Completion of a stint is a great thing. Especially when you mask yourself a man on the mission and come out with a i-finally-survived look. The scary experiences in the black box of stint jolts your perception, changes the alignment of your constellations and approach towards things.
While I come out from one of a stint, mind takes me back years ago during the bachelor in engineering/technology course. Mobile phones were a growing fashion that time. Class was determined by the weight of the phone, rather than its appearance. The torchlight mobile phones and the ever lasting samsung(RIM) phone were the alternatives during those days. Few had the liberty to hunt in for sony-erricson and other mobiles.
What drives my attention back to those days is an introduction of an offer(free talk time for reacharge of 500 INR within the telephone operator network). The teen couples rushed to pounce on such offers and did not bother about the low(extremely low balance offered by the cellular operator). In case you happened to own a number of different cellular network operator, either the onus was on you to call them up/ or you had to take the risk of never listening back from them(if they every call you, it would be a maximum two times ring missed call).
There were others who were not bothered by these offers(inelastic demand) and preferred the full talk time package. They took pride in changing hello tunes, more often than they changed their toothpastes, activated 'missed call alerts' despite not receiving much of calls and were frequent fan of more value added services of cellular operators.
The SMS alert was high during cricket matches, with people texting to those four or five digit numbers to learn about the score updates. That year, I also saw the quality of grammar deteriorate as alphabets were chopped off the words to be accommodated in the text limit of single SMS.
Those days can never be brought back, but I would like to travel with those loners and no-loners on those memory lanes and wonder how they perceive the world today(when mobile technology has leaped a long way ahead)?
While I come out from one of a stint, mind takes me back years ago during the bachelor in engineering/technology course. Mobile phones were a growing fashion that time. Class was determined by the weight of the phone, rather than its appearance. The torchlight mobile phones and the ever lasting samsung(RIM) phone were the alternatives during those days. Few had the liberty to hunt in for sony-erricson and other mobiles.
What drives my attention back to those days is an introduction of an offer(free talk time for reacharge of 500 INR within the telephone operator network). The teen couples rushed to pounce on such offers and did not bother about the low(extremely low balance offered by the cellular operator). In case you happened to own a number of different cellular network operator, either the onus was on you to call them up/ or you had to take the risk of never listening back from them(if they every call you, it would be a maximum two times ring missed call).
There were others who were not bothered by these offers(inelastic demand) and preferred the full talk time package. They took pride in changing hello tunes, more often than they changed their toothpastes, activated 'missed call alerts' despite not receiving much of calls and were frequent fan of more value added services of cellular operators.
The SMS alert was high during cricket matches, with people texting to those four or five digit numbers to learn about the score updates. That year, I also saw the quality of grammar deteriorate as alphabets were chopped off the words to be accommodated in the text limit of single SMS.
Those days can never be brought back, but I would like to travel with those loners and no-loners on those memory lanes and wonder how they perceive the world today(when mobile technology has leaped a long way ahead)?
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