Slow Internet Connection

A typical day of my life in Shanghai begins with me waking up(duh!), getting ready for office, dump my laptop into my bag ,work, return home from work,undump the laptop from my bag, sit in front of the laptop till i realize its time to have dinner and then sleep. This routine was perfect for a guy who was least bit bothered about his ever increasing waistline until the dreaded happened. The internet speed started hitting rock bottom !!

Now what do you do, when the only entertainment you have after work becomes a pain in the ass. It takes all the time in the world just to open my inbox,and almost the same amount of time to read a mail. This was like the entire nation waiting for Tendulkar to score his hundredth international hundred with the difference that we can expect him to score anytime but I wasnt sure my inbox would ever open. It was like Anna Hazare fasting to get the Lokpal Bill passed with the difference there was no fasting in my case. It was like Scrat who almost has his acorn but can never quite cling onto it for ever and in this case there was no difference. It was irritating,frustrating and I haven't abused anything else more in a long time.Indians rely highly on google products and facebook for keeping up with friends and for fun.
But , China has other ideas. They have disputes with google and when u r online chatting wid friends using gtalk, it suddenly goes for a walk without any notice. I think they hate facebook, blogging sites etc. They dont even open unless you use a proxy. The time I have my dinner at and the time it takes to load a page are directly related. The longer it takes for a page to load, so much delayed is my dinner time.

I beleive in the adage whatever happens happens for the good. Now,as it so turned out I had to look for other means to entertain myself. I realized I cant depend on machines to keep me occupied. There was a whole world outside. I found the Lost Symbol sitting on my table and time just flew once I opened the book. I had rediscovered my reading habits. Reading had always been one of my ways of spending time from childhood, but I lost it on the way growing up. Now, I have started jogging, working out, blogging, started learning chinese from books, chinese colleagues. I used to strain my eyes before, now its time for those unused muscles of mine to receive some thrashing. Who would have thought so much good would come out of this ? But whatever said and done, I still cannot deny the fact that the Internet connection sucks.!! :)

Super powers

After watching the movie Unbreakable starring Bruce Willis, in which he realises at the end he has some kind of super power(sorry for the spoiler for those who havent watched the movie yet !), i keep thinking maybe i too have some kind of super power which is going to just show up sooner or later.
Wouldn't it be just great to have some super power ? Like if I was just able to reach office in a wink of the eye instead of travelling through the crazy traffic of chennai for 35 min. Or if I had the power to remember each and every thing i had done till now so that i could just pick up the "important" document I had thrown away somewhere a few weeks back. Or even better, if I could make things happen by just thinking about it, that would be the most awesome super power.
But, come to think of this a bit more, I realize all these super powers are for my selfish reasons and in the end it does not affect anyone but me. I am doing neither good for me or anyone else. Having one of the aforesaid super powers, will just make me lazier than I already am. For a person like me the saying "With greater power comes greater responsibility" doesn't apply.
On second thought,maybe it wont be so bad having a super power. I might actually do something good with it. I might not be as irresponsible as I credit myself with. There is a definitely a part of me which wants to good for the people. Having a super power might just push me to do the right things.
Anyways having said so far, I am pretty much sure the future has different plans for me than bestowing me with a super power. But i will be waiting for my Samuel L jackson to turn up. It might not be a power to defy death, or extra ordinary strength but atleast something which brings out a super hero in me.

A Myriad of thoughts - II

Recently, I have been thinking all kinds of stuff. For instance, i was wondering what if all the technological advancements we have made so far, it was already achieved by people millions of years ago. Something bad, very bad happened and that everything got covered up and we have not found traces of anything anywhere. Bad , in the sense that the world was about to end and the people then knew about it . So with their advanced technology and stuff they just packed about everything here and left without a trace. They moved to another planet and so we remain ignorant about such a life. The solar system then exploded and the whole big bang and stuff( or whatever caused the universe) repeated itself and here we are again. We are just starting from scratch again and the whole process is going to repeat for how many times god knows !!. I think i just reversed the script of the movie Wall E. Or is this the beginning of craziness. I am not sure what, but these are things I keep thinking.

And for about two weeks i totally believed that Dec 21,2012 is the last day for all us. Those were the two weeks of incessant rains in chennai. The mood the rains created as I sat at home and heard it beating against the walls and roofs of houses just terrified me . Those were also the times i read a lot of theories of how the world would end. I did a bit of a googling on the topic and the comments in many of the forums gave an impression that the 2012 theory was correct and could not be just ignored. But after the rains, I have been feeling pretty good and and i realized that there was nothing one could do about that.

But then i put my two thoughts together . If the world was really going to end by 2012, we really havent advanced enough to just pack up our stuff and go somewhere else like our foreforeforeforefore fathers and mothers did.. So i guess history wouldnt be repeated and my two thoughts are just loads of crap or an indication to seriously hope that the world wouldnt end by 2012.
Or maybe its time to see a doctor.. :)

Anyways, i am done with this . Share your crazy thoughts if any.