Hahahahhahahahaaaha..

"Hahahhahahahaaha..", yes that was the reaction of all my friends, much like my parents, when i told them the tragic story of the cell phone. This is day 2.

Maybe you should know a little background first. Ever since i got the Apple iPhone, i am madly in love with it. Its almost unreal how much i care about this little electronic gadget. Many of my friends, including my girlfriend, think i care about the phone more than i care about them! Oh and just like any other kid my age, i send an insane number of text messages and make many hours worth of calls everyday!

So now when i go online on Facebook and MSN (my last living sources of communication with the outside world), i tell all my friends about my phone getting taken away. Let me quote some of their reactions (and yes most of them start off with a "ahahhahahahaaha..").


"HAHAHAHAHA. Too bad :)"

"Your precious iPhone? HAHAHAHA."

"Yay! No competition from your phone for a whole week =D I wonder how you'll survive though =P"

"and for ur cell...hahahhahahahahha!!!!"

"HAHAHA :P"

"HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHA you so deserved that . for not calling me that is . :)"

"haha... sooo sad :P :("


Yeah i know, sweet friends right?

Well trying to go on and live without a phone, I remembered we have ways out of this thanks to the technological advancements in the 21st century. We have Skype!! So now we start using Skype and realize its just like a phone! Of course me finally having another way of vocal communication was much to the displeasure of my mother (who was very excited about my phone being taken away) and i am pretty sure the first time she saw me she thought i was talking to myself looking at the computer screen!

And with that we are 2 days down!!

I am gonna miss you...

Ok this is one of the tragedies in a 17 year old boy`s life. My beloved cell phone, that i love very very much and cannot really live without, got confiscated by my English teacher in school on Thursday. Along with me, a good friend also managed to get his phone taken away. So we begged for our phones back, but since this blog is called "8 days WITHOUT a phone" its no surprise that we didn`t get them back and so i won`t spend much time talking about it.

Our school laws state that a confiscated mobile phone stays with them for one week. But unfortunately the following Thursday is a holiday (stupid public holidays always come at the wrong time)!! So we only get it back next Friday, after school, making it 8 days (27th August 2009 - 4th September 2009).

Not lets look at a few important dates on my social calendar during this time period which i would have really needed my phone for.


Saturday, 29th August: 1) Manchester United vs Arsenal
2) Real Madrid vs Deportivo (la liga season opener)

Tuesday, 1st September: Girlfriend`s Birthday

Thursday, 3rd September: A good friend`s birthday (the one who`s phone got taken away with mine)


So now i head home, feeling incomplete without my phone in my pocket. And the phone-less troubles start right away. Since i didn`t have my phone, i had to listen to radio all the way home. And my, has the quality of that dropped so badly over the last few months.

Anyway, i come home and tell my parents and grand mother the heart breaking story. They of course find my miseries very amusing, and looking at the amount of time i spend on my phone, i do not blame them.

Now i had plans to meet up with a friend who`s down from Canada for a while that evening after SAT class. But since i have no phone, there was no way to co ordinate. But that wasen`t very hard as i just ended up dropping by at her place after class.

So day 1 was that. It felt very strange to not have my phone to wish goodnight before i slept. But oh well!! *sigh*