Monday 6 August 2012

Ghost Writer

image courtesy: http://www.toonpool.com/cartoons/ICT%20Overdose_30104  

when you at your office desk, open ur diary, and jot down something.. and suddenly turn around to look into your computer screen and park your cursor on any type-able space.. and the system is automatically typing a singular bizarre looking character.. 
what comes to your mind?! damn! is it some virus?? dear lord, am i going to lose something? 
the system is typing this by itself in the URL text box, in a word document.. hell! anywhere, absolutely anywhere you park and you see a non-stop stream of the same character...one, two, three, four.....hundred, two hundred... thousand, three thousand... and you haven't stopped counting... your mind screams STOP! 
whats going wrong with my computer?! Alarm rings the mind.. (poetic license? no! that's not a wrong structure; neither per grammar nor per meaning.. ask me ;))
and then you look around.. only to notice that the edge of your diary is pressing a key! so that's the 'ghost writer'?! yes yes.. no virus! phew! thank god! :D

9 comments:

  1. And here I was expecting to read an account of that time when you became a ghost writer for a celebrity. Seriously, though. Think about it. I think you'll do very well in such a line of work.

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    2. LOL... inshallah, someday... someday ;D n then you can say you rubbed shoulders with me... the way i proudly say i have a super cool friend who wears a lyricist's hat... or should we instead say, who is sought after by brilliant musicians!! ;)
      so moral of the story my dear pallu.. lets do this together.. u write lyrics n i will try n become a ghost writer...
      n as an aside...arent we tech writers ghost writers anyways.. the comp only types what we write.. aye! kya bolti tu? ;) :D

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    3. btw, while i am still getting used to this.. how do you edit typos in comments?
      i dont want to republish a comment and delete an earlier one?? :O

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    4. Hmm, I noticed a pen-like edit button against your name in the comments. Obviously, it's disabled for me because I don't own this blog. IF you see it too, that's what you might have to use to edit comments. I never tried, because I never bothered to edits comments, because that feature wasn't present earlier.

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    5. Also, that previous bit is total exaggeration. If I wasn't sought after, and I can't honestly call myself a lyricist. It was only one time that I could ever write something on demand. Never thereafter. I severely lack vocabulary.

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    6. aye pallu! u were SOUGHT AFTER but u refused to be pursued :P so its not exaggeration... anyways, resume ur poetry again!! u dont need to write for anyone (other than me to read :P kidding..) n i shall forward that to the RDP.. hang on.. u cld write for us!!!!!!!! jamming!!!

      and the pen-like button doesn't enable editing.. guess its just to say that it is a comment n nothing else.. :( will look for a way.. or better still i shld preview :P

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  2. That picture is spooky! But a good post! Keep ghost-writ...ahem, sorry...keep writing!

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    1. yeah it is.. i was looking for the right image... n had put this one on the back burner.. cldnt find anything else apt for ghost writing :( so this one had a walk-over :)
      thanks for the encouragement lady! :)) much love :))

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