Messenger…

I was watching an old tamil movie where the two lovers from far away places interact thro a dove..…suddenly the pun struck me as to why the chat tools are called instant messengers……sounding similar to instant coffee…perhaps bcos it was supposedly proposed for far off conversations..but reality is not even close…I see my friend calling up her mom and dad in India every other day bcos she wants to hear them than read them…in chat windows..here Iam buzzing my friend for something important… 2 houses far off ….and the reply is all the more exciting..”ttyl (talk to u later). Busy….gotto go take a shower..”..understandable..u have to do it atleast once in 2 days…very interesting...my purpose solved....thinking at y someone ever told me about these messengers and the apparent useful ness of it. Ironic to its name I always have been using it to buzz those local people around as they r the ones who hide away most often than relatively distant people…oh yea..yahoo facilitates to hide from messenger too....Invisible mode…come on .. my friend next door is trying to escape …are we idiots sitting there giving up to technology…...i leave a loud buzz and an alarming list of yahoo offliners…”.u can not escape for too long”…..hopefully thinking that he would get back to me soon...The day any student lands in this continent the first thing they do …after getting a login is to install messengers.. …..we don’t stand there believing the IT ppl on campus who are trying to say that instant messengers are banned on UB network for security reasons... we have found our way out ;) …easy message..proxy chat tool……to chat with ur friends back home to catch up with the 2 days u spent in air…trust me!! the issues would be as worthless as “there is a smart guy/gal who has moved next door to ur house”isn’t that useless atleast after you r now away from ur house ;) ..Remember that here is our student…..trying to study abroad on the so called MS program spending a fortune…but the first thing in the day ever remains.”whats the new toast of gossip back home ....”…thank you MSN and Yahoo…interesting utilities taking care of the IQ improvement application of internet….Another amusement that way most often is that we see our fellow roomie knocking on our comp speaker in the morning…..which means she has gotten up already..may be you should run to catch the bathroom first…good enough communication……just be happy we aren’t emailing each other about when we are getting out of our rooms to talk in the living room…Thank you Internet...for making us so close yet so far…Doesn’t stop at home..I goto work to see this guy secluded in the new room that my company has acquired ,sitting in a corner typing something too fast to believe it to be any kind of code…yea u guessed it right ..its our instant messenger thingy..more comfortably this guy has it in Chinese so that no one would ever find out what he is upto on chat….interesting….may be he is getting some technical help online..;) that’s all I can imagine….and here I am waiting for my friend to talk to me later..after he takes shower..only to discover from his roomie that he took shower surprisingly early in the morning today (Sunday) ..….and the moral of the story goes “ Get used to calling him if u need something urgent….”Good story telling by the instant messengers…Iam always grateful to Alexander Graham Bell ….