The Story I wrote for The Dragon Giveaway at absolutevista.com

As you might have noticed in the list of participating websites for the HP HDX Dragon Entertainment Notebook Giveaway (www.31daysofthedragon.com, see previous posts), the first participating website is www.absolutevista.com. Absolute Vista wanted its readers to write up a story which would tell the world how the desktop replacement system would change your life. Here is a copy of the mail that I sent to Absolute Vista that contains my story...

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I need to breathe…

When the deep shades of the street rickshaws no longer attracted me, I went to McNair uncle. I was 12 then. I went the diggy alley, to the house on the edge. The bell on the door was too high for any boy of my age to handle. I had my own ways of calling up uncle from his study. His room featured all the good things that he had collected in his lifetime. His immaculately polished walking stick always lay next to his door, ready for a stride at short notice. He asked me the question that stills rings my ears – 'What do you want to grow up to? '– I said, I want to be a race driver. He eyed me from the corner of his half moon spectacles. Was that more than He had expected? I don't know. We played till late and then he told me to come back on Saturday.

He usually does not say this, so I went there. I thought he wanted to show something. Instead he took me to Eugene, the geek of our city. Back then it was only he who had a personal computer. Uncle had arranged the evening for me. I was racing down the Nilgiris. I was on my Mclaren. From that day I had been racing. The screech of the tyres and the fuzz of the Nitros have always made me shirty. Shirty to win. Whether it be Rockstreet or the roads of the Monaco, the black-eyed Porsche or the yellow hazels of the Lamborghini, it had been always cash, Nox and fun. I could see that I have started growing out of the box. The day I got my license is the day I got my first speeding ticket. My family and my society have pushed me back to the box. It's suffocating. I need to race, race and race till I fall. Give me the dragon, I need to breathe…

I said I need to breathe…

This is a 20 year old computer adhering machine that can be found in Kerala, India. This machine grabs his bike to go to college to earn its B-tech degree and is named Arun Basil Lal. That's me man.

No attachments please…

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I did not have enough luck to grab the Dragon. The winner at Absoulte Vista was Derek Hunter. Congratulations Derek.

Proceed to Absoulte Vista to read the winning story and the runner-up's.