It’s not even been four and twenty hours and I’m already missing it like I’ve never missed anyone else before. ‘Only one you lose something, you realize its true worth’, goes the adage. And I can never appreciate this adage more than right now.
Trying to get out of deep slumber, rubbing my eyes, trying hard to focus, my mornings began with it. The sensation when my fingers touched it, the enlightenment when my sore eyes gazed at it, the harmony when my ears listened to it, almost everything about it is unmatched.
It’s my ‘study’ tool, it’s my ‘fun’ time tool, it’s my ‘get serious’ time tool, it’s my ‘connecting’ tool. To sum it all, life seems so empty and shallow without it.
I know Toshiba Tecra-S2 isn’t the best of the notebook PCs. But to me it’s everything I’ve described hitherto. It’s about a week ago that its screen went awry with some ‘junk display’. Didn’t seem like a ‘screen problem’. Some suggested that the problem lied with the ‘refresh rate’. I waited for some miracle to happen so that it would return to its normal self. It was only a miracle that its screen went bad. I just switched it on one fine morning and there it was, giving me a ‘thumbs down’.
So, tired of waiting for some ‘supernatural miracle’ to happen, which it rarely does in technical faults, I took it to the service center. And now there it lies and I’ve no other option but to wait for it to get back to me (or for me to get it back).
So dependent have I become on technology of late, it seems life would come to a standstill sans technology. I remember when I’d some problem with the battery of my cellphone how difficult it was to stay calm and happy at the time when you get disconnected every other minute, and all this when I’m no technology buff. I can’t even begin to imagine what would be the state of things if all this were to happen to someone like Kulbir.
The title of the post says it all, thanks to my friend who coined this term for me, though inadvertently. So pathetic had the state of affairs become that i was going to write this post on a piece of paper 
. But special thanks to Kapil Agrawal who let me borrow his lappy while he’s sound asleep.
you can borrow my other desktop anytime you want … but for that you’ll have to do a bit of hard work. As in you have to install windows on it.
“I can’t even begin to imagine what would be the state of things if all this were to happen to someone like Kulbir.”
I think its problematic when you lose your tech stuff while being surrounded by people who have their tech stuff all the time. But if you are at a place where there is no tech product, its not a problem. When I go home, I don’t even get a change to touch a laptop/desktop for weeks and I don’t feel frustrated or bad about it. But if my connection goes down here at IIIT, I’ll go crazy in less than ten minutes…
I agree with kulbir. It is not difficult here because it is part of your life@IIIT. Once we are in a different routine this won’t bother us all that much.
Sorry for the typo in the earlier post .. I wanted to say
” It is difficult here because it is part of our life@IIIT. “
this post brought back memories of the time when my lappy screen was broken. and the worst was the moment when i realised what had happened.
I know how it is like to be without a laptop in IIIT ….. Didnt expect a person like u to miss it this much that u write a blog on it
It reminded me of those days when i was without my laptop …
Good Post
LOL!!! if the filthy corner of your mind is in action you can get more than wht it intended in first 3 paras …. and mine is!!
@Kulbir – I guess 10 min is exaggeration. I bet by the 10th min you’ll be in Server Room
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