Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Life w/o him.....

This post is about him...who has become an integral part of my life....
Ever since the time i have been engaged and he has come into my life , its been amazing fun...The kind of freedom i enjoy, knowledge i have gained is impeccable.......After moving to dubai,therez some sort of a strong emotional bonding that i have developed towards him...
Any problem , hez always there right in front to solve all of them.... Right from cooking , learning,writing and job hunt he has always supported me in the best possible way...
Things seem to come to a standstill , if i imagine what wud happen to me w/o him..... One half of yday , i stayed w/o him and i was missing him so badlyyyyyyyyyyy that i rushed madly to the DELL SERVICE CENTRE to bring him back... Yuppieeeeeee....
HE IS MY DELL INSPIRON 6400 ..... ( All credit to my english mam , who taught me "personification")
After 2 weeks of laziness and procastination, and the warranty period expiring soon was left with no other option but to take my laptop to the service centre to check for some memory problems... Under the pretext of an exam next week , i managed to get my laptop checked with a "high priority" status...But the service guy insisted that it wud take a min of 3 hrs for thorough examination and suggested that i leave the laptop with him....Quite reluctantly i left him , after the service person promised to revert before eod.
Quite unexpected to part with him , becoz i was pretty confident of bringing him back with me...
Neverthless had no choice but to patiently wait till the evening...It was during this time , that i realised his worth...
This laptop has become such an indispensable part of my life . With this small genious with you , u can connect to the whole world and probably feel that you are the master....
After my lunch , planned to chat with my mom...( oops he is not there...)..Thought i wud have a quick peek at the appointments section ...No way whatz the use...A sudden flash of thot "why not experiment some new recipe for evening...." Where will i check for recipes ????
Finally got frustrated and thot i would atleast blogggggggggg....I caaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnntttt do that as well.....
With no other option left , i managed to find a novel and quickly flipped thro a few pages and went off to sleep....
At quarter past 4 , suddenly woke up amidst my sleep and frantically searched for the contact number and checked the status of my laptop....To my dismay , it seemed to take much longer than expected...Pleaded the guy and told him that with an exam lined up next week , i cudnt afford to waste a whole evening... At 5 , reached him again and was excited to hear that the laptop was ready..But he warned that the offices wud close by 6.. Managed to quickly change into my jeans and t-shirt and in the next 10 mins i was there on the road , searching for a taxi...
Praying my stars that i shud find one soon....Finally after a frustrating wait for 20 mins, managed to hop into a taxi...Immediately called up the service centre to inform them that i was on my way...My heart rate was rising exponentially and i wished all the traffic signals on my way showed "green"....Managed to reach there by 5.45 and i rushed my way thro...
Finally all smiles when i saw him lying on the desk with a notice saying "High Priority"....10 mins and after finishing all formalities , i carefully carried him back home...
After entering the house , i quickly opened the carry case , took him out and held him in my hands with the same excitement which i had a year back when i saw him for the first time....

2 comments:

Sharath said...

Nice build up to the story! But knowing VAK like the way I do, there was no chance in hell that you were talking about him...We both know we are trying to get rid of him from our lives but can't:)-

Keep writing...it keeps me occupied at work!

Cheers
S

Me, the way I am said...

Nice one Gako..!

True, its difficult to imagine life without the lp!!

But I'll add that books can be a good distraction ;) as well. But knowing your enthusiasm(or lack of it) for them.., I guess it does not feature in your list of indispensable items!

B