The computer and the ways of the net have been objects of apprehension in my life till some 9 months ago.
While i would agree with all & sundry how the computer has made our lives easier, i was only paying lip service.
All this changed last month, when i planned our family holiday. Here was I, a babe in the woods so to speak, valiantly surfing the net for cheap air tickets if you please. To top it off, also proudly claiming to one & all how the net has so much to offer!!!
When i started out, i had not a clue about how to go about it.I just clicked on airline sites and gave my dates.First time lucky they say, but in my case it proved to be true........i just couldn't believe it. It certainly felt like eating chocolate, it was so easy !
With my new found confidence i went surfing for hotels!!! Boy oh boy i seemed to be spoilt for choice! There were hotels & hotels & all i needed to do was click my requirements.If this isn't a cakewalk then what is?
Unfortunately hotels needed credit card details for booking purposes.......& that i did not have. Internet banking in my dictionary was meant for city slickers, not required in my parts of town !
Goodbye beautiful self-confidence, hello sleepless nights. Would i ever be able to scale these mountains that kept coming up ? So help me God!!! Believe you me I am a selfish believer, when nothing seems to work i go in search of the Divine intervention. So far He hasn't let me down!
The card details proved to be small pebbles in this vast ocean of learning i had embarked on. Maybe the Supreme Being took a fancy to my new avatar. Whatever it was, this new self confident me certainly managed to scale the new 'impossibles'.
We have had the best vacation ever......the children are back in school with happy memories.......yours truly is certainly a lot wiser with the ways of the computer AND raring to surf the net for more holiday options.
While i would agree with all & sundry how the computer has made our lives easier, i was only paying lip service.
All this changed last month, when i planned our family holiday. Here was I, a babe in the woods so to speak, valiantly surfing the net for cheap air tickets if you please. To top it off, also proudly claiming to one & all how the net has so much to offer!!!
When i started out, i had not a clue about how to go about it.I just clicked on airline sites and gave my dates.First time lucky they say, but in my case it proved to be true........i just couldn't believe it. It certainly felt like eating chocolate, it was so easy !
With my new found confidence i went surfing for hotels!!! Boy oh boy i seemed to be spoilt for choice! There were hotels & hotels & all i needed to do was click my requirements.If this isn't a cakewalk then what is?
Unfortunately hotels needed credit card details for booking purposes.......& that i did not have. Internet banking in my dictionary was meant for city slickers, not required in my parts of town !
Goodbye beautiful self-confidence, hello sleepless nights. Would i ever be able to scale these mountains that kept coming up ? So help me God!!! Believe you me I am a selfish believer, when nothing seems to work i go in search of the Divine intervention. So far He hasn't let me down!
The card details proved to be small pebbles in this vast ocean of learning i had embarked on. Maybe the Supreme Being took a fancy to my new avatar. Whatever it was, this new self confident me certainly managed to scale the new 'impossibles'.
We have had the best vacation ever......the children are back in school with happy memories.......yours truly is certainly a lot wiser with the ways of the computer AND raring to surf the net for more holiday options.
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