Guess, almost more than a month i never updated my blog....Just found time for myself after a month of full of stress...Yea, just got over with my exams and back from my vacation... I went to Hyderabad- a must go getaway for vacation with lots beautiful places to see and amaze.... We had a wonderful trip but the only thing disappointed me was the climate- freaking hot... However we managed to go to all the places we wanted to.
It was great experience as it is me and my sisters 1st ever trip on our own. Sounds little crazy rite but thats the truth. Being pampered by dad like under age kids, we were never allowed to visit anywhere on out own ever since schooling days i.e. school trips. So its a totally WOW factor trip for us.
So this trip was really a great stuff for us like the back packers adventure thing( it is as we traveled in india). To spice up more, we decided to travel by bus and train instead of by air. Though at end of the day we were fully exhausted but yet we gain a new kind of experience. It is not a 4 or 6 hrs trip as in Malaysia. We traveled about 12 hours by bus (going to Hyderabad) and 14 hours by train (coming back to Bangalore). Imagine how would have been the traveling period though we took sleeper a/c as choice of bus and train. If you get a chance to travel in india, do try the sleeper ac bus. You'll be amazed. It's just like your bedroom. It was so comfortable to sleep on it and start the journey. You can never see or experience it other than in India.
However, we could not tolerant with the pollution- air as well sound and traffic. I seriously felt bangalore 100x better for very 1st time. Hyderabad is full of dusts till one of my sis white pants turned grey, more to black actually and my another sis sandal from gold to copper colour. Hahah, they still cursing me for that especially for her pants which cost few hundreds.
Not only hyderabad, but any part of India is highly polluted. So guys if you planned to travel to India, dont forget to carry your facial wash, caps, fully covered shoes, drugs@medicines and most important get vaccinated. You may fall sick if your immune systems are weak. And bringing along expensive and designer apparels are highly not recomended, unless you are filthy rich to lose those stuff.
Yeah, it was an exciting trip. We had loadsa fun. If you get a chance to go Hyderabad, do not miss the chance, go around the city. You'll Love it. My next spot is Kerala.
** Will post the places I visited in next post and details about it especially about Ramoji Film City-it is acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records as one of the largest film studios in the world. Look forward.
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#2. The customer service don't know what are they doing
If you are an TATA INDICOM BROADBAND user who had tried to contact the customer care center help, here i am just like u, extremely irritated by their stupid questions. You wanna know how stupid is that? I give you a real scenario, I called them in the morning
ME: I cant connect to my net
CS: Have you plug in your net work cable
ME: yes
CS: Is the light blinking on the modem
ME: yes
CS: can you do as per guidance
ME: sure
CS: before that i wanna put u on hold and check on something
ME: sure
minutes goes on
CS: thanks for holding, ok can you open your network connection in control panel yada yada yada and 1 hour had gone
ME: It's still not working
CS: OK, i need to escalate to second level support so that they can assist you on this.
ME : thanks
2L:hi miss we received a complain saying that blah blah blah
me: yes
2L:is it cable connected....ur this and dat wrking?ok open ur control panel....
me: ur guys just checked that and why are you doing that again?
2L: because its for verification
me: verify wat?
2L: thats the process ma'am
me:(WTF)and the clock is ticking
after one hour plus doing the same shit the L2 will tell you that its some problem with the network itself and need to be escalated to the onsite support. And that will be the last they contact you.
After that, i need to send emails to the CS and they will reply that they will arrange the technical team to call me back. and guess what, the so call technical person are those bunch of monkeys who i contacted earlier and the same script and troubleshooting steps goes on.
With frustations, i tried to look for the escalation point so that the job can be done faster and i found the nodal point officers contact here. But all my effort that i put in to type a long email and explain what had happen from day one to the day they upgraded my account to wimax then they had changed my subscription plan without my consent and then when i asked them the customer service said they will refund the money back to my account which never happen till this moment and finally about the bad service.
If you visit, the contact us page , this is what you will read
But the fcking nodal officer never even bothered to reply my email but the customer service never failed to send me emails and call me to ask for a renewal of my subscription. My god, how shameless can they be, cant even provide proper service but when to money, they are putting the tongue out like a dog and come beg for money.We strive to resolve customer complaints at first point of contact itself – whether it is via email or by getting in touch with the customer care centre. However, in case your query or complaint is not satisfactorily resolved then you can get in touch with our Nodal Officer in your region.
Damn tataindicom broadband personels may say that im purposely trying to do some mockery or trying to spoil their good reputation. If its so, im ready to produce all my evidence from my account balance that had been deducted eventhough i was not in town ( the CS told me that someone else would have break into the house to use the internet, can u imagine how stupid is that statement). I have all the proof with me with the emails and replies that i got from the dumb ass company. Now i challenge the nodal officers to act dumb again. I will make sure this blog post will be emailed to the tataindicom authority (although the possibility to get ignore is 99%). I thought not to write about it in my blog after seeing many complains lodge online. If you google tataindicom broadband, the 1st choice wont be their domain but the TataIndicomBroadband.com Complaints - Broadband not working site.
So can all of you imagine how shitty it can be?
At last I'm back after a month to update my blog….and with many interesting issues (look forward)… But for now, I would to come up with something that has been in my mind for quite some time…
Well, it’s my resolution I taken for myself that I should post at least a write up (any form) in Tamil every month…Then what the use of me knowing and learnt tamil…. But till now, I’ve never post even a single word…So I made my mind to post something before the year ends… At least I won’t feel guilty when I look back at 2008, the year I start blogging…. So here goes, my 1st post in tamil about tamil language…
மொழிகள் என்பது ஓர் இனத்தின் அடையாளம். மொழின்றி இனம் வளராது. அவ்வகையில், பல லட்ச மொழிகள் இன்று மடிந்து, இனமும்அடையாளமின்றி போய்யின. சிலவற்றே நடைமுறையில் உள்ளன. அவற்றில் ஒன்றுதான் பழமையான மொழிகளில் ஒன்று என சிறப்பைப்பெற்றிருக்கும் தம் தமிழ்மொழி. இன்று உலகம் எங்கும் தமிழர்கள் வாழ, அடித்தலமாக இருப்பதற்கு இம்மொழியே காரணம். "யாமறிந்த மொழிகளிலே தமிழ்மொழி போல், இனிதாவது எங்கும் காணோம் " என்றுபாரதியார் தமிழ்மொழி சிறப்பைப் போற்றி பாடினார். ஆனால் இன்றோதமிழ்மொழி வரும் காலங்களிலும் நூற்றாண்டுகளிலும் தழிழர்களால்பேசப்படுமா அல்லது வருங்கல தலைமுறையினரின் பாடப்புத்தகதில்சரித்திரத்தில் இடம் பெறுமா என்பது மிக பெறிய கேள்விகுறி
காரணம்
நம் அன்றாட வாழ்கையில், நம்மில் எத்தனைப் பேயர் தூயத்தமிழில் பேசுகின்றோம். தம் மொழியைக் கொண்டே பல மொழிகள் உருவாகின. உதாரணத்திற்கு ஆங்கிலம் (கறி-curry) , மலாய் (bumi-பூமி). இது போலவே கையில் அடங்கத பல மொழிகள். ஆனால், நாமோ நம் மொழியின் சிறப்பை மறந்து பிற மொழிகளின் கலவைக் கொண்டு நம் அன்றாட வாழ்கையில் உரையாடுகிறோம்.
இவ்வாறு தொடர்ந்தால் காலப்போக்கில் இதுபோன்ற சொற்கள் தம் மொழியை அக்கிரமத்துக்கொள்ளும். மொழி அழிவை எதிர்கொள்ளும். இனம் காணாமல் போகும். பின் தமிழும் தமிழரும் சரித்திரத்தில் மட்டுமே இடம்பெறும். இதற்கு முடிவுதான் என்னே?
ஆம், முடிவின் தொடக்கவும் நமது கையில்.
தமிழன் என்று மார்தட்டி கொள்வதிலோ, தமிழ் என் உயிர்மூச்சு என்று சொல்வதிலோ, நம் மொழி அழியாமல் வாழபோவதில்லை. நாம், தமிழ் மொழி உணா்வோடு கலவை இல்லாதே தமிழ் பேசினாலே, அதைவிட தமிழுக்கு நாம் செய்யும் தொண்டுயேன்னே.
Recently, we've been reading a lot about the upcoming and yet booming social networking site- The Facebook.
Well, when i was introduced to Facebook, I didnt really like it and find it very very complicating, but as time goes by and some of my friends who keep pestering me to get the hang of it so that i will love it. And yea im loving it.
The reason I'm writing about this post is, 2 days ago, my sister told me that she was unable to get into the another social networking site- Friendster and according to her they are running some maintenance job. When i heard that, i thought for once they are gonna have some good thing to beat the rival networking site, facebook, but my never-work- right instinct never work right again.
This time, friendster turn out to be a disaster whereby most of us lost most of our friends from the contact list after the so called maintenance. I was just wondering why is that so, isnt it suppose to be upgrade then a downgrade?
I learned my lesson that any sites that are given with free services never last long. So i thought facebook would be closing down as well. But after i done a small research online, i found that facebook is not going down but its gonna bring down Google-the search engine mafia.
A lil bit of history of facebook
On February 4th, 2004 Mark Zuckerberg
launched The Facebook, a social network that was at the time exclusively for
Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the student body at
Harvard had signed up. Other schools in the Boston area began demanding a
Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskowitz
and Chris Hughes to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added
30 more college networks.
The original idea for the term Facebook came from
Zuckerberg’s high school (Phillips Exeter Academy). The Exeter Face Book was
passed around to every student as a way for students to get to know their
classmates for the following year. It was a physical paper book until Zuckerberg
brought it to the internet. more
Well, facebook is also ike other social networks, the site allows its users to create a profile page and forge online links with friends and acquaintances. It has distinguished itself from rivals like the larger MySpace, owned by the News Corporation, partly by imposing a spartan design ethos and limiting how users can change the appearance of their profile pages. That has cut down on visual clutter and threats like spam, which plague rival social networks.
So, wait no more, bid good bye to friendster and welcome to facebook, the world 2nd largest social networking site after MySpace.
I'm feeling so damn bored… Really lifeless being in Bangalore though it’s known as one of the happening city in India… Actually there’s nothing much in B’lore except the night clubs (only open till 11.30pm)..Now, the government even has banned music and dance floors…poor “kaki” clubbing…
How long you can stare at books… Oh god, being in Bangalore = being in isolated island…. I’ve tried to occupy my free time and to overcome from being bored…I'm FAILED… so guys do u have any idea what to do in order not to feel BORED… do help me out before I go MAD….hehe…
Me and sumi had signed up for the yoga class in ayush, a yoga center in my college itself and we planned to attend our 1st class this morning at 6am.
excitedly, i had told everyone that I am going for yoga class and i had challenged someone that i will lose my weight before i see the person again. With the burning spirit to burn my calories, I went to bed early to wake up early in the morning.
Knowing me, good in blaming others for my mistake(for fun lah), i blamed my useless "alarm" for not waking me up. When i say "alarm", if you think that person is you, then i cant help it alrite?hehe.
Got up late and what else, couldn't make it. Called sumi, she's not answering my phone, my 1st thought;she must be sleeping, 2nd; she might be bathing. But my 1st instinct never wrong, yes, she overslept as well. To cover the mistake, we blamed both out alarms,lolz.
What ever it is, we are not giving up, so we planned to attend the 5pm class. To make sure i don't over slept after my noon nap, i slept till the 12.30noon so that there wont be any overslept scenarios and no more blaming our "alarms", hehe.
Actually, the reason I took up the 45 days free course is to stay healthy but not (fully) to lose weight. Yoga is now well know all over the world for its proven health activity track record where we can see not only Asian but even the European and Americans are very, in fact much involved with yoga compared to the indians itself.
To know more about the yoga therapy center that i am going, click here
To know more about what yoga is all about click here and you will be directed to google.com.. hahaha...