iConsult

30 GB of raw music and entertainment. Mindblowing sound quality. Status statement and style symbol. A reminder that I too can contribute to the world. A gift from a friend. All that, and much more... my new iPod:


I don't know how your new years have started off, but I sure have had a rocking start to the year!! My home-grown 'Santa' came alive, and I was gifted this beauty sometime between Christmas and New Year! And yes, I wish I could smile a little wider to show how happy I am to have received this gift.

It deserves a little history, perhaps. Lets just say my advice came in handy for my room-mate who was having a few technical difficulties in his office projects. At that time, my only motivation for helping him out with those quirky problems were the challenge itself, a little break at times from the sort of research papers I was grinding through, and of course the fantastic quesadilas he treated me to at the end of the 'consulting sessions', we shall say. Imagine my surprise, then, when he comes up with a nicely wrapped gift on Christmas with a card that says so much, and with something inside that I had secretly planned to buy one day when I had enough money!! I was grinning ear to ear for the whole night --- unbelievable!! :)

I did not dare touch the iPod for a whole day: I just liked the sight of it sitting there and shining and shimmering in the light from the black case. It is like the feeling as a child when you like to smell the new pair of boots you've just bought and don't want to open or use them: you just like them as they are --- even sleep while you clutch them on! And then I opened it, heard the sound, loaded songs... whoa! Mindblowing! Das keeps telling me that I've earned it and that it is rather a bribe in case future technical problems come up and he needs my help. Dear Lord, if this is the kind of gift you can get for helping people out with little problems, then I am prepared to start my official consulting career!!

Whoever said being a geek, a prankster, a tweaker and tinkerer with a sense of adventure doesn't pay obviously never lived my life! Whoever said GNU/Linux doesn't pay never really felt their power. Thanks, Das... I am really overwhelmed, even if you keep repeating that I have earned it. Dear readers... I can 'hear' a great 2007 coming up for me... may you all have a 'blast' of a time this year as well. May your secret desires come true, may the heavens select their choicest blessings to shower on you, and may you surpass your own expectations and set new standards! Have a great time!!