Call

My first interaction with mobile phone was in 2002, when I first moved to Delhi. Connecting with home was needed and so I bought my first phone Motorola Talkabout (used). Outgoing was Rs. 6 per minute (SGD 0.15 approx) and incoming was Rs. 4. I used the same SIM for 4 years with different handsets, mostly Nokia.

Time has changed and now various service providers offering free outgoing in same network. Not sure how many folds the user-base has increased, guessing it will be more than 1 set per person now. At that time it was a gadget of show-off  for many and necessity for few. Now its a part of daily life – social networking, music, games,  photography, you just need a good handphone and entire world is in your hands… 🙂

Phone

Phone

Water

  • 1 in 8 people do not have proper supply of drinking water.
  • More than 3.5 million people around the world die from diseases each year, due to lack of clean drinking water.
  • Every 20 seconds a child dies from water born diseases.
  • A bathtub holds 150 litres of  water, at the same time there are families getting 30 litres for their daily consumption.
  • It costs approximately 50 cents for desalination of 1 cubic metre of water.
Each drop is precious, save water.

Each drop is precious, save water.

Holi

Its “Holika Dahan” tonight and Holi will be played tomorrow.

Plenty of memories of Allahabad are coming and going in front of my eyes.

Green and Red, fine and granular colors, varnish, smell of Abeer and Gulaal, Papad, Gujhiya and home made Potato Chips… ahhhhhh… Too much to recall and live those moments again, at least in imaginations…

Recalling memories of those years too when we did not played Holi. Change in equations, time and place, changes too many things. People say at this day even enemies hug each other, I wish it comes up true again. People are becoming more practical and reserve these days. I wish I can go back in time and play Holi of my school and college days again, it was a real fun… everything and everyone remains uncontrolled and wild till evening, loudspeakers at road crossings, showering water lines and dance of people colored from head to toe… its official day to remain uncontrolled throughout 😀 … what days were those … seriously missing Holi now…

Have fun filled and rocking Holi !!!

🙂