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.!! :)