I just came back from my recent Paris flight when I realized that the internet in my flat ceased to exist. For some unknown reason the router stopped working like some ghost intentionally robbed its life out of its cage ( which later I discovered to be half-true). With my busy schedule and the ramadan timings it became so impossible for me to visit Etisalat. But then in between the moments of doing my errands and spending time with loved-ones while in Dubai I suddenly felt like a hole has started to grow inside my chest.
I cannot stand silence in the room. Ask anyone who knows me and he/she will tell you that whenever I enter a room I immediately ask for the remote control or some music. I love the feeling of life as it roars. So having no internet for some weeks now I struggle to pop my old collection of CDs I brought from home to kill the deafening silence that evokes loneliness and negative thoughts. I miss having VirginRadio Dubai blasting from my speakers.
It's a blessing somehow that when this inconvenience occur my lovely roster is able to provide me with much needed internet connection while on layover. Haha.
I usually anticipate Munich for the short and easy flight and the cheap grocery supply but this time I just enjoy every single bit of connectivity the Westin hotel is able provide for free.
I realized that I am a little "done" having my daily journal dose writing in traditional notebooks. I find comfort and solace and familiarity typing in my keyboard while I still circle and draw my print-out calendar and consider blocking dates in my IPAD or Blackberry a little bit annoying and ineffective. I'm old-fashioned and un-techie. I don't know how to describe it but the modern technology although makes our lives so much easier I think it made us lazy and complacent at the same time. Everything is instant. It's great. However, looking back in the day when we spend the fleeting moments buried in books and games which actually involve a human presence, those were the times where we indeed move from one place to another exerting effort and requires thinking. The modern age continues to evolve which give birth to new habits.
My limited access to internet has made my life a little bit out dated with the rest of the world. Less instagram posts, facebook updates and no-more-stalking people I normally have no courage meeting in person were all replaced by reading books for real, quiet moments with myself, cultivating my faith and watching my favorites movies and US series (saved in my USB) for about a hundred times. It calms me in a way. Like I have found a secret place where I can hide when I don't expect anyone to come fetch me. It's lonely and delightful at the same time.
Let's see what else this diet of social networking will do to my personal growth.
At this point I can see clearly with bright eyes.
Hopefully it will bring me more good than harm.
I will visit Etisalat by Friday.
Happy Eid to all!!!!
kisses from Munich
I cannot stand silence in the room. Ask anyone who knows me and he/she will tell you that whenever I enter a room I immediately ask for the remote control or some music. I love the feeling of life as it roars. So having no internet for some weeks now I struggle to pop my old collection of CDs I brought from home to kill the deafening silence that evokes loneliness and negative thoughts. I miss having VirginRadio Dubai blasting from my speakers.
It's a blessing somehow that when this inconvenience occur my lovely roster is able to provide me with much needed internet connection while on layover. Haha.
I usually anticipate Munich for the short and easy flight and the cheap grocery supply but this time I just enjoy every single bit of connectivity the Westin hotel is able provide for free.
I realized that I am a little "done" having my daily journal dose writing in traditional notebooks. I find comfort and solace and familiarity typing in my keyboard while I still circle and draw my print-out calendar and consider blocking dates in my IPAD or Blackberry a little bit annoying and ineffective. I'm old-fashioned and un-techie. I don't know how to describe it but the modern technology although makes our lives so much easier I think it made us lazy and complacent at the same time. Everything is instant. It's great. However, looking back in the day when we spend the fleeting moments buried in books and games which actually involve a human presence, those were the times where we indeed move from one place to another exerting effort and requires thinking. The modern age continues to evolve which give birth to new habits.My limited access to internet has made my life a little bit out dated with the rest of the world. Less instagram posts, facebook updates and no-more-stalking people I normally have no courage meeting in person were all replaced by reading books for real, quiet moments with myself, cultivating my faith and watching my favorites movies and US series (saved in my USB) for about a hundred times. It calms me in a way. Like I have found a secret place where I can hide when I don't expect anyone to come fetch me. It's lonely and delightful at the same time.
Let's see what else this diet of social networking will do to my personal growth.
At this point I can see clearly with bright eyes.
Hopefully it will bring me more good than harm.
I will visit Etisalat by Friday.
Happy Eid to all!!!!
kisses from Munich
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