Back…and moving.

Two days back, after a fortnight of silence my phone rang. The 50 bucks that I had to pay are worthy enough because now my phone line will work unhindered for another 7-8 months, at least. Given the fact that BSNL has not even fed my new number (a year old) into their databases yet which results in mass hysteria as the automated voice on the complain number says.. “This number is not covered in this exchange..!!” it was given that I would need some local help (read: the lineman).

Well ‘hysteria’ coz 15 days without internet connectivity is no less than a major natural disaster for me and ‘mass’ coz well, I have this ability to disturb mental peace of souls around me if I am in distress myself.

Anyways, I am feeling a lot better in many ways this week. Health wise…connectivity wise…and well I am shifting base for my blog as well. I’ll be notifying all my blogger friends of my new blog…which is on blogger. The ones who prefer reading this blog silently may drop their e-mails as comments…and I’ll be mailing them the link to my new blog.

Also I am really pleased to see all the concerns coming from my blogger friends. I am happy to know that I have such good ones of them in such short time..

One more thing, I am only shifting the diary…and gibberish part of this blog to the new one.. (which actually is the soul of this blog) I haven’t thought about the other categories yet. So I may still be using this one after all..!

In Hibernation

I have not been posting anything for quite sometime and will not be doing that for some more days as well. Have been sick this week and as I started to recover, my phone died on me…

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Happy with my share of Independence

As it comes out of an intellectual conversation with one of my friends, I am a certified non-patriot now. Incidentally I have somehow lagged behind in doing my bit for the nation as I have not been forwarding the oh so patriotic SMS’s to my friends. I have to thank that friend for this realization…

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Finally I am (not so) tagged..!

Ahem Ahem, well a week long silence due to some unexplainable circumstances (I give you four words.. L,A,Z,Y, try all combinations) and the fact that I have never been tagged in the relatively dwarf time-span of my blog and my uncanny excitement to do one of those fun tags, resulted in a thought process…

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Claustrophobic

Maybe I don’t belong
but I don’t care anymore.
I may fail…but I wont change…

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The chronicles of Scooto GP…!!

If you have somehow read how my first driving lesson went, you must have probably figured out my brilliant driving instincts. I finished my driving lessons quite some time back. Now it was time to get my permanent driving license and for that I had to visit the local RTO…

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Of the week that had rain, cold and Hancock.

I have Just posted the longest blog that I have ever typed yet. *Phew*
I wonder if it covers up for the whole week of non-writing. Just like I wonder if I can take the whole week’s medicine all at once..which reminds me of the terrible cold that I have caught up on occurrence of the slightest of drizzle. *sneezes* …and this cold was enough for shattering some of my plans. Damned virus.

The viruses must be having a blast in the back of my nose, striking their flagellates in high fives and rubbing there membranes in anticipation of a long lazy day off, yet again. But I may just have the better of them today. That pretty much clears what I have been doing all this week (fighting the cold). With just one get away being the weekend movie that I went to..with a couple of goofy friends…who’s identities I can’t disclose..

LOL..

The movie was Hancock…Highly anticipated and equally disappointing. I am not going to give a review though :-p
Which btw reminds me of the fact that no Indian superhero has ever found the space on the silver screen in bollywood. Most of them have only found their glory in the old comic book shops. Some of them really have it in them to be SUPER BIG. And still the best that Indian Cinema has to offer is “Mr. India” and “Krish”…poofs..!

Anyways I thing I have to find ways to get some real traffic into this blog. When the friends aren’t supporting I may need some superpowers… LOL..signing off…

Twitter doesn’t click with me!!

The micro-blogging service twitter is the latest fad on the internet, at least in India.It has been highly popular since it won the South by Southwest Web Award in March 2007…and the Japanese love it ^_^. Though it is only now that it has picked up in popularity and addiction in India.

I have always been reluctant about everything that promises addiction and I rarely initiate. I always rely on the tried and the tested (at least in things that consume time). So I don’t use things until they become household names. Probably that’s the reason why I joined Orkut and Facebook relatively late and it took me some zillion time units to become active on it. So it was obvious for me to be highly skeptical about something that most of my friends don’t even know about…twitter.

But the growing popularity of micro-blogging took the better of me and I jumped overboard about a month back. I loved the logo and the simplicity with which it works. After that though, it has been constant disappointment. The tag line with twitter is “What are you doing”..!!! Which actually is a turn-off for someone like me because I am mostly doing NOTHING. The exact motive of twitter is to bring all the chatterboxes together under one roof.

It is also called a social-networking service which again is something its not..!!..because you can not interact with people until u make them follow you. Follow…??..what..??..well yes exactly…You can see tweets on your homepage of the people you follow. Its analogous to RSS I suppose. But why exactly would someone follow me if I am not a bloody celeb..? The popular guys (the ones who follow very few but are followed by a lot) that I follow there include a guy with the day-job at MS and is in ‘new media and web’ and is quiet a celeb, an NRI girl who has about 1500 follower and I am still figuring out the reason, a guy who loves biking and tweets mostly about his road trips (interesting), another women who actually is a real celebrity related to fashion (1800 followers)..I myself have just 13 followers..mostly consisting of my friends and a few people who obviously expect me to follow them in return.

Most of the popular users tweet a lot..about 15-20 tweets a day..!! I tried to do the same…tweeted about almost everything..sparing the minute details like me self backscratching …but then I am not online all day long…but wait they have a solution for that as well…twitter from mobile web…and twitter from SMS…whoa…!! Height of compulsive addiction..??..maybe…

Actually it turns out to be more pain than fun…Its tiring..!..and I don’t even want to type every little detail about my day…I see no point in keeping archival storage of irrelevant things that will probably be read by nobody…!!

So screw you tweeter…!! BTW if you are having your doubts over joining it or not…DON’t if :

• You are not exactly the man (or women) of few words. One tweet allows only 140 words.(Yes, its Micro blogging after all..!!)
• You don’t LIVE on the internet.
• You don’t want to share every filthy little detail of what you did all day! (as if they are forcing you ^-^).
• You are a guy. Female users somehow manage to get a lot of followers (I wonder why..).
• You are uncomfortable with the word “follow”.

I may be irrational in my approach and very few may agree with me, but it just doesn’t click with me.

Please prefer your brain…over your gadgets.

A casual conversation between two scientists:

A:”I have got an IQ level of 180..!!”
B:”I have a 4 Terra flop super computer…beat that…!!”

What kind are you…?
Oh wait you are not even a scientist (as if i am one..!!)

So the big Q today is: Is it really necessary to maintain a digital planner…? Why do we have to constantly underestimate the power of our brain. Do you know that this little piece of tissue and muscles has about 100 billion neurons working for you (I got this from a very unreliable source)….!! Use them damn it…!! Someone has once said that human brain is of unmatched brilliance.

An average human uses just 10% of his/her brains (actually this is a myth..) ….!!
And sadistically we keep on letting our computers, organizers and PDAs dictate our poor little brain… Only if it had a flashy design and a smooth metallic finish…we would have cared a little more about this tiny little part of our anatomy….(tiny…?? :O)

Trying to remember things is a dying practice these days…blame your PDA for that.

*THINK*

(…and as you do that…let me find my PDA, gotta check the plans for tomorrow)

How lazy can it get then…!!

Well…It has been long since I wrote, In fact I haven’t been online for the whole last week. I mean, I have just logged in to check my mails and went off. It would have taken a natural disaster to take me off for so long for the kind of surfer that I am. But then I have simmered down in past few months in manners more than one. It was more of a technical disaster this time.

My PC is known to show occasional tantrums at me while booting on, but it has been behaving erratically alienated since the past week. It crashes every 15 minutes or so, and it somehow has developed a sort of artificial intelligence as it only crashes when I am in middle of some important work or I am winning a career match against a highly superior team in FIFA..Not only that, my modem has been shitty as well..the internet was a rare luxury for me this last week.. So you obviously have an idea how boring it was for me plus I was hit with the classical virus..the viral fever one.. It simply manifolded my laziness and I spent the days…sleeping…

You may not have comprehended the most obvious reasons behind this turn of events…but I did…!! It was a conspiracy…YES!!…I still have to get to the depth..but it sure was…me against my PC..and the damned virus..OK..it still may be the virus, infecting my Grey cells…(Is that even possible..biologically..?) Or may be this is just the side-effect of having a week long laze bonanza, especially after a rocking party-full week that preceded it…!!