Sunday, May 18, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
The Delhi Times - Part VI
Ten years ago e-mail was just the "in thing". There were just a handful of us who possessed this incredible thing called "e-mail" and such was our plight that each time we sent an e-mail we actually informed the person to whom the mail was sent so that he/she would check it and send a reply back!
But then again there were a few of them who still continued to "snail mail"... and even now I feel the snail mails are better than the e-mails... at least we took the pain of thinking and putting our thoughts into paper and ... how can one ever forget the excitement to recieve a mail... wasn't that better than the forwarded mails that we recieve now?
But its not the postives vs negatives of e-mails and snail mails that I wanna write here... its something else and more interesting!
OK... So the year was 1998 and there were a few people (read friends, grand mom, cousin... not necessarily in this order) with whom I was still snail mailing.
Just before the Dusshera break I received a snail mail from Labroy... it was his usual stuff ... about his job... his confusion related to the girl he was seeing then and all that jazz... but what was important in this mail was he mentioned something that he wanted a few medicines for his sister which was not available in Guwahati and he wanted me to get those and also mentioned that he needed 20 strips each... the medicines were -spasmo proxyvan and rellipen.
So on the last day before I'd hop on the North East express I went in search for the medicines. i don't recall how many pharmacies I went but none of them wanted to hande those wretched pills - that too without a proper prescription... not knowing what to do I asked my local grocery store guy and he said he'd get it for me and boy he did!
I had this feeling that the medswould cost me a fortune because Labroy mentioned that these meds are not available in Guwahati, but to utter surpirze it costedme around 450/- bucks...
Once back home I called Labroy and asked him to collect his meds...
Labroy came the very same evening to my place and he gave me a 500/- Rs note but I didn't have the change to which he said I could keep that and he ran out like a excited school kid winning a gold medal...
I never had a clue to what was the reason behind his excitment...
After a ten day break I was back in the New Friends Colony room... one weekend we all met in South EX I for some tandoori chicken & beer...
I was sitting near Mac's table and was just browisng through his things when my eyes fell on these strips of tablets which resembled the ones I took for Labroy a fortnight back... I couldn't hold my curiosity and asked him straight what was thepurpose of those tablets....
Mac didn't mince words amd actually told me what were the purpose of those and how some people misused them...
I felt "used"
But then again there were a few of them who still continued to "snail mail"... and even now I feel the snail mails are better than the e-mails... at least we took the pain of thinking and putting our thoughts into paper and ... how can one ever forget the excitement to recieve a mail... wasn't that better than the forwarded mails that we recieve now?
But its not the postives vs negatives of e-mails and snail mails that I wanna write here... its something else and more interesting!
OK... So the year was 1998 and there were a few people (read friends, grand mom, cousin... not necessarily in this order) with whom I was still snail mailing.
Just before the Dusshera break I received a snail mail from Labroy... it was his usual stuff ... about his job... his confusion related to the girl he was seeing then and all that jazz... but what was important in this mail was he mentioned something that he wanted a few medicines for his sister which was not available in Guwahati and he wanted me to get those and also mentioned that he needed 20 strips each... the medicines were -spasmo proxyvan and rellipen.
So on the last day before I'd hop on the North East express I went in search for the medicines. i don't recall how many pharmacies I went but none of them wanted to hande those wretched pills - that too without a proper prescription... not knowing what to do I asked my local grocery store guy and he said he'd get it for me and boy he did!
I had this feeling that the medswould cost me a fortune because Labroy mentioned that these meds are not available in Guwahati, but to utter surpirze it costedme around 450/- bucks...
Once back home I called Labroy and asked him to collect his meds...
Labroy came the very same evening to my place and he gave me a 500/- Rs note but I didn't have the change to which he said I could keep that and he ran out like a excited school kid winning a gold medal...
I never had a clue to what was the reason behind his excitment...
After a ten day break I was back in the New Friends Colony room... one weekend we all met in South EX I for some tandoori chicken & beer...
I was sitting near Mac's table and was just browisng through his things when my eyes fell on these strips of tablets which resembled the ones I took for Labroy a fortnight back... I couldn't hold my curiosity and asked him straight what was thepurpose of those tablets....
Mac didn't mince words amd actually told me what were the purpose of those and how some people misused them...
I felt "used"
I am back & blogging again!
Right now there are 10001 things running in my mind but I'll continue with my Delhi times series amd then get back to something else
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