Mihir and his Bicycle

Mihir and his Bicycle

Mihir was riding his new bicycle, running from one side to another in the hall, running it as fast as he can, making all sort of sounds that could resemble the car or a motorbike but was as loud as a fire truck. His mom instructed to leave the hall and go into garden as it was too much for the poor hall. He rushed to garden, it is all same for him, a room or a garden, everything is a play ground.

I could hear the same sound from outside, running, laughing and screaming in joy.

Then after a while it stopped. I looked outside the window to make sure things are alright. 

I saw him struggling with the bicycle which was now stuck into mud. poor boy! it was raining in the morning. I smiled watching him trying hard to get it out so that he can break this peace again with all different kind of noises he can make.

He was trying hard but could not get his beloved bicycle again. After a while I could see the frustration out of his now-not-so-innocent eyes. He screamed hard, again, then again. As it could help to get the cycle out. He looked into window and realizing I am watching, cried his loungs out to get my attention.

This act made me realize, we all do the same when our beloved cycles stuck somewhere, yielding nothing what we need.

Let the cycle be a person or a thing or may be a job you want to get finished, We scream for it, we cry, we make a scene to get attention from people we think were ours to get help or just to be poured by sympathy.

Sometimes it work, but when it doesn't we blame everything. we whine, we weep. but we don't accept things as they are. off-course we don't realize our beloved needs might have brains of their own and has their own beloved needs, ever growing needs, need that can not be satisfied.

Reality Horror in Indian Television

The whole new era in Indian television is being started by horror reality shows, in which participants specially celebrities will be left alone in haunted places.
MTV’s Girls Night Out (with a tag line ab Phategi ) and Bindas channel’s The Chair (hosted by Meiyang Chang, who himself look spooky ) are being broadcasted.
Fiction based serial which has been on air since 15 years AAHAT is also planning to debut in reality show by leaving some celebrities in a haunted place for its 15 years celebration.
Rakhi ka insaf could also be considered as horror.

Don't Panic she is not a witch
Its Rakhi Sawant without make-up

Well for me the biggest horror TV show was “Rakhi ka Swayamvar”. In which she was suppose to give nightmares by marring one of the prey gathered (they were men and not dogs), but by gods grace he emancipated.

Science channels named National Geographic and Discovery channel  has been showing documentaries on paranormal effects, but the major difference between them and these reality shows is Discovery never leaves their viewers in fear but  gives a reasoning based on science and psychology.

Guess what these horror reality shows are doing?. They leave you with messages like “the camera went dead for no reason” or “the Girl participant just vanished in air and then suddenly appeared in other room”. Was not it enough that they also show clearly fake fear? What are they trying to prove with this?

Remember the time when all the TV channels were showing Ekta kapoor made drama serials, in which all the mother-in-laws were only to terrorise their daughter-in-laws. and the daughter-in-law’s main work to keep marrying and divorcing. I hope these horror reality shows will see the same fate soon and get vanished.

Fell in love With Firefox, happily married to Chrome

When Netscape Navigator died It gave birth to Mozilla Suit, and when the Mozilla Suit was taking its last breath Firefox was born. Firefox’s close relatives are Seamonkey, thunderbird, Sunbird and some other Animal named  free and open-source softwares. ( If anybody knows why all of them are named after animals please let me know )

It was Mozilla Firefox who showed the world that what a web browser could do and hence started the mighty browser war. It was the salvation for Internet explorer victims.

Firefox’s power is its extensibility. Even today nobody beats Firefox when it comes to add-ons.
But it has became cluttered with lots of tool bars. Well there are some add-ons and themes that can be used to hide toolbars and give it a sleek look like chrome, but add-ons are memory hungry and will make your browser more snailious ( it is a word, right? anyways what I mean here is slow like a snail ).

The biggest irritation with Firefox is the start-up time. It feels like ages and you might want to pull your hairs in that time or may want to get a manicure or pedicure .
I have tried Firefox 4 beta-4, and its not better then Firefox 3.6.9, Instead you will not be able to use most of the add-ons, because Firefox 4 is in beta state and add-on updates are the soul responsibility of their individual creators. So without add-ons it is lame.

On the other hand Google Chrome is going from good to better.

The Google Chrome and Chromium (A open source project which is behind Google Chrome ) were started as a minimalistic looking browser with fast browsing experience, but It lacked the extensibility. So I did admire it but never used it as my primary browser.

But two years after the the Chrome’s appearance, Today I see it as the fastest browser with sleek look and a huge Library of Extensions. Chrome is attracting more and more programmers now and extension count is growing very fast.
Plus Chrome works fine with lots of extensions installed and doesn’t go unresponsive.

I will be writing a post about Google Chrome extension equivalent with Firefox Add-ons. So check back soon.

You can download Google Chrome from here.

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My Weird Dream: War of the Worlds

I and my younger brother were on terrace looking down on street, suddenly we saw some weird clouds spreading right above our roofs height, we both got amazed as we never seen any cloud so near that we could touch. 

After a while they covered whole sky , and then it started to glow.
“It must be lightning !!! Run ” I shouted.
I ran for stairs and my bro followed me hurriedly, as soon as we were on the staircase door we shut it quickly , last thing I saw from that door was a sharp red-orangish light outside.

“What kind of clouds they are?” I asked but I knew he cant answer it.
When we got inside we found our mom in very worried gesture, she was not able talk but she pointed towards my elder brother who was mounting on our car.

I ran to him and asked “Where are you going? Can’t you see the weird weather?”
“That’s why I am going, there is a battle started”  He snapped.
“What? what kind of battle?” I asked but he was gone.

I told my younger brother to get into basement “It’s not going to be smooth here”. I stayed in the living room and asked my mom to collect everything edible we can eat while we live in basement.

“It will be much more safer there” I said. She rushed into kitchen and I headed for store-room to get whatever eatable is in there. when I was coming back I saw a weird red-orange cross flying in the sky which was shooting some kind of red-orangish laser.

I am in living room again now , and what is this!! , I heard something nice and familiar !! A ice-cream tricycle on road !!

“What is he doing in this weather when those horrifying crosses are floating in sky?” I mumbled.
When it came closer I realised that it’s not a man who is riding tricycle and the same red-orange cross was mounted on its top. I ducked in a fraction of sec and hid myself behind the sofa.

“Oh god what is that thing? I should have closed all the windows and doors” I thought.

This is the time when my dog ran outside towards that ice-cream tricycle. I wanted to shout to stop him but it could risk mine and my mom’s life. I felt a deep sorrow thinking that I am going to lose him, at this moment my mom came from kitchen looking at me, I stopped her by hand signal , she quickly hid behind the door.

I was hoping the same sound of that red-orangish laser to burst my dog into ashes but, the ‘thing’ on ice-cream tricycle just ignored him and moved ahead.

That is the time when I heard my dogs woof behind my bed. “Thank god it was a dream” I said getting down from my bed to scoop my dog up in my arms.


Writers Note :
Weird dreams are quite normal thing to see but sometimes I see really astonishing dreams. Well, I have seen the movie ‘War of the Words’ but it was around 5-6 years back, and in near past I did not see anything which have anything to do with aliens.
Well whatever the reason was I woke up sweating, so its obvious that the dream was weird and quite scary for me.
Have you ever had any dream like this or weirder? Feel free to comment.