Lessons of London

1. The value of time is atleast £5.30 per hour.
2. Watching TV is a great waste of time, unless its current affairs/news.
3. Watching movies from time to time, which add value, are ok.
4. The streets of London are painfully narrow leading to disgusting traffic jams sometimes, yet nobody honks, when someone does, its usually to draw someone's attention, to swear at someone or when an accident occurs.
5. The unpredictability of English weather is attractive, you never get bored, you are always left wondering how the next minute is going to be, one moment its sunny, next moment its cloudy and raining, and you better be prepared for any consequences.
6. A sucker is born every minute in this world.
7. Acquaintances are many, friends are handful.
8. The more people you know, the better off you are, if you don't have good academic background, yet know someone influential, you can get a good job, if you have a good academic background but don't know the right person at the right place, its difficult...if you don't have neither...you are gone mate.
9. Pound is a very strong currency.
10. London is the greatest melting pot of the world, so many languages, so many colors of so very different people from all the corners of the world.
11. Everyone should spend some time in life out from the home country...to realise what life has to offer...to broaden point of view...to know people and to know oneself.
12. In the end of the day, you are alone....not lonely.
13. London is getting crowded...with EU people and with people like us.
14. Its a free country, you can live the life you want, pray, stray, study, tidy, work, screw, sleep, peep, gaze, booze, plan, moan, eat, meet, watch, match, cry, try, look, hook, cook, ponder, wonder, blunder, wander, spend, lend, mend, amend, laugh, bluff and the list continues...the limit of your being free is inversely proportional to your sense of responsibilities.full stop.
15. I was pickpocketed in the bus once, I was robbed at work at gunpoint, my friends were mugged at night...the darkness just below the candle...London no exception.
16. Its a good idea to judge people individually, their country of origin, race, religion do play a basic role, nevertheless, the final role is played by the person's personality only.
17. There you see well-mannered beggars in trains or next to ATM machines asking for change.
18. A group of teenage hoodie boys/girls are always a reason of concern.
19. Its good to be nice to nice people, and swear back at those who swear at you, and avoid eye contacts with drunks and gang of hoodies... color does not matter.

20. Our English is much better than that of the EU people.

Of laptops, iPods, life and love

I was so surprised when my credit score passed that I forgot to even buy the accessories like a carrying case, webcam and microphone etc. along with Toshi...yeah...that is what I call my dreammachine...who sits pretty on my laptop...a Toshiba laptop...lol...I remember having brought 1200£ when I landed in London...to buy a laptop...life was such...that money was draining out like anything in the early days..when I was desperate to find a job...and having a blindspot in my arsenal of expertise...that is not knowing how to cook...I was spending precious pounds behind samosas and burgers from the Afghan shop at Holloway Road...well...I have now...what I wanted for so long...but I would not deny that the final motivation was derived from the tiny black 2GB iPod Nano which I bought a week earlier...when I realised after reading the manual that you need a PC for charging it...or else you can buy an expensive charger to charge it...so there I went looking for it...and I got it finally...I remember the first time when I bought my first PC way back in 1997, there came a time when I was mimicking the PC...becoming too procedural, materialistic and logical...devoid of emotions...getting restless of slow things, striving for speed and efficiency and automation...and crashing often...lol. Well...things have changed a bit...but the basics remain the same I reckon.....my mental softwares still crash and hang my system....they are still very prone to emotional viruses...I think I have to look for a better anti-emotional virus software...McShehzaad....or NortonShams...something like that...the thing is the harddisk in the laptop revolves around an axis...when the axis exerts too much pain, heat and frustration....it is vulnerable to crashes.....however I have a capacity of 60 GB with 256MB RAM...so the memories accumulated all over these 5 years are precious, cannot be replaced and are right-protected..they cannot be deleted...even if I hang in stand-alone mode...they are still there...I cannot live without them...partitioning the hard disk would help a little...I can atleast save my other data from being erased...but what to do with the operating system? I really am not sure whether to format it...and reinstall it...at this age...at this stage...I think a life without a laptop is still manageable...but a life without love? I am still in the thinking process...I am more human now I guess.