Travails of buying a phone

Graham Bells invention of the Electrical speech machine enhanced communication among people across boundaries, and the latest variation of mobile phones has changed the meaning of "being in touch" with people crooning into the sleek hand-pieces almost 24*7. However, there are some unfortunate "paapi" ppl in this world(pointing fingers at myself) for who its impossible to be an owner of one such communication marvel.

When I landed here, I felt it was unnecessary to buy a mobile since the house I stayed in already provided a landline ... and morevoer I was paying extra monie for the rent, so it was a gud idea(or i thought so) to postpone buying of phone to the next semester. And there begins my never-ending saga of my unsuccessful attempts at getting hold of one :(

Attempt 1:
At the mall -
Alok, lil, GG and myself walk into the mobile stall .... the guys are more interested in the blondes attending to us at the counter than the original purpose we were there for . One blonde especially impressed with Aloks name heaps praises and looks and then hands out a form to be filled. While Alok and I filled them out, (the former much slowly cause he couldnt decide on whether he should look at the paper or the gal for longer), the other 2 had all the time to enlighten the damsels about the pronounciations of our names. Well, bak to the forms...... the mobile company was not as sweet and approachable as the girls there and hence decided we were not eligible to be given the plan we had opted for...the damn credit history, which meant we had to shell out extra monie for one. And me being the poor one tat i am decided against it :( so tat was the end of attempt 1.

Attempt 2:
Browsing through all websites looking for free handsets ..... but alas all required a driving license to be filled out on the e-forms. It still hasnt made sense to me as to why only people with a driving license are allowed to buy a mobile. Does it mean people who cant turn the steering wheel cant talk on the phone??? ... how bizzare can this logic get ...... how i wish to get back to my land where there are more pragmatic thinkers!!! In short it was end of another futile attempt ... attempt 2 to be precise.

Attempt 3:
Lil with his network of friends digged out a website which did not require a driving license to be given...... sounded like gud news to me. I would at last possess the mobile no matter how ugly or basic it was .... yuppie ..... HOWEVER, as luck would have it, my application got rejected due to bad credit history.....the same silly reason again....and there ended attempt 3.

Attempt 4:
I had almost given up hopes of getting a phone.... and ... on one fine day.... vini tells me bout another colleague of hers who had a cool phone to give away to someone if required...... and me was the only one left without one in this place .... so i had to be the rigthful owner of that one ....
all seemed to be goin fine and i almost had the phone couple of days bak . I was supposed to meet the dealer at home when he would hand over the phone to me and thus ending the long saga of my fight with fate. But who was I fooling here...... the colleague came home sans dealer only to tell me tat they had run out of stock and I had to wait for another few days for one :(((((
End of attempt 4!!!

I guess after a few more days I could write a continuation blog ..... with more futile attempts ... sigh :(

Happy Singleton

some of the unanswered questions in life:
---- how did people manage to survive without cell phones and laptops in the stone age???
---- why did newton not eat the apple wen it fell on his head, but instead got into the realm of gravity ??? (this question was raked by my coz bro Viksi wen he was sick of solving physics problems with the g constant)
---- why is it such a issue to be 25 and still single!!!

guess blogging on the first two topics would not be tat intersting .... so on to the third one ..... "single but not ready to mingle" ... (phrase - courtesy: Soms)

It was not a long while ago, when a couple of friends gathered in Coffee Day ....... all of us singles ...
after the usual rounds of gossips and bitching .... we moved on to the topic of why we were still un-paired??? If XYZ cud find a boyfriend, then y not us!!! .. wat is it tat takes to change the "S" status????

There could be several issues behind that we reasoned. Maybe we are just too smart that the guys are intimidated.. the male ego u see . It could also be that there is no soul who is gud enuf to catch our attention to convince us that there cud be a match. Or we are destined to bow to parental pressure some day and get hooked to some lalloo tat parents get so easily impressed with.

but wat the heck!!! werent we having gr8 fun this way ...
Coming to think of it, we dont hav to feel guilty flirting with > 1 guy .... nobody to answer to thr ... and we could laze around at home over the weekends without having to meet anybody anywhr ... more so in boring theatres .. and hiding frm parental eyes too. Also, theres no problem of forgetting BFs birthday, first meeting day, promotion day and more such silly days ....
after more such analysis, we decided it was time for conclusion .... "Life is too short to waste over a single person" .... we girls do rock, dont we? ;)

so, here it is .... Three cheers to singles all around the world....especially if ur 25 :)