Thursday, June 01, 2006

So I met Liu

Liu was a cockroach who didn't really know she was one. Now you might say, what crap she writes! But I say, hold on... just wait. Think of this, is it not possible you are something that you are not aware of? Like for instance you could be the person with one of the worst walks but how are you to know, you've never seen yourself walk! Have you!? Or may be you are this person who comes across as someone with an irritating cocksure attitude at work place, how are you to know, noone's ever told you this, so what? You still can be so cocksure that noone really wants to tell you that you are cocksure! Hmmpf.. enough of you and me, lets get back to Liu. So Liu didn't know she was a cockroach.
She had 6 pairs of legs and 2 feelers just like so many other insects and then she hated cockroaches, just like so many other insects. She hated cockroaches in her cupboards or in her sink, just like so many of us and kept naphthalene balls by them to keep the cockroaches away and better still never went near cupboards and sinks, with naphthalene balls in them to keep away cockroaches. She had her ups and downs, just like the rest of us and she loved life nocturnal. Well, so do most of us!
She crawled out of her crack at the crack of dusk and rushed for the bathroom for a drink and a wash. There by the poolside lay gathered her usual gang of friends. After that and a quick game of baseball, oh yeah she loved baseball(!), they ran for the midnight feast by the kitchen shelves. Usually one of thsoe adventurous ones would have found a decent spot to grab a bite and dance safely for the rest of them. Well, thats how it went on till the crack of dawn at which time she scurried back to her crack again. That is exactly how the other day was all set out to be. So when Liu came out of her crack to go for that drink, plonk came a lizard and grabbed her head for his dessert! Ouch, I squealed when I saw Liu freeze for a moment and then dazedly scurry around without her head. Oh yes, I saw this live! Hehehe...

She didn't feel any pain, cockroaches don't, but she felt weirdly empty and she didn't really know what happened because she no longer could see, you see! So she just scurried around, dashing against objects in her way, until she went too close to the glowing lamp and slipped into the hot oil in it and then, well, she died of those burns...
Now coming back to you and me, hmm, so can we live off our entire lives and not know so many things about ourselves!?!

10 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

:-) is all I can say!
I was just seeing how I was looking around at the roaches in our kitchen and wondering 'how they got here'! Here you are..wonderng what's in their heads! Impressed! :)

Sun Jun 04, 08:38:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Ducking Giraffe said...

Na... dont u take me seriously on this site ever!
Gif

Sun Jun 04, 09:33:00 PM PDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, didn't know you had a blog. And I didn't know you spent so much time on Orkut! :-P BTW, whats with the blog's title?

Fri Jun 09, 08:05:00 PM PDT  
Blogger adhyayan said...

hmm.. keep writing.. whats was that song in your own language.. and the song of 8 womean.. "ya, what all are built just to remind us of... but whats built is burnt too... so that it doesnt remind us of what it should.. but the world wont rest in peace..t heyw ill rebuiled whats pulled down...( all thois reflection froma book I read " The Temple of the Golden Pavilion") " in which a crazy monks burns down a beautiful temple...
-Pras

Sat Jun 10, 09:36:00 PM PDT  
Blogger kiran said...

very nice piece...but a few minor quibbles :D - cockroaches have 6 legs, not 6 pairs of legs.:D

also, how can we, with any certainty, say that they don't feel pain? sure, their nervous systems aren't as developed as ours - they do show an irritating tendency to twitch even after my foot [ and i refer to my foot here only to emphasis the weight that comes crashsing down on them ]has made a thin custard of their innards. pain is totally relative, dont you think? i mena , what might be excrucitaing pain for cockroaches might register only as an annoying itch to us...and vice versa may be true,too, i grant.

but still, a very nice piece of work :D [ inspired by kafka, was this? :D ]here's hoping for more....

Sat Jun 10, 11:14:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Ducking Giraffe said...

clarifications : dudes (diwaker, kiran) i am sharing this blog with a friend of mine .. this piece is hers:) our pieces (of work) are sorta mixed up on this site ...but nice to see comments anyways:)

Sun Jun 11, 09:24:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Ducking Giraffe said...

Hehehe... there are many animals in the jungles, u know!?
Gif

Sun Jun 11, 09:53:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Ducking Giraffe said...

Yup Kiran it is 6 legs that was intended, mistake mistake...
But Cockroaches donot feel any pain when their head is cut off, referred bio trivia on this :P In fact that piece of trivia is what inspired the post ;)
Gif

Sun Jun 11, 10:13:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Ducking Giraffe said...

people Gif is the other half of er... the blog
-Diba

Mon Jun 12, 05:13:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Ducking Giraffe said...

hey k!
thanx for commenting on previous posts
-d

Mon Jun 12, 05:15:00 PM PDT  

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