Technological advancement leads to a Bombardment …thinks dad’s Antar Atman!

            7^th December 2010:

            Abiding by the routine we went to work .This day seemed to be sunny, hence we had asked mom n dad to visit the Aquarium in the city. Upon our direction, Mom asked Dad to put the camera batteries for charging. Mom and Dad tried to finish their morning activities as early as possible.

In the afternoon, it started pouring hence we asked them to carry an umbrella.Dad & Mom seem to have left home by then and reached the Glen Huntly station. We said we would give them the spare umbrella we had at office, hence asked them to meet us at the Tram stop. We kept calling every 5-7 minutes and after a while dad says he is already near the Aquarium. Assuming we were busy with work, they refrained calling us. As soon as they entered, the aquarium crew asked them if they would like a photograph taken. Looking at people getting pictures, mom asked dad to take snaps from our camera. Dad clicked, unaware of the hard reality that this click was a trigger to a missile bombardment. The camera read “Out of Memory.” This is when reality broke into and dad realised there was no memory card inside. Mom was terribly upset and she was like “I asked you to check charge, can’t you check if memory card was inside or not?”

Upset mom tried to control her anger by not talking to dad. Meanwhile, Sravan calls up and asks Dad to get a “picture of the day “done at the aquarium. Dad would not even bother to consider this suggestion as it costed dollars. This is the first time when Mom saw wonderful fishes of different species and she wanted to capture these in our camera. Dad did not let mom go for Picture of day... Moreover, they just were looking around. Sravan instant messaged me of this situation. I could imagine the degree of disappointment which mom was undergoing. I gave a buzz …to check on their situation. I suggested dad to buy a disposable camera at the souvenir shop inside the aquarium. Dad seems to be not responding properly as he did not intend to spend... Hence, he completely ignored us. I tried to empathising with mom and said “We will all go to the aquarium again as I have not seen Melbourne Aquarium”. She says again  ...” Malli vestama … mavayya illa ne chestaru”

Somehow after a while dad tried to please mom by taking pictures from the backup Sony Ericson mobile phone. Well Mom by now has gone to Mauna Vratam and she would not talk to dad. We reached the Tram stop where Dad & Mom waited for us. Mom says from now on she would not go anywhere with only dad. She says she would go only when we are also accompanying them. It was evening and mom had to drink Tea. At first we wanted to take her to the Nepalese restaurant, however we changed the plan and took them to Flora. We ordered 2 tea and 2 plates of Samosas in spite of Sravan asking me not to order Samosas as he was not interested in them. After few minutes garam garam somosas and chai was ready to be picked from the counter. Everyone including Sravan seemed to have enjoyed. We went to the federation square and Yarra river walk. All these while I tried to get mom back in form by taking multiple snaps in iphone .. and she seem to have regained her spirit. It was great to watch the busy Streets of Melbourne by sitting at the federation square.

After an hour, we head towards the beauty of silence (home) from the busy streets of the city. The still home of ours welcomed us to its interiors and everyone wanted to go to sleep as early as possible.While recollecting memories before sleeping dad's antar atman thought "its not my fault.. its the technology.. people were most happy when they had no camera's at all .. they enjoyed the real  beauty..." ...convinced by this slowly dad fell asleep.