Updates...

Washing machine and fridge doing just fine !!
YOU broadband is installed..
TATA Indicom is still haunting me..
The Area manager for Sinhagad Road, Mr. Nishant Sinha says his ppl are in touch with me..
About 25 days after submitting the form, cheque and the documents, these ppl tell me they need electricity bill.. Should'nt this have been told in the first place ?? It would have saved me some trouble, if Mr. Sinha had bothered to call and follow up atleast..
Mr. Sinha, if your ppl were capable enough the matter would not have come to you in the first place..
The new tata contact assigned, Mr. Chandrakant, has disappeared with my current electricity bill..
I have spent a lot of energy trying to keep contacting these ppl and a lot of money too.. More than 25 phone calls and sms's to various ppl and xerox's later, i am still at the square one, exactly where i started..
Mr. Sarfraz from Tata Teleservices, contacted me and gave me a number for customer care. This again happens to be a different department and did not take a complaint.
I got another number to call and the cycle starts all over again...
Mr. Nishant Sinha - 9225525469
I have till now called -
Pune TATA Indicom Customer Care - 020 66110121
Another Broadband Customer Care - 9225008282
And m currently trying to reach - 020 64001515..
All chargeable numbers...
Leaves me wondering is TATA INDICOM BROADBAND worth so much frustration ???
What kind of service will i get after the installation, if and when that happens ??
I was a sucker for TATA. The name was synonymous to reliability for me and a couple of my friends..
This episode however has made me re-think..
Looking at my situation, my friend applied for BSNL Broadband, and got it installed in 15 days..
HEre I am still trying to get someone to hear me..
Some serious re-thinking needed before trusting blindly....

Tagged . !

I have been trying to act lazy and putting this off for quite some time now :( But finally !
Ah well... its pretty difficult to put down things-about-u-ppl-dont-know-about !
Thats basically because i m a pretty reserved person when it comes to talking about my personal life,,
I can chatter non-stop on useless issues which dont matter at all, but come to things like my future plans and all u'll get is a vague reply..
I tend to get upset pretty easily over trivial issues, though i dont show it, i do get upset..
At times i make up my mind too soon about ppl/issues and there are times when i take ages to decide...
I can survive on a crash diet of cheese n more cheese...
I love and hate "Sir Frederick Grant Banting" at the same time...
I under-rate myself quite a lot of times...
I get quite bored surfing the net... Seems pretty foolish n unbelievable to read, but is a fact...
I m not very diplomatic, though i try to act that way !
I love books, music, sleep, hj, beaches, mountains, go wandering about aimlessly.....
24 hours in a day - too short a time for me.... I am always doing atleast about 10 things at a time...
I should learn to "take it easy".. I try n copy harshad but m not yet very good at it :(
And last but not the least - M still trying to know myself ! of course with the help of a very nice gem, Mr. HJ :)

Passing on the tagging baton to a miss d and mg and gautam and Ruz !

Something nice and something funny.....

A friend baked me a sugarfree cake !!!!!
I hogged n hogged...
Thanks sweetheart ;)
This is the first time i could hog on a cake and you might not quite understand what it means to me....
So while we were having coffee n cake n looking at some snaps, it was raining outside..
Just building up the atmosphere :)
A comment went like "Woo ! Di, this is a perfect orkut snap"
Zapped was i ! There's facebook, there's zorpia, there's Youniverse, there's youmint, there's hikut and about a hundred other networks..
But the first thing that hits u and u recollect is ORKUT !
Hats off to the ppl who brought out orkut and to the ppl who made it immensely popular..
P.S. - This also explains why orkut is banned but other sites are not at workplaces..
The more popular u r, the more under spotlight r u !

When things go wrong....

There sometimes comes along a phase when everything seems to be going wrong..
Nothing goes right at all..
And all the good sayings, inspiring thoughts seem to lose their shine...
My time recently has been kind of similar...
The washing machine stopped working.. Contacted Samsung, got a ticket but co-ordinating time with their engineer proved to be tough..
Fortunately the engineer was a pretty helpful fellow and agreed to come at 8 pm and got the washing machine working !
Internet connection @ home - Been trying to get this for the past whole month !
At the beginning of june, gave a cheque to the YOU Broadband fellow.... And low and behold the fellow disappeared with out a trace..
Now he refuses to pick up phones made by us even... Mr. Raj, 9975548660.
Tried logging a complaint with YOU, but we had made a mistake of not taking a receipt and so complaint logging also proved to be a difficult task.
Since I urgently wanted internet, i tried TATA INDICOM next.. The cheque has been given on 18 June 08, (i have a receipt this time), and as of today there is no reply from them.. TaTa Indicom internet was supposed to be done in 5 days !
Just before this, got looted getting an IDEA connection...
Was almost done finalizing on the microwave i wanted to buy.. Went to DASS on Sinhagad Road, selected the model and then the deal part began.. It was pretty obvious that when i m shopping for a 20 K thing, i'll ask for a discount.. The enthusiastic sales girl immediately went to talk to the manager.. The manager sent a message saiyng he was busy.. Aha ! It was an odd hour and the store was pretty empty.. To add to it i could quite clearly see the fellow... I walked out to buy the same piece from another electronics store..
It was my fault anyways, I knew what kind of service DASS gives.. I had shopped for a TV from there and they did not deliver the Remote ! And then i had quite a fight on my hands to get the remote...
Well well... Think before u buy from Dass..
This is just a trickle and things kept on going for a toss for quite some time...
Putting this all down has calmed me down a bit and i patiently think on what-to-do-with-the-fridge-now, since i can hear weird noises coming from its direction :)