Love At First Sight....

It was almost same time last year….

I saw her for the first time at a friend’s office and it was almost instant Love at First Sight…

We were introduced to each other through a common friend,I just couldn’t take my eyes of her…

Colourful, Vivacious, Bright and Beautiful, Curvaceous, with lots of IQ and Memory.

I wanted her and possibly no power on this earth could stop me.I was hell bent on Marrying her and Adore my Newly Built Office.My Friend ,Philosopher and Guide.Bold and Beautiful…Silvery Eyed and Silvery Coloured…

My fascination for colour Silver Knows no Bound.From my Car to my Scooter to my Office’s Interior.You’ll find that tinge of Silver everywhere,and not to mention my Business of Silver too.

I vividly remember. It was 6^th of May, last year, the Auspicious Day of Akshay Trithiya when this Love of Mine,yes my Sony Vaio Laptop,All Silvery was Delivered to me in a beautifully packed bag
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I fondled with her and all those who laid their eyes on her were all appreciative of my choice and sang eulogies in her praise.

She was in a sense my new Love. A Newly found girlfriend.
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And ,Yes I treated her like one…Draped her in beautiful covers,  Gave her the latest anti-virus software. Designer Screensavers. And I was Monogamous to a fault. I never had another Laptop as Standby. And I trusted her so implicitly I never even backed up. I pampered her with regular defragmentation treatments. And I was always attentive to her needs. I tried my best to make sure she was never left turned on -- although often, after I was done, I’d want nothing more than to just roll over and go to sleep. But I’d lovingly wait till all her processes were finished before gently shutting her down for the night.

And then she goes and does this? We were together barely over a year. Did she feel I was neglecting her lately? Did she overhear me say I was thinking of getting a BlackBerry? Oh No…I Already Had One…Maybe she felt ignored. But Why, Why Why????????

One Fine Morning the Moment I went to Bring her to Life and she would refuse to Illuminate,Wouldn’t start.I possibly missed a Heart Bit or two.What on the Earth went wrong??? You don’t need to Start the Day Screaming, Panting and Puffing,But here’s my Love who would go Blank Unannounced.

I Know the tantrums of Newly found Girl Friends.But then You always made up,but not this time.I Immediately went overboard.Calling the Best Hardware/Software Engineers in town.I can Multitask and people say  I perform best in crisis.But who needs a Crisis of This Proportion.Why On Earth something of this kind should happen to a Lover Boy like me.Did I hurt her feelings,possibly unknowingly and was that such a Bad experience for her that she just refuses to come to Life.

Thirty minutes into Crisis and comes the final announcement by the Hardware Engineers from Sony Corpn.

“Sir, The Mother Board has crashed”

I Rolled my eyes in Disbelief till the sockets almost came out….”What" I Exclaimed….

‘You Must be Nuts”…We Have barely started our Life Together and Now you say that the Mother Board has Crashed” You Must be a Dumb that those Institutions called Engineering Colleges Throw out every four years” IT Paradaemics. Useless Morons.

He could sense my anger and very patiently explained me that such things happen and would not take him more than a Week to replace the mother board and things will be back to Normal and you can then Live Happily Ever after.

I saw him taking away my life with him nonchalantly.It was one of those rare sights which Possibly I would avoid seeing in my life,waving me “Bye Sir, One Week Only”

I tweeted,I updated my FB Status and explained the Agony to my friends I was going through,I got six LIKES and Eleven Comments some cracking farcical jokes at my expense and others soothing me with comments like “ Bhagwan Aisa Dukh Kisi Ko Na De”

And Now I am without my Love. A week is a Long time.Ask any love birds, but then you got to live with it.

Seven days,Turned into twelv,and every time I grumble,you are greeted with those Monotonous Back Office Shit talking Girl who’d explain why it could not be delivered in time.

And if you think that the Malaise ends here,you and I are both sadly mistaken.

Next day around it was my Black Berry.It slips out of my hand unannounced and Dead it goes.Phew….Felt like tearing every bit of thin hairs left on my head,but decided against it.

Few frantic calls from my land phone to known people,all in vain.

So here I am,No BB,No Laptop.And did I sleep peacefully.Nah....

Next morning I am wide awake and kicking,all my connections explored,finally a ray of Hope.The Hardware fellow says can do it in Flat two hours.

God has been kind to me,as often he is,and Yes the Software was Formatted, data Lost and Thereafter Recovered Since my BB comes with Some Software called Blackberry Protect,Which did the needful.Smart Phone I say.

But in all this hurly burly and much heart ache a Pertinent Question began to Haunt me :

The Modern Fascination for New Technologies makes me think what Henry Dravid Thoreau said: “Our Inventions are wont to be Pretty Toys, which distract our attention from serious things”

Neil Postman American Educator and Media Theorist is of the opinion that one of the dangers of New Technologies is that they become Myth-Like and assume status they don’t deserve, and we come to Idolize them in an Unthinking Manner….

The WWW…The World Wide Web,plethora of information,those social platforms,Tweeter,Facebook.etc etc etc…..

First thing that a person does when he wakes up in the morning is to check the number of Likes and Comments on his FB Updates and Mentions and RTs on his Twitter update,the more the better.It massages our Egos.

We are drowning in a Glut of information fed by technology, but what we lack today is the Narrative, the loom that allows us to knit together.

We are living in a Virtual World.Even friends and girlfriends are bereft of that soft touch, a caring touch,that all makes us more Humane,it’s all on the NET,sometimes REAL and More often than not FAKE.

What we all need is that “Idleness”, that “Spare” Time,to think to introspect, to listen to that distant humming bird,to appreciate that Scarlet Tangerine Colored Joy of that Rising Sunshine.That Enchanted wet mornings, as if star light have fallen into glistening rain drops.

“Dance me on sand to the rhythm of ocean waves, waltz me to the edges of a scarlet-amber sunset, and jig me in circles to a wild gypsy fiddle.” No ways. We have forgotten our Poems.

We are all engrossed,in heaps of Information.Mostly Unnecessary.

Let us all come out of this.Take that course of “DIGITAL DIET”,a SABATTICAL FROM WWW.

MAY BE WE WILL SEE THE BEAUTY OF OUR LIVES ONCE AGAIN ….

In the meantime my BB comes to life at the odd hours.Just to inform me that my LONG Lost Love is all kicking and has come to life and all set to embrace me all over again.

I am ready to welcome her with my open arms.

And here she is,Adoring my table top, vivacious and bubbly as ever.My Sony VAIO.

How I missed you, My Dear…..

Now all you there, if you wish to ignore this post of mine, be free to do it,If you want to listen to that bird song in your backyard or smell that sweet little Lilly,go ahead,you can comment or appreciate this post some other day.

There are lots and lots of *Idiotic Morons* like me on this WWW Masquerading as Bloggers.

Lots of Love and Love my Lappy Too !!

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