Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Face(?)-lift!

The old template was no longer supported by Google - the unique image on the top-left corner long gone missing - and it being impossible to edit the look or feel of the page anymore - it was time for a change - overdue in fact - for years! 'Why bother?' you ask - 'It is not as if you will post anything here!' And you are right of course! But then, a change just felt right too!

So here's 'Free Wheels' in a new avatar - and Archives back online after years... but, to some extent, I do miss the old pink...

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

What did the gun-toting Delay Capacitor say to the 0-ohm Resistor? :)
"Resistance is useless!"

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The Secret

The Secret

Type out your thoughts
In Snatches!
A word here, a phrase there,
Even whole lines that may rhyme, or not!

Abstract, it must be.
Play with the order
of words - Verbs afore, Subjects behind!
Jumbled up, all, as you wish them to be!

Coin a few new words.
A few
mind you!
Not too many that the gist be missed!

A rhythm, divine or otherwise,
Helps!
Try to think as have many before you!
You will find out it is easy.

Finally, add it up,
Publish it on your blog,
Add links from Google,
Facebook, Twitter & the lot.

And Lo & behold,
You are a poet!
As am I one!!

Saturday, January 09, 2010

What colour are you inside?

What colour are you inside?

Satin Pink & Turquoise Blue,
Bloody Red & Plain White too!

Purple, Beige, Grey, Yellow, Green,
Is that the colour you are within?

A - B - C - D - E - F - G -
Even None with that thick, black T!

Nylon Nets & Crimson Lace,
Black & Blue - in the Book of Face!

Be bold & reveal your innermost hue,
And ne'er an ailment may befall you!!

Sunday, January 03, 2010

poor she says.
but how poor can she be...
a poet with words so rich
and pure as the ones that i read here.

struggling - that may be as it is.
one struggles in life many a time,
more often so when one is
pursuing the search for knowledge.
it's an eternal thirst, difficult to quench.

well, happy am i with the words
that she has for me -
prize enough.
i don't ask for more.

for, i am no poet. just
an amateur player dabbling with some
images, some ideas, thoughts,
a few celluloid reels,
and people.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Drill - Scrape - File - Cut - and so on and so forth!

Drill - Scrape - File - Cut - and so on and so forth!

A couple of jabs to start with. Not effective enough. One more jab. Start chipping. Ouch! A couple of more jabs now, inside! Chip away. "I have reached the roots! Now I am removing these sensor heads here!" She did, quite painfully, but not completely I guess! "Now my colleague will do the filing."

The much younger colleague evidently took her art very seriously & artistically! She bent over almost into the now gaping hole & filed away with extreme concentration! Her exaggerated facial expressions from 6 inches away were quite entertaining! Occassionally she would frown if some part would not yield perfectly under her touch. Occassionally I would, if I found out that some of the sensor heads were not yet removed! She obliged by removing them! All the time, the helping hand was also there, using a suction nozzle to clean up the workspace. At this point the young lady went further in to start filling up the hole!

The first part of the operation completed, the earlier elder lady came back to take up the next tricky part. "I will have to apply much more pressure for this part." With the warning, she cut through the outer skin. Then she took up her drill, and started on the operation. But she soon figured out that the drill head was not big enough and went for a bigger & scarier instrument! I was more scared that the drill may slip and do immense damage to the neighboring structures which are still very useful to me! Occassionally she would send in X-rays with an instrument which looked like a Hair Drier and figure out the lay of the land ahead as one may say. It took her about 15 minutes to drill halfway through the thick bone-like structure, and then she pried at the remaining half! With a shark crack which sounded exactly like bones breaking inside my head, she managed to pry away the half. "Look at the size of this thing" she told me & showed it to me too! I smiled.

"Now I need to just pull away the ends." She did so too with extreme nonchalance. A couple of quick stitches & she was done.


"I will give you the instructions for the next few days now... You have been a great patient. Other people keep closing their mouths! I never thought we could get this done so quickly!" And she proceeded to reel of a series of instructions with the young doctor chipping in once in a while!

Sunday, June 07, 2009

Perils of an Amateur Moviemaker

With no promise to be punctual in updating, I started on a new blog, which can be found here... All are welcome to visit & comment.

It's all about me being... "A" wannabe movie-maker trying out the different tricks of the trade, attempting to learn a little bit through first hand experience, and have some fun along the way..."

Sunday, January 11, 2009

A new Blogger in the Blocks... She's witty, she's charming, newly venturing into the realm of writing... Ladies & Gentlemen... Please Welcome my dear wife... Swapna!