media!!

Media... is definitely the widely used mode to reach public. Especially the news channels are widely being used by today's busy world to keep themselves updated of the latest info. Undoubtedly, they are not just the dump pits of information.. Every bit of info that they provide makes a remarkable impression in many tendure hearts. It indeed has a great role to play in paving the way for a brighter India. If not just used as a commercial mode, it can make wonders.

But how far are they presenting the facts and figures? How much of the information that you see is free of exaggeration? Just give them a thread and they will knit a beautiful net out of it.. competing with each other as to whose net is more appealing..In their mad race to become more popular, they are distorting the total communication.. who will take the ownership of the damage that they create with their "commercialized form" of information? When will ppl get to hear the factual info and not the grape wine?? If the sponsorers for the ads cease to do so atleast during the time of the news, will the situation be any better?

Is democracy the right thing all the time???

We are a group of 11...set up for another trip to some place near bangalore.. we are a group who strongly believes in democracy.. this is what happened..

P1: How many day trip is it? are we ok for a 2/3 day trip?
P2/3: I prefer 1 day.. though i am open to 2/3 day trip too
P3/4/5/6/7/8: I am ok with 2/3 day trip
P9/10: Cannot make it for more than a day
P1: OK then, lets jort down what all we have around bangalore for one day fun..
P2/9: No water places.. water places in summers will really be very sad..
P3: Wonderla!!!!! Its not a natural water place.. there are a lot of rides.. we can have fun..
P10: i dont mind it though.. but do we have any other options?
P1: How about Film city?? It has go carting too.. there is maze.. and i a sure we can have lotsa fun there..
P9: hmm.. does not sound all that bad.. but can we think about Lepakshi?
P3: No......not in this scorching sun
P2: How about Guhantara?
P9: hmm.. i am not for artificial caves and stuff.. but considering that we are all going together, i think we can have fun..
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the conversation goes on..
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needless to say that we dint come to any conclusion.. definitely, we wont!! afterall, no two individuals think alike..and we are totally 11 brains thinking at the same time.. If a small decison goes into a loop with just 11 people, what will be the situation at a higher level?? How difficult is it to manage a whole lot of people in a "democratic" country like India???

No wonder we have so many people voice out their views against every single decision taken with their own philosophy to be against... its truely understandable... All that is required is a little time.. That acts like a fuel to burn the situation and policy in all possible angles.. Now its time for me to re think, does democracy do good in all respects at all times??? or should there be some exceptions for our own betterment??

Blogging Vs Regular Blogging

Blogging definitely is not all that difficult.. But blogging regularly is..!! Each time i let my fingers dance on this panel while letting my thoughts flow by, i decide to come back and do that more and more often..But, i hardly end up with a count of one blog a month!

It so happens that i get a huge flood of ideas when i am too busy swimming in an ocean of work trying to figure out for an island..or i get some very important work when i am in the middle of a blog.. and hence end up leaving it as a draft forever!! afterall, its not that easy to continue a left over piece of work for ages.. be it continuing someone else's or ur own work.. it doesn't matter..!!

well... ahh.. here it comes.. i gotta log off now.. but this time, i am not gonna leave this blog unpublished for ages down the line.. and finally discard it!! i will put an end to that trend.. i will publish it as it is..!!!!

Man proposes.. God disposes

I should have been in Hyderabad as i write this blog if things had happened the way i had planned... It was a very important day in the life of my dear friend Kamy.. and i really really wanted to be present on this most important day in her life, her wedding.. Generally it so happens that whenever i plan to go to Hyderabad, i plan the leave well in advance and somehow manage to goof up with the tickets and the plan gets toppled down due to unavailability of tickets. This time i had booked the tickets well in advance, applied for leave very well in advance.. but alas.. i am here in Bangalore writing this blog..

This is what i call destiny or fate.. Life is not a cake walk.. If everything happens the way you plan, may be life gets boring..may be we will miss this element of subtle battle with it..may be each of us would start feeling that there is nothing that can ever compete with us.. Hence there is always a remarkable difference between what you plan and what actually happens..!!

I fell in a situation where i cannot enfore that my leave should be granted 'coz the project is at a critical stage where i just cannot leave it in the middle or hand it over to someone else. My committment never allows me to do that. But my heart wants to witness the most memorable moment of my dear friend's life. Conflicting interests they are!!!! My best wishes are surely with her..though i am not able to make it to the wedding personally... I wish her a very happy married life..Dedicating this blog to her!! luv u Kamy :)

Whats in a Valentines day?

well.. today is feb 14th.. so what??? just another day in the calender of 365/366 days!!!

There is Children's day where the kids enjoy because they can go to school in colorful dresses.. and they get chocolates!!! There is Independence day where we all cherish the hard earned freedom and think about all that went through once upon a time for India to be what it is today.. what is it about valentines day and why is it so special?? I am saying this not because i dont have someone to walk hand in hand and celebrate this day.. not because i dont appreciate the bond of love.. but because i never understood this very concept! As far as i am concerned, everyday in this life's dictionary bears a significance.. if that were the case, then it is needless to say that every moment of ur lover's company should give you pleasure.. every thought of having him/her in your thoughts should bring in a pleasant smile on ur face..

True that in some cases people wait for this day to express their love.. but again, it leaves me really surprised as to what the whole logic is.. if you love someone, why dont you just go ahead and tell them?? why do you want to wait for a day which comes only once a year to express it?? Such madness(i really dont know what to call) was largely predominant in my college days where there was a committe who took the great initiative of distributing roses on people's behalf to their beloved ones and thus aid in cropping up their love.. Hey.. dont get me wrong here.. i definitely dont belong to any ram sena or something.. i am just trying to be too practical!!

At the end of the day, we have people asking.. so, how was the day? something special??? huhh... and my answer remains.."It was just another day in the diary of 2009.. just another day in the dictionary of my life"!!

Missing my mobile!!!

After 2.5 long years of using my current mobile, i have finally decided to change it, considering the huge demand from the public!! I dint want to make any further delay. I ran into the nearest "mobile store" and got a basic Nokia mobile - 3500 Classic. It all seemed fine for a week until its display was limited to "contact service" at the end of the week and it stopped detecting the sim. Wishing that it were a small damage, i went to the store where i purchased the mobile. They told me that i have to visit the nearest Nokia service center and i obeyed.

Nokia service center at Tippasandra, Bangalore.. is worth making a red mark!! I could hear a lot of people screaming at them for their bad service.. the anguish pain of various victims.. the agony in their voice..

They have taken my mobile for servicing with the complaint..

1) Mobile not switching on
2) Displaying "contact service" on the screen

Two disjoint complaints!!! and i just signed in it when i was told that my complaint has anyways been registered. I was told to come back in 2 days. I left my mobile there because i had no choice. Its a new mobile for which i have not even explored all the options completely and within a week i had to leave it all alone at the service center. After two days, i rang them up and went there when i was told that my mobile servicing has been done.. I was startled when i saw a mobile in their hand with a broken LCD screen..and was told that it is my mobile.. "Itz a hardware damage and wont come under warranty. We can try to do something if you pay for it" this is what i was told. I tried to tell them that i had given them my mobile in full condition and definitely i dont want to pay for their careless and reckless treatment of my mobile.

I told them how sure i was that neither my mobile had fallen down nor did i mishandle it at any point of time during itz stint of 6 days with me. I explained them that they have to trust their customers. The reply i got was, 'u shud also trust us'. How can people be so confident after doing a mistake. Mistakes are man made. Everyone is bound to make them. But i hate the fact that people are not brave enough to accept them, take it in a positive way and learn from them. I was completely disturbed by the whole conversation and told them that i am no more interested to carry on the conversation further with them and asked them to call the manager who was supposed to be in charge of that so called service center. He is at the head office(atleast that is what i was told). i was not prepared to leave the place without getting justice. I managed to get the mobile number of the manager and reported the whole incident to him.

He asked me to leave my mobile there and said that he would close the issue within 2 days. i wish he really meant it when he said that! Alas.. how i wish things could have been that easier.. These people are so hostile that whenever i call them up and ask the status, they say- 'its done.. please come and collect it today". And when i go there with a lot of hope, they make me wait for about an hour and finally say that its not done!! I dont know if this is some cheap trick which they play to make sure that there are always atleast some people in their center.

After repeated tireless attempts, finally they informed me that after fixing up the new LCD also, the initial problem for which i had actually given my mobile for, is not rectified. They had no expertise to solve it and hence they would request for the replacement.. how long would it take???? i was told that it would take not more than 12 working days!! my new mobile was with me for only 6 days.. and it was with them in the service center for a week and then travelled all the way to the head office on a one time basis... it wont come back to me.. itz replacement would come back.. should i be happy that i am gonna get a new mobile???? how old was my mobile???

I can now understand all the agony of other customers. I really cannot believe that a Nokia mobile.. which is supposed to be highly resistant to any amount of rough handling and is supposed to be very durable had behaved so cranky. And it is infact hard to believe that the defected piece, even if somehow manufactured, passed through the quality test sample!!! This has become a point of discussion in my team.. where people are very curious to know how i have dealt with the whole situation and how i end up facing all such peculiar pieces. Finally after numerous calls, i got back my replaced mobile after 40 loooong days.. The panel seemed very very old and worn out.. i asked them if it was a new mobile.. he said yes.. i asked him to replace that old panel with that of mine.. he said that it would take 6 working days for the replacement.. i had that statement of his written at the back of his visiting card with his signature at the bottom.. let me see to which extent he will keep up his word..

i came home and realized that the camera is not working.. it is not detecting my memory card.. what a pathetic service..!! i called up the manager and he said that i need to submit my mobile again over there and get a new job sheet assigned! now.. needless to say that i HATE Nokia!!

Picnic

The very thought of this takes me back to the good old school days where we wait for an year to get that one day 'picnic'. Yes, we have all decided...to be kids again for a day...to forget all the tensions and fears and spend a day filled with fun... to collect loads of memories to cherish throughout..

Off we start at 9:30AM in three bikes and an auto on an otherwise lazy sunday morning to Lal bagh. Apparently we ended up realizing that lal bagh has just 4 entrances and we have successfully managed to cover each of it not sparing atleast one gate. Hemanth, Mr.Confusion has accompanied Sush at the back of her bike with a huge L board on it. Sush was very much pleased by his amazing direction sense of which we shall discuss later.

Each of us having entered the park through various gates in different groups finally managed to assemble at a place called "glass house". A lil plant watching, fish washing and bird watching ;) , we dispered in various directions through which we entered with the understanding that we would all be meeting at the west gate. Sandip, Sandip's uncle, Dibu and I have reached the gate only to realize that there were no signs of the remaining people around. It only alarmed one of our minds that Mr. Confusion was leading the remaining group. No wonder they were lost..!!

We moved onto Kamat to have a sumptuous lunch. A flash news about the riots kept our go karting at a stake. Did I mention that Mr. Confusion is also THE GYAN GURU(GG), who is one of his kind? While we were all discussing the pros and cons, GG and sush marched towards the policeman whom they spotted on the road to get the latest gossip on the safety of the road we are gonna take. Who can predict that??!

Finally, we have decided not to backout. Hurray..!! we were all set to go on a long ride to go Karting. Wait.. did i just say long ride?? hmm.. i also need to say that the ride seemed even longer with Mr.Confusion taking on the driving seat of the bike. Poor Krishna.. he definitely had a tough time in marking the route map for our chap. I cannot put in words the infinite amount of fun we had in trying to trace out the missing bike at every point of our journey. Even after spotting out the lost bike driven by the GG, it wasn't an easy job trying to convince him to turn clockwise by 45 degrees and spot us there. 45 degrees clockwise for us would be 135 degrees anti clockwise for him..!!!

Tracing and retracing the path, we finally reached the venue. I dint know that go karting was so much fun. Equally memorable was the journey back home. Meetu, half asleep in the beginning cursing Dibu at every possible chance, Krishna's kid running around spreading her cute smiles around, Harshada as silent as ever :P , Rammi, the mommy's pet and the terror for Sush updating all the happenings as quick as a live telecast to her mom, Sandip and Dibu vigilent throughout never missing a single oppurtunity to crack their PJ's, MR.Confusion trying his level best to spread his talent across and ofcourse the bubbly and charming ME around.. all in all, it was an awesome day.