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