Ok Today it happened: My Laptop
finally freaked out and screamed ‘ Oh Get Up!!
Pick me up! You are hooked to wrong things! First You come back home,
LATE!! Every day!! Then you play stupid games on ipad : Empress of the Deep?? Who is she? Why you are even bothered? Why do you
want to bring her justice? And haven’t you finished the game already? You want
to play part 2 now? What’s it with the empress and you..Are you even straight,
hanging around with empress all the time??’
‘I am not with the empress for
last two days ‘, I defended
‘Oh Yeah??’It shrieked , ‘And
while you were not with it, you were busy watching stupid SITCOMS? Since when
have you become such a TV freak? You are watching everything even ‘Everybody
Loves Raymond’!! Everybody Loves Raymond’??Seriously??, I thought you didn’t like that show! You never
liked Ray Romano’s nasal voice! Why you are doing it to yourself? Just to avoid
me eh?’
‘My Choices have changed! ‘
‘Choices or priorities??’
‘My Choices!’, I stressed, ‘ You
are still very dear to me, remember I was with you for the whole day, last
Sunday’
‘Oh Oh Oh Don’t you get me
started on it now! You mean mean person. Last weekend was the most painful
weekend of my life!’
‘Ccmon we were together, what do
you want?’
‘Together my foot! You have used
me for your ecstasy you played Plants and Zombie ENTIRE DAY damnit! What is that stupid game? Super unrealistic,
plants firing zombies and killing them?? And you love it? You finished all its
levels, its mini games, its puzzles even survivals!! Survivals – That’s a
new low even for you! While you were drawing some sadistic pleasure out of ‘killing
zombies’ I, had pretty hard time pleasing you. I tried showing you I am
exhausted that day, by buzzing several times, by getting warmer but you !you…
just put a cushion underneath and continued? Same stupid game! And today you
have the audacity to remind me of our times together? Sorry Boss We are not on
same page anymore
When you brought me home, you
promised me you will give me happy time each day, you will read, you will write,
but now it seems I am with a different person altogather , You are a selfish
jerk ,you have used me only for pleasure. Listen carefully . I am not one of those who can be played with!’
‘I..err..’, I stammered
‘And don’t you give me crap about
your office work. I got to speak with your office laptop yesterday, you may be loaded
but compared to other writers you are not! You are a writer, you are SUPPOSE to
write, professionally and otherwise so stop cribbing
Either its me for something or Nothing,
Play one more time and I am outta here’
I saw it again, my silver sleek
Sony Vaio. It is still glowing, it is still beautiful. I have been mean to it.
I remembered happy times together, when I was writing a book, when I use to
write articles every day read a lot. Today I hardly get to see it. I felt sorry
, tears rolled my eyes. I hugged it tight, felt it again with my fingers.
‘I am not going to be mean to you
again baby’ I promised.
For those of you who think I am
bluffing with my laptop- Well you are correct!!
Muaaahhhhhhh (Devilish laughter)
ha ha.. gotta love that laughter.. :)
ReplyDeleteloved the banter you had with your poor laptop..
lovely read Aparna..
Thanks Deepak
DeleteOh! Even mine is 'silver sleek Sony Vaio'. Enjoyed reading through!
ReplyDeleteThanks Meenakshi......... I use ipad more these days honestly this poor thing lie like this in my study room..alone :(
DeleteHi Aparna,
DeleteA small morning surprise for you: Liebster Award
aww poor lappy
ReplyDeletewell narrated!
Thanks Magic eye, I love Bozo..he is cute and you capture all his emotions, activities just right
DeleteAbsorbing write-up. It was really nice to read and thanks God, I do not have any complaints from my silver Sony Vaio.
ReplyDeleteThank you Fayaz!
DeleteNjoyed thoroughly...first time visitor to your site,thanks to indiblogger,absorbing piece...In the meantime may I share something I wrote on the same lines for my Sony Vaio and my Blackberry...here's the link...Pliss to read..http://rajeshthakkar.blogspot.in/2012/05/love-at-first-sight.html
ReplyDeleteThanks Rajesh, I am going to be on your blog right away! Thanks for sharing
DeleteQuit funny,interesting and very well narrated!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jahid!! I loved your memoirs, It seems like I know Parag da personally!! lol waiting for next chapter of that exciting account
DeleteAwww..what a devil you are...? Now, I MUST give a tight hug to 'my silver sleek Sony Vaio. It is still glowing, it is still beautiful....'... :))LOL... Delicious piece:D
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed reading this, Aparna.
Thank You Panchali, I loved your post on Coffee.. he he he it was great song of praise!
DeleteDevil in disguise :) Well narrated though :)
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Thanks Saurabh! Visisted your blog loved it!!
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Thnks Megha!! I just love blog
DeleteHi Aparna
ReplyDeleteI was intrigued reading this.It beautifully symbolizes whatever we have left behind in our rat race of life.
Thanks Bhavana
DeleteGreat Post. Loved reading it.
ReplyDeleteKeep Writing and Blogging such excellent pieces.
Regards
Vikram Karve
Academic and Creative Writing Journal Vikram Karve
Thanks Vikram! I just love your articles.
DeleteHi Aparna,
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA, lovely post, just goes to show that if devices had a soul and a life, they would be pretty pissed off with us humans. I loved the perspective you presented in this post.
Keep it up :)
Regards
Jay
My Blog | My Entry to Indiblogger Get Published
Thanks Jay!! It mean a lot
Deletedevilish laughter.. haha. Cool write up. quite an engrossing narration, Aparna. Loved reading it as much I love my Compaq Mini. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThank you Mira.. I loved your 'short' story.. and I also loved your intro.. lol I am a Rat
DeleteEverything has been said about the post already.. :) Unique thinking and pagal-pan ke hadh ki imagination.. taaliyaan!! :)
ReplyDeleteTPO!! i blog bcoz of u... Loovvvveeeeee
DeleteHi Aparna,
ReplyDeleteYou are a wonderful blogger and I really enjoy your blog
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I would like to nominate your blog for THE LIEBSTER BLOG AWARD.
For more details kindly refer to Liebster Blog Award post at http://jahidakhtar.blogspot.in/2013/01/first-liebster-award-thanks-rajni.html
Thanks and Regards,
Jahid
Flashbacks
Hi Aparna, I've nominated your blog for the Liebster Blog Award! Congrats! Please find the details on my blog http://guspazha-chinar.blogspot.in/2013/02/voila-my-liebster-blog-award.html
ReplyDeleteHi Aparna..
ReplyDeleteOne more feather added in your cap.. :-)
I hereby nominate your blog for the Liebster Award. Come to my site and you know what to do... to collect your badge :-) Congratulations..!
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