I dont think i would be doing much blogging here.. Have moved to the group blog:
AEI Oh You!
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
As the crow flies..
Just completed the book..ya i know took too long to finish it, but the blame lies in the series exams causing much discontinuity in my reading schedule. The book has been a refreshing change to my choices of books, movies and songs..the dramatic tragedies. This one was a plain success stories. Though the protogonist had his high and low points, the story thankfully has a happy ending. That helped me in getting over the nostalgia and dampening feeling plaguing my mind over the past few weeks. Hope the bouyancy lasts.
More about the book, storyteller jeffrey has shown his class once again and convinced us that Charlie ultimately made the biggest barrow in the world. The sudden twist towards the end came as a surprise, and renewed my interest in completing the book. Dont know how much a week's fine would cost me, but it was worth reading.
PS. Saw spiderman 3 yesterday. It was disappointing, considering the huge hype before the movie.
More about the book, storyteller jeffrey has shown his class once again and convinced us that Charlie ultimately made the biggest barrow in the world. The sudden twist towards the end came as a surprise, and renewed my interest in completing the book. Dont know how much a week's fine would cost me, but it was worth reading.
PS. Saw spiderman 3 yesterday. It was disappointing, considering the huge hype before the movie.
Friday, April 06, 2007
Pertaining not to much as i may deem important.
April 6, 11 pm.
I'm reading 'as the crow flies' by Jeffrey Archer. It's style of narration is interesting. The story moves from the viewpoint of different characters, the intriguing part is that the time periods overlap. So we see the same incidents in atleast two viewpoints. Although my first impression at the beginning of each chapter is 'not again', it still gets my attention. And i dread having to read the next chapter coz it's frm the viewpoint of the negative character. The plot is very simple..rags to riches story but like some one said, in the hands of jeff archer, it becomes an epic story.
I'm reading 'as the crow flies' by Jeffrey Archer. It's style of narration is interesting. The story moves from the viewpoint of different characters, the intriguing part is that the time periods overlap. So we see the same incidents in atleast two viewpoints. Although my first impression at the beginning of each chapter is 'not again', it still gets my attention. And i dread having to read the next chapter coz it's frm the viewpoint of the negative character. The plot is very simple..rags to riches story but like some one said, in the hands of jeff archer, it becomes an epic story.
SMS chats
Recently I found out we talk lot of sense/nonsense via sms. So...No questions expected, No explainations given, this one's for you to understand in your own way.
5-6/04/07:
M:There shoould be someone close to you who never appreciates until you are perfect
V:Meaning i'm perfect or what.
M:Meaning either you dont hve anyone close, or a better guess would be there's nothing worth appreciating..;-)
5-6/04/07:
M:There shoould be someone close to you who never appreciates until you are perfect
B:That can be oneself
M:But that would clash with one's ego..detrimental effect..
B:If one has ego, anyways he's not gonna listen to others
M:That is more like an arrogant person..Having ego doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't listen to others ..(my opinion, considering ego as a good thing)
B:Roark was arrogant. Why do i directly go to fountainhead when i hear about ego..
M:Roark crossed the line many times to be arrogant..that's one of his flaws
B:If he hadnt, he wouldn't be in that book. Atleast wouldn't have becoma a bestseller. In our case we'll be just one of the 'the rest of the world' who never wins or never loses. Insignificant. People like drawing kinder for others. It is not to help you. But to keep you in control. It's your opinion to break free (very nicely said, B)
M:Cant think of a counter argument at the moment
B: K
M:Actually didn't He teach us, to do good things not to show others but for yourself..that's ego too.
B:clarify He
M:He as in Jesus
B:so you say ego is good. Or ego can be good or bad?
M:Ego is good, arrogance is bad
B:You know that is wrong. It is not like there are two things ego and arrogance. Arrogance is nearer to practical application. And ego is about the constitution of oneself. Ego affects everything that one thinks and does. Arrogance being one of them. Arrogance is the practical expression of one's ego.(???)
M:I dont know. It's all about how you understand each word...
B:Ah! The defenition.
M:Ya, the defenition..
5-6/04/07:
M:There shoould be someone close to you who never appreciates until you are perfect
V:Meaning i'm perfect or what.
M:Meaning either you dont hve anyone close, or a better guess would be there's nothing worth appreciating..;-)
5-6/04/07:
M:There shoould be someone close to you who never appreciates until you are perfect
B:That can be oneself
M:But that would clash with one's ego..detrimental effect..
B:If one has ego, anyways he's not gonna listen to others
M:That is more like an arrogant person..Having ego doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't listen to others ..(my opinion, considering ego as a good thing)
B:Roark was arrogant. Why do i directly go to fountainhead when i hear about ego..
M:Roark crossed the line many times to be arrogant..that's one of his flaws
B:If he hadnt, he wouldn't be in that book. Atleast wouldn't have becoma a bestseller. In our case we'll be just one of the 'the rest of the world' who never wins or never loses. Insignificant. People like drawing kinder for others. It is not to help you. But to keep you in control. It's your opinion to break free (very nicely said, B)
M:Cant think of a counter argument at the moment
B: K
M:Actually didn't He teach us, to do good things not to show others but for yourself..that's ego too.
B:clarify He
M:He as in Jesus
B:so you say ego is good. Or ego can be good or bad?
M:Ego is good, arrogance is bad
B:You know that is wrong. It is not like there are two things ego and arrogance. Arrogance is nearer to practical application. And ego is about the constitution of oneself. Ego affects everything that one thinks and does. Arrogance being one of them. Arrogance is the practical expression of one's ego.(???)
M:I dont know. It's all about how you understand each word...
B:Ah! The defenition.
M:Ya, the defenition..
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Far Away
-A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...(Star Wars,1977)
5..4..3..2..1..I closed my eyes. Though the complete sequence was practised many times before, the real experience is always different. I felt my back go limp as the multi-Gs pulled me back to where I really belonged. Life taught me that you can't attain anything if you dont dare to shoot out from the roots. And shooting out was exactly what I was doing aboard Endeavor II.
Space travel had always been my passion. Being on the first human spaceship to explore out of the Sun-solar system is by no means a little achievement and i perfectly knew i desrved it..after the 10 years training as astronaut in the best academy for space agency training. The only thing that disturbed me was the fact that no one other than me in the whole crew of 10 believed there was actually extraterrestrial life. I believed..
Ah.. the smell of something great cooking in the kitchen. My mind filled with the image of that person who made them...Sir...Sir! I woke up with a jolt. "Where are we", I enquired.
"We are near the outermost part of solar system. We should be getting ready for the hyper-jump"
I knew this was the most dangerous part of our mission. Hyper-jump experiments had the most number of casualities in human history. Though the technology had been perfected over the last few years, it was not completely fool-proof. I being the captain of the space-ship, was entrusted with the responsibilty of guiding the operation.
The mission control module housed at the front end of E2(as i liked to call the ship), had the look of a round-table-conference room. There was a huge telescreen in the middle with the seating arrangement set around it. Each space-pilot had his own controls. Moving into my position, I started the checking sequence...Coordinates-OK, Final Coordinates-OK, Velocity-OK, Activating Hyper-jump at 09:00 Feb 5, 2025 GET.
Life and Death are the eternal truths in this universe. All my life i strived to ammend one more..'Life outside Mother Earth'. There were instances where I'd talk for hours giving valid reasons for extraterrestrial life, but human ego refused to give up. More than being a breakthrough in intra galactic travel, this was my personal quest to prove the truth.
Unlike popular misconception that during a hyper-jump you feel a sharp jerk, there's no physical difference when the actual process takes place. The technology is used to warp the space-time around you in such a way that adjacent super-strings in the multidimension are extended to the perceptible three space-dimensions. Thus making it possible to travel at several light-years per second. As soon as hyper-jump was completed, we checked our final coordinates..OK. We were though, safe and alive.
"The mission with an aim, but no destination". Being dubbed thus was not entirely true. After careful pre-calculations, our initial destination was chosen as Alendro (a planet in the Cleu solar system, 314 light-years away). Alendro was the closest planet with more than 50% chance of having the conditions to sustain intelligent life form. E2 had the power for 3 hyper-jumps and a return hyper-jump to lead us back to Earth. That gave us more than 87.5% chance of mission success. But the figures didn't mean anything to me...
Loading Planet Exploration Module (PEM): Passenger check completed: Detaching PEM: Alendro atmosphere entry successful: Activating chutes: Retracting chutes: Landing mission-Done:: Endeavor II Main Log Entry, March 23, 2026 GET.
"Do we continue with the scheduled procedure, Chief?"
"Ya, just read out the main points"
" The first one's outta question, now that we see just barren land around. So proceeding as per plan B, where we're assuming or rather expecting to find microbiological lifeforms. Here it goes:
1. Collect samples from soil.
2. Find a water body
3. Collect water-sample
4. Test the samples at PEM lab"
"That's clear enough. You lead the team on land. We'll try to find the water body"
Alendro was similar to Earth in some aspects. It was estimated to have about 60% of the crust covered with water. But because of its distance from the Cleu, the temperature never went above freezing in most parts. Almost all the seas were covered by a thick sheet of ice. Downlink from E2 said that our landing site was about a kilometre from a lake. Our team proceeded to it. The ice sheet was about a feet thick. Our drill-extractor did the job. At first, I didn't see anything...but as the test tube warmed in my hands, it came alive!
04:14 GET :-
"Earth, Do you get me?"
"Yes we're receiving signals over the superwave"
"We've done it!"
05:20 GET :-
"Return to Earth, right away"
"What! But we've 2 more hyper-jumps left..."
"Return to Earth, they are orders"
"We've not discovered intelligent lifeform yet. The other planets could give us an answer"
"Further exploration will be done only after experimentation on the sample is completed"
"But..."
"Mission declared successful. Return to home base. Over and out"
"D...
It shouldn't be ending this way. We were so close to finding out if there were others like us in the universe. And now they want to abandon mission, giving it the "Mission successfully ended" tag. Damn the administration, damn the red-tapism and damned be human orthodoxy. I gave commands to activate return hyper-jump...Coordinates-OK, Final Coordinates-Failed, Velocity-Error, Trying backup sequence-Failed, Try abort-Fail...I closed my eyes.
"There...that ends Captain John's brain vediomap. That must be the time when our ship captured Endeavor II"
"I wonder what the Agency will decide. Execution is inevitable...Ah there comes the verdict"
I opened my eyes. Just as I opened my mouth to speak, I was dumbstruck.I was on some kinda bed. My face..covered by a mask. Water all around and suprisingly everyone around, whoever they were, were breathing perfectly without the mask on. The guy standing next to me was checking something on a handheld device.
He exclaimed.. "What! Can't believe it. They are to be set free.."
I sighed a breath of relief. Not able to hold back any longer, the questions spurted out..
"Where am I? Why are we held captive? Who are YOU?"
"You'll get the answers."
He turned to the other person alongside him and said "Give him the shot."
"No..." I passed out again.
"Captain..sir...Wake up"
"Where am I?"
"You must've lost consciousness during the hyper-jump. There were some miscalculations..We're OK now. Final coordinates located 5 million miles from Neptune. Sir, maybe you should take a rest now. I'll lead you to your room."
"Thanks, don't bother leading me to the room. I'm consious enough to find my way..."
Hmm...That was a wierd dream, being held captive on an alien ship. And the funny part is everything seemed so real. Wait a second, I havent seen that disc before in my room. What could it be? There's only one way to find out.
Running Autoplay:-
Captain John,
Your space-ship, Endeavor II was captured by Peacekeeper Agency agents. Multi-dimensional travel (better known to you as hyper-jump) without the knowledge of the PA is strictly prohibited in the universe. But it has come to the Agency's knowledge that Earth is a primitive planet, ie. they had not had their 'First Contact'. So after having a discussion about the issue, the Agency have made the following decisions:
1. Endeavor II would continue on it's journey to home planet. The crew, other than the Captain would not be alerted.
2. Earth would be contacted by our authorities and the Universal Rules would be laid down for acceptance by the planet.
Greetings to Earthlings on making the First Contact. Let your planet be an ally of the Peacekeeper Agency in the near future. Finally greetings to you too, my friend.
- Sgt. Ricky Enantonella, The Agency.
Life and Death are the eternal truths in this universe. All my life i strived to ammend one more..'Life outside Mother Earth'. This was my personal quest to prove the truth. I found it.
5..4..3..2..1..I closed my eyes. Though the complete sequence was practised many times before, the real experience is always different. I felt my back go limp as the multi-Gs pulled me back to where I really belonged. Life taught me that you can't attain anything if you dont dare to shoot out from the roots. And shooting out was exactly what I was doing aboard Endeavor II.
Space travel had always been my passion. Being on the first human spaceship to explore out of the Sun-solar system is by no means a little achievement and i perfectly knew i desrved it..after the 10 years training as astronaut in the best academy for space agency training. The only thing that disturbed me was the fact that no one other than me in the whole crew of 10 believed there was actually extraterrestrial life. I believed..
Ah.. the smell of something great cooking in the kitchen. My mind filled with the image of that person who made them...Sir...Sir! I woke up with a jolt. "Where are we", I enquired.
"We are near the outermost part of solar system. We should be getting ready for the hyper-jump"
I knew this was the most dangerous part of our mission. Hyper-jump experiments had the most number of casualities in human history. Though the technology had been perfected over the last few years, it was not completely fool-proof. I being the captain of the space-ship, was entrusted with the responsibilty of guiding the operation.
The mission control module housed at the front end of E2(as i liked to call the ship), had the look of a round-table-conference room. There was a huge telescreen in the middle with the seating arrangement set around it. Each space-pilot had his own controls. Moving into my position, I started the checking sequence...Coordinates-OK, Final Coordinates-OK, Velocity-OK, Activating Hyper-jump at 09:00 Feb 5, 2025 GET.
Life and Death are the eternal truths in this universe. All my life i strived to ammend one more..'Life outside Mother Earth'. There were instances where I'd talk for hours giving valid reasons for extraterrestrial life, but human ego refused to give up. More than being a breakthrough in intra galactic travel, this was my personal quest to prove the truth.
Unlike popular misconception that during a hyper-jump you feel a sharp jerk, there's no physical difference when the actual process takes place. The technology is used to warp the space-time around you in such a way that adjacent super-strings in the multidimension are extended to the perceptible three space-dimensions. Thus making it possible to travel at several light-years per second. As soon as hyper-jump was completed, we checked our final coordinates..OK. We were though, safe and alive.
"The mission with an aim, but no destination". Being dubbed thus was not entirely true. After careful pre-calculations, our initial destination was chosen as Alendro (a planet in the Cleu solar system, 314 light-years away). Alendro was the closest planet with more than 50% chance of having the conditions to sustain intelligent life form. E2 had the power for 3 hyper-jumps and a return hyper-jump to lead us back to Earth. That gave us more than 87.5% chance of mission success. But the figures didn't mean anything to me...
Loading Planet Exploration Module (PEM): Passenger check completed: Detaching PEM: Alendro atmosphere entry successful: Activating chutes: Retracting chutes: Landing mission-Done:: Endeavor II Main Log Entry, March 23, 2026 GET.
"Do we continue with the scheduled procedure, Chief?"
"Ya, just read out the main points"
" The first one's outta question, now that we see just barren land around. So proceeding as per plan B, where we're assuming or rather expecting to find microbiological lifeforms. Here it goes:
1. Collect samples from soil.
2. Find a water body
3. Collect water-sample
4. Test the samples at PEM lab"
"That's clear enough. You lead the team on land. We'll try to find the water body"
Alendro was similar to Earth in some aspects. It was estimated to have about 60% of the crust covered with water. But because of its distance from the Cleu, the temperature never went above freezing in most parts. Almost all the seas were covered by a thick sheet of ice. Downlink from E2 said that our landing site was about a kilometre from a lake. Our team proceeded to it. The ice sheet was about a feet thick. Our drill-extractor did the job. At first, I didn't see anything...but as the test tube warmed in my hands, it came alive!
04:14 GET :-
"Earth, Do you get me?"
"Yes we're receiving signals over the superwave"
"We've done it!"
05:20 GET :-
"Return to Earth, right away"
"What! But we've 2 more hyper-jumps left..."
"Return to Earth, they are orders"
"We've not discovered intelligent lifeform yet. The other planets could give us an answer"
"Further exploration will be done only after experimentation on the sample is completed"
"But..."
"Mission declared successful. Return to home base. Over and out"
"D...
It shouldn't be ending this way. We were so close to finding out if there were others like us in the universe. And now they want to abandon mission, giving it the "Mission successfully ended" tag. Damn the administration, damn the red-tapism and damned be human orthodoxy. I gave commands to activate return hyper-jump...Coordinates-OK, Final Coordinates-Failed, Velocity-Error, Trying backup sequence-Failed, Try abort-Fail...I closed my eyes.
"There...that ends Captain John's brain vediomap. That must be the time when our ship captured Endeavor II"
"I wonder what the Agency will decide. Execution is inevitable...Ah there comes the verdict"
I opened my eyes. Just as I opened my mouth to speak, I was dumbstruck.I was on some kinda bed. My face..covered by a mask. Water all around and suprisingly everyone around, whoever they were, were breathing perfectly without the mask on. The guy standing next to me was checking something on a handheld device.
He exclaimed.. "What! Can't believe it. They are to be set free.."
I sighed a breath of relief. Not able to hold back any longer, the questions spurted out..
"Where am I? Why are we held captive? Who are YOU?"
"You'll get the answers."
He turned to the other person alongside him and said "Give him the shot."
"No..." I passed out again.
"Captain..sir...Wake up"
"Where am I?"
"You must've lost consciousness during the hyper-jump. There were some miscalculations..We're OK now. Final coordinates located 5 million miles from Neptune. Sir, maybe you should take a rest now. I'll lead you to your room."
"Thanks, don't bother leading me to the room. I'm consious enough to find my way..."
Hmm...That was a wierd dream, being held captive on an alien ship. And the funny part is everything seemed so real. Wait a second, I havent seen that disc before in my room. What could it be? There's only one way to find out.
Running Autoplay:-
Captain John,
Your space-ship, Endeavor II was captured by Peacekeeper Agency agents. Multi-dimensional travel (better known to you as hyper-jump) without the knowledge of the PA is strictly prohibited in the universe. But it has come to the Agency's knowledge that Earth is a primitive planet, ie. they had not had their 'First Contact'. So after having a discussion about the issue, the Agency have made the following decisions:
1. Endeavor II would continue on it's journey to home planet. The crew, other than the Captain would not be alerted.
2. Earth would be contacted by our authorities and the Universal Rules would be laid down for acceptance by the planet.
Greetings to Earthlings on making the First Contact. Let your planet be an ally of the Peacekeeper Agency in the near future. Finally greetings to you too, my friend.
- Sgt. Ricky Enantonella, The Agency.
Life and Death are the eternal truths in this universe. All my life i strived to ammend one more..'Life outside Mother Earth'. This was my personal quest to prove the truth. I found it.
Friday, December 22, 2006
Dreams
...wish the good ones came true.
Recently i have been doing a little research work on dreams, and who better to experiment on...than myself. Here goes the primary results of my experiments:
1. Just the other day, i was travelling with John Abraham in a car. We couldn't find a parking space in the city. So i walked around trying to find if any place was vacant. Then he comes along on a bike and tells me to jump on. Seeing the folly, i ask him where the car is and why the hell am i looking for a parking space if he's going around in the bike. We went back for the car...and the dream continued.
Conclusion: Dreams are said to be controlled by the subconsious mind. But it's not completely true. We think while we are dreaming. We just dont think the right thing..like why am i travelling with John Abraham!
2. Nightmares. There's no worst nightmare. All are equally bad. One thing worth noting about nightmares are that they transform with growing age. When i was young, the nighmares were about untamed lions, dungeons and dragons, but nowadays, they are almost always connected with exams..hehe wish they dont come true next week.
3. There are dreams within dreams. These are the scariests ones coz once you wake up from the dream within the dream, you never think that you are still dreaming. Though everything that happens feel absurd, you just cant think you're dreaming (coz you've already woken up in the dream).
As a final word, there's no harm dreaming...once you'll wake up realising life is just a very big dream. ;-)
Recently i have been doing a little research work on dreams, and who better to experiment on...than myself. Here goes the primary results of my experiments:
1. Just the other day, i was travelling with John Abraham in a car. We couldn't find a parking space in the city. So i walked around trying to find if any place was vacant. Then he comes along on a bike and tells me to jump on. Seeing the folly, i ask him where the car is and why the hell am i looking for a parking space if he's going around in the bike. We went back for the car...and the dream continued.
Conclusion: Dreams are said to be controlled by the subconsious mind. But it's not completely true. We think while we are dreaming. We just dont think the right thing..like why am i travelling with John Abraham!
2. Nightmares. There's no worst nightmare. All are equally bad. One thing worth noting about nightmares are that they transform with growing age. When i was young, the nighmares were about untamed lions, dungeons and dragons, but nowadays, they are almost always connected with exams..hehe wish they dont come true next week.
3. There are dreams within dreams. These are the scariests ones coz once you wake up from the dream within the dream, you never think that you are still dreaming. Though everything that happens feel absurd, you just cant think you're dreaming (coz you've already woken up in the dream).
As a final word, there's no harm dreaming...once you'll wake up realising life is just a very big dream. ;-)
Saturday, December 09, 2006
The World Out There
>Didn't expect i still had this piece of sci-fi excellence with me..j/k. Well, about the history of this short story, there's not much to tell other than that i wrote it in an English exam in 9th..or was it 10th? Anyway I didn't have the heart to change anything in the story. Here it goes...
‘Knock knock’
I woke up that day to hear a knocking on the door. ‘Mum and Dad came back early!’ I thought. They had gone to their native place and had promised to come back only after two days (two days of peace for me). I crawled out of my bed, slightly opened the door and peeped outside.
I saw a boy, about my age. He was slim and muscular. He had a weird gizmo mask on his head that made him look like an alien. I laughed my heart out. “Nice Joke!”
He looked surprised.
“Cool mask, guy. Shall I have it?” I presumed him to be one of my friends. “Arghh!” I got a shock as soon as I touched the mask.
The boy looked frightened. I shook my hands and asked, “Who are you?”
“Who am I. You’ll sure wanna know. I’m Ricky Enantonellan from the planet Enantonella.”
“What!” I couldn’t believe my ears. I pinched myself.
“May I come in?” he asked.
“Er…er…yes…”
He entered our living room and sat gently on our sofa. He looked weary. So I bought some water. He did behave like an extraterrestrial. He looked into the glass and the water traveled into his mouth.
I asked again, “Who are you?”
Then…He started telling his story.
“ I am Ricky Enantonellan. I do not belong to this planet. I belong to the great planet Enantonella.”
“Enantonella?” I couldn’t restrain myself from asking that.
“Yes, Enantonella. Haven’t you heard about it? Okay. Enantonella is a water planet. We Enantonellans live under water. That is why I have to wear this mask. We are the species Homo enantonelli. You humans are believed to have evolved from us.”
I couldn’t grasp all that he was saying.
He continued “We are having drought season in our planet. The water is decreasing. We need water for our existence. We breathe water, we drink water and we use water. Even our transport ships use water as fuel.”
“That’s convenient” I thought.
“But now we are forced to live our motherland. ‘Cause water is escaping to outer space as vapour. So we Enantonellans are traveling from planet to planet in search of water. Earth is a good water planet but the polluted water is poisoning us. We have launched a mission to talk to you humans not to pollute water. That’s why I am up here.”
“How is the outer space?” I gathered courage to ask it.
“Space traveling is rather boring. You just see some supernova bursting or have battles with the Heptolions who think the whole space-way is theirs. Our Z-lasers are quite useful in busting their Lionion battleships. One of our crewmembers died in a battle last time.
Yet in the planets it is always fun. I always play ‘Scudball’ with my friends.”
‘Knock knock’
Someone was again at the door. I opened it to see another Enantonellan.
“Mum” Ricky jumped out of the sofa and ran to her.
“Bye bye Ricky”
They walked away……
‘Knock knock’
I woke up that day to hear a knocking on the door. ‘Mum and Dad came back early!’ I thought. They had gone to their native place and had promised to come back only after two days (two days of peace for me). I crawled out of my bed, slightly opened the door and peeped outside.
I saw a boy, about my age. He was slim and muscular. He had a weird gizmo mask on his head that made him look like an alien. I laughed my heart out. “Nice Joke!”
He looked surprised.
“Cool mask, guy. Shall I have it?” I presumed him to be one of my friends. “Arghh!” I got a shock as soon as I touched the mask.
The boy looked frightened. I shook my hands and asked, “Who are you?”
“Who am I. You’ll sure wanna know. I’m Ricky Enantonellan from the planet Enantonella.”
“What!” I couldn’t believe my ears. I pinched myself.
“May I come in?” he asked.
“Er…er…yes…”
He entered our living room and sat gently on our sofa. He looked weary. So I bought some water. He did behave like an extraterrestrial. He looked into the glass and the water traveled into his mouth.
I asked again, “Who are you?”
Then…He started telling his story.
“ I am Ricky Enantonellan. I do not belong to this planet. I belong to the great planet Enantonella.”
“Enantonella?” I couldn’t restrain myself from asking that.
“Yes, Enantonella. Haven’t you heard about it? Okay. Enantonella is a water planet. We Enantonellans live under water. That is why I have to wear this mask. We are the species Homo enantonelli. You humans are believed to have evolved from us.”
I couldn’t grasp all that he was saying.
He continued “We are having drought season in our planet. The water is decreasing. We need water for our existence. We breathe water, we drink water and we use water. Even our transport ships use water as fuel.”
“That’s convenient” I thought.
“But now we are forced to live our motherland. ‘Cause water is escaping to outer space as vapour. So we Enantonellans are traveling from planet to planet in search of water. Earth is a good water planet but the polluted water is poisoning us. We have launched a mission to talk to you humans not to pollute water. That’s why I am up here.”
“How is the outer space?” I gathered courage to ask it.
“Space traveling is rather boring. You just see some supernova bursting or have battles with the Heptolions who think the whole space-way is theirs. Our Z-lasers are quite useful in busting their Lionion battleships. One of our crewmembers died in a battle last time.
Yet in the planets it is always fun. I always play ‘Scudball’ with my friends.”
‘Knock knock’
Someone was again at the door. I opened it to see another Enantonellan.
“Mum” Ricky jumped out of the sofa and ran to her.
“Bye bye Ricky”
They walked away……
Monday, October 30, 2006
Afterword to "The Fountainhead"
Thinking back..i've written that i'm not adding the book into my fav's list. But that's not true.. Although the background of Fountainhead is completetly different from mine, Ayn Rand's philosophy has left an indelible mark on me.
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