Reading for sleeping or Sleeping for reading??

One week of stay away from hostel, an unexpected visit to home. I reached home on 5^th and stayed there till 12^th. This is the first time I am staying away from the world of INTERNET since my second year of BTech. Many a time I feel that I am wasting my time reading blogs, orkuting, chatting... I am not using the net for any academic purposes. So this time I thought of utilizing my time fruitfully. I decided to do certain things during my stay at home this time.

Read “NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS” by Jeffrey Archer.

Yeah, I took this book from the hostel library two weeks back. But due to my hectic schedule , I didnt get time to read even a single page of it. Even during the vacation time, I could not find time to read books due to me sitting in front of the comp all the time. It is believed by many, that the reading habit in people is affected adversely, due to the influence of internet.I too believed in that before going home.Today is 13^th, and I am back to IIT. So what happened to you last week?? Did you complete that book??

Before answering these questions, first of all let me tell you some thing personal . Both my AMMA and APPA are employed. So my stay at home implies staying alone in the morning time. When I was at home, every day I used to get up at 8 O’clock. “Da, vegam vallathum kazhikku…Njangalkku officil pokendathalle?. Ennenkilum nee aa Emergency Lamp nannakkan kodutthatthu medeikkanam.” [Da take some thing fast (break fast time). We need to go to office right?. Don’t forget to go to the near by electrical shop to buy the Emergency Lamp. He has repaired it ”] . Shit... my sleep got disturbed.

After having the break fast and reading the headlines of the news paper, by about 10 O'clock, I would go to my room, with the Archer's book in hand. Then I would switch on the Radio, listen to FM, open the first page of the book. "Sitting in this chair and reading book is really uncomfortable for me!! I should lie on my SWEET BED and then read the book." Hai good, this is really comfortable... [:D].Let me think what I read yesterday. Thoughts...stories...dreams....What happened to me?? My mobile is ringing..." Who is disturbing me now ?? ". Already 4 missed calls.. Checked the time in the mob...4.20pm. So today also I missed my lunch. ' Amma has kept every thing on the dining table, but still I did not take any thing.

4.30 pm, some questions in mind..." Whether to shave today or not..Whether to take a bath or not??". Time 4.50pm, " Let me take a bath now. I will shave tomorrow". Time 5.15pm, "Now I am feeling really HUNGRY..[:(]" ..Take the food man. Every thing is on the dining table.. “ Enikku kashappedan vayya…enthayalum amma 5.45kku varum…enittu kazhicchal mathi…” [Amma will come back by 5.45pm. Will take the food after that.] ..

“When am I going to finish that book?”. Appa would be back by 6.45pm. 7.30- 8.00 ….Oh no!! Have I become blind? I am not able to see any thing… [:(] ..Yeah, this is the LOAD SHEDDING TIME. People, who are not familiar with this particular term, : Come to Kerala and stay for a few days. You will understand the meaning of it. “ Ennum nee athu medicchille??” [U did not buy it (Emergency Lamp) even today?”]..

8.30- 9.30pm – Idea Star Singer 2008. The only time, when three of us stay together and watch a TV programme . My parents would sleep by 10 pm. I may be watching some old movie till midnight, then sleep.............

Even though there was no net at home for one week, I could not finish even 4 pages of that book. Thus I realized that INTERNET is in no way doing harm to me. It is not a TIME WASTE. Who said, “ The reading habit in people is affected adversely, due to the influence of internet?"