new day...new probs....

19 th june 2007 : 8 a.m. ... Day begins as usual... Dad opens bedroom door... walks in... jolts me out of bed putting an end to my sweet n peaceful sleep...


Dad : Wake up your friend Smriti is on her way...

Me : Twist n turn... tch.. tch... 'could have managed 2 more hours of sleep.. had slept at 3 yesterday nite ' ((THINK)) .. ' wow... what a bright sunny day.. ' ((SAY))


After all the brushing-cleaning-exercising-eating-bla-bla-bla and freeing myself of all the daily

humongous chores i finally got the chance of being with the one with whom my heart-n-soul lay... MY COMPUTER....


Switched ON the mains, switched ON the UPS... Power button...d slow boot... detecting IDE... DDR 226... Primary Slave.. Secondary Slave... Copyright @ Microsoft Corporation... Microsoft Windows XP... d 'Welcome'... nd lo my desktop....


The next is an involuntary action... my right palm flexes a little.. tries to move the mouse pointer from the (0,0) center co-od to the Nokia PC Suit short cut... but no change... Next i try it voluntarily... same effect... no change... I pour my brains over it.. pick up the pointer nd place it over the icon... duh... no change absolutely...


Anxiety grows... It comes to my mind that i must restart my computer before i start wailing nd let even my neighbours know that my cute looking-transparent OPTICAL MOUSE is dead (exaggerating da...i didn't do nythng like that)


My computer restarts... reboots... reloads... repeats all the above but my stubborn mouse pointer doesn't move an inch from (0,0)....


I check out its transparent body... it seems to emit less light... Memories flash by... the blue light which used to light up the entire mouse components comprising the little diodes... little PCB.. and a few other nano stuff.. has left its neighboring nano elements for heavenly abode....

(okies... i kno this is an insanely stupid description... but i cant exactly figure out what went wrong.... nd m not in what u would call a delighted mood..)


aftermaths ..........
## 1 : My keyboard was still alive n kicking.. nd with a few keyboard shortcuts the keys take me to my orkut homepage... 5 new scraps... but i can't figure out any new shortcut to read nd reply to them... ditto for the 2 new mails i have received....


## 2 : this post came into existence on pen-n-paper....


## 3 : the 600 i had earned for myself (the money refunded by BIT) goes into buying a new OPTICAL MOUSE... :((


## 4 : right now m desperately waiting for Smriti who has my 'MiddL-Earth-times' roller-ball-mouse....






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added much later.....


Smriti ji... m so grateful ki aap aayi ghar....m elated apna decades-old-but-alive-n-kicking-mouse dekh ke..aaj aap na hote toh humara kya hota...

Filling in the Blanks....

Much of my life in the past week has been pretty much the same..... eat, sleep, get ol, chat, scrap, read blog, sleep, get ol, chat, sleep, get ol...
...... x x x x x x x............... x x x x x x x x x x x x x x ............... x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x ......x x x x x x x x x x x x x x ....................x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x .................

The routine mail-check that i used to do anticipating some information regarding my DoJ has also come to an abrupt end... Most of the ppl who used to form an integral part of my chat-n-scrap group hav strted earning in 5 digits while m still praying for d 5 o' clock rains..

Now m feeling d need to end this this here itslf.. else m sure like Airtel even Blogger will ask me to discontinue using their service....
in between...i came across this really nice post, i cud really identify with.... http://sayesha.blogspot.com/2005/09/mera-kuchh-saamaan.html

P.S. ... i seriously hav nothing nu to do... Tried memorising 7 wrds/day in the HFL... googled NGO's working for the GC... played d missd-call-missd-call game ( to which some friends actually calld bak... ;) ).... nd now i think ill revert to " learning-to-cook " d " aloo-gobbi ".....

Restless Fingers....

Aeon's ago, in the halcyon days... when 'Middle-Earth' was still a home to the Hobbits nd Elves nd there existed White, Blue, Grey nd Red Mountains i had a friend Serra -- a total cherubim... nd then afterwards i went on to live my life... go to school, play, eat, sleep... answer board exams do engineering...

Yesterday, it was a few decades later again that i met Serra...and she seems quite-still-the-same.... The same cute chubby cheeks, angelic smile, pink frock nd ribbons in hair nd not to forget the wand she always carried and called "magical"....

Well moving on with the story, we were having a good time... made some chocolate milk, got some cookies nd got talking... all bout d Barbie of hers i had stolen to why Cinderella had lost her sandals... One thing led to another nd another nd suddenly she was reminded of Nandu another 'Middle-Earth' time friend....

I started telling her of Nandu.. How he too went to school pretty much the same time i did... How he adored d 'daal-chaawal' nd other ghar ka khana... How he would wail when his cycle brakes would fail.. then he went to college nd... started (((( smoking )))).... Nd then one day i lost a bet ( something of the likes whether Neil Armstrong-build-the-Taj-or-he-was-the-first-to-propose-the-evolution-story ) to him nd he wanted me to gift him a cigi and since i had said a BIG----NO---- he wouldn't talk to me...

Do not question me of how-nd-when it happened but before i could realize Nandu was gulping chocolate milk from his own glass, sitting on my bed....

Nandu to Me : Dipsy u miser... i kept waiting for my gift...

Me to Nandu : N...a...an..d..u..... how did u ...here...???(shock !! shock !!)

Nandu to Me : ab topic mat change karo... my cigi...

you still have to gimme my gift...

Me to Nandu : kuck aur re..aint gifting u a cigi....

wat bout chai???

Nandu : wat!!!(disbelief)

jo vaada kiya woh nibhanaa padega...

i want my gift wrapped cigi.... :((

Me : but hum cigi kaise kharedenge... mere image ka kya hoga???

Nandu : paanwaale ko tumse kya lena dena... they treat customers very well....

" Marlboro Lights" ek dijiye bolna....

nd image... Gurgaon mein khareedna... koi tension nahi...

Me : agar koi dekh ke community mein post kar diya toh??? ((( scare !! scare !! )))

Nandu : turrant khareedke handbag mein daal lena....

trust me... hum baccha lenge...

a bet is a bet....

i wont smoke... will just keep it...

Me : tab in that case i'll give it a thought... whethr i shuld gift u a cigi or not...

some ill day u might forget its a gift, tear open the wrap nd smoke it...

Nandu : no i wont... i also respect gifts...

smokers are also humans... we have hearts nd emotions too..

do you think we are stone hearted people who don't value anything....

Me : seriously...

u think it is something to be proud of ??

funda nahi de rahein hain... coz i know they wont work

Nandu : no.. sometimes yes....

Me : yes ??? (((( disbelief ))))

Nandu : me do it for 2 reasons...

1. restless fingers

2. u dont think much while smoking... relax karte ho...

Me : hmmm.... interesting... so u smoke to take your mind off from things...

toh bas dhuan udate ho...

Nandu : 3. for the sake of it bhi hota hai...

Me : when u get restless fingers... try pedicure...

dunno much of what m saying...

aise hi soch rahe the ki fingers se kya kar sakte hain....

knead dough... build a sand castle...

Nandu : chat on gtalk...

Me : d best....

Nandu : or scrap on orkut...

Me : 2nd best... :)

i think ill make a blog entry on this...

Nandu : you shall immortalize me... ;) in a work of fiction....

...... nd we went on nd on nd on... until all the chocolate milk was over nd even the cookie crumbs were licked clean off the plate....

Sidenote ##1 : This post is dedicated to two of my friends... A 'Smoker' nd a Non-Smoker'...thats the much i can sat bout them.. (m sure both of you guys know m talking of you :D )

Sidenote ##2 : To all you people reading this post please put some sense into the 'Smoker' friend of mine... If you plan to put a comment ( wud make me very happy ;)) please add two lines of how harmful a cigi can be......

Act II : Scene III

Loads of free time gives you a nice opportunity to sit nd ponder over life n in the end gain loads of weight.. somebdy hd actually posed me a direct question... "poore time ghar baithe baithe kitna weight gain kar li ab tak??.."

Actually speaking, since the time i hav returned from BIT M, i hav been trying my hands at various things(to the likes of kneading flour nd making milk shake too).... but somehow nothing seems to come handy when you want to 'kill time' n that too loads of it at one go.... Suddenly even d Goddess of Sleep who always used to bestow me wit her blessings nd good will during all-nd-every-possible exam, too has been playing hide nd seek...

My HDD is full up to d brim with movies... so much so that each time i try dwnlding a new song from d WWW it gives me a low-disk-space warning... but i, who holds records of watching movies back-2-back in theatres can't sit thru fifteen mins at a stretch ny longer... On telly it's just Himesh nd his red/white/black caps... no luck there too... Tried scrapping nd crapping in other peoples scrapbooks(read : orkut) in english/hindi/hinglish/french/german/arabic but even that has lost its 'charm' (if there was ny in first case)....

And although some ignorant female out somewhere would take pride in announcing " I have access to the WWW 24 7 365..." i cross my heart nd admit this connection has been a pain-you-know-where since it arrived... it takes me precisely 3.77 mins to verify my name nd passwrd each time i log into orkut although i believe i have 'Remember my name nd passwrd on this computer' for like a zillion times now... An illustration for those who can't exactly imagine what 115.2 Kbps connectivity nd 4.68 kb/sec download speed is like it took me 12:03 pm to 12:39 pm to dwnld 'ye mera deewanapan hai.mp3--The Namesake' a 8.26 mb song that will take approx. 4 mins to play in entirety...Alas!!!!

## Side note 1: If you are plannin to gt an internet connection...Wait till some service provider falls for your got-nothing-to-do-too-hot-to-play-nd-still-jobless story nd agrees to set up "d Broadband" at your place... friendly advice----"don't go in for a GPRS".....

Now that you've read upto here and have clearly figure out that i have practically nothing(nd these nothings can b real murderous at times) to do, nd you must have also inferred why you are getting to read this blog... ;)..

And for all those who are still racking their brains over why this post is called Act II: Scene III...even i m clueless..