First of all, it kind-of (well, OK, not all that much) killed me to write the word 'Goodness' with a capital 'g', but small letters simply don't gel well with numbers. Have you noticed that all numbers are invariably above "the line" and are of full height? That sort-of makes them go well only with capital letters, since they're all capital size. That's why "512 goodness" would've looked really bad, although there would still be a strong argument for the 'g' to be small - grammatically speaking. In the end, I thought, according to all the grammar I'm aware of, the 'g' has no right to be capital. But then, one always finds a loophole, which is the fact that it's the title of the post and, in a title, you can capitalize almost everything, save the prepositions and conjunctions. Plus, I reminded myself, it's my title.
अरे, पांचसौ बारह हो गया रे!
512 Goodness is, of course, all about the fact that MTNL finally bit the bullet and granted me 512Kbps access to the World Wide Web from within Delhi. There was this Uncle of mine in London whom I visited in 2003 and then he boasted to me about his 384Kbps connection, which, by the way, seemed wicked fast to me back then, considering the fact that I was on a 28.8Kbps connection. Since he recently visited Delhi, I asked him how fast his Internet ran now and let me know that it had progressed to 1024Kbps. I was quite elated to hear this answer (and not something outrageous like the connections we have at my college - "Oh, I just got a 200Mbps line. Wink! Wink!") because I showed him that while his connection had gone up by a mere 3 times, mine had done a ~20 timer. Shows progress of the country and all that jazz. All quite admirable indeed. Plus, the great thing is that MTNL's connections are ADSL and you actually get about 65KBps at peak or at least 55KBps normally. Downloads are all whooshy :-).
Apart from all the Internet goodness, we went for Rungta's pre-birthday celebration at "Not Just Paranthas" in GK-II Market, which really made for a delicious afternoon. I might write a review about it on Impulsive Highlighters. (Both Rungta's and ImHi's links are on the right). And this reminds me of the fact that ImHi has recently come alive again with three very recent entries. And so has MXMUG - sorta. Check it out (again, on the righ').
Meanwhile, my days here draw closer, and although I'll miss home (and all those paranthas), it'll be nice to be back at college too.
अरे, पांचसौ बारह हो गया रे!
512 Goodness is, of course, all about the fact that MTNL finally bit the bullet and granted me 512Kbps access to the World Wide Web from within Delhi. There was this Uncle of mine in London whom I visited in 2003 and then he boasted to me about his 384Kbps connection, which, by the way, seemed wicked fast to me back then, considering the fact that I was on a 28.8Kbps connection. Since he recently visited Delhi, I asked him how fast his Internet ran now and let me know that it had progressed to 1024Kbps. I was quite elated to hear this answer (and not something outrageous like the connections we have at my college - "Oh, I just got a 200Mbps line. Wink! Wink!") because I showed him that while his connection had gone up by a mere 3 times, mine had done a ~20 timer. Shows progress of the country and all that jazz. All quite admirable indeed. Plus, the great thing is that MTNL's connections are ADSL and you actually get about 65KBps at peak or at least 55KBps normally. Downloads are all whooshy :-).
Apart from all the Internet goodness, we went for Rungta's pre-birthday celebration at "Not Just Paranthas" in GK-II Market, which really made for a delicious afternoon. I might write a review about it on Impulsive Highlighters. (Both Rungta's and ImHi's links are on the right). And this reminds me of the fact that ImHi has recently come alive again with three very recent entries. And so has MXMUG - sorta. Check it out (again, on the righ').
Meanwhile, my days here draw closer, and although I'll miss home (and all those paranthas), it'll be nice to be back at college too.
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