Answering Keys !

What do you think answering keys are  ?
Exactly that. When I call for them, I want my keys to answer back.
Just the way we search for a mobile. You always give a call to that number and you know where it is. Well, unless you have been really lazy and not charged it since last Monday and the poor thing has gone stone dead...or like me you are an 'irresponsible mobile user' (many ppl who know me will be be saying ...yes you are) who has no clue when the moble was last handled ...so it could be screaming its head off in the office pantry or the lakme parlour or  more often than not my moms house :)
So minus all thse complications, normal mobile users tend to find their mobiles by giving it a ring.
Now, I want to extend this technology to my keys.

Basically I want to 'page' them.

So i can think of 2 approaches :
-a device which is a little bigger than a sim card is needed. It should seat a sim inside it.
(am still a GSM person at heart ...cant get beyond the sim concept)
-this should be used a key holder - so i can call that number and it voila it rings, vibrates, shines etc etc ...
- the sim need not have all call processing capabilities, nor the sim holder is a real mobile, it should just be good enough to receive calls.
-May be an enhancement is to call a cell from the key ...an answering and calling key !

Second approach :
-enhance existing mobiles ot page a new device
-the device should be used as a key holder.

May be I should patent this idea.
May be it already exists and is not a great idea ...
Maybe I should not lose my keys :)

Can you get scared reading a book ???

I can !


And the book is : 'And then there were none' by Agatha Christie.
Well ..I always thought I was a moderately brave person - have watched the movie 'evil dead', been to crematory during nights and so I believed I was not timid.
This one book scared the hell out of me and I realised what ppl mean when they 'its all in
the mind'.

Ppl who have read it will have a knowing smile by now, as to what I'm saying.
For those who haven't read this one or any of Agatha Christie's novels, Let me tell you a little about her novels and her characters.
To begin with; her novels- mysteries might be a little slow when compared to the speed of Dan Brown's thrillers (Actually it’s a sin to compare both. Its like comparing Yoga and shopping, they are both pleasurable but just are not comparable)
Every detail about a character she gives out, is a clue to know the character, a step towards the mystery. So at the end when the mystery is revealed you feel like a stupid ..God I knew all this why the hell couldn't I deduce??
But that’s the greatness of Agatha Christie's novels. She tells you everything yet you never process the data (I guess being scared just muddles up the brain) unlike some of the mysteries where an unknown third person comes at the end and is the murderer.
Without spoiling the suspense for ppl who might read the novel after reading this blog, this novel is the among the first ones which inspired many Holly/Bolly wood movies that start off on a lonely island with an unknown killer ...may be the Hindi classic Gumnaam was one of them and not to mention many of RGV's terrifying (or terrible) terror tales
When I was reading this book, I was alone on the first floor at my parents place and my mom was in her room at the ground floor. By the time I was half way done through the book i was scared even to look outside the room, let alone go out and check if there was any killer lurking outside.
Needless to say, going down to the safety of my mom's bedroom was totally ruled out.
So there I was buried in my own miseries, only thing to do was to go on reading more and revealing more.

Mind you, madam Christi had achieved all this without shedding a drop of blood.
Some where towards the end of the book, I was nervous enough not to trust any-one.
Even my mom was a suspect now !!

And I was on that island battling for life ..left alone in the merciless hand of fate (or was it Christie’s ??)
God .. my only aim in life was to finish the novel and get to know the source of my fear ..
Uffff ...to say I was relieved when the book ended - is an understatement.

I am amazed, the way the author could play with my mind and get me to that state.Hats off, Mrs Christie is really the queen of mysteries.

So thats the time a book scared me !


I have purposefully not talked more of the book, for I don't want to unwittingly give out any details

Some more books of Agatha Christie that had me baffled were :

1. Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2. The crooked house
3. The Unexpected Guest
4. Murder on the Orient Express


And if you are more of the Dan Brown kind of books, check out author David Baldacci's thrillers.