auto fare: 86 rupees
me: gives 100 rs note
autoguy: gives 10 rupees back
me: aur mere chaar rupaye?
him: kyaaa amma...4 rupaye kya lete. rehn do na abhi..
umm...shouldnt I be the one deciding on the tip????
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Fine dining
The latest in fine dining:
milk powder filched from the pantry eaten out of a paper cup...with a plastic straw.
how..u ask? its an art :) try it
milk powder filched from the pantry eaten out of a paper cup...with a plastic straw.
how..u ask? its an art :) try it
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Going hi-fi wi-fi
Past month or so has been very entertaining and frustrating ...both thx to the helpful folks over at airtel. After much fuss and phone calls...we finally have wi-fi at home. How did we do it? see below:
How to have wi-fi installed at home:
1. Call customer care to place request. Be informed to write mail to specified address to place request.
2. Write that mail. It will bounce.
3. Again call cust care...same address will be given again. Resend and rebounce. Decide effort is futile.
4. Waste precious hours on a saturday and go in person to their office to place request. Get assurance that "3 din mei ho jayega madam. 500 rupees is the charge...aapke next bill mei aa jayega".
5. Go back home smug and satisfied and proclaim to the family abt how great you are for getting this done.
6. Week goes by with no wi-fi. Family asking questions. Keep moral high ground and assure you will look into it.
7. Busy wkend..no time to follow up.
8. Next weekend, call cust care and raise stink. Again "3 din mei ho jayega madam".
9. On day 3, have horrendous meeting filled day and miss all 3 calls from cust care.
10. Call cust care on day 4 and request to please have it done today.
11. "Engineer with router" arrives on day 4. Phew. Installs at home. Speak to him on phone...ask about connecting laptops to the wi-fi network. Get reply "usme kuch nahi rehta madam...wo aap aan (on) kare so connect ho jata". Lekin bhaiya...wo network secure karna padega na...nahi to padosi bhi use karenge? "Nahiii madam....waisa kuch nai hota...uno thodi maloom rehta aapne wireless liye so hain. Aap aan kare so wo connect ho jaata."
You give up.
12. Later at night frantically try to connect wi-fi. No luck. Back to cable method.
13. Call cust care. They assure to send engineer next day. You say...next day laptop ghar pe nahi rahega. Get smart suggestion "madam aap ek din laptop ghar pe rakh do...to hum check kar ke jaate". Almost lose temper but deep breathing helps.
14. Engineer arrives on saturday. Is clueless about everything. Spends 1.5 hrs fiddling with different keys on 2 laptops and then tries to sneak out of home without any conclusion. We catch him and he spends .5 hr again. Tries another exit...this time mumbling about some drivers missing on the laptops. Is given piece of mind by self since wi-fi is used at office. You give up and he goes home.
15. Next week, get laptop checked by office network admin guy and be assured everything is in order.
16. Meanwhile, get monthly bill and be shocked that 1000 rupees charged instead of 500 for installation. Call cust care to check...they say 1000 is what they will charge. Give cust care information ka wasta ...to no effect. Leave work early and go in person to cust care centre in right royal foul temper. They accept complaint. Also complain abt clueless engineer and non-working wi-fi.
17. Nothing happens on wi-fi complaint. Lodge another one and have same engineer come with another flunkie on saturday. Both spend another 2 hrs of quality time at residence and fail to fix anything.
18.Frustrated self finally taps into power of google and other kindred souls who put steps to configure wi-fi router on their blog.
19. Fiddle here and there and fix issue. The crowd goes wild with applause.
How to have wi-fi installed at home:
1. Call customer care to place request. Be informed to write mail to specified address to place request.
2. Write that mail. It will bounce.
3. Again call cust care...same address will be given again. Resend and rebounce. Decide effort is futile.
4. Waste precious hours on a saturday and go in person to their office to place request. Get assurance that "3 din mei ho jayega madam. 500 rupees is the charge...aapke next bill mei aa jayega".
5. Go back home smug and satisfied and proclaim to the family abt how great you are for getting this done.
6. Week goes by with no wi-fi. Family asking questions. Keep moral high ground and assure you will look into it.
7. Busy wkend..no time to follow up.
8. Next weekend, call cust care and raise stink. Again "3 din mei ho jayega madam".
9. On day 3, have horrendous meeting filled day and miss all 3 calls from cust care.
10. Call cust care on day 4 and request to please have it done today.
11. "Engineer with router" arrives on day 4. Phew. Installs at home. Speak to him on phone...ask about connecting laptops to the wi-fi network. Get reply "usme kuch nahi rehta madam...wo aap aan (on) kare so connect ho jata". Lekin bhaiya...wo network secure karna padega na...nahi to padosi bhi use karenge? "Nahiii madam....waisa kuch nai hota...uno thodi maloom rehta aapne wireless liye so hain. Aap aan kare so wo connect ho jaata."
You give up.
12. Later at night frantically try to connect wi-fi. No luck. Back to cable method.
13. Call cust care. They assure to send engineer next day. You say...next day laptop ghar pe nahi rahega. Get smart suggestion "madam aap ek din laptop ghar pe rakh do...to hum check kar ke jaate". Almost lose temper but deep breathing helps.
14. Engineer arrives on saturday. Is clueless about everything. Spends 1.5 hrs fiddling with different keys on 2 laptops and then tries to sneak out of home without any conclusion. We catch him and he spends .5 hr again. Tries another exit...this time mumbling about some drivers missing on the laptops. Is given piece of mind by self since wi-fi is used at office. You give up and he goes home.
15. Next week, get laptop checked by office network admin guy and be assured everything is in order.
16. Meanwhile, get monthly bill and be shocked that 1000 rupees charged instead of 500 for installation. Call cust care to check...they say 1000 is what they will charge. Give cust care information ka wasta ...to no effect. Leave work early and go in person to cust care centre in right royal foul temper. They accept complaint. Also complain abt clueless engineer and non-working wi-fi.
17. Nothing happens on wi-fi complaint. Lodge another one and have same engineer come with another flunkie on saturday. Both spend another 2 hrs of quality time at residence and fail to fix anything.
18.Frustrated self finally taps into power of google and other kindred souls who put steps to configure wi-fi router on their blog.
19. Fiddle here and there and fix issue. The crowd goes wild with applause.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Attempt to revive long dead and buried blog...
So! ..since Parul kindly allowed anyone and everyone to take up the tag...me doing my fusht one...
The 20 questions tag :
1. Name Three Most Valuable Assets?
Chashma, health and hope.
2. If you have the chance, what would you probably say to your beloved one?
What are you getting me for our anniversary?? *flutter flutter the eyelashes*
3. If you were to be stranded on a deserted island, who are the 3 blog buddies you would take with you?
to have blog buddies i guess one needs a functioning non-extinct blog. So this question is largely null and void for self.
but....if they would allow me to just hang around and breathe in the same air as them...it wud be MM, Parul and Kiran
4. Where is the place that you want to go the most?
Israel. and visit a live volcano. go figure.
5. If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
That I have an extremely well paying job picking sea shells on a beach in the West Indies.
6. Till now, what is the moment that you regret the most?
Being part of those mandatory annual day plays in school, wearing the most hideous costumes and makeup. blech.
7. What are you afraid to lose the most?
My chashma (pliss refer to Q.1)
8. What would you do if you found a briefcase full of money?
Pick up with handkerchief(no fingerprints u see) and run to the police. actually...better to just give it to the poor.
9. If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
Already met and married the said someone. thankyouverymuch. my confessions none of anyones bizness. againthankyouverymuch.
10. List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you
sadly...not explicitly tagged by Parul..but phir bhi...
1. Great sense of humour
2. adorable baby...
3. the hourglass figure, shining intellect and stunning career of course :)
11. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
A new book every fortnight and a steady supply of dark chocolates. and yellow roses occasionally.
i am easily pleased.
12. Which type of person do you hate the most?
Well righttt now...the idiot who stepped (with her whole considerable weight) on my foot, this morning on the train.
13. What is your ambition?
To open my own flower shop. which will be right next to my own restaurant. and in both of which, i will probably end up losing spectacular amounts of money.
14. What is the thing that will make you think someone is a bad person?
if they don't give up seats in trains/buses to women with small kids.
15. What is the one thing you would change about yourself?
Metabolic rate.
16. Are you a shopaholic or no?
No. i wish i was.
17. What is your stress buster?
Calvin & hobbes. Although my Mom says its my weekend clothes washing routine.
18. What should be done to people who make such long tags?
...phoolo phalo...
19. Do you think God actually exists?
i'm not sure.
20. What did you eat for lunch today?
I replace it with: If not your current profession, what line of work would have rather been in?
Physiotherapist
I tag...anyone who comes here and cares to read this!:-)
So! ..since Parul kindly allowed anyone and everyone to take up the tag...me doing my fusht one...
The 20 questions tag :
1. Name Three Most Valuable Assets?
Chashma, health and hope.
2. If you have the chance, what would you probably say to your beloved one?
What are you getting me for our anniversary?? *flutter flutter the eyelashes*
3. If you were to be stranded on a deserted island, who are the 3 blog buddies you would take with you?
to have blog buddies i guess one needs a functioning non-extinct blog. So this question is largely null and void for self.
but....if they would allow me to just hang around and breathe in the same air as them...it wud be MM, Parul and Kiran
4. Where is the place that you want to go the most?
Israel. and visit a live volcano. go figure.
5. If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
That I have an extremely well paying job picking sea shells on a beach in the West Indies.
6. Till now, what is the moment that you regret the most?
Being part of those mandatory annual day plays in school, wearing the most hideous costumes and makeup. blech.
7. What are you afraid to lose the most?
My chashma (pliss refer to Q.1)
8. What would you do if you found a briefcase full of money?
Pick up with handkerchief(no fingerprints u see) and run to the police. actually...better to just give it to the poor.
9. If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
Already met and married the said someone. thankyouverymuch. my confessions none of anyones bizness. againthankyouverymuch.
10. List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you
sadly...not explicitly tagged by Parul..but phir bhi...
1. Great sense of humour
2. adorable baby...
3. the hourglass figure, shining intellect and stunning career of course :)
11. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
A new book every fortnight and a steady supply of dark chocolates. and yellow roses occasionally.
i am easily pleased.
12. Which type of person do you hate the most?
Well righttt now...the idiot who stepped (with her whole considerable weight) on my foot, this morning on the train.
13. What is your ambition?
To open my own flower shop. which will be right next to my own restaurant. and in both of which, i will probably end up losing spectacular amounts of money.
14. What is the thing that will make you think someone is a bad person?
if they don't give up seats in trains/buses to women with small kids.
15. What is the one thing you would change about yourself?
Metabolic rate.
16. Are you a shopaholic or no?
No. i wish i was.
17. What is your stress buster?
Calvin & hobbes. Although my Mom says its my weekend clothes washing routine.
18. What should be done to people who make such long tags?
...phoolo phalo...
19. Do you think God actually exists?
i'm not sure.
20. What did you eat for lunch today?
I replace it with: If not your current profession, what line of work would have rather been in?
Physiotherapist
I tag...anyone who comes here and cares to read this!:-)
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