Saturday, October 22, 2005

A 'short' story and 'THE stroke of genius'

Wrote this in a short time, 3 minutes?! During the seminars. Practical exams from Monday and I'm writing this here!! My previous experiences should come in handy and no Ram here for that reassurance you guys,b@$!@^d$!

The 'short' story
His name was R.Ram. He was 5' tall. Like his name, his height was also very short. He used to cut his hair every fortnight, for he liked to keep it short. Hewas a good cricket player. While batting he used to despatch anything short, beyond the ropes. He was a brilliant fielder at short point, short fineleg and short mid-wicket bowling his main weapon was the shortpitched delivery which rose to an awkward height for the batsmen to tackle it. His memory lasted for a very short period, the time he spent in the exam hall was also very short it took a very short time for his teachers to correct his papers and he always fell short of the passing marks.

He was extremely short-tempered. His temper used to flare when his friends used to tease him for 'that thing' being short as well, owing to his short height. He used to get into serious fights over this. But, those fights were also shortlived for he lost due to his short stature deep inside he knew,'it' was indeed short.

When he was 18,he wanted a girlfriend. He wanted only a short term relationship. His wait was shortlived, for he found an equally short female. Their short relationship came to an end and they went separate ways.

While on a short walk, he came under a truck. He died on the spot. A short article tucked away in some corner on an obscure local newspaper made a mention of his death. His funeral also was very short, for he had no mourners.

The stroke of genius

This occurred to me while I was peeing in the 'hygienic', germ free, hazy(due to just then sprayed DDT to keep away the mosquitoes) bathroom. No, it was not in the bathroom. My next best idea will occur to me when I'll be peeing. This actually occurred to me while I was almost killed by an OPEL CORSA number GJ-5 PJ 5456!!. I know my death will come while crossing the road.

Pong was with me then. I asked him,"What's the most (ab)used line in personality contests?". Personality contests!, well there's another post waiting to be written on that, which again reminds me of Ram!. And Pong had some/no clue.It was 'IITIAM' or I think therefore I am. Poor Descartes must be turning in his grave! Then I told Pong something which would've made Descartes roll over 142 times in his grave. I told him-"My parents thought, therefore I am!". To which Pong replied-"My parents didn't think, therefore I am!" No offences Pong, but!!!:))

P.S Now you decide who's the bigger genius!!

Update 1: I stand vindicated in writing the previous post. We still haven't received the prize. And heard the prize money will be cut down.
Update 2: If you haven't watched Yahaan, hang yourself and ask your bhoot to watch it.Minissha(s,with that extra s)is so cute, ooeeemaa.

6 comments:

mrinabh said...

Atleast honor intellectual property rights!!.... I will delete it! .... OK I wont delete it!! heh hehh heh heh kx@#$%^&*()$^%&*&*... OK now write some decent comments..

Thats what? ok here it goes:

Nice work man. But what abt ur jai-bangla?? Is it bcoz of that u're corrosive huh? ;-)

sixtyfourarts said...

man..we could have got another short holiday for that...

and now where's ellie?? I am waiting for her comments on the ram post as well as the previous one..

Anonymous said...

wow! i like this short story!! excellent job, nikhil(^o^)//

Hitesh Sharma said...

don't u think Yahaan was too plastic? Minssha too cute, the snow too white, the sky too blue? Seemed as fake as those india shining ads...

Anonymous said...

now tht was a nicelywritten short story...

a short hii to u again...
sonali(titzbitz)

Ravi Handa said...

well mate... i hve been reading ur blog for some time now and i dont think you ever mentioned your college.. so what was i supposed to do? guess? anyhow... need to talk to u bout the whole thing. so message me on gtalk when u hve time.. my id is ravihanda@gmail.com