The Human-e-atarians

"Guess what? we are going to yercaud by car this weekend!!!", shwetha boasted to her friend. Shwetha has been many times to yercaud. However, this time, she is excited about travelling the hill in her family's new car with her dad, Rahul and her mom, Anitha.

This was the first time Rahul is driving up the hill and so he was extra cautious that he maintained a maximum of 40 Km speed limit. The family started their trip with the visit to yercaud lake, one of the best spot in yercaud with picturesque pool surrounded by gardens and well wooded trees. The family then visited Lady's seat, one of the best views that yercaud promises, Kuliyalur, a 90 foot high waterfalls and shwetha's favourite spot, the Monfort school which she used to visit every year for her tennis tournament.

By the time the family had dinner and started back home, it was already 11 45 PM. It was peak vacation time and there were no hotel rooms available and so Rahul deceided to go down the hill.

Rahul was almost down the hill and just a few kilometers away from the city when their car refused to move. Rahul lifted the bonet and opened the radiator. A huge pile of smoke gushed out of the bonet. There was an internal leakage in the coolant system and the only way to move the car is to add some water in the coolant container. It was a fate that his kid just finished the last drop of water from her water bottle. Fortunately Rahul could see a dilapidated cottage down the road near the hairpin bend. He took a can and walked towards it leaving behind his kid and wife to check if he can get some water. It was almost 1:15 AM and anitha locked the doors waiting for Rahul to return while Shwetha was already sleeping.

It was almost 10 minutes and anitha deceided to give a ring to his mobile. There was no answer from his mobile. That was when fear started gripping her and she deceided to look for him. When she was about to open one of the door, She was startled by a huge sound that hit the car's roof. It was definitely not a monkey as the sound was so huge that it caused a big dent on the roof. It was something like a land slide has happened and a big rock hit the roof.

The hitting got louder and now Anitha realized that it was not a rock or animal hitting the roof but a man sitting on top of the car hitting the roof with something. She cried out for Rahul. She knew something was terribly wrong and immediately reached out for police. The thud got louder and louder and after 15 minutes, anitha could hear sirens of police vans.

However, the police stopped few meters behind and started staring at the strange human above the car. Sharat, who was the inspector in charge signalled Anitha to come out slowly through the back door. Anitha and Shwetha came out of the back door and rushed towards the police.

The stranger over the roof had something like football in his hand with which he was still playing with. "Hands up!!!" shouted Sharat moving towards the stranger. The ugly looking guy with something in this hand turned towards the crew behind.

On seeing him, Sharat dropped his gun. Shwetha fainted instantly on seeing him. Anitha could still not figure out if this is just a premonition or real.

The ball like thing that the stranger was was holding was nothing but RAHUL's HEAD...

(to be contd...)

Inspiration: Hollywood movies

Artist in Me

I had a little dream once of becoming a painter or a cartoonist. However, paintings and drawings never bothered to turn its head towards me. My interst level in drawing grew when I bought my new laptop - tx US 2510. The Stylus that comes with this laptop helps you to directly scribble on monitor as you would on a paper.

And then once I stumbled across this site - drawing lessons which provided step by step education on how to draw for rookies.I just found myself a new hobby and a good way to come out of facebook and spend some useful time. Check out below some of my artistic works.

India Shining

Remember, this was the election campaign tag of BJP. I do not know whether India was really shining during that time. However, I can say that per capita income of the country is raising. Let me substantiate.

I had been to thirumala this weekend though I knew this was a bad time to plan the trip especially knowing the formation of LPA over camorin which is the cause of cyclonic storm Phyan. This made me feel that we can have quicker dharshan. However, I was absolutely wrong. Phyan or katrina, people will always be there.

We did not want to risk ourselves standing in the normal dharshan queue waiting for hours to get dharshan. And for those people like us, they have Seegra (speical) dharshan queue which was obviously costlier than normal. So we got tickets and entered the seegra dharshan. To our horror, there was a huge toll of people standing in the same queue that I went back and confirmed with security that this is indeed special dharshan queue.

We waited for half an hour and the queue started moving slowly. When we were finding it difficult to take a step, some 5 people started running in the adjecent pathway. And the pathway is nothing but normal dharshan.Surprisingly the same thing happened at thiruchaanoor, kalahasthi and thiruthani.

India is shining. Time is money and people are ready to fritter for want of more time. its nothing wrong with this mentality. However, its an issue when all people think alike.

So whats the way out for this???