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I Love You....Mobiles

"Dude...did u watch the video of iPhone 4S...they have come out with something called Siri......it reads ur messages, u can speak back to it and it answers ur query....I can't explain watch it in YouTube"....Gokul then played the video and we just sat there amazed at the new phone. My tryst with phones went as back as 2002,when mobiles were just coming into the country and only few could afford it. Few people bought for real reasons and few just bought it....and my dad was among the latter. He purchased a Motorola which had a blue backlight and it was one of the best phones i had seen at that time. The blue backlight mobile stood out amongst the black & whites. The incoming call rates per minute could easily buy a common man his breakfast. Still my dad said "It's convenient & i don't know I just like it".....and that was the i fell in love with them. Me and my brother would take turns to see it, the Blue Led would flicker once few seco...

Victors....

“Dude…you quit smoking? Have you lost your mind? We are Victors…we always smoke…” This is how the reaction is when someone from my group says he quit smoking, it’s typical but that’s what made us Victors….Ravi Teja a.k.a King Teja, Arun a.k.a Juli, Hemanth a.k.a “thapraaa…” Chala & me (we had different names for different reasons)…occasionally Tapan would join us. The victors were born because of one same habit everyone had…and you must have guessed it by now. Except juli, the rest four of us were from the same college…anyways this blog isn’t about the college fun we had, this is about the no-sense talks we had at NR, the bashing up of a guy, etc. Our usual day together would start either at NR, Necklace Road or Sherton Cafe in Paradise. The hangout place at NR was a MMTS Station; it had a large entrance at one end at the station at the other end, two partitions in between with grass patch on it, the usual sight was some kids playing cricket, a lorry sprinkling water on t...