I got up unsuspecting on a hot Saturday morning in
Bangalore. Blurry eyed I groped for my phone and checked my mail. Strange! No new
emails in the night! Must be because of the long weekend, I thought naively. I opened
Facebook while I was brushing my teeth and hells bells – no new notifications! I
sat zonked for a minute till consciousness kicked in. And I checked the time of
the last post visible on my facebook wall – 1:00am. There had been no update
for the past 8 hours!!
In a moment of sheer brilliance, I checked the network and
saw that I’m not connected to the wi-fi. And that’s when I realized that my
connection isn’t working. Like a true techi, I fiddled around with the modem,
no avail. Finally I gave the service provider a call – we all know THAT doesn’t
work – only to find out that some line had been cut last night and they were
trying to repair it. And here comes the beauty – the repairs will take 24
HOURS!
So began a day with no internet. To be honest, initially I was
stumped. And the super slow 2G on my phone was no relief either. I lolled
around on the sofa, flipping channels, but I am not much of a TV person and I
soon got bored. And then here is what I ended up doing:
- Made breakfast and lunch. And managed to bake a cake. Of course with no internet I couldn’t google recipes, so I had to dig around in my old cookbooks to get to one
- Actually made butter at home from all the cream that had collected over months. I have a solid 200gms of homemade buttery deliciousness now
- In that process, figured out my new food processor that was waiting a demo. Use the guidebook instead and it worked.
- Wrote 800 words on a random topic
- Read 100 pages of ‘21st century skills’
- Went for a walk
- Arranged my wardrobe
- Did 2 loads of laundry
- Had friends over for some booze and chit chat, and
- Finally wrote this blog
Of course all this happened while checking my phone multiple
times in the hope that the wi-fi is back. And with some chatting on whatsapp
since that was the only thing working. But all in all, it was a very productive
day. I would say all of you must try it once – the digital detox. You mull over
it, the net is back, blog is posted and I gotta Facebook.
