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Again, it has been really long since I did my last post ;) . Actually tried writing something many times but couldn’t complete it. Sometimes you just aren’t able to complete a post. Ohhh this is the first post of the new year so very very happy new year to everybody coming here (Better late than never ;) ). This post should be about the new things and resolutions for the new year ;) . Well, a major change is that my job has changed and the new one is much more demanding (as compared to the previous one ;) ). So these days I am having the real feeling of working in IT sector ;) . And it is one of the reasons that I am not able to give that much time to blogging. Talking about the resolutions, I think the first should be that I should write more often on the blog ;) . Ooops…again nothing much to write…so, before adding any more crap, this post should be terminated here :D . Will see you more often, this year :) ! Promise ! ...

At almost all the marriages I have attended, one thing that has always attracted my attention is the guys carrying lights and all the stuff with the baraat. This time I got a chance to click few pics of them. Everybody is lost in the celebrations and they are carrying the lights with the baraat with most of the times lights of their faces off. So here are 2 pics dedicated to all such folks who make such celebrations possible and the title that came to my mind at that time is “Carrying happiness” as that is what they are doing, No ? ...

After I was just done with all the struggle required to buy a good PC, the keyboard and mouse combo I had chosen was Logitech Cordless Desktop® MX 3200 Laser. But sadly that set was crappy and all others that he showed, so I returned that back to dealer and took money back. Then I started searching for some simple keyboard and with a bit (or byte ? :P ) of help from Aman, settled for Logitech NewTouch™ Keyboard 200 (USB) (Just feel, how sweet it sounds from the name ;) ) ...

Very simple thing but do you manage to properly decode all the emergency signs and methods in metro or newly manufactured buses (There are hardly any in trains or old buses and too simple if any) ? What I noticed is that they are too difficult to understand even in daily travels. God forbid, if something should happen, I don’t think it is everybody’s cup of tea to make use of them. Shouldn’t be they made simple to understand ? ...

This is the cable Nokia is delivering with E71 these days; hardly 5-6 inches. And if you have to connect your phone to a PC, you need to sit and hold your phone man ;). Beauty ! Isn’t it the height of cost cutting that with a phone that costs 17000 INR, they can’t even give a proper cable. And oh yes, not to mention those crappy earphones :( . Nokia 1650 (Costs 1500 INR, i guess) and E71 (Costs 16000 INR +) come with same pair of earphones ;) . ...

It has been really long since I last posted on this blog (Last post was on 14th Oct, so we can safely assume that it has been actually pretty long :P ). Title of the post explains pretty much of the stuff and this post may also appear to be the same ie crap :D. Not much stuff to write but yes a lot of, to tell that why this long gap. There was so much of crap to see in last one month or so. First it was the RnD to buy a new Computer and then not being able to buy it because of unavailability of one component or the another. Finally when i succeeded in buying it and came back home, the keyboard & mouse was found to be used and defective. So had to go back immediately and get a new one. Not a good start probably. Then started the struggle of installing some OS. Not a big deal but another beauty to see that the system kept rebooting randomly. Tried switching OSes but to no avail. Then started adding, removing, adding again, removing again the RAM sticks and so on some 100 times ;) . Again no results and the focus shifted to motherboard. Finally it was declared that there was something fishy with the motherboard and it was the cause of this reboot thing. Did and made some people do some real good RnD and decided to buy another motherboard that supported the hardware properly. So went to Nehru Place and some dishoom dishoom with the dealer and finally succeeded in getting a new different motherboard. Now things should look good. Oh yes, the problem of rebooting was gone but Windows stared freezing randomly, again without any pattern or logic. So now what ? I was just thinking that what could be the game that noticed something crappy with the Hard disk. Ran some utilities and they told that the end of the hard disk was near ;) . Oh noooooo. Time to replace even the hard disk. So again went to the dealer. Explained him the issue (That this particular SMART attribute of HDD is not ok…heavy stuff ;) ). And he asked me to go to Seagate service center and submit it. Man it was like a kerosene distribution depot in India. So many people in queue to submit their defective disks (And from there you can pretty much guess the quality, Seagate is delivering these days ;) ). Finally after a week or so, got a new refurbished (yea, refurbished, not brand new :( ) Hard disk, installed it and i guess (yea guess ;) ) it seems to work fine. Windows did freeze once or twice initially but since then it has not shown those strains. Does that mean that the crap has ended ? You never know ! Hopefully, it has ;). ...

I had to post a letter, so me and one of my friend went to post office to do the same. First it was day before yesterday, then yesterday and today when we were finally able to do it. Daily, the queue was so long that we used to come back with the hope of doing it tomorrow. Today, before lunch we took out some time to do it. The queue was not that long but not really a queue. It looked like the tail of a dog ;) but anyways we fixed the confusion and stood at the end of the queue. The aunty sitting at the counter was really crappy and frusti types. She called an uncle from the queue and my friend had just started to move that she cried like a cat “ yeh to senior hain…aap bhi senior ho kya ?” So it was time to stand there and wait. Well, as i said the queue was not that long so we were free in almost 15 minutes. But what attracted by attention was something else. We were standing adjacent to counter 3 and it read 3 Multipurpose(meaning you could get multiple services over the counter). But actually, it took us 3 days to solve a single purpose :P . ...

Why does it happen that: You feel like calling some of your friends and none of them picks your call. You feel like meeting some of them and they are either busy or gone out of station. You are alone on a long weekend; your mind seems to get stuck and out of order. You think a lot but are hardly able to do a thing. You plan about going somewhere the next day but the next day is also as crappy as yesterday. When nothing seems to work you turn to blog posting :P. Comments Comment by manjot singh shurli on 2009-10-03 18:22:15 +0530 You feel like calling some of your friends and none of them picks your call. bcoz u don’t make STD calls 😛 ...

Since yesterday night i am trying to write a post and today started one more but haven’t been able to complete any of them. Sometimes, you just can’t find words to write. Mind goes kind of blank/dead. To deal with that frustration, thought about writing another post ;) . Oops…this also counts as a post. May be time to try completing those two again :P . Comments Comment by Aman…. on 2009-10-03 16:56:45 +0530 Exactly the same feeling that is there in my mind as well about a post which I am thinking to write since last couple of days but some how, some way, just not able to start it! Some time , all you can do is just feel and not express it! But you stubborn fellow, you wrote a post to tell that you can’t write a post eh, cool 😛 !! ...

Yesterday, my landlord called to inform that our this month’s electricity bill of 10,000 INR (yea, the post effects of chilling in AC :D ) was pending and today was the last date for the payment. Without any doubt, for people like us, who leave for office in the morning and come back in the evening paying online is the best option. So just like everything else, i went to BSES website and checked for the methods of payment. Everything so sweet but they said that payment done online will take 3 days to get processed so you should pay three days before the last date to save yourself from any late payment charges. I am just wondering that what is the use of making it online, if it takes 3 days to reach them. Nothing less than misuse of technology, in my opinion :( . ...