Year: 2006

  • Bait and watch

    He was always fascinated by tales of fearless hunters, especially the ones who laid it all on the line for a particular kill… and the ones who extended the thrill to their loved ones, and today he would join that elite, when he would use his wife as the bait, for that one spectacular kill.. ofcourse the fact that the intended prey would not be able to wound her fatally did dilute the effect, but he was still thrilled.. especially since she didnt know about it… in fact, she was quite surprised by his insistence on her spending quite a lot of time in the same spot..
    He had been hunting in the area for quite some time, and managed to kill most of its kith and kin, but it was a wily creature and had eluded him repeatedly, and was now alone, one of its kind in the expanse around… he remembered the ease with which he had single handedly annhilated the entire clan in his previous hunting ground, and felt confident…he waited patiently from dusk, for that was the time it started its day..
    she was oblivious to the drama she was part of.. it watched from far, it saw her, and then saw him, and immediately sensed the plan, the way any living being could, when its mortality was brought to the fore…but it was thrilled too, it smelt another chance of shaming him.. it approached cautiously, hovering around the area, but never too close… it saw her trying to get up, and him asking herto wait a bit… it saw him watching and acknowledged by making a closer foray than before…it would attack only when it was sure he was getting impatient and restless, and therefore careless…
    and she was the one to give it the opportunity… after hours of being in a place, she finally had enough of his reasoning and got up to leave… he was busy trying to stop her.. it sensed the opportunity and attacked… it had no intention to kill, just a bite, and his defeat … but the bite hurt her enough and she attacked, and so did he…but it was expecting the attack, and easily escaped… to fight another day…he swore in frustration…. Cox Town’s mosquitoes were indeed superior to their koramangala counterparts…
    until next time, reality bites…

  • The Super X Code

    It is time for one last stand
    Humans and mutants cant go hand in hand
    Its also time for the man of steel to land
    and demolish the bald villain’s castles in sand..


    When battles within and without make us sore
    Super heroes are what we are searching for
    Maybe we need to think about it some more
    Seems humanity is what we choose to ignore


    And if at the end of the road
    There is indeed a heavenly abode
    Would it actually lessen our worldly load
    If we managed to break the code


    until next time, rhyme is crime 🙂

  • Singh.. when you’re happy

    The Bangalore University syndicate is about to pass a resolution which will prevent boys and girls from sitting next to each other in class.. about time, i say, after all, each gender needs to have its own space… hell, no one objects when they make separate loos for guys and girls.. 🙂
    but you cant blame these poor profs.. when guys start roaming around with long hair, and girls with short hair and all of them wear the same kind of clothes, the profs need to be able to have some sort of separation to distinguish among them… no one is thinking about the poor prof, there he is, walking around the class, lecturing and sharing a joke, he slaps a student on the back, it turns out to be a girl, and the next thing he knows, he is slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit…
    okay, okay…thats enough of slapstick.. while i admit that its not exactly the greatest move by the university, a few years back, it was definitely an unwritten practice among students to sit separately in college classes.. yeah, maybe Kerala was a bit on the conversative side of things… a lot of kids come to colleges from all boys or all girls schools and therefore it is their first chance to learn to behave and mingle with the opposite sex… and creating an official barrier in the classroom may not be a good start at all… but hey, that still leaves the rest of the college.. and i bet the profs are thinking that while it would be a good idea to have sex education in classes, having both sex and education in classes may not be a great idea…
    But the problem that could arise is that pretty soon, the entire lot of students being churned out of BU will be of a very reserved type… and that should definitely make Arjun Singh happy, he loves the reserved types…
    until next time, boys and girls, whats your say on gender blenders!!

  • Sex Scam

    Up down, up down,
    faster faster, unstoppable,
    like a raging bull
    slowing only for bear hugs
    up down, peaking
    and plunge….
    having sensex !!

    until next time, if you have a share, now’s the time to take stock 🙂

  • Deserving vs Reserving

    In movie halls, flights and trains, restaurants etc, there are those who are fighting for space at the last minute, and there are those who calmly walk in and take their seats… the latter deserve to do so, because they had the foresight to reserve the space .. the point to note here is that both sets of people started out on square one, some before the other, and that made the difference.. and so everything is fair.. now, if someone in the late entry set got in by just knowing the right people, thats perhaps unfair…
    and so, if we apply the same scope for reservations in the educational/ job system,. everything would be fair if everyone started from square one.. but that isnt the case, and so it makes sense to reserve places to level the scales… but what if, over a period of time, the reservations have done their job and further addition would start tipping the scale against those who normally occupied square one.. thats exactly what is happening… and that perhaps is unfair, because the regular folks havent gotten there by unfair means…
    and so perhaps it would be a good time to go back to square one, examine it and define it properly so that reservation is done only for people who are eligible even after multiple filters are put in, and since i am no expert, i can think only of socio-economic conditions as the key parameter… there have been too many changes these past few years for caste to be made a criterion.. a case in example would be that the erstwhile ‘upper castes’ in kerala are in a much poorer condition than the so called ‘lower castes’…
    it is absolutely fair that a person should not miss the chance of an education and a good life just because he doesnt have the finance for it… but in the same breath, it is absolutely unfair that a person should cede his right just because he made the most of his adequate finances and worked hard…there is an argument i made quite sometime back on the subject of meritocracy… if educationis the key to a better life, then, judging people by their intelligence levels is also perhaps unfair.. for only so much of intelligence is self gained, most of it is installed without our having a say in it… and so we are back to the theory of survival of the fittest.
    until next time, who is fit to decide what is ‘fit’ ?