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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