jyo20140314

Mera rang roop nikhar gaya;

Mera yaarr much se bichhad gaya!

 i  wanted some passport size photographs for an official document.

       in my effort to save money i started taking some snaps myself and, in the bargain, i got some very interesting results.

      below you can find a bunch as a slide show; i thought you, the members of the intelligentsia, might find it interesting!

                    your efforts are paying - the NoK has done their entrusted job it looks!

it is time for you  to celebrate, no ?

09:17:06 PM GMT 03/17/14

Right now I am making an effort to get the address in my driving license and the vehicle registration certificates changed to my present home address.

And I had a good look at my photograph in the present license taken in 2009. The physical degeneration is drastic.

What could be the reason for this very remarkable change in my appearance in the last few years ?

The fact of the matter is that over those years I was being “licked” by the Indian peppatti.

The Indian peppatti licked away the flesh leaving the skin and bones and i became a bag of bones. The flesh accumulated on the peppattees' big paunches.

Peppatti means a rabid dog - the hindi equivalent is pagal kutha.

The Indian peppatti is a protected variety and the tax payers money is lavished on them through the unaudited funds made available to them in the name of paying their pimps for gathering “intelligence” .

The word “intelligence” here is used as when you call faeces, jelebi. 

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TempusSans ITC

If you want to read my blog in all its full glory you have to have this font on in your computers font folder (in the control panel).

This particular font is available in a folder on the net;

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03/09/14 GMT 12:22:24 PM: -

I brought a mobile phone- the situation here is that if you do not have a mobile number you do not exist.

Till recently I had a mobile number – the internet modem that I had could double up as a phone as well and it has a valid mobile number. The charm of it is that it was just a number only; I will not have to attend the phone for except when connected to my puter the reply you get will be that the phone has been switched off.

Even now you can try that number +91-9349558387 and you will get a some what similar response for once it was stolen I got the company to block it with some difficulty for you have to produce the very same papers of identity that you had shown at the time of getting that connection.

I thought once I get another wireless usb I can still continue similarly. But the device I now have is a simple wireless internet connection and there is no phone number – yes I brought a wireless internet connection as well and about that later in this write up.

So I ultimately went in for a cell phone connection; and the miser that I am I went for the cheapest hand set. This one shown below comes for 1290 INR and along with the cost of the simcard and the initial prepaid call card it comes to 1400 INR.

But even this handset I find has too many gadgets; who is going to use the internet on this miniscule thing ? NOT me! what I wanted was a simple one.

   

I have never used a cell phone and am gradually coming to grips with it.

And indeed it was not a smooth affair getting a connection for a person of my notoriety; there were stumbling blocks ( man made ) and it took four days to make my first call that is even after making the payment.

                                Well it is working, at least for the time being.

USING THE INTERNET,  
FOR ONCE  IN Nedu !

The new net connection is a positive asset. You see I am regularly getting a down load speed around one mb and it can even go to 1.5 mb.

the screen shot below shows 1113 kbps!

           

So I have started downloading bbc podcasts again and am getting connected to the civilised world once more. I dont have to waste my time while I am cooking and I have got my spare speakers in the anteroom so that I can listen to something at the same time as I do the cooking.

Another fact is that the isp has given 10 GB extra download in the initial month and you cannot blame me if I am tempted – you see I have to use it up before the month end ( and then of course I will have to pay 150 for the next 750MB ). so I am trying to make hay; but the problem is that YP once in a while says that they are undergoing maintainance – what a pity.

So I do have compnay now a days and things are really looking brighter.

addendum 20140322: 

 in deed! yesterday (20140321) morning hours i down loaded one gb ( i still have  4Gb of the total 10 GB freebee from the isp) and the speed shot up to 2MB per second. that is tremendous. 
usually i just down load the youPorn movies i fancy; but this time i was watching and * # $ %  and simultaneously downloading. ( please do NOT tell anybody ) but that is till march 27 when the free allowance expires. under normal rates it is a rather costly affair which i cannot afford.
by the way i got down 250 mb of bbc podcasts as well. and i do lizten to them mostly when i do the cooking and the house hold chored - there is an extension speaker in the anteroom.

MAKING THE BEST OF A BAD SITUATION   

The KuB antenna has conked off but I have the songs that I had captured on to my computer my choice ones.

The bsnl broad had been dead for the last whole week and still is dead – who cares!

It is a sunday and I had been at home all through, for that matter I did not go out yesterday also and indeed for the first time brought some milk eggs and bananas from a local shop rather than make a trip to Trivandrum or perurkada.

There is going to be some fun tomorrow and I have to get ready and am going to call it a day with the puter for the time being

CLOUD NINE

jyo20140303

03/03/14 GMT 04:10:55 PM: -

Today again I had been to the city and this time again I chose to go by public transport. And there, as long as you avoid the peak hours and you can take your own time and wait for a bus where you can manage a seat there is not much of a problem. That way I choose to get in from the terminuses and it helps.

Well; my purpose was to get a cell phone for my land line is still dead and I wanted to get even with the “gentry” . The reliance staff here are not my friends either. Usually once you buy a connection it gets activated within 24 hours as per the company's norms; but I have been told that it might take three days to activate it.

Well; the most likely scenario is that the staff here will not upload the files to their headquarters during the next two days. There is nothing much I can do about it.

The fact of the matter is that within the next two days “kayamath aayega” -  a highly knowledgeable philosopher of the area and his disciples have given me two choices -  either spend the rest of your life in jail or in a mental asylum; the choice is mine!
                                   "ivite ninnum poye theeroo.."

that way there is no disagreement on the matter amongst the locals. "nammakku ithu vittukittunna kashu kondu matteviteyengilum poyi oru veetu vangi thamasikkam" that was a shubh chinthak of mine.

incidentally i had been living here for about two and a half years. after my arrival a family had started living here in a nearby  house they had brought. Now a days i find that they are no more here.  i am told they had sold the house and left. They obviously they had come with the idea of settling here and could be that they found the place uncongenial.

a young man whom i know casually i found was building a house on the other side of the road. i was wondering why this fellow when he could have got a better place and in a far more comfortable situation on this side of the road - and in my foolishness i even asked him why not?  he did not say anything.
later on it occurred to me that it could be that segregation of some sort is still being practised here even now; like which all people can stay where all. or  it may even be that you yourself are aware that  you cannot  feel at homeat certain places.

          yeh sub much jaise phudhuom ko kaise samajh men aayega ? !

To day in the evening I found that the my Ku band free DTH is not working – NO SIGNAL. There is no way I can find out whether the whole satellite has been hijacked or it was just a minor tampering with my dish antenna. Let us see.

The land line phone is just hanging on the wall in front of me silently. 
The letter has already been delivered to the pgm this evening. It is a speed post letter and here is the track report.

This time there is no ambiguity and the letter has really been delivered.

So all out side connection has been cut off; but the internet is functioning and the download is not bad as far as my experience is concerned for it is the first time I have seen the internet connection crossing one mb per sec! And in deed I downloaded two or three bbc podcasts some time back and it took only one minute to down load a 12mb podcast and in practice it is a real good speed, as far as my experience is concerned. video streaming and all still is a problem.

                an interesting feature is the date of a local news paper that is being loaded on my looking up the latest news -

 initially it was the jan15 news and later it became feb 06. also when i had reinstalled a win xp and started browsing the default home page chosen by the browser some thing i had used long back before this hdd was formatted and which i did not have on the system.

My water purifier is working in spite of the fact that it had some initial problems and in spite of the fact that I could not get the service representative here. The actual problem was that some mischief monger had loosened a screw at the bottom and that was the reason for the leak. I tightened it and it is functioning fine now and the water is wholesome and I enjoy drinking lots and lots of cold water especially with the hot weather over here. When I had to purchase packaged water I used to severely restrict the water intake the miser that I am.

I have noticed a technical snag in my blogs – see I have started liking a particular font Tempus Sans ITC and I am using it in almost all my documents. But the problem is that it is not a very common font and most other computers my blogs appear awkward aestheically. So now a days I am changing my blog into one of the common fonts Georgia

             now a days if you dont have a cell phone you do not exist. I could manage earlier as the usb wireless modem could double up as a cell phone as well and the charm was that I could get SMS at cheap rates and even free and the best thing was that I wont have to take the calls for it comes on line only when I connect it to the computer and will say that I have switched off. Sms on the other hand will be saved on the server and once I connect to the puter it will be delivered. I really miss that device.

CLOUD NINE

jyo20140302onMyHomePhone

CHERIYATH JYOTHI

THE CLOISTER, NR. ROCK PARK, VENKODE B.O.,

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM – 695028

NO.JYO2014/TELE/03A                                                                       02 MRCH 2014

TO

THE PRINCIPAL GENERAL MANAGER  

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM TELECOM, TRIVANDRUM -695001

( as speed post letter no. EL166290796IN )

TELEPHONE NO.472-2802028 DEAD SINCE 20140301 EVENING

Respected Sir,

I found my home telephone no. 472-2802028 dead at about 2000hrs on 20140301 and the above phone was still dead when I left my home at 1200hrs noon on 20140302 (that is today).

PAST HISTORY

Sometime in early January 2014 I had lodged a complaint with the telecom authorities about the non-functioning of the ADSL facility on the above land line.

The claim of the sde nedumangad bsnl on the matter as he spoke to the sde cto on the phone was that

1. the problem was with the faulty line,
2. They had checked and cleared the line up to the DP and there was no problem in that section
3. So the problem must be with the section of the wire from the DP to the telephone instrument inside the house.
4. The staff are not able to clear the above portion as the customer, that is me, is not allowing his staff to enter the house and repair it.

I ignored the above statement and realizing that there is no point in my trying to reason with your staff, left things alone.

Since then, that is from early January to February 28, 2014, I have not made a single call from the above telephone and had left the thing alone – I was all through paying the bill. and i never even tried the adsl internet during  that period.

Some time in mid February I had noticed that the line has become clear and there was no noise any more.

I wonder how this could have happened as according to the sde the fault was with the internal wiring and "I have NOT ALLOWED any one to enter the house"  from then on as well. The reason will be obvious to any sensible human being.

I left the telephone at it for I knew that once I start using the telephone, it will be made noisy again.

All the same, on march 01, 2014 I started using the phone again and made a few calls. Every thing was smooth and I got through to a home appliance service people who agree to come and attend to my equipment within 48 hours after ringing me up on the above telephone of mine.

I left the house in the evening on a trip to Trivandrum and when I returned at around 2000hr s in the night I found that the phone was dead.

And as I mentioned earlier it was still dead when I left my home today 20140302 at 1200 hrs.

AM I SURPRISED ? NOT AT ALL.

Thank you very much

Yours faithfully

Trivandrum

201400302

sd.

c. jyothi

ADDENDUM

the fact of the matter is that I am living in 4 x 5 sq. meter structure. 

The telephone is in the room that I use as bed room which forms 4 x 3 sq. meters contains almost all my stuff and there is no space even to turn around. 

So when their staff member who routinely comes I used to take the instrument with the attached cable in situ to him in the anteroom ( which forms the remaining 4 x 2 sq. meters and accommodates my gas stove, fridge, washing machine and that way is not very cosy). 

And in deed I used to ask him whether he has to come into the “bed room” proper and he used to answer there is no need and he used to check it and satisfy himself that all is fine.

If he had told me that he would want to check the instrument inside the inner room I would not have refused; but he never said that. 

And also it does not make any difference of any sort for all that is missing is the cable going through the four inch single brick into the inner room

and if at all there was a problem how could it have repaired itself on its own as is obvious from a movie i have put on net in the previous blog in this series!

 that movie is avaiable at this link

copy of an E_mail i had sent:

to pureit.hul, bcc: me

madam,

please refer complaint no.14xxxxxxxx.

This is to request of you to KEEP IN ABEYANCE THE COMPLAINT NO..xxxxxxxx in

respect of my pureIt water purifier classif 14 ltr with serial no.Rxxxxxxx xxxx.

for REASONS BEYOND MY CONTROL.

My sole telephone no.0472-2802028 has since been cut off.

This is a remote area and without guidance on phone your man will not

be able to fetch up.

So kindly hold on till you hear from me on the phone again.

The inconvenience caused to you in this regard is deeply regretted.

Cheriyath jyothi

From

c. jyothi

theCloister,

nr rockPark, venkode B.O. vattappara S.O.

thiruvananthapuram - 695028 IN

click on the link below for

LOCALE MAP 

incidentally the reply has come to the email id of mine to which I have sent a bcc copy and not from the original address from which I had sent this mail.

INTERESTING!

The situation is “ ALPANU ( that is charanu) ARTHAM KITTIYA SITUATION”

viceman

20140301jyo

08:37:03 PM GMT, 03/01/14: 

Today being the new month I decided I will start using the bsnl land line phone – there is no point holding on and I made a few calls.

As I said earlier the line was real clear and there was no semblance of a disturbance  when i used it today in the day time.

and this was despite the great people claiming that there is a problem with the internal wiring that is the wiring inside the house as I was not permitting their man to enter my house. Well I for one am not surprised.

Amongst the calls I made in the afternoon were one I had made to a home appliance company about some confusion on the equipment I had purchased yesterday. So I have booked a visit to them at my place and they were supposed to call me on my phone.

In the evening I had been out – in fact I wanted to catch a bus to Trivandrum and was at the bus stand. After I had waited for more than an hour I asked some one about the status of the buses and I was told the bused were on strike from the morning. So I walked back.

When I reached home at around 2000hrs IST I found that the phone has gone DEAD ! Remember that I started using the phone today in the day time only and it has been cut off promptly.

viceman

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