http://blogs.fullhyderabad.com/showblog.php?blogId=336 Hades is the Greek God of the Underworld. This blog is not about Hades or any other personality in Greek Mythology. It is extremely disturbing to find oneself struggling to uncover, from the depths of a long unused memory, a certain ATM password. It is also, might I add, extremely disturbing to find that your ATM card has been gulped down by the 5 feet tall block of metal with a screen embedded into its torso. While the screen happily flashes a message asking you to contact the bank authorities you start wondering why you were cast down from the glorious world of Adam Smith. It all started when I found myself in my room staring into a box which, to my horror was empty. Nevertheless there was a one rupee coin here and a two rupee coin there, but the fact of the matter was, I had before me an empty box. In case you are trying to understand the significance of the aforementioned http://blogs.fullhyderabad.com/showblog.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=1870&blogId=336 Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:54:39 +0000 Hades is the Greek God of the Underworld. Zeus and Poseidan, his brothers, were given earth and Ocean respectively, while Hades got the underworld. He employs an enormous 3 headed dog called Cerberus to protect his domain's gates.The sign on Hell's Gate does not read 'Beware of the Dog'. It reads: 'Beware of the Three-Headed Serpent-Maned Monster Hound with Slavering Jaws and Deadly Halitosis'. The story of Hades has nothing to do with this blog. I just used the name because it sounds cool. After perennial attempts at starting a blog, the day has finally come. I do hope this blog will not be as ephemeral as the ones I had created earlier. I have always wanted a medium through which I could express myself. Not for the gratification of my ego but for the satisfaction of these creative urges that I get. When I read a book, a science fiction let us say, that particular breed being my favourite, I get this strong urge to write a story of my own, to weave an intricate plot, to write a novel, to surprise or shock the reader as I myself have been, innumerable times. In day-to-day life I never get a chance to explore the creative side of my mind, so maybe I get these urges because of all my suppressed creative energies. I do have a penchant for writing stories, stories about far off worlds and their inhabitants, for I find that through pen and paper I can assume the role of a creator. Yes, creation is something that intrigues me. Maybe that is why my literary lenience is towards works of fiction. I am a partisan of the computer games, which involve strategy, which involve creation http://blogs.fullhyderabad.com/showblog.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=1867&blogId=336 Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:21:53 +0000