happy budday to me!

It was my birthday a couple of days back and a special one at that coz I turned 30 this year!

I was in the US on my last birthday and it had been a normal day ( on second thoughts it was anything but normal, but I ll write a separate post about that ) This post is for my current one!

So, this one was an interesting day with lots of calls and messages from my relatives and friends. With the growing popularity of social networking sites I was expecting a lot of e-messages but it appears that people still find the good-old-telephone as the preferred mode of communciation - Secretly I feel so too!!! Personally when it comes to wishing someone, I find the email option very impersonal , now there are understandable situations when it is not that easy - like the person is in a different country, otherwise I would prefer to call and wish a person anytime rather than send out an email.

Anyway, here s how mine fared:

Calls on my cell: 13
Mail: 11
In person: 2
Facebook:
Orkut:
Gtalk: 2

About 12 hours and 13 calls later my cell phone gave up on me and got completely drained out. I had important things to deal with today and feel totally out of sync without my cell phone - on the verge of becoming a 'nomophobiac' which i hear is the 21st century affliction and stands for the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. Apparently, people have become so dependent on their mobile phones that discovering that it is out of charge or misplaced simply sends thier stress levels soaring! Personally I cannot imagine my day without a cell phone which is funny, coz even when I have it around I almost never accept calls -as in I keep it in my handbag and end up with quite a few missed calls later.

All in all... 30 years of my life spent... If i have to look back and count all the meaningful things in my life, there are very few ..though the events are quite important but still they are very few. so although life s pretty good right now I still feel I m missing something. Guess its high time I rise up to the 30 year alarm and do something! So here's to a hopeful and meaningful year ahead! and last but not the least -Happy budday to myself! :-)