To be continued.....

            In all these years, September has been the fiesta time for me. As you know, my birthday is in the month of September; also I will get study (!) holidays. But life in 2009 turned back the clock a month before. This was the interesting August I’ve ever had in my life. There was lots of interactions, lots of travel, lots of running, lots of class bunking…..there was lots of such ‘lots’ which made to forget that I have a blog and I have to update it!

            One of the memorable event happened last month was my sudden trip to Kerala. This was my third visit there, after 4 years. Kerala has been my favorite since my childhood. All those greeneries, backwaters, roof houses, people…….I just like it.

             But the sad part is it was a two day visit.  I had a crazy thought [I used to get a lot of it] of holding on the rotation of earth, so that I may get some more time. Wait…could I really do that?? Could I make the earth stand still??  ‘Still’?  Eureka!! There is a way! When you have a camera, why should you worry? Let me ‘Frame’ those moments using it…..I think this is the reason why some call it a still camera[:)]

              Thanks to Neela uncle and Prashu akka, I’ve got this new friend ‘Canon power shot 110 is’.  This is a new digital camera, replacing my old film camera. My old cam was indeed a good one, I must admit it. But I couldn’t take scenery shots much, as my dad always insist me not to waste film rolls on it , rather than taking pics of family members. Now with this replacement, I had no worries….these are some of the pics :

                 flowers imprisoned........

                    one of may favorite......

                       

              Though I was passionate about photography, I admit the fact that I am still half way from becoming a good photographer. Mostly I prefer the pics of nature, as it is more challenging and endeavoring one. The trees, flowers, sun, sky won’t come to us and say ‘cheese’. You have to go for it, that’s the challenge there. As of humans, we can picture them at anytime, anywhere, at any desired pose…we are indeed good at it!

                Next night, I was on my way back to home. As usual, my eyes flew outside the window. I felt someone is following me. It’s the moon…. beautiful full moon. Everything else was just darkness…no vehicles, no houses, no street lights….it’s just me, moon and darkness…..could I stop this moment? I couldn’t, because battery was down for my friend! I wondered whether I could get another chance to stop the clock ….why not! This September we gonna go for industrial visit [which is an unofficial excursion!]….

Come September! ‘cause August really rocked!!!

Human’s imagination started with the advent of language. He invented words to express his emotions and sentences to covey the situation. He started with epics and poems, to express his imagination. As centuries passed by, there was a change in his mind. He thought “why we must say all the things to others…..let us make others to think “. He reduced the details in his stories to improve listener’s imagination. Thus Epics give way to novel, which evolved to short stories.

Ok, how far could you reduce a short story ….two sentences?? Two words? Lots of people tried to implement KISS [Keep It Simple, Stupid] principle in storytelling and succeeded to an extent.

Who was the first on to write the shortest story? The answer has been Fredric Brown's "Knock":

"The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door...."

It was considered as the best short science fiction ever. This appeared in the December 1948 issue of THRILLING WONDER STORIES.

Then Forry Ackerman claims he wrote the shortest one ever, titled "Cosmic Report Card: Earth" consisting of the single letter

"F". [Hope you got the meaning!]

Reading these, Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words, in his style:

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

Let us now see sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves.

FUTURISTIC:

The beauty in these stories lies in the fact that it makes us to write the remaining story. We are the story writers here. Our brain’s imaginative unit works more when we read this….Let us all try to write more like these. C’mon, it’s not that much hard….We are living in the age of SMSs. We can surely do it!!

[P.S] I tried myself, rewriting “knock” –

“The last human …..on Mars.” How was that??

[The Author humbly bows his head to the writers who wrote these stories. Including the last one, all rights are reserved to the respective writers. ]

To Be Continued………

Friends, Roman, and countrymen, here I proudly present you the most exciting, spell bounding, spectacular moment in the History of World Cinema.

Before that let us begin with a story……

Consider a person, a lonely guy who is aimless, penniless, but has a heart full of joy.

He never hides what he thinks, but never speaks of it. He looks weird and hilarious. The moment you see him, you either shrink your eye brows in disgust, or cry out of laughter. You keep pointing you fingers at him….laughing at him, but he didn’t get mad at you. Instead he happily does the same thing which made you laugh.

Slowly, your heart feels for him. You feel as if you are spending time with your childhood friend. You want him to speak something to you. After a long hesitation, he agrees to sing a song. Just imagine guys, what happens if he opens his mouth and sings GIBBERISH?!?!?!

Once again, you will laugh at him madly….He always makes you do that.

He is none other than Mr. Charles Spencer Chaplin.

This video is from the film “MODERN TIMES”. – The pseudo talkie. This is indeed a special song because for the first time on screen the people heard the tramp’s voice…...and also his dance is really cool….have a look at it and enjoy folks……. Also watch the movie guys….it is a really wonderful movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_du8fjUN0Kg

P.S: One of the dance steps resembles the Hrithik’s dance in the coke add…..Chaplin is the soft target for plagiarizers and inspirers!!!!