ma storage

1.44MB floppy once could hold all the data you had and still would have space left in it!

I still remember the joy I felt when I was presented with a 256MB pen drive. I thought I would never own enough content to fill her up.

Now four years into the future, the very thought of not able to fill even a 256MB sounds silly. With storage devices beefing up with a lot of storage, I started chasing all the films, music, pictures, ads, albums, wallpapers I wanted to see and have in my personal collection.

I pursued every director I adored - Spielberg, peter Jackson, Robert Zemeckis, George Lucas, ... I collected all the actors and actresses whose performance I loved the most - Clint eastwood, tom hanks, Morgan Freeman, Will Smith, Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, Hilary Swank, ...

I went onto music, ads, albums, talks, seminars, ... and god knows what else. It slowly became evident for me that I need to have a gatekeeper for my sea of data.

Whom to trust with my precious collection?

I googled to see what others are saying. For "most reliable external hard disk manufacturer" keywords, google produced a ton of results. I found references to many products but what caught my eye was that there were hardly any complaints against a Seagate product.


And for good reasons.

Sturdy and trendy design coupled with great software makes it the ideal device for all your backups. The five year warranty reflects seagate's confidence on their engineering.

When you plug it into the dock, it immediately lights up as if it is smiling at you. Also its easy to carry around with formfactor comparable to an iPhone.


I can make a lot of people happy with my tera bytes of quality entertainment stuff. when people are happy it shows on the world.

girl friend-no chance

“Hey bro, don’t you have a girl friend?” Fathulla asked looking at me.

We were out of tavels and discussing the rain. Suddenly when he asked me this, I was taken back.

He was still looking at me. I hesitated a little thinking what I should tell him. (Every Maldivian had –which I get to know later)Before I could decide what to say, he added, “You know, with the glamour of yours …”

He shouldn’t have said that.

“Yeah. I know it and so do you. But these girls, they don’t know it. Idiots!”

I was smiling when I said this.

He was smiling too. He knew he had company.

Marriage-o-girlfriend!

What are these girls up to? I can’t help wondering, marriage invitations are poring in on the dozens. Why is everybody in a hurry? Is something going on without my knowledge? Am I being kept in the dark deliberately? Hmm ... that’s not possible. Why would anyone want that? Hard to say.

But seriously, why the rush? Half the girls in my class have either got married or at least got betrothed. But soothingly enough, not even a single boy of my class is not even a mile near this. He he. Boy am I glad or what?
I am also noticing that most of the alliances are happening with NRIs only. Statistics are really frightening. What is wrong with the local boys? The only good thing is that I now have classmates all over the world. I can go on a trip around the globe without any worry of boarding. Free stay! Man ain’t I lucky?

So, where does that leave me? By the time I want to get married two things can happen – either there won’t be any girl left or being a home-grown local could ruin my chances. From the sounds of it, it is true they say that the future is indeed bleak.