Back after a long eventful hiatus

Lots of events have unfolded in the last few years. Lots of good things, lots of bad things, tough times, great times, sorrow, joy, it has been an action packed overdose of life. 

I am back now, hoping to revive this little getaway of mine and continue to verbalize random imagination into a text box.

The Coffee Shop

"Ah the brilliance of a little cup of coffee" exclaimed Guino after sipping a nice long sip from a hot cup of coffee at his local coffee shop."Nothing like a nice cool day with a hot cup of fine strong coffee" he thought to himself and placed the tip, finished up and left. Once outside he stared up at the sky, took a deep breath of the fresh morning air, and walked slowly towards the park on this glorious day.

A moment or two passed before he realized he was missing his wallet. As he patted himself up and down furiously trying to feel the bulge of a leather wallet in parts where they couldn't possibly be, he figured he must've left it at the coffee shop. "So much for a nice relaxing morning" he thought, and stuttered quickly towards the coffee shop. Once inside, he noticed the place was packed with people. "Aw...this is not good" he muttered to himself, and went right to the window side table where a couple were enjoying a lively conversation with fresh coffee.

"Pardon me, but I think I might have left my wallet here, may I look around if you don't mind"

"There wasn't a wallet here when we came, so the Barista must've taken it away, why don't you check with her"

"Oh ok, fine, I'll ask her then" said Guino with a forced smile, and went quickly to the counter to meet the barista.

This was a bad time to bother her with such issues, she was really busy trying to give the mandatory dose of caffiene that most adults craved for in the morning. However, this being an issue that couldn't possibly wait, he decided to go ahead and ask her anyway.

"Pardon me, I was here earlier, but did you happen to see a wallet lying around on that table right at the end, next to that window"

No response. "ONE DOUBLE SHOT WET CAPPUCCINO" she yelled, and briskly went away to the cash register.

This wasn't going to work, he needed to get her attention first, so he decided he would simply stand in the queue, and when it was his turn to buy coffee, he would simply ask her if she saw his wallet. So he walked to the end of the line, which was filled with dreary looking, sleepy faced zombies, waiting for their morning fix. Patiently he waited, while each one placed an order, and the young lady yelled out their order in a few minutes and came back. This was going to take a while...

Eventually though, he got his turn. "Oh, back so soon? What would you like?" she said.

"I was just here to ask you if you had seen my wallet lying around on that table after I left earlier today morning"

"Oh, I dont think so, so what would you like to have then?"

"Oh I'm not sure you understand, you see the people over there right now said they didn't see one there, and you might have it, do you remember seeing anyone else at that table after I left?"

"No, so you want something or not"

"Well I haven't got my wallet on me, so no thanks" remarked Guino, frustrated, he went back to the table, hoping he could search around this time.

That couple was still in a very animated discussion, in their own world, seemingly cut-off from the noise and chaos of a packed coffee shop.

"Sorry to bother you again, but the Barista said she didn't see anything, I just want to have a quick look around the place if you don't mind"

"Wait what?"

"Oh I was just here a few minutes ago, said my wallet was missing? You had asked me to check with the Barrista, she didn't see anything, so if you don't mind, I'd like to look around"

"Oh, well like I said, there wasn't anything here when we came, so I'm afraid someone might have taken it before we got here"

"Well I'd still like to just look around please"

"Well fine" she said, and got up rather quickly, and in the process, hit her cup with her hand, sent it flying towards Guino's freshly ironed pants, with steaming hot coffee.

"AWWWW" yelled Guino with coffee all over him, this was turning out to be quite the day. The people around him took notice and immediately one of them lent a few napkins, and the man who was at the table came over and said "You alright mate?"

"Fine, fine" he sighed and wiped off as much as he could, but it wasn't much use, it was a lovely deep brown stain all over the front of his nice pale brown pants. He sighed again, as he looked around. He then realized that the lady was nowhere to be seen. "Hmm, thats odd" he thought, and he looked around to see if she was there inside the shop, nowhere to be found. "Aha, you sly little scoundrel you!" he said and rushed outside to see if he could find her. There she was, walking quite quickly, away from the shop.

He ran to catch up with her, startling early morning joggers and office goers as he whizzed past. Once he got to her, he tapped her on the shoulder and said "Where's my wallet??? Awfully convinient of you to pour coffee on me and waltz out eh?"

"What wallet, look I told you I didn't see it, I'm awfully sorry about the coffee, but I didn't want to get into a fight or an argument so I rushed out to avoid you, I know I shouldn't have done that, but I am late for a meeting, and I need to go. Sorry"

"So your accomplice took the wallet eh?"

"What accomplice?"

"The guy you were with, your boyfriend or husband or whatever? Seems like a nice plan to split up so you can get away"

"What boyfriend, I don't even know that guy, he just asked me if he could sit at my table as it was the only seat available so I said yes and we hit up a conversation"

"What? So you have no idea who that is?"

"No, I don't even think I got his name! We just spoke a bit to pass some time" she said

"Damn he must've been the one then!"

Sadly, there wasn't much he could do, he didn't know who he was or where he went, he had to simply call in a complaint and maybe give a vague description and thats about it. He slowly walked back towards the coffee shop, all he could think of was "who the hell steals a wallet in a coffee shop, its no alleyway, what kind of a world do we live in..." and so on and so forth. As he was about to walk past the store, he heard a voice

"Yo dude"

He turned around and saw the man walking towards him, surprised he said "Yes?"

"Yo wallet was on the floor mate, I went to the bathroom to get some water to help you out and you were already gone, I then saw it on the floor, here" and he handed over Guino's wallet.

"Oh, well thank you, I didn't really expect to find it after all that happened, thank you so much"

"No problem man, take it easy"

"Ah,that ended well" thought Guino with a huge sigh of relief, what a morning it has been.

The Boy with the Dollar

There was once a boy who had a dollar to spend and the whole day ahead to decide what to do with it. This was the day he was waiting for all week, he had gotten a dollar from his grandmother when she visited on Tuesday and now it was Sunday, the day he can choose to buy anything in the world with that dollar. So he went along down the street towards the part of town where the stores were located. There were quite a few choices for him, right from candy, comics, toys, or maybe he can try something new. "All kids end up getting candy, or toys or comic books, why not buy something different for a change" thought the boy.

He came up to "Mathilda's Discount Store" and went in to find out what he could get that was unique and different. He went towards the register, and looked up the counter at the lady, and asked her "Ma'am, I have a dollar, what can I get for it?"

"Well little boy, you can have 10 of these Double berry twist candies, or 5 of these Sweet Lemon-lime mango candies, or a Super-pow! chocolate bar or two pop soda drinks, which of these would you like?"

"None of them, I don't want to get candy like every one else, I want something different"

"Oh, would you like the latest issue of Dragon Rockets comic instead? or how about the new
Awesome Man issue, its very popular you know, your friends all have one by now for sure"

"No, I don't want to get comics like everyone else either"

"Hmm, well for a dollar, you can get a yo-yo, or a slinky or the new Lightning monkey"

"No, no toys, its just what they always get, I want something else"

"What else would you like dear, these are the things all kids come and buy, what else would you like for a dollar" said the lady getting slightly impatient.

"Well you tell me, thats why I asked you!"

"No need to get upset, lets see here, I have these keychains for a dollar each, would you like one?"

"No I have a nice one, it looks like a car, these are no good"

"Well then, tell you what, why don't you go look around and see if you find anything for under a dollar"

"Well ok" said the boy and walked inside.

This was tough, the shelves were quite high, he could only reach up to the second level and even then could barely tell what was where and how much it cost, so he was relegated to browsing the lower shelves for something to get. There was so much stuff lying around, 10.99$, 15.99$, 3.99$, 25.99$ but nothing for 99 cents, or even close. This wasn't quite working out. Aisle after aisle, looking up and down, trying to find something of some interest, he had already covered most of the store, clothes, shoes, laundry detergent, cereal, rice, medicine, buckets, and on and on...and then something caught his eye. Aisle 6, lower shelf, he saw this strange looking object. Curious, he pushed the other stuff aside and reached for it, 99 cents it said. "Wooow" went the boy, this was it, he had found something for under a dollar, finally! So he ran back up to the counter and presented the item to the lady and said "I want to buy this!"

"Hahahaha!" uncontrollable laughter, "Hahaha!, what are you going to do with that???"

"I dunno, I like it"

"Hehehe, well ok, it comes to a bit more than a dollar with tax, but I'll give it you anyway, that will be a dollar"

"Here you go" said the boy and handed her to dollar bill and started heading back home. Once outside, in broad daylight, he had more time to inspect his purchase. "Well lets see what this does" and took a closer look. He shook it violently, it didnt make a sound, he hit it on his hand, and it didn't seem to make any noises, or do anything special, he tried twisting and pulling, but nothing happened. He couldn't figure out what it was at all, all it said on the side was 'Banpo'. Thats it. No explanation, no tag, no feature list, nothing, just 'Banpo'.

"Well I'll do something with it" thought Billy.

So he headed back home, and just as he entered, his mom came out the kitchen

"Well, did you go shopping?"

"Yes I did ma"

"So what did you get with your money"

"I got this" and he showed her his purchase, with a slightly uncertain expression since he wasn't sure how his mom was going to react.

"Hahaha!" uncontrollable laughter, "Hahaha! how did you think of that???"

Think of what? He had no clue what she was saying, she was having the same reaction the lady in the store had and he didn't even know what it was he was holding in his hand

"My dear Billy, that was very thoughtful of you, you went and got me a whisk, just when I was thinking of baking a cake for you"

"Uhm.....ok"

Billy was still confused, as his mom took away the object and went inside, he wondered what was going on, and as he sat waiting and wondering at the table, he saw his mom use the whisk

"Oh so thats what its for!" exclaimed Billy.

That evening, he was treated to chocolate cake, which he was tasting for the first time and it was fantastic, he was loving every mouthful, and while going through several slices and stuffing himself with delicious cake, he felt it was well worth the dollar that he spent.

Rofa and the Secret Parcel

It was a cold dark night in November when the car came driving down the road towards Rofa with just a single headlight. Rofa couldn't quite tell if this was intentional or just carelessness by the driver, for he was waiting to receive a secret parcel from an unknown man sent by a contact. "A dark road lit by a one eyed car looks creepier" thought Rofa as it came closer. The brakes squeaked gently as the car slowed down, the driver didnt seem to be in any sort of hurry thought Rofa, and found quite odd considering that he was carrying the secret parcel. But as it slowed down to a walking speed, he sort of felt as though the driver had no intention of stopping. He could have very well driven up to him much quicker than he did, and right now, he was quite a distance away crawling towards him instead of getting it over with. Rofa got impatient, he had been asked to wait under the fifth tree on the street, but he couldn't take this anymore, he decided he would walk towards the car to save time.

He adjusted his cap, looked across the road to see if anyone else was looking, and slowly started walking towards the one eyed car. He was so unsure about his move, that he decided to take the first few steps really slowly. Gently, he moved a few paces towards the car, he was no longer under the assigned tree, he looked up to see where the car was. It was still some distance away and approaching at the same speed. "Well" Rofa thought, "my movement towards him hasnt made him change his mind, so I might just have to meet him at the midway point". So he picked up his pace, started getting anxious as he started walking faster, this was it, he was going to get the secret parcel, and the exchange would've occurred smoothly.

As he approached closer, he noticed something strange, the headlight didnt appear fixed, it was jerking around left and right ever so slightly, something wasn't right, Rofa got even more anxious and walked even faster towards the light, quickly, almost starting a mild jog. He got closer and closer and what did he see? A bicycle with a headlamp, with a dull looking bugger pedaling ever so slowly, struggling to pedal any faster. All the world came collapsing around him as he thought of what he had just done, he had moved out of his designated spot.Just then, he heard a screech behind him, he turned around to see a car waiting next to the fifth tree, with both headlights on.

Rofa had to make a move, he started running towards the car immediately, startling the guy in the bicycle. But just as he started gathering speed, the car took off, made a sharp turn and with squealing tires left the scene. Rofa reached the fifth tree only to see two red lights moving away in the distance, sighing and panting to gather his breath, he had lost his chance to get the secret parcel. The guy on the bicycle slowly went past him with a random squeak from the brakes and the dull looking bugger whistling a soft tune...

Roswo and his quest for glory

“Hahahahaha” laughed Roswo. He had found the greatest Secret weapon of Retorpuriyalis. This was the ancient weapon of mass self desctruction. The concept was genius. It would destroy all matter that had mass in the process of self destruction. This was enough to take over the world. But there is no point taking over the world when there is nothing left. So Roswo had to be careful.

Just then he saw the Big Bird of the Ancients flying high up in the sky, heading towards him in a great acceleration of vengeance because he had stolen the ancient weapon. Roswo had to make a quick escape, he looked around, there was only one way out, he had to jump off the cliff and hope to land on the soft petals of the Kulipos flower. But the Kulipos flower was a deceiving little flower. While the petals were soft and convenient for landing on after falling off a cliff, the rest of the flower was extremely poisonous. This was a tough decision to make, but Roswo had no choice, the Big Bird of the Ancients was getting closer and he could already see that it was quite big.

Roswo then decided to take the leap, he ran towards the edge of the cliff and took a huge leap and started his decent to the Kulipos flower, he could see the petals in the distance, and it looked like he was right on target. All he needed to do was focus and try and direct his fall towards the center of the petal. The Big Bird was furious, it accelerated harder and tried to get to Roswo before he hit the petal. But just then, the Big Bird realized that it didn’t make a difference either way. Once Roswo hit the petal, all he could do was get off of it and slowly make a run for it, at which moment the Big Bird can swoop down and grab him, if he didn’t make the Petal, Roswo was doomed anyway….

So Big Bird of the Ancients decided to stop mid air and watch what happened so it could decide on what to do once Roswo landed. Meanwhile Roswo had almost completed his fall and he was still on target. Just then a huge Doroksi, which was a creature of the Ancients, walked upto the flower and ate it. Roswo couldn’t believe it, this was it, he was doomed, the flower was gone, his only hope gone, now all he could do was wait till he fell to the ground and perished. All for taking over the world, not worth it, instead Roswo could’ve led a happy life and not have the Big Bird of the Ancients chase him down. Big Bird of the Ancients saw all this happen and was happy “Hahahaha” thought Big Bird, this is what you get for stealing the Magestic Secret weapon of the Ancients.

But then, the Doroksi felt drowsy and swooned right on the spot where the Kulipos flower was, and just then Roswo with his eyes closed, landed right on the stomach of the huge Doroksi. Roswo slowly opened his eyes, was he dead??? No, he was alive!!!!! But then he thought about the thought he had just thought about, and decided not to take the great weapon of the ancients and return it to the Big Bird of the Ancients and continue to live the life he led before stealing the Secret weapon of the Ancients. The Big Bird saw the gesture and decided to spare Roswo and took the secret weapon and returned to the Altar of the Greats. The Doroksi meanwhile, just recovered and slowly walked away, in an almost drunken fashion not knowing what had just happened.

The End

The story of Japan

Once there was a boy. His name was Japan. He was always trying to think of things that would make him happy. This was his addiction, habit, hobby, attitude. He could never focus on something that would make him sad. Even if he started thinking of something sad, there would be something in that which he would focus on that would end up making him happy. One day, during the thought process of thinking, he forgot to go to school. His mom then came to his room and yelled at him. But even then, he was thinking about how happy he was that he missed school, and he wasnt bothered by the yellations of the mother. His mom decided to force him to stay in the room and study all day. But that didnt make him sad either, he was thinking about how happy he would start playing with his Lego collection once mom goes back to the kitchen.

Years went by and Japan was now 25 years old, and he hadnt changed one bit. Even when his dog died after 10 years, but he thought about how happy he was when the dog was with him, and didnt even think for a second about the tragedy that had occured. Friends and family couldn't stand the way he stood there smiling and warned him saying he has to change, and this will only result in depression once all the sadness hits him. But he wasn't bothered by this, he decided to stay the way he was. It was the best thing to do he felt. He saw the way others were reacting to tragedies in their life, and how some of them couldnt even come out of the sadness, this gave him further motivation to remain the way he was.

Several years went by and Japan had lived a full life, he was now old, he was married happily for 40 years, had a son who was now working for a big company and a grandson as well, who was in school. He had seen a lot of things go wrong, and had a lot of really hard times, bad health, loss of jobs, poor finances, friends who betrayed him and since his son lived in a foreign land, he didnt even get to spend time with his grandson. But yet, he hadnt changed his attitude one bit. He would simply think of something else that would make him happy. Most of the ppl he knew distanced themselves from him because of his attitude. They felt it was fake and that he was not ready to face the world.

How can he smile at the funeral of his best friend?
How can he smile when there is no food to eat?
How can he smile when he came home to tell his wife that he lost his job?
How can he smile when his son had an accident?

These were questions that had no answer, Japan himself couldnt answer these questions, he would just say "That just the way I am". This frustrated the people around him. Most of them simply lost touch, and distanced themselves from him.

A few years later, he had a heart attack, and was laid to rest. All his friends from the past and family were present at the funeral. When each of them walked up to the casket and looked upon his calm face with a smile, the sight of Japan smiling even in his casket made them cry. But this immediately brought back memories of incidents in the past, when Japan simply smiled when something horrible had happened. This brought back a smile on their faces and stopped the tears, and when they walked out of the funeral home, they left with a smile.

Eve of Destruction

There were so many bulbs that it was hard to keep track of which one was which. These were all different in some way or the other though. Like for example, Bequito the 100W had a slight greenish tinge, whereas Juiko the 100W had an orange tinge. Ofcourse there were 60W, and 200W as well. The 200W were just a bunch of snobs in the 60W's opinion. Looking all big and glowing so brightly, they were just a bunch of show offs in the 60W's opinion. The 100W didnt care much for these things, they would just interact amongst themselves and not have anything to do with the 60's or the 200's.

Today was one of those days when the 60W's were kinda in a bad mood and felt like taking it out on the 200W's.

So they decided to use the mega beam and annoy the 200W's. The mega beam shined a beam of anti light which would reduce the brightness of the 200W. This was a trick passed on from the early 40W, which are now nearly extinct.

So Eioeer targetted the beam at one of the 200W, they really didnt know any of their names since they were all snobs. As soon as the 200W realised what was happening, all the other 200W's turned towards the 60W. And then the chase began. The 60W were smaller and lighter so they cud get away, this is how they always managed to escape.

Suddenly there was a lot of smoke in the room, and Gibrala, the monkey entered. All the bulbs panicked for Gibrala was a terror. He would just break them into pieces without any sense of compassion. Gibrala headed straight for the 200W bulbs. The only defense mechanism that the 200W had was to shine extremely brightly so that their surface gets too hot to touch. But that required atleast a few minutes, and Gibrala was already running towards them.

The 100W were meanwhile trying to act dead. All of them just went off, and lay like zombie bulbs. The 60W were already on the run so they just continued running. The 200W couldnt act dead now since Gibrala had already seen them, so even if they acted dead now, he would still come and destroy them.

It was too late, there was no hope, this was going to be the end for some of them, what a painful way to go, to be shattered to pieces on hard ground. They just lost hope and stood where they were, and didnt even bother to try and escape.

Gibrala came and picked one of them up and held it close to its face. You could see in Gibrala's eyes his love for destruction, the saddistic pleasure he was going to get from throwing it to the ground.But just then, one of the 200W came up with a brilliant idea, it started flashing, on off, on off. Seeing this, all the other 200W started flashing. Gibrala was distracted. He looked confused. But as brilliant as the 200W thought this idea was, it backfired. Gibrala went so crazy seeing all the flashing that he decided to randomly take out the bulbs.

Bulbs were flying in all directions, one of them hit the wooden pillar on the side, the other hit the fan on the roof, and another went crashing into the window. It was total mayhem, glass pieces everywhere, 200W were getting destroyed by the second. Seeing this carnage, the 100W and 60W decided to step in and stop this disaster. But there wasnt anything they could do.

They just gathered around with full determination and then realised all they could do was flash or shine a light at Gibrala, which would probably only make him come and take them out as well.
So they just stood there, and saw the 200W's getting maimed.They felt sorry for them, but they were also scared.

Then, in the complete randomness of events, one of the 200W went straight up in the air, and fell right on Gibrala's head. It burst open on Gibrala's head causing Gibrala to go completely bonkers and start running around. But there were glass pieces all over and it pierced Gibralas feet, he tripped and fell right on top of millions of shattered glass pieces. Now Gibrala was really hurting, he had glass pieces pierced all around his body and in one final act of desperation, he tried to head towards the exit, but the glass pieces in his feet were too painful and he fell again, on top of more shattered 200W bulbs, and went still, and then there was silence...

There were a few 200W remaining and they were too shocked by what just happened that they decided to switch off and stay that way. The 60W and 100W bulbs were equally shocked by what had just happened, and they went off one by one as well. Slowly the room got darker and darker...till was completely dark.