July 16th '09
One more day(rather evening!..) of solitary confinement in my room trying to pass the time(tick..tick) looking at the incessant rain falling for two endless days.. Days in which i got totally wet trying to reach for my Bus.. Lived off the tidbits of small offerings called Food which was forcefully packed with my luggage(some of them w/o my information!..) by mommy dearest (so glad for doing this!.. )..Nothing but 3 morons living off in a cranky apartment sometimes w/o water.. lots of extra-terrestial objects and 2 tubes and 2 fans!..
In this time of forced distress.. there are lots of things i catch up on!.. More importantly the reading part!.. Read like anything in the past 1 week(Completed 3-4 books!.. ;)) Reading is the one thing that i enjoy doing any part of the day or night btw!.. whether its right after waking up on saturday mornings or before midnight customary sleep-in time.. Battling my eyelids to give that one extra minute to catch up on the next interesting page!.. :)
Anyways this is not the time to talk of the reading part!.. Whats keeping me busy these days is the numerous social networking sites that i had been logging in lately!.. (Gosh!.. So may of them that i dont remember the passwords of all!.. :)) esp. in this time of Nothing-to-do-coz-of-rain!..
So my time of the evening and early part of night is spent on browsing through the sites!.. Trying to chat with a friend far away or close by!..
Facebook, Orkut etcetc there r so many of them!.. Lately i have been Twittering(Nothing to do with my anthropolgy btw!.. I m still a human!.. ;)) Without making the customary bird-sound(well..i can try though!.. :) )
Twitter is a new micro-blogging site..i had a chance encounter with!.. (more by force than by will!..) when the whole world was going ga-ga over its sweet sound!.. The morons from mars and venus sharing their minuest part of their life with such alarming regularity is fascinating and scaring!.. Something happens in the next minute or so.. Woosh!.. Next minute it is on the site!..as Tweet!.. whether they r passing through a every-year-same-story watterlogged streets of mumbai or sitting-in-a-bad-hotel munching on their dosas and coke.. (Wonder they text.. eating off one hand and the mobile on the other!.. :)) Like we give a damn!.. :)
But the more i think of it.. it enables to share the details of our life.. whats happening and what's not-so-happening!.. Fascinating though!..
There r lots of i-tweet-every-second types on twitter i came across in these last few days!... One of them being Gul Panag!.. My God!.. She tweets like anything!.. Somehow i think of whether she lives-for-twittering or twittering-to-live!.. ;)
Like the way Shashi Tharoor (One of my fav. authors incidently!..) tweets here!.. Not-so-much-details but enuf-to-chew-upon!.. (Else the mandarins(No chinese connection that is left for the Left parties to deal with!..) in the North-Block (or is it South?) will gun for his head!..)
But it helps in some serious issues as well!.. Witness what happens over the IranElections!.. When their censorship-happy leaders tried to block every form of medium of expressions!.. Came to the resue.. Facebook and Twitter.. So it can serve as a powerful source of social awakening and bonding!.. :)
Tryting to be Twitter-ready!.. So that this-good-for-nothing (apart from eating and reading!.. :)) soul gets some Footage!..
Happy Tweeting!... (But watch out for your beak though!.. Dont get hurt!.. ;) )
Latest Tweet :- Rain Rain Everywhere!.. Not a drop to drink!.. ;)
