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20120922_gmt2045 : that is exactly the time now; what you see below was made on the day that is inserted by my word processor automatically.

i am doing the web pages rather very haphazardly now a days - for one thing i am sick and tired. also  i am not at all sure whether i will be able to put them on the net at all. today for once i had a smooth run till now 2049 hrs gmt and i have been connected for the last 34 mnts that is really some thing special.

i am keeping on postponing the more important works i have to do as well for reasons which  i cannot help.  i know i have to hurry and am going to make a desperate attempt in the next couple of weeks to finalise things

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09/21/12 07:06:37 PM GMT

                                                       we go back in time to 9/19 night.

I was trying to get on to the net and the pimps wanted to come along  -there was a see saw struggle and ultimately I gave it up and decided to try my wireless internet.

I opened my steel almirah ( I do not know the english equivalent but there is a picture for you to see what it is ) 

 

a godrej mini storewell, then opened the locker inside it..

the locker is rather small and one cannot see the inside. and I did exactly what I do when I am looking for something inside the locker; pushed my arm in and started feeling the innards of the locker with my hand.

within seconds ( it was so obvious that ) I hit on something with its edge caught in the small gap between the flooring and side wall of the locker and I pulled it out. it was a small leather case with my bank locker key inside. 

this key had gone missing a few months back and I have paid the bank 4500 rupees as damages in order to get it forced open

 – that was after waiting for three or four months.

in the mean time I had turned every thing inside my small house upside down looking for it as I was certain I had not taken it out of the house. I could find it no where. 
 

the bank was charging Rs.4500/- for a replacement and for me it was an exorbitant sum and I was hoping against hope ( for I am aware that things that go into the black-hole do not come back ) that I might it find it somewhere in the house.

during those months I had searched every nook and corner of the house and every thing else like boxes and suitcases etc. it was during this period that I got my bed room cemented. every thing was taken out and searched before being replaced. the key was no where to be found.

the godrej almirah was given special attention especially the locker for that was where I routinely keep my valuables including the important keys as well as things like the internet modem and that was why I dived into the locker to look up the modem. the bank locker key was not there till recently.

for one thing, it was impossible to have missed it in the position it was in when I found it on 9/19 night. I invariably use the my palpatory method for looking for anything inside the locker. if it is a credit card or some such thing it could be possible that I could have missed it; but the key was inside a three layer leather pouch and in the picture you can see the protrusion that the key inside was producing and it was not at all likely to have escaped notice.

I am not a person of regular habits and in those three or four months I must have looked for something or other inside the locker “n” number of times. and if it has been there it could not have been missed even when I am looking for something else because of its peculiarities.

as is said earlier there is nothing much I can do about it - I know of no medicine that can cure rabies; neither human or canine.

the present strategy is to deprive me of any money that I have by hook or crook. and the charges for loosing the bank locker key had sky rocketed recently from around one thousand rupees or so to rs. 4500/- and that was the monthly pension and sole income that I was getting till recently.

Incidentally I had “lost” my locker key once in the past and that was in the early noughties when all sorts of interesting things like fake enquiries and the notorious “bleeding episode” and such things happened.- that was subsequent to my complaint to the “human rights” commission !

the present situation is not any better.

yesterday I had telephoned a reputed shop in thiruvananthapuram to enquire about a transistor radio. the couple of sets I have ( in fact I have three ) had all been damaged very badly – it was all because of my carelessness I admit. so I desperately needed one for radio is the only communication link I have with the outside world now a days.

when I reached the shop in the evening I found that as expected a reception had been arranged for me - some of the intelligentsia was so keen they were even rushing me. ( I had been a regular customer of this shopping chain since 1993; but one word from the member of the indian peypatti service will turn the table against you. of course times have changed since and the purchases have dropped sharply since my retirement.) so rather than buy from there i left within minutes.

I decided to go back to an electrical shop which I had visited on my way to this particular shop. this time the sales man there cooly told me that “they are not interested in selling radios”. the exact words used by mr. keechakan in a different situation - the directions are coming from the same source. 
 

incidentally I do not practice homeopathy;

in fact I have an aversion to it.  

this is the situation when I am supposed to be free; just imagine what all things I will have to put up with once the eeeMan's of the pakkichi branch “pock” me! ( pock is malayalam equivalent for police man picking you up.   eeeMan means master like in dog and its master - that is how we ordinary mortals are expected to address and treat even the lowest ranking police man in this country)

so I went back to the earlier shop and brought one of the type they had - I am glad it happened that way for this one was a better set by any standards and the price difference was hardly any.

 i liked the set for its cute design and by the way this one has a small led torch on it ! that is the first time i have seen a radio with a torch light. and i have since started listening to the bbc radio for the sets that i had with me did not catch bbc what with the band width being completely taken over by chinese radio broadcasting loud and clear ! 20120922 gmt 1500hrs
 

it was during this second visit that I realised that people were prowling around this particular shop initially in order to meet me as if by accident – they just happened to be there in that shop. the plan did not work out for I did not remain there in the shop long enough for the intelligentsia to execute the plan. 
 

And by the time I reached there the second time, only the skeletal staff were there and the main actors of the drama had gone back ( to the hospital to make more money ) – my returning to the same shop was unexpected. 
 

“gentleman”, if you have anything to convey to me put it in writing along with supporting documents. Telephonic or oral communications will not be taken cognizance of; basic reason being that I have no faith in the integrity of your creed. if tomorrow you claim that you never said whatever you told me, there is no way I can disprove it. 

 

I NEED HARD PROOF and that is why I am stalling my action plan – just in case!.