55 Fiction - #11 & A Surprise!

Hey guys thanks a ton for your over-whelming response for my writings, especially 55Fiction! Here is my next 55 Fiction.

Those who are new to this concept, understand what is 55Fiction!? 55 Fiction is a form of micro fiction that refers to the works of fiction limited to a maximum of fifty-five words.Most 55 Fiction works are dramatized so as to get the effect in limited time.

MISTAKE

Neha's mobile vibrated.

"Hi Arun! See this world with beautiful, colorful flowers,chirping birds, cool breeze.. Am crazy na?"

"Naah... I Love you Neha!"

"Am excited about tomorrow's engagement."

*************HORN*************

"Where are you?"

"Driving....a-aa--aa-aah"

SCREECH..

"Neha???!?!"

The line went dead.

Her Blurred vision read, "AVOID MOBILE WHILE DRIVING", before the tanker ran over her.

According to figures by the Road Safety Cell of the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, there were 4.4 lakh accidents in 2009, till 31st of august. Human life is precious, once it is gone, it can't be regained.

I wrote this 55Fiction on the 5th anniversary of my cousin who lost her precious life in a road accident.

Yavanika, you are the one I will always miss
And now that you are not there to hear this
I will tell you I love you and you were more than a sis
And praying that God will rest your soul in eternal peace.

Feeling too much? Come on, life has two sides : A happy, cheery part and Sad, monotonous part. I have made you feel so much and now, i don't want my reader's to go with a heavy heart. Guessing what am upto eh?!

Its the Award giving ceremony. Cheer up and get ready to check whether you are one of those Award Winners. Some of my friends writes fantastically. Compared to them am nowhere. Lets see whether something creative ever pops up in my mind in the near future.

Some of them would have got it already! Mind getting them again?

::FIRST AWARD : ONE LOVELY BLOG AWARD::

And the winners are,

1. Indian Pundit - The greatest Pundit of India and winner of blog-a-ton 2.
2. RSV - The Observer
3. Amit - Guy, who has variety as his motto.
4. Pawan - Specialized Writer who was at his best in the Psycho series
5. Pramoda - Conceptual Writer
6. Vipul - The Reflector
7. Prashansa - The Flower Girl
8. Kasabian Girl - The smart girl
9. Shilpa Garg - The Rose
10. Musings of a lonely traveler - Writes warm stuffs!
11. Sreya - The teacher aspirant
12. Hary - The Cartoonist

Hold on, I have one more award to be distributed which I received from the Punditji.

::SECOND AWARD : THE HUMANE AWARD::

IP defines HUMANE as a person Characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion. Marked by an emphasis on humanistic values and concerns.

1. Benny - The 'LOST LOVE' Specialist
2. Sreya - The Maverick (Girl, you wanted me to call like this, instead of 'MISFIT GIRL')
3. Bharathi - The Intellectual
4. Satish - The movie reviewer
5. Shankar - Ballat Man
6. Avada Kedavra - The 'Direction Impaired' girl
7. Anu - My Sissie
8. Aditya - The Wonder Man (Who planned to get a 10KW motor)
9. SiD - The Crazy who writes everything from Einstein to Chicken Bucket!
10. Venky - The freak who runs kilometers for VADA PAV

My Hearty Congratulations to all the winners!

So now tell me how is the 55fiction? Should I improve?

With Love,

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How conscious are we?

An incident that happened recently made me to write this article. Money is the basic reason for most of the crimes. What is a crime? Crimes doesn't include only robbery or murder, Cheating people for money is also a crime (My own definition). Don't understand? Read this and you will understand the reason behind my definition of Crime.

Three days back, a carpenter came home for doing some wood works. It would have taken just half a day and can be done involving 2 person's. But the carpenter brought 4 person's to assist him. I also asked him to change the lock of the wooden cupboard. After finishing all the works, he came to me.

Carpenter (C) : Madam, the installation of the cupboards is Rs.1,500, new doors for the cup-boards is Rs.2,000, also you have asked me to change the locks of the old cupboard, it costs Rs.200. We are totally 5 member's, give Rs.100 for each and total service charge of Rs.1,000. Totally, give Rs.5,200.

I was astounded by the money he asked. I understood he is trying to cheat me thinking I don't know anything about his work.

Me : What? Rs.5,200? That's costly. We have got the cupboards and the doors and you just installed them using some screws. Apart from individual installation charges you are asking service charge too! This can be done with couple of person's. But you brought 5! Did I ask you to bring 5 of your associates? Also I need the bill of the new lock you changed.

C : Madam...... Its a nominal charge. In these area, people generally don't ask bills and also they won't mind giving this amount. Thinking all that I didn't get the bill.

Me : I need the bill sir, you go and get them.

He went away and came with the bill in another 15minutes. The bill also displayed the same amount Rs.200. I thought he would have asked the shop-keeper to put the amount in the bill. So I called the shop and asked the price of the lock. You know what? The reply of the shop-keeper proved that my instinct about this man's deed was correct. The shop-keeper who attended my call told me the cost of the lock was Rs.75!

Me : See you also increased the price of the lock whose original cost is Rs.75. Even if it was Rs.100 I would have given you. But you wanted an amount larger than the price of the lock. So, what shall we do now?

C : Madam, you are trying to cheat me! You pay me Rs. 5200 immediately and am leaving.

Me : ATROCIOUS. Wait, you can't leave as such. I need a detailed bill in the written format and mind you, I won't give you the price you asked for your associate. Also, mention the price of the lock as Rs.75.

He started cursing me and even told abusive words thinking that I will fight with him and taking that as an advantage, he wanted to get the money from me. I understood his intentions and asked him to write the bill. I also told him that my dad will file these papers for Income Tax. He was literally shaken by my words and started writing the bill. I thought he will reduce the prices. He took a plain paper and started writing. He also took a copy of the bill for his reference and asked me to sign in both the bills after paying the money. I was gaping after seeing the bill. It was just Rs.925! Where's Rs.5,200 and Rs.925? I was about to lose nearly 5times of money if it had not been instinct to question him!

What you call this? Now are you agreeing to my definition of crime? Since I tried managing the situation I didn't lose the money to that trickster. Daily hundred's of people are being cheated in one way or the another. How many of them are conscious or aware of these? Cheating is a primordial economic act: getting more for less. This cheating is not only with respect to money. It is done in every possible form. Why do they do this? Everything is for money. My blogging friend Bharathi wrote an article on these Money Fetishes, it covers all these in detail. I quoted this incident only to showcase how people are trying to cheat us and tries to earn money in a wrong way.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

People value money more than anything in this materialistic world. I too accept that we need money for leading a normal life. But why cant we avoid earning the money in a wrong way? We all are helping them to earn money. Why can't we stop this? Its our own money, hard earned money. Why should we give it to people who are earning in fraudulent ways? Instead we can give it to people who strives for a single piece of bread. Everyone earns money hardly and it is not reared from a tree.

Last but not the least,

No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's too good to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

What say guys?

With Love,

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55 Fiction - # 10

Well friends, am here again with another 55 Fiction. This is a new genre I tried writing up! Even I don't know how is that!

If you feel its good, then am happy!

If you feel I must improve, tell me I will listen!

If you feel am not upto the expectation, then Am sorry!

Those who are new to this concept, understand what is 55Fiction!? 55 Fiction is a form of micro fiction that refers to the works of fiction limited to a maximum of fifty-five words.Most 55 Fiction works are dramatized so as to get the effect in limited time.

Sylvia was flying on cloud nine. It has been three months since Akshay accepted her proposal. She took her mobile to wish him.

Before she dialed his number, mobile started vibrating, "AKSHAY Calling"

"Hi Darling"

"Hey sweety, I want to tell you something."

"Tell Akshay, Am waiting to hear those three words."

"Am getting married"

Recently I read some lines from an unknown author, may be I got inspired with that and wrote this 55Fiction! Am writing that here for you!

It takes only a minute to get
a crush on someone,
an hour to like someone,
and a day to love someone.
But it takes a lifetime
to forget someone.

How is it? Worth a Read?! What you feel?

P.S : This is my 25th post!

With Love,

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Brand Tag

Hello everyone! This time I was tagged by 3 people for the same one. Yes, the brand tag! Shilpa, Shankar and Kaka tagged me for this. I have this tag pending for days! So thought of taking it up and finishing!

Brand Tag - Take any day in your life and chart out the brands you have used. Interesting na?! Lets see how much justice I can do to this tag!

Without this my day won't start! Morning, with a cup of hot tea and TOI in my hands, I will be oblivious to my surroundings!

My mobile, my first love! Sony Ericcson W595! (Am I Sounding crazy?)

My I-Pod, my second love. (You may think am a freak! for calling these gadgets as my love!)

My scooter! Faced and survived many damage, still she is going great!

My watch! I adore it!

My computer! Planning to get a laptop from my salary! My computer is switched on for 24x7! Its asking a break! Shall I give?

Our TV! Brought when I was 10years old with my mom's first month salary!

My precious possession! The last gift my mom gave me, on the first day of my fourth semester,wishing me good luck!

How can I forget the Gold am wearing (my ear-ring and chain). I love their design's, very unique!

I Love those cold coffee and sandwiches. Am not a frequent visitor! But I visit them!

Yummy pizza's! Is there anyone who don love these pizza's?! If you are the one, then you are missing something in life!!

My search for quality juices ended here! My abode!

Hope I covered everything! How is it?

Now who is getting tagged?

IP, SiD, Ash-win-I, Aditya, Ekam Rathore, Pramoda, Bharathi, Anu, Sreya, Musings of a lonely traveler, Benny, Hary, Venky, Vineeta, The Aspirant, Kasabian girl, Amrit, Amit Singh, Sourav, RSV

With Love,

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