Please don't stop the music

Yesterday I changed the ring tone in my phone to the song "Please don't stop the music" by Rihanna. Today, I left my ear phones in the office. The music has officially stopped - today from office to home. And tomorrow from home to office. Unless, I take some other ear phone of course.

Somehow the day has been extremely irritating today... There are people who are interfering with my work, and it seems like some people have no trust in what I do. And it is just totally annoying. Of course, I will get over it as I usually do, but at the moment it is bugging me.

Annoyed

My phone is acting all weird today. First, in the morning, while I was listening to music, it would not allow me to change the volume. So I actually had to switch it off and then switch it back on.

And then, as soon as I switched it on - it decided to call a number on my contacts. I cut it. Then, she called back to know why I had called. But could I pick up the call? Of course not! So I tried calling back to explain. As soon as I could hear one ring, it stopped calling. It got disconnected!! I was not sure if it was a problem with the network or my phone. I just assumed it was the network.

Then, it would not play the radio. And if at all it played, it would keep changing the channels - so that I was not listening to any station for more than 5 seconds. Very calming.

After a lot of switching off and switching on - removing the battery and putting it back on, I finally figured out what the problem could be. It was the memory card! I removed it, and everything was fine. I put it back, and everything started to hang.

But I need the memory card. That's where all my music is stored. And so I devised a plan. I switched on the phone. I put on the radio. I put the memory card. And made sure that I don't touch any of the buttons. I literally kept counting minutes. And so, after some time ( I suppose after everything loaded fine), everything was working fine. I could make calls, and listen to whatever I want, and could increase/decrease the volume.

And I reached office. NO, no it does not end.

I was on my way for a coffee break - and there comes this woman. She is just swaying her hands around me, and off goes the phone from my hand. Flying. It came down in 3 pieces. I just got down and picked up the pieces. She was very apologetic. I told her that its alright, and went ahead putting everything back together. Had to go through it all again - battery, memory card, blah blah.

In the evening, I was talking on the phone with a friend. It got disconnected 5 times in 5 minutes. Then I decided if it gets disconnected again, I would talk tomorrow. It got disconnected in 2 seconds.

I don't know. No idea whats wrong! Did not change anything in the phone , and did not put anything new in the memory card either. Just a bad day.

Life of Pi

My phone 5310 XpressMusic(that I got almost 6 months ago) on one of my favourite books.

Saturday

I am suddenly missing the internet. I just want to sit and browse. Its almost 1 in the night, a Saturday night, and I am unable to sleep. I just finished watching a movie - The lookout. It was a crappy movie, but I watched the whole thing anyways. I should not have slept in the afternoon. That was really stupid. I was so lazy the whole day, didn't want to do anything, so I slept. I knew this was gonna happen, me unable to sleep, and yeah. It did.
It is either that I slept too much during the day, or I am thinking too much. Yesterday was so bad, I dont know when I will get over it. I am trying to, and there are so many things that remind me of yesterday. Ugh. Oh well, we all had decided to go to a place called Pamukkale. The place was ok and everything, so why it was bad for me, you ask? I lost my phone in the bus. I can't believe I could be so irresponsible. I see people losing their things, and I would wonder how it was even possible. And then, I did it myself. That sucks man. It really does. It was just like 11 months old, and I liked it so much. The even worse thing is that I spent 21 liras the day before to get a SIM card, and to get my phone registered. I had not done this before - getting the phone registered. You can’t use a SIM card in a foreign phone for more than 20 days. So I thought I will get a SIM card, and get the phone registered. And now, I have no phone. What the hell?

Ok, but that is not all why the day was bad. I decided to forget about it (losing the phone thing) then, not think so much about a phone, and decided to enjoy the day. They all asked if I was ok, and yeah, I felt ok. Even though I lost my damn phone I was gonna enjoy the day! So yeah, we walked around in that place, and we were clicking photos and such. And then it happened. I asked my friend to take a snap of mine. And I was giving her my camera. She reached out for it. And it fell. Down. On the calcium deposits. Which was like rock. The camera is just 2 months old, man. Shit! Like losing my phone was not enough. I thought I was gonna start crying or something. I didn't. Phew. I didn’t even reach out for the camera when it fell. I was just standing there. My friend picked it up, and tried to make it work. Switch off the camera, and switch it on again. Yeah right. Soon everyone was around that camera trying to do something. I just sat down on that dumb rock. I was numb. Someone then did something and it was atleast showing the pictures that I took. But the lens was stuck, and so the camera is not working. I just told them to forget it, and packed the camera back in the bag. And I just sat there.

I told the others to be careful. I said I might die today, take care of me. Ha ha. It was funny then. I don’t expect it to be funny now. No, it isn’t. Ah, I laughed then.

And now, after mid night, I am reminded of my phone. Motorola V3i. All my favourite songs were in that phone. Damn it. I will miss it. All that remains now, are my ear phones, the data cord, and the cover. I was listening to music in the bus from the phone. When the stop came, when we had to get off the bus, I remember removing the ear phones and putting it into my bag. I don’t know what I did with the phone. I usually put it in my pocket, but I guess I didn’t. We had to take another bus. I realized that I didn’t have my phone when I got into the next bus. And when I realized that the phone was not in my pocket, I knew I had lost it. No point in searching everywhere, I was not gonna find it. My friend actually made me go to the bus and search there. I did, and obviously it was not there.

I don’t know which phone I will buy next, but I don’t see any other flip phone as good as that. But, I will not be buying another flip phone. Hmmm, and I don’t have an alarm no more. I gotta use the f****d up alarm clock that is there in the hotel room. It takes like five minutes to set the damn alarm.

I have been reading “Atlas Shrugged”. Did not read in the past 2 months, just started reading from 4 days. I want to finish the book before I return India. Since I got to know that I have to stay here for one more month, I thought of reading. I have read Fountain Head, and this book seems so similar to that one. Maybe it is just Ayn Rand. Or maybe its just me. The theme is the same, it seems so far. But then, I have just begun the book.

I don’t like the work that I am doing here. However, I am not able to decide exactly what I want. This will not get me anywhere. I realize that. I have always waited for things to happen. That was because I didn’t care. I didn’t care what I would do, when I would do, and how I would do it. I still don’t, I think. When the moment came, I would do it the best way I can. But then if I don’t like what I am doing, then I should start thinking about changing that. I don’t like thinking this. I keep evading this as much as possible.

Feeling sleepy now, so will sleep while I can. Duh.

Phone update

Yup, I still didn't get my phone back. :(

I went to the college in the morning, hoping to catch the principal when he was not busy. But unfortunately he was. He didn't want to meet any student 'so early'. It was already 10:30. That was apparently early, as told to me by his secretary. So, I had to wait for him for an hour. Finally, I was told that I could go and talk to him.

I went in and asked him,"Sir, you took my phone yesterday."
He looks at me like I am from another planet (I guess he didn't recognize me) and tells me," Very good... Don't worry, I didn't use your phone."

What the hell??

"Will I get it back?"
"Yes, you will. We don't need your phone."

Then I asked him when I could get it back. And what does he do? He gets up and walks out of the door! No response at all. Nothing. And I was standing there in his room, wondering if he was going to come back, or if I should go after him. I chose the latter. So I asked him again. He didn't even look at me, he was just walking as fast as he can. Crazy.

He met some lecturer on the way, and he started talking with him. After 15 minutes, when he finished talking, I asked him again. Now, he looks at me and just nods.

"When will I get it back?"
"Hmmm, that's the question."

Well, what's the answer!?!

"Sir when?"
"In a week maybe".

Maybe. A week. I have no clue how to live without a phone. I'm addicted to messaging. I woke up late, coz I don't even have an alarm. The phone was my alarm. Damn. A week. That's crazy. Maybe I should have pleaded and begged for my phone...

I'm going to college on Thursday. I'll go and ask for it again. If he does not give it, I'll have to take my parents to meet him.

The worst day ever?

I had my lab today. We get two experiments, one to write a C program, and another a hardware experiment. I got the C program, but not the hardware. I did a stupid mistake of not including a library file( I included the wrong one, stupid me. No one can get more stupider than that. It totally sucks), and it was not getting compiled properly. Atleast the viva was kind of easy. I KNEW that I was gonna screw up the lab, and i did it. Yay me.

Then after the lab, I was just sitting outside the lab waiting for my friends. The principal came, and he asked me if I have a cell phone. Now, in my college there is this stupid rule which tells that students are not allowed to carry phones. And yes, obviously I had one in my bag. (Another stupid mistake. When there is a rule follow it! Grrrr) . So I just grinned. Then he asked me again," Do you have a phone with you?!". So I had to tell yes. I could have lied and told him that I dont have it with me, but he has checked bags before. And it could be worse for me if I lied and then caught with the phone in my bag.

He asked me to hand over the phone to him. I looked at him with a sad face, telling him I was sorry and that I would NEVER bring it again to college. THEN, my HOD comes along. The Princi asked him to take my phone. The HOD kind of hates me I guess, he looked at me and told me to give the phone to him. And I did. My HOD then walked off (with my phone) with the princi (they are like best buddys or something). Sucks for me.

Later when I found the HOD alone, I went up to him and asked him if I would get my phone back. He said "No way. No, no, no. The princiPAL took it from you, no??( his fav word is no).
"No sir, you took it".
"Yes, yes... I did, But I gave it to him."
"Ughhhh, ok. So should I go and talk to him."
"No no, dont go today. Go tomorrow. He will be in a good mood tomorrow."

So that was it about the phone.

So thats it, you think?? NO. Thats not all. While coming back home I was so tensed about losing my phone and not getting the exp, that I forgot to fill petrol. And yes, the tank became empty on the way and I had to push it till the nearest petrol bunk.

I told my parents about me losing the phone. Dad told me that I was irresponsible. Yup. Thats me. Why the hell did I take it?? I dont take it usually with me, I just keep it in my Kinetic. But today I took it with me. Dumb, dumb mistake.

So this was the worst day ever. Well, not "ever". Atleast I am lucky that I am still alive? Whatever.