Are we getting eManiacs?!

In a bid to learn a bit of cooking and also driven by the fact that i need to be cooking in a fortnight's time, i sat down noting the recipes amma narrated and gradually realized that apart from the basic difficulty of understanding the ingredients( my usual confusion about mustard with Jeera, U dal with Thoor Dal, and so on) i had a basic difficulty -- WRITING!!!


Every now and then when my mom repeated few ingredients or steps involuntarily my mind started searching for something that i am used to doing a lot..."Ctrl C" and "Ctrl V"...

Are we forgetting the art of writing? Why is it that i was finding it hard to do something i have been doing for last 20+ yrs.. When i sit back to recollect when i last "wrote" quite significantly , it was the Data Mining and Warehousing paper in my 5th sem MCA, when i wrote then i didnt realise that will be my last significant writing( ofcouse i never expected to pass the paper.. thats the reason probably i am taken by shock for suddenly suspending with a skill learnt from child hood- Writing!!)

Gone are days when we had to fill forms to book a railways ticket,Thanks to irctc which has reduced the overhead.. Now i have a ready made notepad with all the details and guss what i do ...Yipppee u got it right "CTRL C and CTRL V".

Gone are the days of writing letters, the concept of penpals.. Now we either chat or "eMail"..I don remember when i last bought an inland letter or when i last used a stamp:(

Gone are the days when we "wrote" the household expenses.. a simple excel spreadsheet solves all our problems now..But we miss the fun time we had in trying to find where we missed a calculation or a zero here and there( there have been times when i have misread a "Pillayar suzhi" for a carry over 2 and made addition mistakes..--Miss such fun though i felt terribly embarrassed then)

Dictionary.com's meaning for the word "illiterate" states a person who cannot read or write, now inspite of being a post graduate we dont write.. Are we getting illiterate?:) Are the pains that i put in trying to improve my handwriting in a "four-line notebook" gone a waste??( i cant imagine the number of times i would have written an imposition in my life)

Lastly... Gone are the days of diary writing.. instead you know what we do.. we write such lengthy posts in a blog!!!!!

May the almighty save the art of writing from being extinct!!!(Also if possible the blog world from such posts:D)

cheers

ps: by "write" - the physical act of writing in pen/pencil/balpam/chalkpiece on a paper/slate/board or notebook

Helmet Rocks!!

Well, Just one day and the entire city seems to be masked!!! The Govt's decision to enforce compulsory wearing of helmets seems to have reached almost everyone( pls note "almost" not all.. i have still not got a chance to get myself one.. ob adichyfying in car till then :P)-- but ofcourse i wear seat belts though..



Its good to see two wheeler drivers(and pillion riders) wearing helmets. Its a nice feel to have that the number of casualities due to any fatal accident is gonna reduce tremendously( atleast i hope so)

Similarly it will be nice if some laws are enforced for foot board travel as well..

but u know its funny to drive without seeing other fellow drivers faces .. esp the gals:**D

Will get an helmet soon for myself:)) Till then ofcourse i am going by car.

Cheers


**for guys like me:))

Back.

hey.. i m back to my blogging ways!! as if i had been a fanatic blogger before:P. just adding one more to the handful of posts i have posted.. from now on i beleive i will be a little more regular in blogging :)

Promises and Promises.. Again?? well Promises are t be given always (not kept with us)

I guess anyone reading this post may feel i had stayed without blogging:))

bye...