Do you miss the Internet?

so what happens when you relocate to a different place? well, you lose your internet connection.

when one of my friends blogged about this humourous video clip, i laughed and laughed and laughed at it. what did i know that i would be one such victim in a few days time. when i moved to a different house this time, what i lost was more than just the familiar surroundings - The Internet. I got the WorldSpace radio the same day and the cable tv connection on the very next day. I could have lived forever without them. But Internet? i lived without it for more than a week and it reminded me of just that video clip again and again.

what else troubles me whenever i move to a different place? just one thing: books. while buying books, i or my brother never give a thought as to just how many books we are amassing in the process. we are reminded of it only in situations like this. now imagine, the whole belongings put together comes no where near the total collection of books that i possess. how can i manage to pack them and move them without expert help? i tried it last time and i tried it this time. i got into real problems especially this time, for they were a lot more this time around. i got all the cartons that i can get hold of from every grocery shop near me. they were not sufficient, so i got this brilliant idea of buying a few polythene carry bag packs, but the two supermarkets in my area ran out of them before fully accomodating for my books. i then took a cue from a known book distributor: started tying the books using, what do we call these rope like things made of plastic or cloth? the labourers too were cursing the book packs silently, which was understandable, as lifting 29'' TV was much simpler for them than lifting one carton full of books. how is paper heavier than metal? because the paper is packed more densely?

But i am back to Internet. And back to life.