Just MY LUCK!!!!!

The concept of luck has always eluded me.For those of you nincompoops out there who keep proudly and condescendingly spouting "You make your own luck!", i beg you to reconsider.
It's one of the greatest enigmas of life, universe and everything(lol) according to me.
Is it something that flows in and out of our infinite universes,our lives...or are there vast reserves of it? or is it something that i just cant imagine,just like imagining more than 3 dimensions(this is the other dimension like length, breadth blah blah. I grasped the concept of length,breadth,height and time...but it's impossible to pictorially imagine)? or maybe you do make your own luck.
Personally, i think there are reserves of luck. A certain amount for all beings. You can imagine it to be your conical flask of luck. So when you say, "Oh no! I've run out of luck!", you actually mean that you've drained out your conical flask of luck. And maybe it is replenished with the help of your luck reserves in another dimension. Like in my case, my luck in this dimension is just about replenished(thank whoever or whatever for that...we shall call that entity - "God", like most of us do) from the vast reserves of luck that i have in dimensionx-42 or any other extra-lucky dimension. Are you getting the picture? This is an ancient theory that many in dimensionx-42 believe to be true.
And many claim to have seen their luck reserves.There are also myths about "Thieves of luck"...great and interesting tales which i promise to tell you about sometime.

There's another theory...that luck is different for different universes. Perhaps,in dimensionx-42, there are vast reserves of luck. But, maybe in this dimension in which all of you happen to be stuck in, luck flows like wind and few of you have a breezy life and breeze through everything in life while the others face downpour instead.

My intention in this post is not to discourage you but to allow you to accept the flow of life. Not that you cant "make your own luck", but there are some things in life that you just cannot help.And that's probably why we came down to questions like the purpose of life, or the answer to life, universe and everything (the believed answer to which is not why this blog has been named dimensionx-42).
And the other reason is because i hadn't posted anything in a long time. And to make up for that i'm adding a complementary video!woohoo!

This is GladiMu doing his stuff....

The Gem of Grey

As far as my memory serves me, the particular adventure that i'm about to narrate happened about 25 years ago.

Slick and I were going to planet Shoul to see the gem of Grey. This gem is named so because it had been carved to perfection by a man called Grey.Legend has it that some very strange things happen to the person who possesses this gem. What happens still remained to be discovered until........

We reached Shoul by one of Slick's hi-tech flying machines that i don't have a very good idea about. We were immediately attended to for lodging and food (You have to remember how these matters become trivial when you're with a prince).

We were accommodated in the best hotel where we ate the most delicious food ever made.I would describe the entire menu to you if i could but that must take up another later post, which i assure you, will come when the time is right.

It was after this that we went to see the Gem of Grey safely kept for display at the house of the richest woman in the galaxy for she had a mansion large enough to hold the number of people who came to have a look at this mysterious gem. Slick being royalty of course, got special preference and hence we were immediately given permission to view the gem(see what i mean about a universe quite perfect for me...).

The gem was incredible.Crafted to perfection was an understatement,it's shape was so queer that we were left absolutely breathless for a moment.It SEEMED to have no edges but wasn't a circle or an ellipse. What was it?
It's translucency caused strange light effects all around us and in our eyes.The mere sight of it was hypnotic.When i looked through it, i felt as though i was falling, as though I've been falling for a trillion years, falling where or into what...i didn't know.Where was i? Colours swirled around sometimes,they were metallic, like extremely sluggish bolts of lightning of different colours.................

Slick shook me out of it. "Yes, that is known to happen. you shouldn't stare at it for so long."

It was at this moment that Dr. Anonymous and his minions came crashing into the mansion armed with pocket lasers(do not under estimate the power of this gadget).He said, " All right,I'm going to make this quick.I'm here to steal the gem and anyone who tries to stop me will be annihilated."

He stepped forward and took the gem from the glass case it was kept within and started heading back towards the ship to escape. Slick, jumped at him from behind and they both fell down. The gem slipped from his hands and came straight into mine. Talk about coincidence or was it......?
The minions pointed their guns at me to take the gem away from me, but i didn't care for that anymore.My eyes were locked. I couldn't move them away from the gem.I felt like i was going into it and then falling, falling,falling and i saw the end...it looked like water.Water that kept sparking...it rippled in different patterns and i fell right into it.

I came out from the trance back into reality.I came out from the trance back into reality.I came out from the trance back into reality.I came out from the trance back into reality.

There were 4 of me.Or rather 4 different sides of me.The extremely calm one.The extremely furious one. The quite annoying sarcastic one. The extremely worried one.

"Am i sure there isn't more of me?" said the sarcastic one with an eyebrow raised at the calm one who seemed to be looking around and analysing the situation.

"Where the hell are we?" said the furious one holding up the worried one by my collar.

"I swear i don't know! OH my god! if this is the case, then we will all fight with one another till we destroy each other completely unless the minions get to us first,in which case we're all going to DIE NOW! WE'RE DOOOOOOOOOO......"

Whack.The furious one punched the worried one.

The entire crowd seemed to be in a state of shock and curiosity including Slick and Dr. Anonymous.

"Let me get this straight.... you had the gem in your possession and now there are 4 yous?" asked Dr. Anonymous.

The calm one replied with absolute calmness,"That is correct. But,you may have noticed that each me has a different personality.For example,i am relatively quite calmer than the rest of them and probably the only one of me who can give you logical answers right now."

"Oh,i see!So that's what it does.It separates the sub-conscious levels of an individual.I would have never guessed that." said Slick who was quite excited about the turn of events.

"yes, but how are we to become one again?" asked the worried one.

"Leave that for later. For now, let's take care of Dr. Anonymous.",replied Slick with confidence enough to assure the worried one to the point of being able to carry out the instruction. So, the 4 mes and Slick worked together and managed to defeat Dr. Anonymous with the help of Slick's weapon-stealer ray gun.(I know it makes things seem too easy. But,it wasn't that easy because our aim wasn't very good and the ray guns had weak lasers that didn't work well enough to steal pocket lasers which were quite massy.)

Ok. Now,this is the point where i tell you that the sarcastic one and worried one were of no use.At least the sarcastic one had a good sense of humour.The worried one was very unhelpful as she would start palpitating every time an enemy was nearby.

After the whole fiasco, we need to think of a way to get me back together.I asked Slick if he could design a ray gun to do that."I don't know how to go about because i don't know on what principle the gem works on."

The worried one fainted.

"Is she dead?" asked the sarcastic with a wicked smile on her face.

The furious one gave Slick a threatening look and said "NOW LOOK HERE!YOU BETTER COME UP WITH A SOLUTION OR I AM GOING TO TEAR YOU APART AND FEED YOU TO THE GLUTTONS OF PLANET HUNGRY !"(which by the way, does exist).Lucky for me, Slick doesn't get scared very easily.

The calm one then said, "Isn't it possible to use the gem in your ray gun to reverse the process?"

"That's not a bad idea.In fact that might just work..." said Slick and got to work immediately.

The ray gun was ready.

"Okay,here goes." and he pulled the trigger at one of me....

I came out of the sparking water. Not a drop of it was on me. I saw a hint of something a little further away. I walked up to it.It was a string of infinite length and finite tension.I plucked it.It vibrated and the sound resonated in my ears and i found myself back in reality.There was only 1 of me.

"Woohoo!I'm back!" , i exclaimed with joy.

Now that's an experience worth remembering.
Thank you for reading. Feel free to comment on it.

By popular demand, this post is about Slick. This is how the story goes.....

It was about a 100 years ago that the queen of planet Trionedent gave birth to a baby boy and named him a name that nobody in the universe could pronounce except her. Hence, they shortened his name to Slick. It was during this time that the very old and very wise emperor came to visit him. He told them, " There will be a time when this little boy seems prepared to face the responsibility of the throne, it is then that i want to meet him.
You must ask him to visit me at this time for there is a great secret that i wish to reveal to him. " "For" he said, "there are great many things that lie in store for him and he has the capacity to be a great ruler. However, there is one thing that i must make sure of, he must not use his special talent during his quest to find me."
The queen did not believe him and her motherly instincts urged her to find out as to how he could possibly know this. And he said " It is because i have the power to forsee things. I am the very old and very wise emperor!Have you not heard of me?" and the queen replied that she hadn't infact. After many hours of identity verification, it was finally clarified that he was indeed trustworthy. So, the queen promised him to send her son. (For the manwould have pestered her for many hours if she had done otherwise. He had a way with people...).

So it was that the boy grew up to be ........quite .....Ummmm....well he turned out to be a very bad warrior, wasn't much of a lady killer either and.... he was the only one in
the universe who could design a ray gun for any purpose. Nobody knew how, but, he would always find a solution.They say that it's an inborn talent for there was nobody to teach him this skill.

It was around the age of 20 that his mother told him about the very old and very wise emperor's visit on the day he was born. Slick, being a huge fan of the emperor, could not believe his ears and hence, set out in search of him.His travels are legendary and too long to explain. To make a very long story short, Slick travelled through a 100 galaxies, and one huge galaxy which was being formed due to the merging of 5 different galaxies(It was here that he had to cope with several aberrations in the gravitational field and went through a wormhole that led him
back to where his home was after which he decided to take different course), discovered the most startling creatures ever several of which he has been awarded for, went through a black hole and came out as a quarky and (lucky for him!), arbitrarily reached another black hole
through which he came out just a little taller (good for him), got to visit the secret finitely seeming infinite chamber of all lost objects and finally reached the chamber of the emperor which was on a small, green, prosperous meteor called Tin.

The emperor called out to him - "I've been expecting you,......Slick. I have a secret to tell you."
Slick could not believe his eyes. He was finally here. He had made it and now he will know the secret.
He said - "I know. My mother told me the whole story. So what's the secret?"
The emperor said, "Why don't you have some snacks before that. You have come a long way."
Slick replied,"OK."
And so a great many extraordinary snacks were brought and Slick quite happily ate them all up.
The emperor said,"Now, it is time to reveal to you what i have revealed to none yet."
Slick couldn't beleive it. This was it.
The emperor said,"Never let, what people tell you, put fear into your heart."
Slick said, "OK i wont and?"
"And what? That's it."
"That's it????? You made me travel millions of light years to give me this idiotic piece of advice??"
And with a lot more grumbling, Slick left for his home planet. It is said that despite his anger at the whole situation, he still followed the advice and is now one of the greatest rulers the universe has ever seen.
The end.

Dedicated to Amy

Bizarre occurences....?

The worlds in which we live in are so gigantic that most of us might find it quite a challenge to fathom a world that is much smaller than that of ours. You must not misunderstand me when i say 'much smaller' that i am referring to some microscopic world. What i really mean is a world much smaller than what any microscope on the Earth can view. Did i manage to give you a better estimate?
OK. Think quarks.

This world is quite different from ours. One of the main reasons for this would be because everything is so chaotic here. This is called the arbit rule. You don't decide who you hang out with here,or what you want to eat next or anything else for that matter. You take what you get. You cannot set up meetings with people because you can never find somewhere or someone you want to find. And if you do not want to find something, then it doesn't mean that you will find it. People and things keep arbitrarily appearing and disappearing in a location.Everything's a question of probability. But, this is also the only world where you don't have to be technologically advanced to travel from one end of the universe to another. Anything's possible here. Or rather, anything's probable here.The people of this world call themselves quarkies and they are the most spontaneous bunch that ever existed.

This story is about a quarky who tried to take over the world. His name was Geb. Geb, who was stuck in the wrong world for he did not realize that the quark world cannot be taken over because it has no rules and when you take over, you start making rules which goes against the basic rule that makes the world exist - the arbit rule. Or so the quarkies believed.It is for this reason that Geb has gone down in a history that has never been written as Geb the macroscopic quarky.
(It wasn't that the quarkies had any clue that a world above their dimensional size existed, it was just that the word seemed befitting for some reason.)

However,perhaps, there was more to Geb than meets the eye. He pondered over the problem at hand with an obsession that rarely manifests itself in quarkies. The solution to the problem can be obtained by finding a loop hole in the rules of this world. And behold! he had found a solution!

This is what he did. He started persuading the quarkies around him to do something that he tells them to. Lucky and quite arbitrarily for him, he had a rare charm about him that made the other quarkies do what he told them to. Like to drink some juice, or kick a ball etc etc. He would then say, "Now, i will find that point in front of me." He would then reach a completely different location where he would persuade the quarkies to do something for him. And so the hundreds of years went by in this way until there came a time when every quarky was trying to do something that Geb the quarky had told them to and it can be said that for that brief time unit, Geb ruled the world. Unfortunately for Geb, he did not realise this and continued with his quest till the end of his time.

Some of you might say "This is rubbish. Such things cannot exist and such incidents cannot occur. They make no scientific sense whatsoever." Then i would courteously reply," Who are you to say what can and cannot exist? And for that matter, who am i to say that it can? I am not the one who makes the rules."

My extraordinary B'day bash!!!!

This post is about this year's birthday celebrations. It turned out to be of a rather different kind.
It all began at 12 am in the morning. Uchiha Sasuke was bent upon participating in the chuunin exam tournament and Sakura was trying to convince him the opposite. There was a knock on the window and i wondered who that could possibly be.
Ofcourse, there was only one possibility - Slick. He's the only one who a) would knock on the WINDOW at 12 am b) would come at such a time cause he has no real curfew time as he's the ruler of a planet and c)he's the only intelligent outer space species
who knows my home address d) unintelligent species wouldn't know how to knock and a whole lot of other reasons.I opened the window and there he was, standing in what seemed to be a huge transparent tube. I wondered what mode of transportation he had used this time. But, more importantly, i was really happy that he not only remembered my b'day but also came to wish me( it's not part of the custom of his planet)!!

" I'm so glad you came to wish me on my birthday. That's awfully nice of you."
Slick replied while his eyes moved up,"Uh.....It is? I mean.... it is....yes it is your birthday and i came to wish you!" then he mumbled something about having a little chat with his secretary about remembering birthdays.
Ok, it was too much to wish for. "ok fine. it's alright. You didn't come here because it's my birthday."
"But, umm.....on the contrary....i did come because of that. See, i've got you a gift." and he took out a huge book which i suspected some citizen in his planet had given as a token of gratitude to Slick for listening to his problems in life.
"This is the latest bestseller in our galaxy and the rest of the universe."
The title of the book was - THE PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE ARE STUPID.

I thought about the title of the book. Ok, this is a best - seller. Maybe, it's about how little we all know about the universe, that it can be compared to a drop of liquid in a vast,infinite ocean.
I had over estimated. It happened to be a book about how all the people of the universe are already stupid and are getting stupider everyday which i found rather stupid cause it explained to people that day is a relative measure of time and that it does not mean a day on their planet but just that people were getting stupider with time and hence, it kind of proved its theory because anyone who bought such a book and liked it and voted it as best - seller was stupid ,which happened to be most of the people in the universe.

Anyway, after that, i went with Slick to his planet with the help of the glass tube which happened to be a long distance teleporter specially designed for Slick for a quick escape route (Quite smart according to me). With a few quick orders executed, he held a huge party just for me.
I also met one of the best bands in the galaxy - Ked Leppelin. Pluzon on vocals, Lo on the electromagnetic guitar with a hovering capability to add for style, Mant on keys which had all the different voices you can possibly imagine and more, and Beon on percussion(I'm not sure what all the percussion stuff is called cause he's got a lot them). They played hard core elemental quark music.
The genre - hard core elemental quark is like the next next next level. Right now Earth's best is still progressive and psychedlic rock.This genre is few steps further. To be honest, the first time you hear it, you never understand the music due to the fact that it's extremely arbitrary. ( Now, some people might say that if it's so arbitrary, it's not really music and even a person who knows nothing about music can create this type of genre. I, on the other hand, have no comment cause i still haven't really caught on to the music.)

The party was awesome and i noticed most people talking about ' the people of the universe are stupid' book. Pluzon, the lead singer of Ked Leppelin and whom i happen to think is very insightful because he writes most of the songs and i must say i find the lyrics of his songs quite
extraordinary, said that the book sent shockwaves around the universe and that people have become so scared that the demand for science and mathematics courses in all the universities has increased astronomically. There have been huge riots regarding the academic courses not being upto standards. So, the the upper bodies have taken measures to give a good solid foundation in science and mathematics except that isn't going very well because it turns out that people are bigger idiots than the calculated value and hence this is going to be harder than anyone thought and blah blah blah.

I say 'blah blah blah' because at that moment i completely blanked out because of an enormous spaceship that cast an even more enormous shadow over the palace. The only word that did come to my mind at that time was "wow."
In, entered the courteous villain. I say courteous because he did not cause any property damage when he made his entry into the palace. The villain - he called himself Dr. anonymous because he wasn't creative enough to come up with a name for himself. Quite the irony, isn't it?

"Prince Slick, this time you're going down, for in my hand i have the most dangerous weapon ever."
And Slick, proud as a ruler should be, replied "Funny, it looks like a marble to me."
"That's because it is a marble. But, what you do not know is that it's also an explosive...no no", Anonymous replied just as Slick made his way to the control room, "don't even think about using the teleporter as a quick escape route. You see this is a very special explosive. The time that it
takes to create the damage is less than a trillionth of a second, as opposed to the teleporter that takes a billionth of a second." Oh no! that's bad. I don't want my B'day to be my D'day...

But, then the Ked Leppelin band sneeked up on Anonymous from behind him. Slick shouted to them " Good. keep that going but, whatever you do, don't let the marble fall on the floor. Otherwise it'll explode." Then, he turned to me and said " With this distraction, i can buy the time to create a ray gun that can make explosive devices vanish. I thought up of a mechanism to do it. I have the blue print right here" and he showed it to me.

Course, i didn't understand a thing but, one thing i did know - "But, where are you going to get the components from?"
"I don't need these components. These are for optimum efficiency. All i need is a tie, a pair of shoes, a lens and a torch which i have right here", he said pointing to his safety torch which was the size of a bindi on his forhead. Great, so all we needed to do is find a tie and a lens. I already
had shoes. I never leave anywhere without shoes on.

Finding a tie is quite hard considering the fact that no one here wears a tie! Except.... there happened to be one man sitting in the corner who was wearing one. Atleast, it looked like one. I ran over to the side, doged the laser attacks of Anonymous's so called " minions" and got to the
man and asked him for his tie which he politely refused.....refused!!! What was going on? And that's exactly what i asked the man and he replied - " This tie is very important to me. I went to a quite unheard of planet where everyone wore ties and now require it so i can make a BOLD fashion statement in the universe and become rich and famous and set the trend for the coming generations." Stupid. But, now was not the time to argue.
I managed to convince him that i could give him all the ties he ever wanted because i am from the unheard planet that he went to.(coz i am)
so, he agreed.
I had got the tie. Now, for the lens. It's times like these that i regret forgetting to wear my spectacles.
But, come on, it's a party. There's got to be transparent plates or glasses to eat and drink from that are thick enough to act as lenses.
No!!! They don't have.....except the spoons here are. Lucky for me!!! so, I managed to get the spoon. Slick assembled his ray gun just in time.

Meanwhile, during the whole time this was happening, the rest of the people were playing monkey with the highly dangerous marble with Anonymous as the monkey. Credit goes to me, since, i taught them that game the last time i visited Slick's planet. The marble soared into the air, Anonymous made a leap for it, and so did Lo who knocked Anonymous at the head with his hovering guitar and caught the marble. Then, Slick used the ray gun and the marble vanished forever. By then, Anonymous had screamed " NOOOOOooooooooo....." and escaped onto his
enormous spaceship which warped itself out of there. And the day was saved.
Slick dropped me back home after that. It was around 8:30 in the morning and i called up a few friends so that i could catch the 10:30 show of Kung fu panda in the multiplex. Had lots of popcorn and twice that much fun. I came back, went for my usual Thursday piano class, came back from class to find a surprise party for me at home!

Sigh. That was one exciting B'day. And at the end of the day, i thought, we're not as stupid as we think we are. A bunch of idiots, definitely, but relative to what we think of ourselves, we're almost, but a little less stupider. And the fact that we've realised how stupid we can get has to count for something, right?

Welcome!!!

Welcome to DimenisionX-42...

This is a small introduction as to what this is all about.
The theory goes that there are an infinite number of universes that move parallel to each other along the time line(if time is represented as a line).For every choice that we make make, there is an alternate universe where we choose the other alternative. This implies the possibility of having an infinite number possibilities. The official term for this may be parallel universe but some of us prefer calling each universe as a dimension.
This blog is about DimensionX-42. And this dimension is where the universe is perfect for ME.... and is quite perfect for a lot of others too...