The Saddest Saga

I write this post as a tribute to my friend AB’s facebook account. It’s tragic the account had a major break(hack)down. It was his first and only account; he had been using it for the past four years. It was the thing closest to his heart. Well, until it was brutally hacked into and the hacker had this igneous idea of uploading some gay (AB please don’t get humiliated, have to use “The word”) model’s picture. And the pictures on top said I want to be your princess. Now I wonder what kind of prayer request can we have for the four year old facebook account with a network of 1351 and in-numerous pictures uploaded. Here goes :

Dear Mr Zukerberg (he should be the god of this evil social networking world)

With a very heavy heart and profound grief we are departing from AB’s first facebook account. You have been very unfair to us. Your claims of having the most secure site have been proven wrong. How could any random person do that? All attempts of mankind to recover the struggling (read hacked) account proved futile.

My friend AB , is heartbroken. I mean how can he rebuild his network, let’s not even mention the pictures and videos he was tagged in. Will he be ever able to recover from this setback? Will the new facebook account be the same? The answer to this is no…it isn’t possible. Probably the time is the best healer and AB will learn to live without his beloved account. 

Hope the hacker wherever he is ,  gets a punishment he deserves. It’s such a shame that he pulled off such a cheap prank on the poor account’s soul that it’s no more. Such criminals should be deprived from using laptops or computers.

I personally will miss the comments from that account. They were so thoughtful and I never got such comments.

We cannot do anything about the lost account except hope for it to rest in peace. And learn to live with the new one.

RIP AB’s first facebook account with a network of 1351 and  in-numerous pictures. 

Yours Sincerely Phoenix

Oh wait , we didn't have the two minutes silence .

Yes I know by now you might have declared me to be a crackpot. I could not help writing this tribute. It’s ridiculous how we depend on the social networking sites , that we actually cannot afford to part with our accounts. Why is it that a facebook account is so essential? I just don't get it. I detest the idea of sending or receiving virtual greetings or talking to friends online. The arrival of SNS has disrupted the communication in  entire human race. Instead of meeting friends in person and having the real fun , we prefer meeting online . 

Are the virtual meetings good enough to reconnect with friends? To some extent its okay , but what is happening right now is addiction. I once suggested  Uncle V and Swat to meet more often (in holidays otherwise I have an overdose of them in college) and  get away from facebook. And the reply I got was  " lets just talk online , it saves resources ." Like Seriously ? Resources?

Even I am forced to check my facebook account everyday , probably all of us are , we call it boring but we do it because of the reasons very well known to us . But is it that hard to resist using it.  I don't know whether it has made things harder or easier. Actually not easier, it is just a way all of us have found .

Maybe one day we get over this addiction and get a better alternative to meet friends. Just hope that alternative is not skype or google + (which I  guess is already dead). Time for a reality check.

Summer 2011 - The Jalopy and The Trips to nowhere.

Summer 2011 - My first summer in college and the first in which I had no hoildays , I cribbed and sulked . How could we have one whole month of training immediately after our first year finals? Life could not get worse. But now that it is almost over I can this was my best summer ever. Apart from the training , which was not bad at all , I had the time of my life.Will write about the training bit in the next post.

I  got my driving  license two months back. It was a glorious moment after closely missing it the first time because I could not drive up a slope anyways  I have  it now. The feeling was great .And with my driving license I also got this jalopy , which broke down twice in a month and once the tyre burst.But still I fell in love with it , it took me places.Without it my life would have been incomplete.

My love

 And here are some facts about this beauty:

• It only plays a Bryan Adams Cassete , yeah I have cassete player in my car ,cool isnt it?
• And when you try tuning in the radio , it gets silent and when you have given up all all hopes and start hitting all the buttons on the player or probably forget about it , its suddenly starts playing the Bryan Adam tracks.
• Its a 2000 model 
• There are times when the gear gets stuck and refuses to change gears.
• It gets wobbly if you drive at the speed of 70
• It has an A/C which does not cool , so better roll down the windows. 
• It makes all sorts of embarassing noises sometimes like a tractor.

Two months driving this and I never want to part with it .Everyone curses it and the the some probably curse the driver too but still they love it.By they I mean my friends , we have been on countless drives , drives people wont exactly call sane.

Whenever someone is in a bad mood this little thing comes as a ray of hope , lifting up the mood , Uncle V and Swat , my partners for these litlle geris(drives in panjabi) ,will agree with me the most.Although I bet AYG and CA swear that they wont go anywhere when I am driving that car.

Initially it was just the quieter side of sukhna  lake we ventured to , but later on the car pushed us further , to the ouskirts and smaller places , places away from the city. Every single of these little trips has something crazy about it , never intentional. Just happens , it's like we get high without drinking, high on life.

Last time when Swat and I went , still dont know where , the car tyre burst and that was one scary thing. We dont know how to replace it and for good 15 minutes I refused to halt the car thinking it wont start again (err I did not know it was just a flat tyre , thought its much more than that) Awesome aint I? Nobody could be more dumb than that.But when I finally stopped , I was relieved that it was just a flat tyre and nothing else. Fortunately this dude helped us .

Two months with this car and a year with these eccentric people I know my next three years in college are going to be more than  awesome.Few glimpses of trips to nowhere: