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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.