was just a line of text in white.

“ARE YOU READY TO PROCEED?”

He pressed enter. Nothing happened.

“ARE YOU READY TO PROCEED?”

He typed Y and pressed enter. There was another line of text below.

“PLEASE REINSERT THE DEVICE.”

“Okay little wasp, show me your mysteries.” He said as he reinserted the drive.

His body went rigid and his head slammed into the keyboard of his laptop. As soon as he had pushed the drive it had pushed back a virus carrying poison in Samir’s bloodstream using the sting. It replicated in his vessels quickly cutting off his blood supply. The virus had immobilised him and he would be dead in a couple of minutes. The stick plugged itself out and converted itself back into a wasp like creature.

The screen read another line of text and blacked out.

“TARGET ELIMINATED.”

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This Impatient Little Boy

This impatient little boy of age ten,
With his blue side bag and quirky glasses
It was a fine day with a playful breeze
Tapped his feet and saw the cars pass by,
The Toyota, the Maruti and the Mercedes!
He waited for his mother on the street,
The Crowded road in front of his school. 
Where vehicles and people were aplenty
His father told him it wasn’t so once,
For he did go to this very school,
Spoke proudly about the time long gone. 
When the road was clean, Spotless!
There weren’t so many cars so many people,
A lot of turf and not a trace of litter.
The boy couldn’t imagine that distant time.
As he waited all he could see,
Was litter and people too busy to care.
As the garbage played with the road, a love affair!
Garbage in all of its manifestation,
Cans of mountain dew and wrappers of lays,
Skin of orange riddle the space. 
People too busy to care
Walk without even so much as another glance, 
Caught up in the ways of the world, in a Trance!, 
That was when the boy saw it, 
One man. Just one man! Lifting up the garbage,
In his clean clothes and slip on shoes. 
No one now dared to litter as he 
Picked up the can, picked up the wrapper. 
The boy joined him and a miracle happened, 
 People gathered to clean the streets,
That day He went home and told his dad, 
The time that once was has returned, 
The road is clean, spotless! 
All it took was one man and 
An impatient Little Boy. 

Himanshu Goel

Purgatory

THE DARK LIGHTHOUSE

The Dark Lighthouse

There's too much light,
The need to escape,
A beacon of black,
Where darkness dwells,
It consumes all,
Except the eyes,
Which consume black.
The Eyes of sin.

The sun is down,
The stars are gone,
Everything is right,
Everything is justified,
Boundaries are blurred,
It's all in transit,
No light no dark,
No joy or regret,
A place to get lost,
A place worth getting lost,
The Dark Lighthouse.

The Apple and Checkmate

The Apple and Checkmate

The battle is lost ,
And soon will be the war ,
It was just a bite ,
But now its a deep scar,
She lies fallen ,
There is noone to save her today,No dwarfs that are pure ,
No prince so sure,
The apple lies besides her,
She couldn't resist,
Just a bite,
And Innocence lost the war,Amongst the corrupted ,
She stands true but poisoned,
She is Waiting ,
For death or her saviour,
Its all the same,
Just end the game ,
Check and mate.

BRAVE NEW WORLD

We are the soldiers ,
We are new kind of soldiers,
We are changing the definitions Not neglecting the old values,
Just handpicking a few,
Also creating some new,
Changing the horizon,
We are stubborn ,
Hard to be impressed ,
Enjoying and hating solitude.
We are the army,
We may not seem like much,
But we are ready ,
To protect and form ,
The brave new world.

The Way I Miss You

It's been hardly two days,
But it feels so long,
Have to be strong,
The way I miss you,
It isn't natural,
It's a need,
Deep in my body,
And makes my heart bleed,
I need to see you ,
To touch you and hold you. 
To Look into your eyes,
To make you mine.

Quotes from the last wish

I’m to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.

Is this what the lesser evil looks like?

“People”—Geralt turned his head—“like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.         

What the eyes do nay see, the heart will nae miss..

Violet Velvet

Violet Velvet

This violet velvet has made me blind,

In my eyes and in my mind.

I havent even grazed it

or seen it much,

Still i can feel its touch, 

and oh its so soft ,

and oh its so cold,

With so many wrinkles in the velvet,

Its not a place for the warm hearted,

Just out of my reach,

Its gone or,

Maybe its not here yet.

Are we so different??

NOT SO DIFFERENT

Just because we are from different worlds doesn't mean we are different.

WINDOW IN THE SKY

                                WINDOW IN THE SKY
                                                
                               

       Sometime I wonder if someones watching us from a window in the sky. 

THE GOLDEN COMPASS

        MEMORABLE LINES FROM THE GOLDEN COMPASS

To strike a day too soon is as bad as striking a hundred miles off                  


coming from the walls all around was a slight humming sound, almost too low to hear, the sort of sound you had to get used to or go mad.


she had to be vague in some places and invent plausible details in others; she had to be an artist, in short.


Buy a little farm, a few head of cattle,some horses...Nothing grand, you notice. No palace or slaves or heaps of gold. Just the evening wind over the sage, and a ceegar, and a glass of bourbon whiskey


We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not

Fireflies in the Garden

                          Fireflies in the Garden by Robert Frost
                                

Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part

TOGETHER..

TOGETHER..

MY MOONWALK

MY MOONWALK

Rue's Song

                                                               Rue's Song                           

                                                                                   From the book "The Hunger Games"                                                      

Deep in the meadow, under the willow

A bed of grass, a soft green pillow

Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes

And when again they open, the sun will rise.

Here it's safe, here it's warm

Here the daisies guard you from every harm

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true

Here is the place where I love you.

Deep in the meadow, hidden far away

Cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray

Forget your woes and let your troubles lay

And when again it's morning, they'll wash away.

Here it's safe, here it's warm

Here the daisies guard you from every harm

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true

Here is the place where I love you.

hitchhikers guide to galaxy memorable lines

                                   Hitchhikers guide to galaxy memorable lines

• "You live and learn. At any rate, you live."  

• "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

• "You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." 
  "Why, what did she tell you?" 
  "I don't know, I didn't listen."

• “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” 

• “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. 
  There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” 

•  sometimes if you received an answer, the question might be taken away.

QUOTES

QUOTES

from the novel "So long and thanks for all the fish" by Douglas Adams......................

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• The moon was out in a watery way. It looked like a ball of paper from the back pocket of jeans that have just come out of the washing machine, and which only time and ironing would tell if it was an old shopping list or a five pound note.

• liable to fall off whatever it is that well-balanced people are supposed to be balancing on.

• There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do. "Make 'em dry," is the instruction buried somewhere in the collective national consciousness, "make 'em rubbery. If you have to keep the buggers fresh, do it by washing 'em once a week.

• No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, adored her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her.

• "It was just such a sudden revelation, years of almost unnoticed worry just dropping away, like taking off heavy weights, like black and white becoming colour, like a dry stick suddenly being watered. The sudden shift of perspective that says `Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.' You probably thing I'm saying that because I'm going to say that I felt like that this afternoon or something, don't you?"