My first internet experience

Its almost after 9 months i am back to blogging....ok something i thought to share before this wonderful 2009 ends....

ok here it goes....

I was at that time studying class 7 at Goa. And whatever inter school competition(related to academics) comes up.... my name would have been included to participate in it even without asking me...Thats the habit of my Principal Mrs.Nalayini :) . Thansk for the faith she has in me.

And there was a National Olympiad on Astronomy....and as with other contests my name was already there in it ...by the way i did nt even know wtf was astronomy all about in that young age of 11.

So here goes the story about my first experience with the web in which i am still entangled into.

That was the period when cybercafe,cybercenter...lots of new terms were cropping up...which i knew nthn abt them....but friends used to regularly tlk abt cybernet at edutech(a tution center conducted by some bloke named gangadhar)...my friends used to tell..cyber net is like some magic genie...whatever question you ask it ...it will tell..even if no one knows the answer the computer at cybernet will know it..stuffs like that......wat a crap ..btw i understand that it is bullshit only now....coz i believed that crap back then...

So wth is astronomy, i need to atleast know something about it. And the Olympiad was supposed to be held at Panjim to which our computer lab staff ...his name is Kalpak...i suppose i am correct...he is the person who used to escort students for such competitions to far off places.

He teased me once if i knew abt astronomy...

i said to myself "I ll show him who he is messing with"

but actually i knew nthn abt it....but i had the thirst to know more.....y not ask that genie at cybernet...ok then ....i need to check it out...so i took permission frm my mom and went there....its locked!!!...i returned....2 days later...went to vasco market with mom for shopping...i saw something similar to cybernet with loads of computer in it...its name was cybercom....wat crazy names they keep....so i said to mom that i hav to go to cybercom to know more abt astronomy for that contest...in the mean time she could finish her shopping...

Now i enter...ask the guy at the front desk how much u charge for 1 hour...he said Rs.60(damn costly at that time)...okies..he took me to a cubicle and asked me to use it.. ..wtf man...i dunno where the genie is and how to call it...i was wondering if i shud rub the computer thrice???...so i ask the person .."bhaiya isme genie kahan hai??usse mein question kaise poochun??"[where is the genie??how do i ask question to it]...he gave me a very irritated kinda look asking to himself "wtf is this kid askin me??"....by the way the entire crowd inside cybercom were throwing strange glares at me...then i said to the browsing center guy....that i wanted to know abt astronomy and i want to learn more info abt it...the person was kind enough to take an internet class for me...explained me everything abt Internet Explorer ,the various buttons in it...the good search engine he recommended me was yahoo...and searched for astronomy, it threw up several links....he browsed to those pages...kept them open...and asked me to read them myself...so that i learn...million thnx to that guy for opening this pandora's box for me ;)...at the same time when the guy was teaching me these...other guys mostly college students...and every1 were atleast 5 years elder to me... sitting in other computers who i suppose were either chatting and flirting frying nuts(kadalai) or were checking out porno....those guys were commenting abt me to their friends...

"abey woh bacha padne aaya hai...woh bhi yahan"

"saala woh chottu browsing center ka naam badnaam kar raha hai"

"isko kisne andhar aane diya...us chamaar ko pakad ke maarne ka"

and much more abuses which i dont think i can mention here...
anyways this is it a strange way to enter the infinite world of web.....

My heart pains as the final days are here

I ll come up with a blog on my college days soon..now that the farewell is done

But before that this is my first poem in tamil again this is due to the sorrow of leaving my dear friends and MIT...Pardon me for any mistakes

நாம் ஒரு நாள் சிங்க நடை போட்டு சிகரத்தில் ஏறி விடுவோம்
அப்பொழுது நட்பு என்பது நினைவுகளிலும் orkutilum மட்டுமே இருக்கும்
Company cafeteriavin ஒரு cup டீ நாம் ஒன்றாக குடித்த mess டீயை நினைவு படுத்தும்
Office cabinil யாரிடமும் பேச முடியாமல் computerai முறைத்து உட்கார்ந்து இருப்போம்
நாம் classroomil lecture நடக்கும் பொழுது notebookil PINRA எழுதிய நாட்களை எண்ணி
நம் pocket நிறைவாக பணம் இருக்கும்
அந்த pocketai காலி செய்யும் என் உயிர் தோழா நீ இருப்பாய் மிக தூரமாக