Never letting it go. My Oldest book, its Memories!!

Spoiler Alert!! – I really am not a book kind of a person. I don’t read many books. I can’t remember the last time I read a novel/book, except for the one I’m going to talk about. It has made me what I am today. An Atheist. I strongly suggest you quit reading and now!! There are going to be a lotttt of spoilers in this post and it’s going to ruin your reading thingy, just the way people react when I say --“I know what happens at the end of this story. The real bad guy is..”..”Slap Slap!!”... “But he isn’t the murderer. It is..” .. “Slap punch Slap! Just Shut up will you?” :-D

“What the Hell?!!?”-- I’m sure you just said that. If you didn’t, don’t read the rest :P.. I am not really in a mood to write today, considering I just got done with my test on “Routing” :-s... Anyways, here I go!

The first time I read this book, I was too little to comprehend any of it. I probably wasn’t even a  teenager. I liked the book. It had lots(is there a superlative to lots?—Lotsest, may be?) of pictures. Many of which, were in Black and White. The book wasn’t well maintained either. The pages in the book were orange. Almost! And that gave it a more sacred look. I read it all and I didn’t understand  bit of it, except for words like “aircrafts, astronaut, Pyramids, India et al”. The book soon had to go back. To its sacred temple. A place guarded and maintained by a nasty looking priest with thick spectacles and shiny black shoes- A Librarian..

I must admit, I didn’t miss that book. Not for long. Enter college and I was doing some random search in the college Library. I couldn’t find books on reptiles. I asked the Librarian for one and she said “Next Week”..:-|..

          I had to read something. Something, because all my friends were busy reading “Filmfare, Stardust, Lifestyle and India Today(trust me, very few of them held that book long for over 5 minutes!)” and there were no more fun books. All of them had been taken. Including the tattered and old ones.

So there I was, doing some random book surfing. And then, something amazing happened. I spotted “THE BOOK”(psst—No, that’s not the name of the book :P), I took it out of the shelf. It definitely was “THE BOOK” because it was hidden. It was being protected from everyone but the ONE(yeah.. me :d).

I’m sure I had my jaw open for a long while.. Who cares!! Everyone’s busy with ‘current affairs’ on their magazines :D.. Fools! Little did they realise that their doing would help me find the best book ever!

I walked up to the Librarian and told her I’d take that book home. She looked at the book, then at me, the book again and gave a weird expression. She took out a bottle of gum and started sticking the torn pages together and voila, I was going to borrow something which would change me and my outlook on our species, our planet, our mythology and Mr/Mrs. God all together!

I read that book over half a dozen times before I returned it back. I made notes. I started making my own suppositions and hypothesis on the Pyramids, the Nazca lines, the Stonehenge, the Easter Islands and mannnnnyy other places, all of which are major tourist locations today!

A few years later, I happened to come across this book at a road-side bookstore. He had a brand new book with smooth pages and a tough cover aaaand then there was an old book with a delicate, part torn cover and the pages were almost orange in colour. :-p

Any guesses? I went for the old one ;)... Nothing like something in your possession which reminds you of a lot more than itself, ain’t it?

Ever since that day, I would speak at great lengths about the book and its contents. It is why I call myself an Alien and why I don’t believe in the God we worship. I know I’m his successor and so are you and I know we(man)-- didn’t build the Pyramids, didn’t carve the Nazca lines with precision and we definitely didn’t invent the Galvanic cell before the 1700s? Alright, for those who’d argue, definitely not between 250BC-224 AD!! Yes, it’s called the “Baghdad Battery”. A perfect Galvanic Battery which ran on Citric acids! Slurp...Yummy :D

I was beginning to get curious about Aliens(God) and how they visited Earth from time to time in their bright space ships, with their Astronaut’s gear on them. Our ancestors surely conjured a “God with a Trident” when they saw an alien with a spade or may be a walking stick lol! :P

          The book made me want to question myself about our species. Did we really go through all that evolution from Monkey to Man? Or did a horny Alien actually lose control and we(humans) are a cross breed between the monkey family and the Extra- Terrestrial?

This book had a successor and I read that too. All his series pose a lot of valid questions, all with evidence and proper argument. It is a must read for all book lovers. It definitely isn’t for those who don’t have their windows open for Anti-God stuff.

To me, this book is no less than a religious book. It is what has made me the Atheist Alien I am today and it is what makes me look out to the stars with hope that a beam from a space ship would teleport me Home :D.  Reasons enough to keep me from parting with the ‘Legen’........ wait for it :D......’Dary’ book \:d/...

I’ve had this book with me for over 6 years, though I’ve been reading it for over 12 years thanks to the Sacred Temples guarded by the Nasty Priests :P and I am definitely not giving it to anyone on Earth. I have to show this masterpiece to one of my own(Aliens).

Dude—Yeah I know you’re reading this. Stop using the satellites the humans have built, to have a peek-a-boo into my blog. Just come and take me home already! The bright beam- I hope that day happens before I’m history and someone writes a book on me lol :P

The Book—“Chariots of the Gods?” by Erich von Däniken.

The first print. The book later came out with more attractive covers but I like this version better. Nothing like a question to start off!!

Oh! My Oldest Book, its Memories!!

blah blah blah--- I had this sudden surge of inspiration to take a pic of the book in my possession and put it over here but my Lazy self was victorious(as EVER)!! **Wicked Grin**

Inspiration Courtesy--> Photographs of the book she owns, on her blog post. She's a fellow blogger, foe and "self-proclaimed Alien"... Link to her blog post HERE!

~~Peace

R.o.H.i.T....

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I am so SICK!!

Hahaha... funny thing happened earlier today... Well, I only woke up at 1830 hrs.What the hell!??! That's early either ways :P..

The radio was playing a super awesome song "Dil Ko Tumse Pyaar Hua-- RHTDM" and I was happily humming to its tunes. Right after that, another favourite song of mine "Tinka Tinka--Karam" played. I went up to the sink, started glittering my pearly whites and the song was done. I started singing "Tere Naina- Chandni Chowk To China" and that didn't play. I was kinda confused and some RJ started blah-blahing.. Damn!

I then realised this wasn't my playlist and it wouldn't play songs according to my order. My Hindi Playlist has Dil Ko Tumse, Tinka Tinka and Tere Naina one after the other and I've gotten so used to it that I involuntarily expected Tere Naina to play right after the two came in succession.

But uh, I ain't to be blamed entirely. How the hell did Big FM know this is how these songs are lined up on my playlist? Co-incidence huh?

Anyways... I'm sleepy again.. tough day tomorrow with my classes in the morning(YES, your kind of a morning. The normal kind of a morning. 8:00 am :-s...).. Have to zoom past irritating assholes with ZERO road-sense. All this for 21 freaking Kilometers. Phew :-s...

Adios!

~~Peace

R.o.H.i.T....

Thank you ....

For your super cOoL shade and shelter, the air I breathe and my comfortable bed-  Your products

For your tasteless self which is better than any other thirst quencher in the world.

Camera Used -- Sony DSC H20

Location-- Manjeera Reservoir, Andhra Pradesh, India

~~Peace

R.o.H.i.T....

Rise and Fall...

 

Sunset shot with my Sony DSC H20

~~Peace

R.o.H.i.T....

 

An Alien when awake. An Alien even when asleep! :)

“Great shot! Keep playing this way and we’ll win.”—that’s what we kept shouting when he played his best cricket. Our team was about to win when it started raining heavily. Everyone started running to their houses and so did I.

I looked up at the sky and saw something weird. I saw Earth’s reflection in the sky as if the sky was all water. This mirror in the sky was surrounded by dense, dark clouds. I could see trees, buildings, roads and vehicles. The scene was familiar. It was the neighbourhood. I rushed to my place and it stopped raining all of a sudden. I stood next to the door and asked my parents and my brother to come and see it. But something wasn’t right. The reflection was disappearing slowly. It was as if the mirror was disappearing and it left behind a nice blue sky. There still was some reflection visible and I called out to my family and by the time they came, all they could see was bright blue sky surrounded by dense, dark clouds.

I had an eerie feeling about this and I was explaining what I saw to them when we heard explosions as if there were a chain of explosions a few miles away from us. We rushed to the top floor and saw a whole patch of the neighbourhood in flames cause by balls of fire. Sriram(my brother) who is a budding  Astrophysicist told us that these probably are high intensity solar flares. In a few seconds, the glare went dim and there was a Giant Beetle spitting flames. It was pure evil. The ground shook with every step the beetle took.. The sky was filled with smoke and the clouds clashed into each other resulting in a large thunderous sound. It started raining very heavily with the wind reaching wild speeds. The beetle disappeared and we didn’t even notice it. Raindrops hit us with blatant force and we almost felt they were digging into our skins.

 

We didn’t waste time and we rushed downstairs to our house. A very unprecedented happening had occurred minutes ago and that forced all of us into my room. A sense of fear crept into us and we told each other how much we love each other, just in case we don’t get to see each other.

Just then, my brother noticed that the balcony door was open. I rushed towards the door and I faced high resistance from the winds.  The rain drops showed no mercy and hit against my face with brute force. I managed to close the door and ran back to my room. I played some music only to be interrupted by the sound of the eerie feeling of heavy footsteps. We feared the worst. I am an atheist but I swear I prayed to whatever is up there—an Alien or GOD--Whatever!!

We prepared ourselves for the worst.

Something even worse happened. I heard those heavy footsteps again... :-s..

And....

My heart was beating at lightning pace. I could almost hear my heart-beat. It was horrible.

I woke up..

Mahn it was rough. It was exciting. It was filled with adrenaline and it was one of the kinds.

Omg! It was only a Dream.. Phew!

I woke up and still heard heavy footsteps followed by not so heavy footsteps. It was Muskaan(The little girl who stays upstairs), running around in her merry self and Shourya, her younger brother. 


For once, I smiled at their torture!!

~~Peace

R.o.H.i.T....

edit: I wrote this in a hurry cos dreams are difficult to remember!! :P