Friday, November 06, 2009

I am so Mafioso

In a dimly lit alley in New York city, a hooded shadow walks.
Suddenly, he is confronted by a bunch of street thugs sporting nasty looking weapons and mean machines.
He looks up and the hood falls back, somewhere in the vast intergalactic web of virtual reality, a mouse button clicks.
Unleashed is the mafia of the DEFAULT DON. All in the click of a mouse button, Default Don, a level 178 master hitman has vanquished his enemy, Don Bendova, a level 163 dumass who had the guts to attack somebody more than ten levels higher.
What Default Don uses in his mafia warfare is beyond compare

Weapons
a Liger, a Laser Squirrel, 3 Canonazos, 10 TNTs, 8 Aguila HV .50 Sniper Rifles, 11 ASC45 "Conquistador"s, 2 Siberian Tigers, 14 Para 322s, 8 BA-12 Assault Rifles, 2 RAS-15s, 2 Ma Barker's Machine Guns, 6 M16A1s

Armor
6 Guerrilla Squads, a Ness' Fedora, 4 Rebel Snipers, 5 PNVs, 4 YoZombies, 20 Wise Guys, 28 Street Gang Members

Vehicles
6 Track Loaders, 4 Hu-9 Helicopters, a Dead End, 6 Si-14 Cargo Planes, 12 Mini-Subs, 9 Armored State Cars, 13 Montaine 320s, 10 Multi-Purpose Trucks, 2 Le Tigres, 5 Chucho FAVs



A liger? that thing which is a cross between a lion and a tiger? yeah that's right, such things do exist. And in the armory of the Default Don, it affords the best attack.
and the next best attack? A laser squirrel! we had heard of flying squirrels but this one is beyond compare. It can shoot laser beams from its eyes. 
There are also 2 Siberian tigers but at least normal animals shouldn't come as a surprise after the liger and the laser squirrel.
Default Don also has 4 YoZombies protecting him if all this wasn't enough.
It is just another fight in world of mafia wars, where everyone is a don and every makes money and everyone wins in someway or the other. And then there are are some fellows who actually use their credit cards and pay money to buy a bigger mafia and reward points and the lot.
Its is the Mafia mate, once you are in there is no coming out.


Ohkay, Default Don is iced. Someone Placed him on him a bounty of $1,200,600 and it was claimed by another misguided bounty hunter. Well, Default Don himself is veteran bounty hunter with more than 50 hit list kills. So many kills without ever having to look through the cross hairs of a sniper rifle; forget aiming and firing and actually hitting pay-dirt.


Now it is time for the jobs, all in a day's work, one can repel rival mobs, obtain compromising photos, settle a beef permanently and other such mafioso 'jobs'. Heck, one can travel to Cuba and Moscow as and when they please. All in a day's work; all in the click of a mouse button.
Damn it, energy zero. Now comes the eternal wait for the energy to fill up to the max. If lucky, a thoughtful mafia member will send an energy pack which will boost energy but that can happen once in 23 hours 23 mins 23 seconds


Snap. exit mafia wars. But who wants to go back to reality? Facebook, twitter and so many status updates.

I woke up late
Dont feel like working
OMG it is Tuesday!
Someone had the time to type "power cut in my house #fail" . YEAH, like there wasn't a powercut in Sailor's house and Sailor's phone died cos he tried reading the update on his mobile which was on its last bit of power. Damn, Sailor can't update his status, "mobile twitter #fail"



And then there are these updates from Farmville. How can the creators of Mafia wars come up something as lame as Farmville.  Yeah, ok, Mafia wars is lame too but this is the icing on the cake.


Some vainglorious bum found a lonely Brown Cow on their farm. Oh no!
Vainglorious bum was farming when a lonely Brown Cow wandered onto their farm in FarmVille. She feels very sad and needs a new home.

So one is supposed to feel pity and get suckered into clicking on the find the cow a new home button and unwittingly find yourself becoming a farmer. It doesn't pay to be a good Samaritan, on the other hand being mafioso and killing people on mafia wars actually does.
At least they could make provisions to grow marijuana and make it more interesting.

and if your crops ain't growing well, you request other farmers to 'fertilise' em. No dont get ideas, no natural organic manure here. It s all in the click of a button.

Yippee, in all this, Sailor's received an energy pack and war has been declared

yeah, I know I need to get a life. After I finish this level, please






Saturday, October 10, 2009

This photograph

S. Sailor   c Ramakrishna Paramahamsa b Earthquake 23 (10)

Not another metaphysical match held in Kafka Cafe.
If ever some one made a score card of the matches Earthquake and Sailor played in the verandah of the house, it would read something like above.
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa? seriously? Yes he played cricket with us.
Also watched over us with his preachy eyes.
okay;fine, he was a framed photograph on the wall and any rash shot which happened to hit the frame or the glass was out.
Why , more than a decade after we stopped playing cricket there, is Sailor writing about it?

That was the property of Gramps. It s been quite some time since Gramps left this world, but the photo of Paramahamsa along with that of Gandhi and and Vivekananda still hang by on the verandah walls.
They had Nehru for company but the frame caught syphilis, termites.

Yeah, all that sepia tone apart, they are all set to go. The Photos are soiled and the frames though in good condition are crumbling. Kudos to Gramps, a silent champ of the idealist generation, for keeping them with him wherever he traveled and keeping them in good condition.
Now they will be taken down and preserved in the musty attic which houses many such priceless family heirlooms such as the big brass boiler, the wooden pounding staff and other illustrious articles
But why write? yeah coincidentally it is the man's birthday .RIP.

Thursday, October 08, 2009

Ain't no hand of God!

Sometimes lots of things add up. But the outcomes aren't what I thought they would be.
Instead they open doors to a dark world of doubt.
I am happy where I am; a cat drinking milk from its bowl with eyes shut.
Oblivious to dubious people.
But no, it doesn't end there, does it?
There has to be a mess; like the one in your life.
You want to mess with mine.
Don't think I m naive and I ll keep my mouth shut.
Yes I will remain silent 'cos I choose to do so.
So when you are happy that you got away messing around with people's lives, be happy.
Those days are short lived.
Someday when you walk on busy thoroughfares deep in thought about the order you 've managed to create in your life, you 'll be hit.
And when you're hit you will know it wasn't the hand of God. 
HECK NO, THERE IS NO GOD, AND EVEN IF THERE IS ONE HE CAN'T SAVE YOU FROM ME