The story of money

               Money was not always the way people traded their goods or services, in the ancient times it was the barter system, people gave away what they had for what they wanted, this didn't always work as whatever they have might not be in demand so they would be left to starve.
           
              One of the oldest currencies known to man was  Anatolian obsidian a hard glass mineral which existed in 12000 bc i.e during stone age people gave away this stone in exchange of other stone's "me needs that caved thingy, I give this shiney thingy".

             Cattle and grains were used as money in 10000 bc and was used as late as the mid 20 century AD in Africa.
       "Moo" "Moo" "Moo".

Roman Silver coin

Chinese paper money

Lydia

         Then gold was a widely used form of money as everyone desired gold, soon gold coins were made by smiths.

         First form of Banks existed in Babilonia at around 3000 bc in the form of temples and palaces to store grain, cattle, precious metals.
 "How did the cattle not eat the grain?"

     

  Cowrie shells were used as currencies in China at  1200 bc, they were also in Africa and other parts of Asia.

First coins were supposedly minted in Lydia which is in middle east, the currency was made of gold and silver  it existed in 600 bc.
       " Roman phylosophers criticised the idea called it capitalism". But soon joined the party and started giving loans for interests in 400 bc.

      Around 250 bc Chinese cash coins were introduced, these were made of copper with a circle or square in the middle, these were state made. These were one of the first state owned coins made, along with the India and Lydia.

       Jewish temple coins had been around since 0 AD ,which was the only money allowed to be spent in and around the temple, pilgrims were supposed to exchange their currency for the copper coins.  "was probably a secret  scam to collect gold and silver made in Rome and Greece".

        At 1000 AD paper money in China was introduced, which unfortunately stopped after 500 years of use after repeated inflations and reforms. ( we have been using paper currencies foe only around 200 years we still have time to reach that point ).

        In 1619's Tobacco money was widely used in Virginia after just 100 years after its introduction there.
       The gold Smith paper bonds were introduced in 1650's which formed the basis of morden banking which is for an another day.
     Soon countries started minting their own currencies in 1700, bank of England was one of the first to do so. That is how the present day money was born.

A block

When you sit to write
Something down,
But a lump waits
In your throat
And you can't swallow,
Throw around paints
But the colours
Don't mix,
Everything seems like
A mockery
Not art,
When you try and weave
Something magical,
A beethovan's symphony,
Perhaps,
But tragically,
What comes out,
Is a mediocre sound,
That already exist.
No storm
Surrounds,
no sounds,
No secret pathways
Open,
No new lands,
Just you broken,
Down to
Your ordinary self,
No inspirational dance,
No trump of creation,
no pleasures of immortality,
A block.

Non violence

All and any notion,
How great it may be,
loses it's value,
When you use
The same force,
You fight against,
To attain it,
Contain them,
And deem you fit.
You fight against,
Oppression,
Slavery,
For your right to live,
But
Build it over blood,
And slaughter,
By manipulation,
Fear, force and weapons.
Though the battle seems to
have ended,
That war is never ending,
Prey becoming the predator,
Is hardly called winning.
You riding over,
The one that rode you,
Treat them like trash,
Letting them rot
Till they are blue,
Burning them in sun,
Till they turn to ash,
Battle seems to have ended,
The War is never ending.
Prey becoming the predator,
Is hardly called winning.
The victory will have no pride,
No one leaves happy,
Not even you,
Unleashing one's fury,
Erecting a blackening hue,
Hunting them down,
Till they they can't shout,
Till they can't stand,
Till they bow,
The victory will have
No life
Have no love,
It will  have blood smeared,
O'er your hands throught the future,
From now.
Leaving your children with rage,
Their's Thirsty for revenge.

Creatures around the house 3

Superficial

 
Me,
you,
everyone,
I today see,
throw around "I love you",
Like a bag of tea,
We don't really mean it, do we?.

We laugh around,
Have fun times,
Make a lotta sound,
Rock our primes,
That's where it ends,
Fun and lies,
Why would anyone
Waste their lives,
Pursuing ties?.

We are so scared
To share our hearts,
We fail to make
Emotional bonds
From the start.

Friends or family,
Partner or terrier,
We always see them
Through this
Giant glass barrier,
One day when they
Bid us good bye,
For reason like
'Stupidly fought',
Or some disaster parts,
leaving us with a crack
Don't wanna get caught
In despair wanting them back,
So you concentrate on
What they lack
Than what they have,
So you cannot care,
let them impair
You, from the success
You so long wanted to taste,
Let the word see you,
For what you are,
But why will anyone
Be happy for you?
Exept you
when you do.

THE DARING SELFE CHALLENGE

I

THE DARING SELFIE CHALLENGE

       I am very nervous, hungry, sleep deprived, and frightened as I am about to enter my school, which probably will be my last time because today is the day I am finally going to be caught.

       I have not been sleeping well for a few days, could not eat either since they announced that they have a video surveillance tape, actual evidence that contains images of the culprit which is me of course, if I get caught the school is going to send me away, after the school sends me away my father the tyrant is going to beat me to pulp and en roll me in some boarding school with no toilets. Just the thought of that makes me want to puke.

           You might be wondering what the fuss is all about, I am dying to tell somebody, might as well be you, this secret has been burning inside my stomach for sometime now it's about time it got out.

           It all started last month when one of the boys in my class vijay decided to start a challenge, "the most daring selfie challenge" he called it, he announced that the person with the most daring selfie wins.

            Like always people got excited they get something different to do and started coming up with all sorts of crazy selfies, there was this one boy ajay with a snake (python) around his neck like lord Shiva, then this guy vineeth took a selfie of him jumping in to the pool (literally mid air),

One while driving his bike in traffic with a single hand, there were plenty of others with decent selfies, I was intrigued, "this is something that I could do?", all I to do needed was to come up with the most daring plan.

            I was ready to take the challenge, it was my time to be the star, be a somebody and a chance to get noticed by Sandhya my long time crush,

'Sandhyaaa, just saying the name out loud feels like drinking hot coca in a cold winter morning.

           I thought long and hard and finally came up with the most exciting plan, "the founder's statue". The founder's statue is a eight foot long statue on the edge and dead centre our roof, if I manage to get on his shoulder and get a selfie then it will actually look like I am flying over the school.

              The best part of it all was no student is ever allowed on the roof, and   the statue is our schools pride, and it's is the statue of the father of our current principal and director, he was the director before he tragically died and like I said the founder, so it has this large than world image to it, it's white washed every 2 months , a priest does some rituals over it everyday. So if I did manage the feat it would be the best selfi ever.

             On a Thursday 20 days before today I sneaked out of my house, jumped over my school fence and ran in to roof, when I  met  a locked door, I had thought about this as the door is nearly always locked, I bought my mother's hairpin, and gave the keyhole a few twists with the pin, nothing happened, I tried pulling the lock, hitting it, begging it, it didn't bulge, I was heart broken and angry so I gave  the door an  kick in all fury and it just flung open with a huge thud.

             The noice was so loud so I waited to see if anyone noticed, no one seemed to, as I got in to the roof it seemed like a victory, but I couldn't let it get to my head as I knew I had work to do, I got near the statue, jumped up and held his elbow with my hands, placed my feet over his knee and climbed over his shoulder, I turned towards the statue's back as I wanted me, the statue and the whole campus to be in the view when I took the picture, I clicked once, as I was about to take an other one the statue started shaking, I jumped down in to the roof reflexively, the founder came crumbling down. I agree I am bit on the heavier side but I did not expect that to happen. 

         Now you know why I am scared, after the incident, I got home, deleted the selfie, never spoke to a soul about it, feigned fever and didn't go to school for a few days. When I went back things were so different, there were flyers all around, it read "who ever did it surrender at once for minimal punishments or else they will be expelled and fined vigorously". Everyone in class was talking about it, teachers were talking about it, people forgot about the daring selfie challenge as they had something new to chew their mouths over, I felt sick everytime the topic came up.

          Few days went by like this, no one had any idea who broke it, I was getting better, until a couple of days ago, when one of the teaches found that the mall opposite to the school had a security camera which pointed directly to the roof, and all they had to do is get the tape that recorded that day. 

          Principal requested for the tape and got it, but no one saw it yet, they were going to watch it together with the rest of the school, in the afternoon assembly, they wanted it to be a surprise for the culprit and for them too, atleast that is what the watchman told me.

          With anxiety ripping my heart out I made a new plan, the only plan that could save me from absent toilets and roach rooms. 

          It is nine now this is the time everyone leaves, for the morning assembly, I skipped it, I went in to the principals office and there it was right on the middle of the table the tape, inside a brown envelope, I went in slowly closed the door behind me when I heared the door open, I swiftly hid behind the table.

           It was the principal he was talking to someone else, he came in only for a second, kept talking to someone on his phone and went out, I observed him carefully as he walked to the door. I knew that time was running out but suppressed the urge to check my watch. I took a deep breath and started counting in reverse under my breath. "Ten, nine, eight, seven... zero". I got up and looked for the tape, it wasn't there, he must have taken it with him. 

            I came out of the office, i felt numb, when one of my classmates beckoned me and said "Naveen aren't you coming, they are going to watch the tape now, it going to be funny". At that very moment my heart stooped, my blood turned solid, I must have looked like a ghost to an outside observer, I was so pale. 

            I walked to the assembly with every step getting heavier, the video was running, my worst fears came true the images though extremely small (can be zoomed in) were clear my final hope vanished, video was now running at  10 am  on Thursday, no one was on the roof during that time on the video, everyone knew it happned in the night but they wanted to build to the suspense so they were watching from the morning, they forwarded it to 12 pm still nothing,  then to 3 pm still nothing, when they were about to forward it two people were visible (barely) on the screen, in a corner, at 3.10 pm it seemed like the principal and vice principal, they were talking something seriously when the principal tried to  kiss her, the vice principal pushed him away, and she stormed down, everyone started laughing, the principal came running to the projector whisked out the tape and bludgeoned it with his foot, people were still laughing, and the funny part was both of them were married separately and the vice principal's husband worked there as the physical education teacher.

          The topic of gossip turned from the broken statue to the kinky principal gets caught.

The stupid things I do when drunk.

I try to please everyone.

I try to be funny, but fail.

I act like a prik.

I shout.

I say the randomest fukng things.

I lie a lot

I run

Torture people.

Become extremely horney.

Can become extremely angry.
   

So if do see the drunk me make sure you kick his ass.