The doors slid open. An old woman hobbled out on a cane with a handle shaped like a vulture's beak. Very similar to the one he'd wanted to buy at Hobbs' place. Cost quite a fortune for a little wooden stick. Anyway it's not as though he can't walk. Atleast now, it is not that bad as it used to be. He managed to get in just as the doors slid shut, thanks to the fat jerk with the hotdog with extra mustard in his hand. He raised a brow in frustration. That is all he did. Fate takes its toll on men. And apparently train travels too.
He went in and took the seat by the executive looking man who read the business magazine all the time. He never got what fascinated him so much. And he never tried to get it. He looked out the window. The grim walls of the tunnel passed by fast, moving in the opposite direction as fast as him. Had it been a little sign which he'd forgotten to interpret?
The train stops. He looks out expectantly. And there they are. The red haired woman with her equally red haired little girl. He couldn't help but smile. For a moment he forgot about his three missing teeth and grinned. The woman sat opposite to him with her girl. He had been waiting for the day he's see them again. The day he'd hear the kid's surprised laugh whenever he pulled the penny trick on her. Worked like a charm every single time. The day he'd have a peaceful chat with her again. He called out to the little girl.
"Hey kid. Remember me? "
The kid stared at him. She then turned to her mom
"Mommy I'm scared.."
She picked up her kid, cast him a look which wiped the grin off him took her girl and went to the next bogey. She got down at springfield avenue, as she'd always done. She walked left after getting down as she always had done. He looked at them till the train started off again.
He sat there, head bent down. A tear waiting to breach its boundaries. He looked up. There was the lady with a the kid, sitting there opposite to him. The kid was looking misty eyed at the young man who pulled a penny out of her ear. They looked happy. the kid kept asking "Tell me how uncle J tell me tell me please pretty please??". "I'll tell you when you get older kid."
The young man vanished into mist. the lady and the girl too. He was left staring into the window pane opposite him. A wornout face, Scars right across the right cheek, a plastic cone where there should have been a nose, 3 teeth missing, a hat drawn low over the forehead to hide the scars that were there. But the eyes. They were still the same. The very same blue eyes which twinkled while pulling the penny out of the ear. He tore his eyes away from the pane. Put his hand inside his pocket and pulled out a grimy penny. A wry smile was all he could manage.
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Four months earlier.
"See you tomorrow kid! "
"bye uncle J!"
The woman smiled at him. He smiled back. they got off the train. He took his newspaper out and turned it to the comic section. Then it happened.
The train derailed. the first two compartments were badly damaged. Ten dead and 15 more injured. Jake summers was one of them. Two metal rods through his face, missing the brain by an inch. Half a compartment crushing his legs. He wished for death. But it eluded him.
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"I thought you wanted to know. Uncle J would have told you now that you're older.", He thought to himself. He placed the penny in seat no 14. the same seat he'd taken on that fateful day. His stop had come. He stepped out gingerly, adjusting his weight on the better foot. He walked away with his hat low over his face against the breeze. The train pulled away. He took the bus to work from the next day on.
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Part I
Is it just me or does this really sound peaceful?
Part II
Five things you did not know about poo. (Link courtesy Ronil.)
1. Bird poo is white because birds can’t pee. Their kidneys work like ours do, but instead of producing piss, birds excrete a white paste. The paste, along with what comes out of the intestines, unites and is excreted through the bird’s cloaca, a multi-purpose hole which means sewer in Latin. And, yes, by multi-purpose, I mean they mate through it. (Amen.)
2. Many dogs eat poo. This I know because, sadly, my dog used to eat his own poo on occasion. What I didn’t know was that eating poo has a name: coprophagy, and is, of course, more popular with dung beetles than dogs. If your dog eats his/her own poo, one way to discourage the behavior (other than immediately cleaning up after your dog) is to douse the poo with hot sauce or vinegar.(I wonder why dogs hate vinegar...)
3. The reason why some poo floats is because they have a lot of gas in them. Rather than coming out as flatulence, the gas gets stuck in the poo and forces it to the surface of the water. If there’s a lot of fat in your diet, likewise your poo might float. (This relieves the curiosity of a million indians I guess...)
4. Cavemen were better equipped to chew and digest many plants and vegetables. They had larger molars and longer digestive tracts better at handling foods rich in indigestible cellulose, like, er, corn, for instance. Evolution has worked against our ability to chew and digest corn, which is why when some kernels get swallowed whole they appear in poo.
5. The word poo comes from the Middle English word poupen or popen, which used to be the root of the word we now call a fart. Clearly poo has onomatopoeic origins.(Ah, Shit is informative.)
I've learnt a lot today. I should probably slow down. :P
Is it just me or does this really sound peaceful?
Part II
Five things you did not know about poo. (Link courtesy Ronil.)
1. Bird poo is white because birds can’t pee. Their kidneys work like ours do, but instead of producing piss, birds excrete a white paste. The paste, along with what comes out of the intestines, unites and is excreted through the bird’s cloaca, a multi-purpose hole which means sewer in Latin. And, yes, by multi-purpose, I mean they mate through it. (Amen.)
2. Many dogs eat poo. This I know because, sadly, my dog used to eat his own poo on occasion. What I didn’t know was that eating poo has a name: coprophagy, and is, of course, more popular with dung beetles than dogs. If your dog eats his/her own poo, one way to discourage the behavior (other than immediately cleaning up after your dog) is to douse the poo with hot sauce or vinegar.(I wonder why dogs hate vinegar...)
3. The reason why some poo floats is because they have a lot of gas in them. Rather than coming out as flatulence, the gas gets stuck in the poo and forces it to the surface of the water. If there’s a lot of fat in your diet, likewise your poo might float. (This relieves the curiosity of a million indians I guess...)
4. Cavemen were better equipped to chew and digest many plants and vegetables. They had larger molars and longer digestive tracts better at handling foods rich in indigestible cellulose, like, er, corn, for instance. Evolution has worked against our ability to chew and digest corn, which is why when some kernels get swallowed whole they appear in poo.
5. The word poo comes from the Middle English word poupen or popen, which used to be the root of the word we now call a fart. Clearly poo has onomatopoeic origins.(Ah, Shit is informative.)
I've learnt a lot today. I should probably slow down. :P
Nov 30, 2007
A dog's life
Our 2 year anniversary, and I have to spend it alone. You know, it was this very same day she promised me she'd never leave me. I should have seen her fingers to see if she'd had them crossed. Hmmm..I still remember the shirt she wore that day, light blue, First button missing, an ink dot on her high on the right cheek, a result of pen-in-hand thinking. That day when I told her that I love her. That day that she told me she felt the same way too. That day that I 'd wished for every day after meeting her at work. Two years ago. Two years.
"I'm leaving on a jet plane..." . Yea right. A jet plane named misunderstanding that eventually crashed in the sea of despair. You had to take me along didn't you? Let me look back. Everything was fine. Smooth. You loved me. I loved you. People were ok with it. Then I get promoted and I got a secretary and you got jealous. For what?? Because she got to spend more time with me at office. But you never understood that the amount of time is never a measure for the amount of love. Yes she was a good friend. Yes we had coffee together. Yes I gave her a hug for her birthday. But God, we've been through more. And A hug a coffee and some time dictating the details to me is enough to make you doubt me??
She wouldn't talk to me in the office again. And now it's our anniversary and she doesn't give a damn. Why?? Why can't people be open minded and mean it when they say "I trust you more than anybody"?? I can't let her go. No, I won't. I'll bring her door down if thats what it takes to get to her. I'll make her see sense that her smile says more than ..what did she say??..yea "that dumb Secretary girl" can ever say. I'm going right now.
Woof!!
Yea right. Woof bark..What else do you know..a little lick a little rub and there you go. Seven or eight puppies. No secretaries. Food, sleep and play. WIsh I had a life like you...
"I'm leaving on a jet plane..." . Yea right. A jet plane named misunderstanding that eventually crashed in the sea of despair. You had to take me along didn't you? Let me look back. Everything was fine. Smooth. You loved me. I loved you. People were ok with it. Then I get promoted and I got a secretary and you got jealous. For what?? Because she got to spend more time with me at office. But you never understood that the amount of time is never a measure for the amount of love. Yes she was a good friend. Yes we had coffee together. Yes I gave her a hug for her birthday. But God, we've been through more. And A hug a coffee and some time dictating the details to me is enough to make you doubt me??
She wouldn't talk to me in the office again. And now it's our anniversary and she doesn't give a damn. Why?? Why can't people be open minded and mean it when they say "I trust you more than anybody"?? I can't let her go. No, I won't. I'll bring her door down if thats what it takes to get to her. I'll make her see sense that her smile says more than ..what did she say??..yea "that dumb Secretary girl" can ever say. I'm going right now.
Woof!!
Yea right. Woof bark..What else do you know..a little lick a little rub and there you go. Seven or eight puppies. No secretaries. Food, sleep and play. WIsh I had a life like you...
Nov 11, 2007
He discovers that his grandpa was a part of a secret organisation called the plumbers after he meets vilgax the second time. The plumbers were the ones who fought the extra terrestrial creatures which invaded the earth. But as the big bad villain was laid to rest they were disbanded.
One fine day an alien is loose at the museum. He goes there, hits his watch and voila! he turns int o this big green alien. That's his superpower by the way. He goes to stop the bad alien, but another guy is there. He mistakes this green alien for the bad one and fires at him also. But finally the good alien escapes and as time runs out he switches back to human form. And the bad alien is caught. The one who caught it was phil, grandpa's old partner.
Phil finds out about his watch which is called the omnitrix,(the source of his superpowers) and wants to restart the plumbers with him in it. Day by day the frequency of alien attacks increase, and after phil catches them he gets paid well by the governement. Grandpa max becomes suspicious and rushes to mount rushmore and yes his guess was correct, the null void projector is missing!! Phil turns up behind him and explains that he stole that so that he could release all the aliens that they caught with it so that he could catch them again with his grandson and become rich! But max wouldn't have it that way. So he releases an alien to attack max and goes away.
But our hero comes and turns into this grey matter alien which goes on top of the other released alien. Grey matter is very intelligent you see. So it learns how to control the other alien and hits phil's truck with it. Phil is stranded. He uses his null void projecter and tries to catch our hero also inside it. But our hero uses a piece of broken mirror from the truck and the beam hits phil himself and he is trapped along with the other aliens in the projector which max returns safely to the hide out at mount rushmore.
All is well that ends well!!
And that was 10:00 to 10:30 Am of 10th november 2007
:)
One fine day an alien is loose at the museum. He goes there, hits his watch and voila! he turns int o this big green alien. That's his superpower by the way. He goes to stop the bad alien, but another guy is there. He mistakes this green alien for the bad one and fires at him also. But finally the good alien escapes and as time runs out he switches back to human form. And the bad alien is caught. The one who caught it was phil, grandpa's old partner.
Phil finds out about his watch which is called the omnitrix,(the source of his superpowers) and wants to restart the plumbers with him in it. Day by day the frequency of alien attacks increase, and after phil catches them he gets paid well by the governement. Grandpa max becomes suspicious and rushes to mount rushmore and yes his guess was correct, the null void projector is missing!! Phil turns up behind him and explains that he stole that so that he could release all the aliens that they caught with it so that he could catch them again with his grandson and become rich! But max wouldn't have it that way. So he releases an alien to attack max and goes away.
But our hero comes and turns into this grey matter alien which goes on top of the other released alien. Grey matter is very intelligent you see. So it learns how to control the other alien and hits phil's truck with it. Phil is stranded. He uses his null void projecter and tries to catch our hero also inside it. But our hero uses a piece of broken mirror from the truck and the beam hits phil himself and he is trapped along with the other aliens in the projector which max returns safely to the hide out at mount rushmore.
All is well that ends well!!
And that was 10:00 to 10:30 Am of 10th november 2007
:)
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