When i got online...

It must be 5 or 6 years back that i might have used the internet for the 1st time, it was kind of cool in school days , having your own Email and all ... though it sounds pretty lame now as a my cousin who is 5 years old has her own Email Id , thats Narayani Bhatnagar for you , elders though tell me that i was a brat when i was a kid (am i still one ?), wait till you meet her .. Anyways back to the topic , i remember i had initially had started chatting in chat rooms via Yahoo! Messenger havin the most cheeziest of id nicks buzzing_around2002@yahoo.co.in (yeah you can laugh over it but its better than coolboy, or hotboy or angelgirl)... Today I logged onto my account after like a year or so. Yahoo! has this unique feature of automatically saving all your past conversations online, that is if you would have used yahoo! messenger.

The Net was just right for me. I could lie , I could pretend i could say anything to anyone.

Here are few transcripts that actually took place about 5 years ago.

Vital Info- My Id is buzzing_around2002

6.30 p.m.

buzzing_around2002: Hi

pleazemeetme: ASL pls

buzzing_around2002:What…?

pleazemeetme: Are you a guy or a girl?

buzzing_around2002: Guy. Why?

pleazemeetme: Fuck off you punk. !!

Later I would come to know that pleazemeetme was a guy looking for a girl.

6.45 p.m.
buzzing_around2002: Hi

meetmeinheaven: asl?

buzzing_around2002: You mean sex?

meetmeinheaven: Yes. How did you know what I was thinking?

buzzing_around2002: Just like that. I am a guy.

meetmeinheaven: Then why do you want to have sex with me?

buzzing_around2002: When did I say that?

meetmeinheaven:Buzz off you fruit cake (incase you did not know, it means a homo i got to know that later)

This guy was desperate.

7.00 p.m.
buzzing_around2002: asl?

pinky190479: 15/F/Lukhnow

buzzing_around2002: whats that?

pinky190479: My asl dumbo.

buzzing_around2002: Does asl mean age, sex and location?

pinky190479: Yes. Guess you are too dumb. Bye.

buzzing_around2002: No…no.. I am new to chat.

pinky190479: That’s fine. Bye.

By now, I had smartened up and realized that on the net the guys are looking for girls. And girls too are looking for girls.

7.15 p.m
radhika_kumar (BTW, this is me): Hi

jaya_bisht79:hi

radhika_kumar: asl?

jaya_bisht79: 18/F/Nanital (UP)

radhika_kumar: Cool.

jaya_bisht79: Your asl?

radhika_kumar: 18/F/New Delhi

jaya_bisht79: Thats neat.

radhika_kumar: So what do you do?

jaya_bisht79: I am a student doing Commerce with Maths.

radhika_kumar: I cannot believe my luck. My brother is into science and he wants to shift to commerce. He had some doubts.

jaya_bisht79: What kind?

radhika_kumar: If it is worth everything, salary expected …you know that kind. If it is ok with you, shall I give him your id?

jaya_bisht79: Hm….fine. Should not be a problem. Is he online?

radhika_kumar: No he is not online now. I just called him up and gave him your id. BTW, his yahoo id is buzzing_around2002

jaya_bisht79: No hassles.

radhika_kumar: That is really nice of you. He will get in touch with you shortly. I will log off now , takecare bye bye .

Fifteen minutes after I logged off, I logged in again, this time as buzzing_around2002. We struck the right chord. She is still my chat friend and keeps enquiring about my sister Radhika Kumar,though we speak rarely nowadays