Read this, this is funny... lest for me; thought about it while sitting in front of the TV after a long working day at office. Not that the television was switched on, well i was wondering about the evolution of TV.
Remembered the old days. When my grandpa used to say, "Son! Ours was one of the few houses in town that had a color Tv at that time!". It was a sonodyne by the way and the whole family used to get involved while switching on the TV. There used to be only one channel, the doordarshan and all the people trying to hook on to it, the signal used to be weak. Biggest and the highest antennae was a status symbol at that time.
Sunday morning 7am. Grandpa fully pumped up to see the news on DD. Now see the drama. Dadu switches on the TV, sees all pixated. Yells and calls my dad. My dad, very talented in making the TV work; he can smell the signal out of thin air :P, scratches his beard and says... "Hmm feels like we have to rotate the antennae in the correct direction, can you see the hill in the north, the Tv tower is right on that, the antennae has to face that". Look at Dad's research, he even knows wherethe TV towers are!!! Now you need to look at the Tv and at the same time turn the antennae to stop at the point where it starts catching signal. You need 3 people here, Dadu and Dad are already there, one more required, I am called in only to run up stairs and rotate the antennae, while my dad standing in the courtyard giving directions and my dadu twisting the TVs ears as if punishing him for not showing up the stuff! Start working beeetch!! Grandpa yells in punjabi... and whoa.. the very next moment, dad says stoooop, and I hold it right there. I listen a bit more carefully and I hear the old DD news jingle; it still lingers in my ears fellas!
And now, there are so many channels and there is a new term coined to have a look at all of 'em.. 'channel surfing!' And the remote, I think it is the biggest vice for mankind today. It kills a human, makes him handicapped :P. You do not beleive me, take the following example and I am sure all of us have done this. Sitting on the lazy couch, you are watching your faourite TV serial and suddenly you remember, OH! What is the score... you look out for the remote to change the channel and you find it lying 3 feet away from you on the table. Goddam hell... how lazy we become... picking that remote is just like climbing up a steep hill and we wait for someone passing by to pass on the remote to us, we we won't damn get up! See the laziness! :P
Well now, coming back... I am feeling lazy to remove my clothes fellas.... brrrrr... wanna keep on musing.
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