A-Z

Don't blink after you saw the title. You are not in A Rose is a Rose is a Rose (Sorry no offense meant shilpz). Yeah am going to write the A-Z of 2009, the year which we are going to bid farewell. So just a review from my side, which I felt was best, good, worst, which affected me, which made me happy! So start reading!

A - A.R.Rahman's composition Jai Ho won him the oscar. And above all, he gave the final message in Tamil. He made India proud! Hail ARR

B - Banned . Dhoni banned for 2 matches in the recent ODI between SL! Still we won..

C - Cricket again! What an year it was for cricket fans like me! We won, we lost! In the end, its the true spirit within us which is the real passion!

D - Divorces. The number of divorce cases in 2009 is comparatively more than 2008!

E - Elections. This can be called as election year! There were many movements done for making the people aware of the voting rights!

F - Finished my engineering this year! The biggest achievement na??

G - Gay pride. the LGBT communities came forward and asserted their rights.

H - Hope is the mantra for fresher's like me. Hoping that recession ends, new projects knock the doors of IT companies and we getting jobs! Sigh

I - Inflation! What else can I tell for I? Certain things would have seemed your thing before few years. But this inflation made it look like out of my reach!

J - 'Job' again! Some were successful, some just reached the doors! And many still waiting to see the dawn!

K - Kamal Hassan turned 50 and this man is still going strong!

L - Loss of Pop King Michael Jackson! What a terrible blow to his fans! Music world lost a big musician, though his music live on forever through ages!

M - Missing the good ol' days of college. Those wonderful moments with all my buddies remain etched in my heart forever!

N - Nano comes to the market! Tata's Nano, the one lakh mini wonder. Will it edges the other wonders!? Lets wait and watch!

O - Obama charmed the Nobel Prize committee and won a Nobel prize without eve achieving anything! Peace Prize for what?

P - Personal, my personal life saw many turmoil! Am confused and worried!

Q - Quitted many of my bad habits this year! Mainly my anger and short temper reduced!

R - Ruchika and Rakhi Sawant. The former's case made the whole nation turn around. The latter also did the same with her rants!

S - Started my blog this year and got so many good friends and great followers!

T - The Tiger is no longer playing with Golf balls.

U - Unanimous decision was taken by my family members made my cousin so happy!

V - Very good musical year for me! Joined Hindustani classes, my long time wish satisfied :)

W - Water in the moon! Yippee, scientists found that and created a milestone in space research!

X - X-chromosome as a pure one can handle the stress very well. Its another discovery.

Y - Youths achieved in big time in many fields. From Cricket to Cinema, from Corporate world to politics.

Z - Zero size of Kareena (I couldn think of anything else :P)

So guys, that's my chart for the year! Am posting this on the last minute of 2009!

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

A VERY HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU! HAVE A COMPLETE BLAST THIS YEAR AND MAY THIS YEAR BRING YOU THE BEST OF BEST's!

With Love,

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55 Fiction - A Notification

Hey friends, am co-authoring another blog. Ballat - my friend Shankar's blog. He asked me to write 55 Fictions for his blog and this notification is regarding the same. I wrote a 55Fiction named DESTINY for his blog. Do Visit his blog, read the fiction and comment there. Am disabling the comments for this post. See you all there.

With Love,

2. CHECKMATE

The Series of guest bloggers continues. So to mention about the guest blogger, what shall I say? Yeah, the one who is still a Kid, the one who changes blog templates very frequently. Those who are close to the person will know another thing. You can find the person always sleeping or thinking about a blog post or in canteen! I think you must have guessed the person. He is none other than Sid a.k.a Siddhesh Kabe a.k.a Sid 'Ravan' Kabe of Sidoscope, my good friend. Thanks a ton Sid for this beautiful story. Yo people, continue reading the story and enjoy!

From Author's pen : They say God works in mysterious ways, I do not think it is true. If you see from high-up there, the way he sees things you get to know the work of God. I was always fascinated by the stories that run on multiple time line, just like God sees them, forward and backward. Shruti asked me for a guest post on a different topic and theme so I thought why not write it as the work of God? Forward and Backward? I do hope you enjoy it, pardon me if I am vary of the details, I have edited it so that I do not bore you with long stories

Now:

“So now what?” asked Shastri.

“Well… finally i get to say this, Checkmate,” replied Shakti.

Twenty Years Ago:

They were at it for sixteen hours now, the court was watching the best game of Chess ever played. Prince Shakti was already awarded the young genius award by the king. Shastri was the peasants son and was also called a young genius by the villagers. At age 10 they both had the game played for hours together.

‘Checkmate,’ said Shakti.

‘Look at him, as savage as he can get,’ thought Shakti, ‘No plan, no art, just brutal primitive savageness.’

‘Not yet’ Shastri simply glanced at the board and not seeing anywhere, finally he shouted, ‘Checkmate.’

The whole courtroom was silent, no one was able to defeat Shakti in the game till date. They had no idea what would happen next, was the title of young genius getting transferred to the peasants son? They silently watched the game. The king was waiting for the prince to say it.

‘Throw him in prison, sentenced for life,’ shouted the prince, ‘And throw his family out of the kingdom. Their farms are the royal farms from now.’ He kicked the game board and walked out of the room.

Guarded dragged away the ten year old boy to the prison, they heard his last muffled words, ‘The game begins.’

Ten years Ago:

King Shakti was on the height of prosperity. The Kingdom had the latest advancement of technology present in the world.

To strengthen the defenses even further King Shakti ordered building a water gate on the great river Indus. The origin of the river was in his kingdom but flowed through the neighboring kingdoms. He knew the neighbors would not like it, but he wanted to win. This would be his last defense. Checkmate.

Ten days Ago:

King Shakti received a bad news five days ago. Shastri had escaped prison, they say, for ten years he kept reading books from the royal library. He just learned things in the prison and finally he ran away to freedom.

Not only did he run, he placed a challenge for the king himself. Now, the messenger had come with the message that Shastri had camped at the gate of the enemy and had challenged the king to fight.

So finally, the king set out to destroy the adversary with a show of strength. He took double the army out of the gates to the camp, but found it deserted.

The enemy had fled. The king decided to chase him to finally end the chapter of Shastri.

The chase continued for ten days where Shastri kept running

Now:

As the king chased Shastri, he came across a narrow path completely surrounded by bushes. Shastri stood there silently. He had no where to go.

The king got down from his horse and faced Shastri.

“So now what?” asked Shastri.

“Well… finally i get to say this, Checkmate,” replied Shakti.

“Not yet. I have something to show you,” said Shastri, pointing to the tree standing in the dark.

“What some final weapon hidden for me?” asked Shakti sarcastically.

The king lighted his torch to see the tree properly.

Fourteen days Ago:

King Biswajit was in deep worries, the neighboring kingdom was building the water gates to obstruct the water flowing in the kingdom. If this would succeed, they would have to depend on King Shakti and his whims for water. He wanted to attack the kingdom but feared, the water gate would be released.

They brought the hooded stranger to the court.

‘I can get you king Shakti,’ said the stranger.

‘You can?’

‘I will mark his place of death for you,’ said the stranger.

‘What do you want for this task.’ asked the king.

The stranger smiled under his hood.

Shastri was about to play the biggest game he ever played. He saw the narrow path on the way and marked on the tree…

Now:

‘This is where King Shakti dies,’ Shakti read the mark on tree and jerked his head back.

Arrows shot from bushes and pierce the heart of the king. The remaining army was ambushed in the bush. King Biswajit’s army was waiting for the king in the darkness.

As King Shakti collapsed on the ground, Shastri smiled and said,

‘Checkmate.’

1. The Mission

I guess this is a season of guest blogging. Yeah, Hits and Misses is going to have several brilliant, amazing posts by some of my dear blogger friends and amazing writers.

Introducing you the writer of the day.. The Writer is a Harry Potter fan and named herself as a spell.. guessed her? Yes, she is none other than Avada Kedavra of Stung by the Splendor of a Crazy Thought. She is a fabulous writer who mesmerize readers with her writing ability. My dearest blogger friend who accepted my request and wrote this amazing story amidst her busy schedule.
"For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects", said Gene Roddenberry, creator of "Star Trek". Many don't write Sci-Fi's and she wrote one such story. Off to the story..

Denis knew that this mission was as important to him as it was to the entire nation or even the world. He had done a hard job of convincing his wife to let him go on this mission. This was the first time that man was to land on the satellite Io, of Jupiter. The mission that seemed impossible for these many years suddenly seemed possible thanks to some breakthroughs in science.

The recent volcanic eruptions had made sure that many humans died a painful death. “We humans have meddled so much with the environment, that such a thing was expected to happen. If we keep harming Earth, it is us who would get affected by it”, said Dr. Philip, on the Television. Dr. Philip was one of the greatest minds of this century, who had recently made some breakthroughs in science.

“Stop watching that crap”, Katie stormed into the room and switched off the TV.

“You are calling that crap? What’s wrong with you?” Denis was never able to understand women. His wife, Katie, was herself a scientist, who respected Dr. Philip a lot for everything he had done to the mankind.

“You are not going to Io and that is final!”, Katie shouted from the kitchen.

“You are gonna die, Denis. It is too risky.”

“Why not? You know this was my dream! How can you not let me fulfill my dream? Katie, please try to understand. I have to go”

“Then forget that I am your wife!! I HATE YOU”

“Denis! Denis!”. “The flight is ready for the take-off, commander”. Three men who sat in that space shuttle knew the meaning of tension very well. The shuttle took off safely, to the cheers by everyone on Earth.

“It’s been 3 months since you ate anything properly, Katie”, her mom was really upset now.

“He is out there on a spacecraft, mom. I am really worried about Denis.” Katie said.

“They said he’s fine. They are in constant touch with the spacecraft. I am sure he will be fine. You should be proud of your husband, Katie”

“I am, mother but......”

Today was the day when the spacecraft would land on Io and then Denis would be the first man to have landed on Io, ever. The spacecraft landed safely, followed by the descent of the astronauts onto the surface of Io. The entire world held its breath as they started walking on Io. And then suddenly there were arrows everywhere. Arrows shot at each of them and two of them died instantly. Then Denis saw the thing that shot the arrows and he shouted “Humans. There are humans here” and he died.

“Scientists have discovered human life form on Io. It seems like a part of the meteor that hit Earth and created life forms on it, must have landed on Io too. And having discovered living beings, which look similar to humans on a satellite of Jupiter, the whole world is shocked…….” , the TV journalist just went on, when Katie switched it off. She had no interest in listening to what the discovery was.

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“And the next thing the humans did was land on Io and destroy/capture the creatures that did exist on that satellite. They are now our slaves. Your friend, Mato is from that satellite“, Katie said.

“So does this not make us bad people, mother”, asked Tom, Katie’s and Denis’s son.

THE END.