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20110729

                       I got up rather early at 0430 hrs – I had hit the bed early.

                    I had been to the nedumangad bsnl. Now they do have the application – thank goodness and a few exceptional human beings - and wanted me to provide them the number of the nearest telephone so that they can locate the area. And I had to come back and get the number of the neighbour and gave it to them the next day.

                  I had the telephone number of the neighbouring house – they themselves had given it to me during one of my first few visits here and in deed they had even told me they can try to find out a house on hire for me some where near by. Well later on when I tried to contact them on the phone from ernakulam there was absolutely no response at all – I got the point and had promptly erased the number from my records. There was a function and I did not go any where near by even for sake of formality for I was afraid, rightly or wrongly, that I might get insulted.

             people here will do anything to humor a police man. and the whole area has been sanititsed.

              The latest on the phone shifting is that the telephone people have asked me to ring them up after a couple of days and that call is due to day; but what I feel is that they will postpone giving the connection on one pretext or other. 


            The spies have managed a storm in the tea cup and the bsnl nedumangad will not dare contradict them and will be waiting for orders from the indian gestapo. Let us see.

                    The subengineer of the electricity board duly came over next day and completed the formalities and the papers are with the asst. engineer. In fact at vellanad which is 15 kms from here I had requested him to do the “ticking” that day only so that I can pay the sum there and then and avoid another trip to far away vellanad but he did not have a couple of minutes to spare and did not oblige.

                         yesterday when I telephoned his office, the reply again was that he has not seen it - he must be extremely busy.

                          Hell of a bloody thing yaaar. . . . . .. ; why do you want the telephone connection and permanent electricity connection and all – the gestapi has other plans for you; you dont know! REALLY !!!!!!!!

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              now yesterday proved to be an exceptionally bad day. I had plans to go out with lily and make some purchases and all and got ready in time.

               The first thing was that lily was grounded. She grumbled and then refused to move – the gas was finished. So I was off on my bike with a two liter bottle to get petrol and feed lily. Within a couple of kms from home I had a near miss of getting involved in an accident.

            The main industry here is granites stones from the quarries in and around this place and the rather narrow roads are busy with tipper lorries carrying the stuff. The fully loaded trucks cannot move fast and they hardly ever allow you to over take. I was following one on my bike for some time and got annoyed and tried to over take at a place where there was hardly and space for over taking- very rash of me. I very narrowly missed falling and being run over by the truck. The steep climb and the heavy load in the truck must have helped.

                       In the melee the chain of the bike got broke and I had to leave it there by the road side and make my trip to the bus stop on foot.

            later on in the night with the helping hand of a kind nighbour I pushed the bike into his compound and have left it for the night there. Now I will have to find out if I can succeed in putting the chain back on my own – mechanics are a rare commodity here and all my efforts to get some one even with the lure of taking them over here in my car and back no one obliged.

So I am in for another difficult day just for nothing.

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          During the last week I had been making rounds of the various bsnl offices in and around this area to find out about my application to shift my land line telephone to my present residence without any success whatsoever.

         And I had been to the nedumangad office of the bsnl last week as well as today to find out if the shift application has reached them and they gave me an emphatic NO even today!

            but it turned out later that the papers were delivered to BSNL nedumangad on the fourth of this month; that is more then three weeks back!

            The BSNL nedumangad people do not know me personally; then why were they lying ? 
                                   Are they habitual liers ?

             Or could it be that they are following orders from the charans ( the spies ) who are “looking after” my affairs ?


              If so, from whom exactly ?   the policeman who calls himself cbi “officer” or is it the policeman from the special “pakkichi” branch police.


                                     aruvikkarayil illaveyil kayum
                                                  indian pakkichi

                I travelled by public transport to trivandrum leaving my four wheeler at karakulam in order to save money on gas. However when I had to go to aruvikkara I did not show my stingy side and took my vehicle along ( the tank was near empty and in order to ensure that I had enough gas for the trip to aruvikkara I drove to the nearest pump which was two kilometer away the opposite way ). but it was all in vain

             my idea was to pick up the kseb officer and after his inspecting the wiring of my temporary accommodation enabling me to make an application for an independent electrical connection to it ( now a days I am tapping the temporary connection for construction which happens to be coastlier ) take him back and drop him at his office in the same vehicle.

                         Unfortunately, I could not get anybody to do the inspection and drove back empty handed after waiting for an hour. 


                    You cannot blame these people for they get emergency calls at all sorts of hours and it could just be my “luck”. all the same, the prostitute birds of the indian pimps however were there perching on the tree adjacent to the electricity board office.

               Where is the need for the electricity connection – indian pakkichi is going to take care of you!  

jyo20110715

BIRTH DAY GIFT

and now,

 CHaaaaaaaaaaRGE .. .  .

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jyo20110709

last updated

20110711

        

                20110709: 2000GMT : today or rather tonight, was special – epoch making may be a bit of an exaggeration. For once after more than a month I cooked at home; and 
              the most significant fact was that I was cooking in a place solely owned by me. I had a cup of home brewed tea and a fried egg, all cooked in my own place by myself – a big leap for a poor man!

             It is all in shambles right now with me sleeping in a room full of things thrown around. But things are improving day by day with me putting in a bit of effort daily and trying to bring a semblance of order of sorts as far as possible with the extremely limited space. i am making an effort at expansion with a bit of tentage – petite lily and bullet already have a shelter of sorts with silpaulin sheets.

            I am habituated to drinking tea, strong tea at it, and all through the last one month was pining for it. Today in the evening I had a brain wave and drove to trivandrum city, purchased a kerosene oil stove, procured a couple of litres of kerosene oil at rs.40 per litre  kerosene oil is rationed over here and is supposed to be available at the ration shops only run by the government. I do not have a ration card and the purchase I made I am afraid was not from legal sources and I have paid more than twice the price at ration shops. But I did not have much of a choice there and back home made a small fire place on the land owned by me and got started immediately.

                       As you see in the picture the temporary accommodation is made of highly inflammable material except perhaps for the walls and the fire hazard is real big. So, I have made a fire place at a distance out in the open and am going to cook over there. It is extremely windy over here and I had to make an enclosure from the left over bricks purchased for building the temporary shelter in order to prevent the flame from being blown out.

It is a typical camp site sort of affair!
remniscent of the long field service days of my short service years.

I thoroughly enjoyed the fare; it was a very good beginning.

                   The problem here is that 

               a. the power supply over here is of exceptionally low voltage and there is no question of my microwave oven working – even the fridge refuses to get switched on and that in spite of a voltage stablizer. If the claims of the voltge stablizer manufacturer ( it is suposed to get switched on if the voltage is above 130 ) is right the power supply over here is less than 130 volts while the supposed to be voltage is 240 – 250! and 

                 b.  I cannot get my cooking gas connection without a residence certificate  I am on the job and things are working out right and I hope to get the gas connection in a couple of weeks time.
              
                 So, the nutan kerosene oil wick stove, manufactured in neighbouring tamilnadu, I find, is a very good investment for the time being; thanks to it, the bouts of diarrhoea and the flatulence and such are going to be a thing of the past.

yes,  i have already got an electricity connection;

and that was quite some time back!

Mem zindagi ko sath nibhatha chala gaya;

har zikre ko dhue mem udatha chala gaya!

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post script 
added 20110711

I reached back after a jaunt in the city by past 8pm to find that the power supply was not there, not only for me but those in the neighbouring houses as well. However the opposite hill is well lit up – that is where the pakkichi police is plonking themselves and are making the pbirds run their sorties There is nothing remarkable in a short power failure; but today even now, that is even after midnight the power supply has not been restored and I am carrying on with the net book on batteries and the emergency lamp I had purchased doing a good job lighting up thae whole of the small hillock brillintly – it uses LEDs and can carry on for forty hours if you put it at the minimum possible number of LEDs.

could it be that the reason is the picture of my camp site above with the lights on ? !

incidentally as i was typing this in the usb key board started malfunctioning and i am having a difficult time.


by the way, bad news for my "NoK"; it looks my health is improving. i have started enjoying my evening dose of poison again; one large - that is all And the amorous exertions are becoming more and more frequent even within the confines of this small room - dont tell any body. i think i can do with some protectives - one of the vessels below the corona got injured and there was some bleeding.

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jyo20110629

been to the agricultural college – at the city bus station at east fort ask for the bus to agricultural college and NOT vellayani - looking for some plants for my 9 cent land. 

the place was a disapapointment.


         the old palace where the college is functioning however deserved a few snaps and there it is, me snapping at them!