Agony of a shitty connection.

...Atlast!!!....a working Http link for Need For Speed:Most Wanted!!....yaaaay!....copy link,open Getright,paste link...start download...yippie!

And then it strikes me!!!....69Hrs for 700Mb.....HOLY MOTHER OF JEWISH CLOWNS!!..THATS A LONG TIME! But i don't have much of a choice with a 64K connection i suppose,so i crib,mutter the choicest words at my cablewala and let the download continue,all the while thinking of the speeds my friend's get...not that its gonna help me much anyways!

So...a whole day passes by....65Hrs for 650Mb,seems almost as if time has frozen.But then,i console myself sayin...its just 3 days of continuous downloading,not all that bad eh? True,if only my dad doesn't check the mail a 100 times a day....if only i didn't have to talk with 100 ppl online....if only i didn't have 100 lil 2mb pieces of software to download in the middle! You see,a 64K connection is not very MULTI TASKING friendly...i keep something for download and commit the horrible mistake of chatting with someone,rest assured,the message i type at 7.43PM will reach the intended recipient EXACTLY at 8.43PM...kinda defies the very purpose of "Instant" Messaging doesn't it?

Either ways...3 days turns 6,which in turn becomes 9...but then finally i see some light at the end of a rather long,dark,slow,disconnection prone tunnel....90% of the download done....about 6 more hours to go,thats digestable i presume.

Either ways,after much pain and agony (and cursing), the download is finally done. All happy an all,i go about announcing it to the world+dog,until it hits me like a rather heavy/large egg....THAT WAS JUST CD 1....HOLY BAZOOKAS!...3 MORE CD'S TO GO!!....this is when i go through the now,everyday practice of muttering the choicest words at my cablewala,thinking about the speeds my friend's get..you know..the usual cycle.

After almost an entire month....ITS FINALLY !@#$% DONE!!!!...i immidiately run out to the temple,armed with a coconut and tell the priest to do the needful.Then i run back home just as fast...eager to Unzip the game...ignoring the 20 diferent IM windows that have popped up...ignoring my mom's call for lunch...ignoring my body's urge to relieve itself of some weight..:)

Alright....after the usual virus scan an all....the moment of truth has arrived...Unzipping CD1...10...50...100%...OK....Unzipping CD2...10...50...100%..OK...Unzipping CD3...10...50...100%..OK...(NOTE: It doesn't really go that fast....its a lot slower....teasing you all the while...) and then finally....CD4...10...50...70...90...99%......its then i realize....WAIT A SEC....ITS BEEN AT 99% A TAD TOO LONG FOR COMFORT....this thought is followed by repeated chanting of the gayatri mantra...kissing the monitor...patting the CPU...anything that WONT/SHOULD NOT really help,but i do it anyways....but then alas....at 99%...."CRC FAILURE.The File is corrupt,please obtain another copy and try again."....im left speechless....all the life sucked outta me....and its then i think about what might have gone wrong,perhaps TWO coconuts would have helped me out?

Bu bye
MyTHun