46 Technology -- From Loyal Servant to Royal Pain!

I hope I won’t be cyber-bullied for taking a long and uninformed break from posting. I’ve been getting mails asking for an updated blog. Started off with “Hey am eagerly waiting for your new post!” to “Ding Dong! Anybody there?” to “:-? Are you even alive ?” and the last one I read was “Hey you know what?? Seems your soul is stuck in your blog—it isn’t posting anything new but yes, made some changes to the look!” I was like /omg Guys, please don’t cyber kill me! It’s been just one week that I posted and you guys get my soul out in one week?? 8-| I may be out of news with my blog, but yes; am never out of touch or reach with my machine! Anyone who reads my Personal Blog with any continuity may make out that apart from food, water & oxygen; I need a computer and power supply to live. Shelter comes next :|. 

When I write this, I wonder—How many of you can live without a machine? I eracked my brain out and used up all my grey matter to travel back. As far as my memory goes, since almost past seven years, there has not been a single day when I didn’t touch my machine. Yes, there were days when I didn’t see or talk to my mom for whole day, when I didn’t eat or sleep and going out for an evening walk is a forgotten episode of my life now! I love my machine so very dearly! :x and why not? My friends live in my computer and now computer is my family’s new home. From the room across the same roof, my brother pings me asking if I had my breakfast. And I stare at my lappy wondering have I not been eating so long that I need to break my fast?!? Should I?

Gone are the days when my bro runs to me saying its breakfast time or dinner time. Naah… It’s not all about money making, there is something added to it. If this machine springs me out few notes for being with it (or rather her; more than often, she acts more intelligent than me) 24x7, it makes some sense to be loyal to her. But there is something more to her. The other day, when my dad was working on something and asked me how much 78, 114 and 37 adds up to be, I took no time to click on calculator that’s  hooked up on taskbar and my grandmother took no time to answer 229. That made me think – I thought this machine was supposed to be my servant; but no, am a slave of this machine. Since my school days, the very common essay writing topic was “technology- a boon or curse?” and the most common topic to be elocuted or debated on.
I always loved how advances in technology helped me – I can shop from home, find best deals, e-pay my bills!! But lest did I realize that I became an e-person and living an e-life. On my birthday, all my friends sent me flowers, cakes and hugs!! Flowers that wont smell but can live for hundred or more years until I delete them. Cakes that won’t taste but can be seen whenever you are hungry. Hugs that I can’t feel but I can have them any moment am low. Should I love my machine because it tells me how much my friends love me or should I hate my machine because I have a brain which tells me more than half of them are auto generated because their machines have calendars which grabbed my birth date from my profile and send me hugs and gifts on every damn occasion and the sender is not even aware of it!!

Oh Yeah! I must tweet what am doing!

I know I scream of this in my posts now and then that I hate being an e-person. Am afraid, because I may bump into an e-guy whom I may feel “oh he’s damn intelligent, professional and practical!!” and fall in love with. Just to realize later that he’s actually a BOT. :-o Worse, I have friends who e-loves and have e-kids.  Don’t ever ask me what’s the software with which they e-loved to make e-babies. Honestly, I donno!!;) Am happy when technology helps me in talking to my friends who live on the other side of the planet. But I hate it when they say “I see and talk to you daily, what’s the need to come down?” I wanna travel back. Wanna scream no more technology advances!

I have been reading how people get addicted to tweet. (Touch wood, that made me never ever consider twitter) I’ve read cases where someone lost her love of life, and tweeted that moments after her boyfriend’s death. And reportedly a mother tweeted demise of her child, the same day! Many confessed that while they have a million Myspace friends and is a Twitter addict, she/he does not have any friends in real life! In that revelation is a sad fact. Social networking sites via cell phones, computers, and other electronic devices have the power to pull us together, but also have the power to create a very lonely individual. We have become slaves to technology and we all love it, don’t we?:>

I wanna see those days when bed time was 9 pm and wake-up time was 5 am. When whole family prays together for well-being. When exercise was not something to be done in gym or with equipment, but by cleaning home, washing dishes and clothes. When there’s some festival, no one needs to remind you because that’s in the atmosphere. 8->

Hey Friends, Bye for now, I need to rush because my cousin is getting married in some other part of the same planet and she arranged a live show for all of us, in Skype. I need to attend the wedding, so sweet of her that she invited me and so sweet of me that I took time off to attend her wedding, isn’t it? I hope it’s not an e-marriage :-ss Lemme see!

Bye for now, be back soon!

/bye

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