Offline

To total the days i've spent without any internet connection i'd say it would be around 2 weeks now. Its not that we chose to live offline but rather the circumstances thrust this upon us. Suffice to say that being caught between a crappy ISP (curse you Ananda Krishnan!!) and a promise of wireless connection by the Big Brother that never seemed to come into fruition ain't a nice spot to be in, especially when you had your project paper scheduled to begin next week. Its a really stressful situation to be in when you are already used to be able to look up for anything from your best friend Google or buzz anyone on your friends list via Yahoo Messenger. I am not a Net Addict, i can live offline but that is a choice for me to make in the future, not a thing to be thrusted upon me now in the most critical stage of my studies. By the way, for all who tried to contact me via FB, apologies to you guys. Now that the room is officially offline for some considerable time, life took a new turn for me in some ways. That weekly chessgame between me and my mates is now a daily ritual though i still generally suck at it for i still live by Lord Nelson's dictum, go straight at 'em and the lack of access to my blogs did not dampen my urge to type out nonsense in the middle of the night also, in view to improve my rather ..beautiful handwriting i've even taken the time to write things out in paper along with taking time to really read stuff like i used to do. The Netsavvy troll constantly on the prowl over the Net is now a renaissance man, reading by candle light and delighting in intellectual pursuits, ok maybe no reading by candle light but still the lack of connection to the virtual world in some ways is comforting for life seems to take a slower pace as i have always wished it to be. In some other ways though its a pain in the arse.

By the by, on the issue of FaceBook being blocked by the Admins, it is ironic that they have all the time and means to keep the students (and staffs) from surfing certain sites but didn't have the same enthusiasm to improve the infrastructure of their own websites (the online registration is a total pain in the ass and not to mention the security (the official portal has been hacked back in '08). Very odd indeed. We could use a bit of reliability there now that the number of students have increased, not another stranglehold over our right to associate and to express ourselves.

Oh well, back to my books.