The Plucky Programmer

This might seem a little off-hand, but for some inexplicable reason I just HAD to write this post. This was the epiphany I had while I was studying for my upcoming History exam, what with pastoralists and shepherds and all: Sheep creep me out. Just pause there and think about it. Here, some visuals might let your juices flow better:   I mean you go grow cotton “bolls” on plants,  [ Read More ]

When your heart beats are drumming Toxicity There is no sacred silence You walllow up in remorse and self pity For the victims of domestic violence. Quoting my Civics homework from last year. (On–you guessed it– domestic violence) Shitty indeed. The vacations are over, and my presence here has not been felt. No I have not been turned to an invisible shade of pink. I’m still here, sitting on the  [ Read More ]

I found a poem I wrote a year back for school. Its one of those that provokes thought in the  end, and it is based on the strange paranoid feeling I sometimes get: Could we be just in-game characters in a vast, horribly advanced game played by some alien race when they have nothing better to do? Or a human race set in the 22nd century playing some historical simulation  [ Read More ]

Viele Grüße, die Leute auf der Erde. Exams have been rough on me lately. I couldn’t get myself to study, but neither could I write a decent blog post over the past 2 weeks. All I have done is play Oblivion (A post on that in the works) and sit Idle on Facebook. There is something sinister about school exams I think. Maybe the mere proximity to NCERT releases coagulents that restrict  [ Read More ]

I landed on Earth in the morning, feeling queasy. Never thought I would feel like this after travelling, but 20 Hyperspace jumps would even make Thor reach for the sick bag. My plans were to apply as an English teacher in a smallish red bricked educational institution off the coast of nowhere, called Æ-MÏτÝ ZÅrκÊτ or sumthin. I didn’t find it necessary to change my appearance as the people here, I’m told, could live with unusual  [ Read More ]