Net result of a conversation each with A and Y, and shopping for Wai-Wai noodles:
One click and you can see what people at the other end of the world are doing right now, broadcast your emotions through out the world, relive any memory, order food, order entertainment, request company, catch up with friends, catch up on knowledge.
One little tap dance on the mobile phone and you can talk with whomsoever you wish, pass private messages, catch up on news, sports and what not.
One stop at a mall, and you can watch movies, have food, buy clothes, groceries and lots of stuff you never knew you needed.
We are the generation of instant gratification, but the problem is, the real stuff that life is all about come after a lot of patience, perseverance and pain. What greater proof than the fact that the beginning of life is heralded by pain.
Unfortunately, no one offers Life 101.
Apr 15, 2007
Apr 11, 2007
The Backbencher Syndrome
Time: Summer 2005
Venue: Some classroom in Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
“The line to ground capacitance thus has a net leading effect on the transmission line…”
S : A for apple (draws an apple on the notebook), B for Ball (draws a ball), C for cat (tries drawing a cat, gives up) C for…C for…
P and Me giggle
S (glaring): Cup, you perverts. (Proceeds to draw a nice little tea cup)
P: Is ke baad hindi alphabet ka banayenge.
S and Me give smiles of complete agreement
“…people not interested in this class may leave, and if I remember, you three barely passed in the mid-semesters.”
Time: Summer 2007
Venue: Some conference room, in some factory in Chennai
“…the purchase order requisition is given through this command, which is again linked to the finished good identification because…”
H (looking at the new Orkut homepage) : Yeh bandi maal hai, she’s mine.
B: Ok, I take that foreigner one.
Me: I still don’t understand why none of you like this one, I find her cute.
H (shrugs): To each his own, I say we give this hairy dude to K.
K: Sale, tune meri biwi ka photo nahi dekha hai, isiliye yeh bol rahaa hai.
B: Hee hee…
“Please pay attention, I wouldn’t be repeating all this stuff”
I still haven’t been able to put a finger on what has changed and what hasn’t.
Venue: Some classroom in Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
“The line to ground capacitance thus has a net leading effect on the transmission line…”
S : A for apple (draws an apple on the notebook), B for Ball (draws a ball), C for cat (tries drawing a cat, gives up) C for…C for…
P and Me giggle
S (glaring): Cup, you perverts. (Proceeds to draw a nice little tea cup)
P: Is ke baad hindi alphabet ka banayenge.
S and Me give smiles of complete agreement
“…people not interested in this class may leave, and if I remember, you three barely passed in the mid-semesters.”
Time: Summer 2007
Venue: Some conference room, in some factory in Chennai
“…the purchase order requisition is given through this command, which is again linked to the finished good identification because…”
H (looking at the new Orkut homepage) : Yeh bandi maal hai, she’s mine.
B: Ok, I take that foreigner one.
Me: I still don’t understand why none of you like this one, I find her cute.
H (shrugs): To each his own, I say we give this hairy dude to K.
K: Sale, tune meri biwi ka photo nahi dekha hai, isiliye yeh bol rahaa hai.
B: Hee hee…
“Please pay attention, I wouldn’t be repeating all this stuff”
I still haven’t been able to put a finger on what has changed and what hasn’t.
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