Hooked (again)

I am back again, but this time will keep my emotions a bit low and surely save the trouble of keying another Oscar speech, with the only hope that I don't come back after a month and say "I am back again..."

The joy of being connected from all my co-ordinates had to be short lived when I saw the computer from my Bangalore apartment gone. I felt handicapped, deprived of an essential element that made many a things easier in my life (both professionally and personally). My morning routine had to skip the task of checking my mails the first thing, sometimes before brushing and sometimes after. I had to keep my fingers crossed to see if there were any surprises, pleasant or otherwise waiting in my inbox, until I got to the office. AOE, Midtown Madness and Quake had to go into a state of dormancy and I had a strong feeling that the Macedonians were really getting impatient because of not taking them on a death troll. Reading documents had to be done during office hours and my blogging rate took a big hit because I couldn't do it like the old times.

I felt a void in my environment when I did not hear the constant low humming of the CPU fan in my apartment. The humming that I was so used to hearing at office, at Chennai (my aunt's place) and my home was missing in the apartment where I stay. I tried to delay the option of equipping myself with a new computer and simultaneously dilly dallying between getting a laptop versus a desktop. My resistance to temptation hit an all time low and I did not want to keep fighting with it. I made up my mind to buy a system and buy it real soon. Laptops were turning out to be quite expensive and the idea of waiting for someone to buy one from U.S did not sound appealing. The waiting period really turned me off. I did it eventually on a Tuesday evening buying a cool assembled PC, the eye-catcher being the 15'inch BenQ TFT monitor.

These days, when I get back home, I happily sit in front of the computer and spend a useful hour or two before I call it a day and joyfully brought back the routine of checking my mails the first thing I get up in the morning.

Now, I am fully connected and completely hooked on to the world wide web, once again...