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This is no troubleshooting blog but thought about writing about it that it could be useful for someone else. You may have faced issues while making payments through HDFC net banking. It gives a stupid error message (WRITTEN IN CAPS) page and sends you back to from where you started. Because that page hardly displays for a second, so you don’t even get to see the error message. Finally after trying it for 4-5 times i was able to capture the screenshot and here it is :D ...

Me and my roomie went to KFC yesterday and ordered 2 burgers and a PEPSI & another drink (hey it was mango krusher :D , an overpriced mango shake in simple language ;) ). There was not much rush but even then it took around 20 mins or so to get the order. I was just wondering that how the quality of service at these western outlets (I think, it holds true for some hi-fi Indian restaurants as well) like KFC, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, mix veg style food courts etc etc sucks big time as compared to our very own desi dhabaz. It is almost a very regular thing that they will take good 15 mins to take your order, will take another half an hour to serve it and there are around 25% or so chances that they will not serve the right order. And never forget the time required to get the bill, pay it and get your card or balance back ! ...

Just trying to test a small post from iPhone ;) So far so good :P Comments Comment by Bal on 2010-04-14 14:26:35 +0530 Acha… te tu dasna c ki tu IPhone lai lya !! Vadhia tareeka…. facebook to lai ke aapne blog takk… harr paase raula paa ditta.. 🙂 Comment by Sidhu on 2010-04-14 14:41:39 +0530 Karna painda a kaka karna painda a 😛 Comment by Raman on 2010-04-14 16:00:44 +0530 its really gud from i phone..but make sure you dont break it ..as i did..:) ...

Today one of my friend had to go to Greater Noida for an interview. He asked me to accompany him and i did so. We reached Noida by Metro and then the question was to go to Greater Noida. So we took an auto (for Rs 200) for Greater Noida and hoped to reach there in an hour. Oh we did actually, but the address was something like Knowledge Park 4. Everyone knew about Knowledge Park 1,2 and 3 but what the heck was 4 ? So it took us another half an hour to find that location. Anyways finally we were there. And due to all of this additional crap, had to pay 250 Rs to auto wala. After he got freed from there, we had to come back to Delhi; actually Noida first :D. So we came out and starting looking for auto. Oh boy…it was a complete jungle and nothing there really. So we thought about calling a cab. Called almost all radio taxi services but same response “Sir we don’t operate in Greater Noida” :( . Finally we saw an auto (carrying bricks :D) wala and asked him to send some auto if he found one on his way. Man something adventurous here. He asked us to adjust in the same auto itself :D. So somehow we 3 guys adjusted with him and started the journey. He dropped his load on the way and dropped us to Noida after that. ...

Reunions are a good thing…they take you back across the lanes of old golden days… It was around 2 weeks ago, that I happened to meet a guy from my first company. While we were talking about the old stuff, he told me that they were planning for a reunion of folks who are in NCR these days. Surely, it was a nice idea…chance to meet all the old guys. So it was finalized and and the date was fixed…6th of Feb… ...

Got a mail in spam. Read for yourself. It is indeed funny and emotional wording :D . At the bottom, the link it actually points to. Comments Comment by Aman…. on 2010-02-01 09:00:20 +0530 Looking at the history of the incidents happening with you, you seem to be getting love from unwanted people a little too much 😉 . Comment by Sidhu on 2010-02-04 20:27:36 +0530 🙁 Comment by Vaibhav on 2010-02-15 09:36:26 +0530 i feel sorry for the non tech people who would take take that mail seriously ...

Nothing special, just a stupid spam mail. Found it really funny :D Dear friend, Do accept my apology if my email does not meet your personal ethics but i hope it makes our acquaintance. I have a business proposal for you, worth the sum of US$17,500,000.00 Million of which you will be fully entitled to. if you so desire. This transaction is legal and totally risk free but due to the high level of insecurity over the internet, it’s really difficult to know if you are trust worthy because it will take a great deal of trust for me to let you in on this transaction. Therefore, if you are fully interested in this deal and want more information, kindly send me an email to my private email address [ chen.guan0ff1@yahoo.com.hk ] and please include your FULL NAME; ADDRESS and PHONE NUMBER; so that i can contact you immediately. ...

Note: This post is the result of the frustration coming from a failed shoopping attempt that took almost the whole day :( . I had to buy a pair of sports shoes. So attempts for that have been going on since last few months :D . Today was just another attempt with some hope but it failed miserably. Now it has been few months, I guess and many places in Delhi and all the main brands ie Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Puma but I haven’t got a decent pair of shoes. Don’t know there is nothing available in the market or there is something seriously stupid with my choice. People love it but for me, in general, shopping is a really tough exercise, specially when it needs to be done in a time frame. Like there comes a marriage next week and comes a need to get a new shirt. I haven’t been much successful in all such endeavors. But yes, many times I have got good stuff while visiting some mall without any specific shopping ideas. So folks, not much stuff to write. Just wanted to release some frustration :P . But seriously, these days buying some decent clothes is becoming really tough. Leave proper formals, otherwise decent clothes are hard to find. India is running really fast in this fashion (wearing some seriously not-so-decent clothes is fashion, no ? ;) ) lane !!! ...

For the people, who read a number of blogs, how exactly you keep track of comments you post and then their replies ? I find it really difficult to do job. It is kind of a manual stuff for me. I don’t see Subscribing to comments as a really good option as it would send mail after each and every comment on the post. Any better suggestions ? Comments Comment by Amritbir Kaur on 2010-01-24 16:14:50 +0530 That’s a question I have tried to ask myself many a times. Good that you have posted it here, I too will be waiting for some good suggestions. I too don’t like subscribing to receiving comments via mail. I do have a list of blogs that I follow so visit th em from my Blogger Dashboard…that method is working quite properly till now 🙂 ...

In last 6 months or so, I was looking for a job change so I created my profiles on different job portals. This post is an advice that if you are doing the same, never create your profile on timesjobs.com. It is completely crappy website. They have nothing useful to send you. Rather you will get some useless mails talking about say Storage Admin whereas your profile is of a C/C++ developer. Moreover I couldn’t find an option to delete the profile from there. Some of the standard mail subjects you will always be receiving from their side: ...