On the net, you can find information about your favorite music group’s new album or may even hear a few of their latest songs. At www.hollywood.com you can gather information and see the trailers of the latest movies. As you are enjoying the trailer of X – files, you suddenly hear a big bang Boom!!! (Republic Day Celebration, relax!) But you think that India has exploded another nuke. So you rush to www.expressindia.com to catch the latest news. (If you can’t read English you can always go to www.malayalamanorama.com) While spending a few minutes browsing through the main stories, you come across today’s date – January 26^th. OH NO!! Tomorrow is your sister’s birthday and she lives in USA. She will never ever talk to you again if you don’t send her a bunch of her favourite Red Roses. You don’t know what to do. No time even to buy a card! But no sweat! You just go over to www.virtualflowers.com and in a few clicks, your birthday wishes along with  beautiful ‘virtual’ roses will have reached your sister’s e-mail box. Phew!

But after sending the mail, you become nostalgic and remember all the good times you shared with your sis. You feel that you must talk it out with somebody. You get on IRC (Internet Relay Chart) and start talking (whether they are listening to you or not) to a whole lot of people, of all ages from all over the world. Although you had started talking about your loneliness, you end up discussing ‘How Homework Kills Children’. What HOMEWORK??? You had been completely immersed in the net and had forgotten about the assignments you had to do. But again, no probs! You can always download it from www.schoolsucks.com.

After roaming around the world for over an hour and a half you go to bed, thinking about the places to visit the next day, before sleep overcomes you ….zzzzzzzz

(As for Rahul, he didn’t submit his essay because he couldn’t choose the best among the  4 essays)

Author – Dilip Antony Joseph, Std XI