Finally some competition! The Reliance monopoly in calling to India had been a big pain...with no improvement in service over the past 2 years and even with the ever so falling internet access fees, no drop in call prices either.
With Airtel in the game, things have changed! I'll save your research efforts -
1. charges - 8cents/minutes. Latest promotion - 4cents/minute (Holi hai!)
2. no month access fees (unlike Reliance)
3. no connection fee (unlike Reliance)
4. no expiration of minutes. Just make sure you use your calling card atleast once every 6months
5. better customer service (got through to a representative in 20seconds!!!!!)
6. squeaky functionality (but not enough for me to let go off the great price)
question?
transfer $50 worth of talk time to my account (yes, there is a transfer facility in Airtel) and by God, i will answer :-)
http://www.donationpeople.com
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Pyaar ke side effect
Rahul Bose means some serious business...his movies are offbeat enough that they appeal to a different audience and orthodox enough that many people would approve watching them.T'was a fairly refreshing movie. it would get a 7/10 score from me.
For one, i was surprised that Mallika Sherawat came out of her sack. The narration by Rahul Bose was especially funny! It was well paced with no 'drag minutes'!
Recommended for watching once!
An Idiot's guide to earning $450/hour
Only the 2nd snowfall this year in Middletown! Yeah! word has it that global warming has taken over the planet. It finally snowed in excess of 10 inches this past Monday. It took me more than 20 minutes to get the snow off the car in the morning. Took me a second to apply brake while still loosing control of the car and skidding into the car in front of me, at <5mph. It took her another 10minutes to call the cops and make a case. A few more phone calls and poof! i have a bill of $450 for a (yeah you can read this one again) 6 inch long hairline scratch on the bumper that you could barely see from 3feet away. Fortunately noone was hurt...
First hand experience - it's a pain to be involved in an accident (if that what you could call this...officially!). You don't want to be in one. never! And that too not with a kind of a person who is just waiting for that chance to screw you.
There are two ways to look at it -
1 - I will be a even more careful driver, who doesn't want to get into any ruffle
2 - the day anyone touches my car, i'll make sure i get my $450 back
for better or for worse...i won't be the 2nd person.
First hand experience - it's a pain to be involved in an accident (if that what you could call this...officially!). You don't want to be in one. never! And that too not with a kind of a person who is just waiting for that chance to screw you.
There are two ways to look at it -
1 - I will be a even more careful driver, who doesn't want to get into any ruffle
2 - the day anyone touches my car, i'll make sure i get my $450 back
for better or for worse...i won't be the 2nd person.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
tbu
To Be Updated. 3 numbers.
until a month back, there were 2. Noida and Ithaca.
So today, when mom asked me what else is going on...i was confused...confused as to what I've already told mom, what to Akshia and what to Shuchi! he he!
not that i am complaining! just making a mental (and a blogger!) note of the few things that have been changing lately.
:-)
until a month back, there were 2. Noida and Ithaca.
So today, when mom asked me what else is going on...i was confused...confused as to what I've already told mom, what to Akshia and what to Shuchi! he he!
not that i am complaining! just making a mental (and a blogger!) note of the few things that have been changing lately.
:-)
Thursday, February 08, 2007
2.0 rulez
To make a difference to the world you need to make a difference in the lives of the people that live in it.
To make a difference in one life, you gotta be more involved.
Now we are involved in 18000+ people’s lives. But only as much as any other *rewards* program is.
How do we make a difference? A question yet to be answered…And perhaps, a thought yet to be pondered over?!
Web2.0 strategies rule the world today! And we are not there yet.
To make a difference in one life, you gotta be more involved.
Now we are involved in 18000+ people’s lives. But only as much as any other *rewards* program is.
How do we make a difference? A question yet to be answered…And perhaps, a thought yet to be pondered over?!
Web2.0 strategies rule the world today! And we are not there yet.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
am I really a nice guy?!
If 5 people were to tell me that I am a nice guy and 2 were to say that I am not, i would tend to agree with the former (but ofcourse!).
But then if the 5 did and the 2 did not, you begin to think otherwise...because it's too good to be true. and wonder if there is something else to it...something more deep and perhaps evil. Something that only I know. The real question then becomes - what is that 'something' which made me doubt the 5 people who prolly meant no harm to me!
Afterall 'nice' is a relative term. It refers to something that is only better than something 'not' nice.
.
I put myself in front of questions to which I have no answer...no explanation...and no reason to question!
next question - am i insane??! :p
But then if the 5 did and the 2 did not, you begin to think otherwise...because it's too good to be true. and wonder if there is something else to it...something more deep and perhaps evil. Something that only I know. The real question then becomes - what is that 'something' which made me doubt the 5 people who prolly meant no harm to me!
Afterall 'nice' is a relative term. It refers to something that is only better than something 'not' nice.
.
I put myself in front of questions to which I have no answer...no explanation...and no reason to question!
next question - am i insane??! :p
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Saturday, January 27, 2007
only a matter of time till two birds find each other right?! well i found mine.This is a photo from the Roka...which in a way means that the girl and the boy have officially declared their willingness to be with each other!
love you Shuchi!
(my official apologies to my blog-readers and friends about being so busy so as not to update them)
Friday, January 26, 2007
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Monday, January 15, 2007
last 3 days
last 3 days have been awesome!
mom-dad celebrated their 31st anniversary on 12th. me and a friend got beautiful flowers and a yumm cake for them right at midnight and had a little ceremony! :)
then early morning 5am we left for the station to catch a train to Bhopal for Tini's wedding. We travelled in a train after a long long time! prolly 10 years! they just keep serving food in Shatabdi...nonstop! all i did was sleep, wakeup, eat, sleep again :D
Met all bhuas, phujis, didis, jijajis and others! it was a bhargava mela! the venue was a resort where all of us were staying like a joint family
wow, even the generation after mine has grown up. kids of ages 1 to 10ish...i could not recognize some of them (ouch)!! it was so good to see them all again!
had been a long long while since i attended a marriage...the last time i saw one was when i was very young and hardly understood what was going on :p
this time, i was a first cousin of the bride, and the only one at that counting just the brothers. noone else could make it.
Played my part in the ferehs as well. am glad i got to do things. such things however small bring brothers and sisters closer.
I flew back from Bhopal on Sunday morning to meet my APS batchmates in Dilli Haat. A school reunion of 6 friends from 14years back! wow! and i have to say, they were all very nice people. they have done well in life. am happy for them. we were together from 2 to 7 in the evening and i did not even realise how time flew so fast! the girls were pretty and the boys were..ahh..alright :p
at 7:30 i met another pretty girl. ha, keep guessing!
a few things i would love to write about but just can't...at this time...baut nainsaafi hai!
mom-dad celebrated their 31st anniversary on 12th. me and a friend got beautiful flowers and a yumm cake for them right at midnight and had a little ceremony! :)
then early morning 5am we left for the station to catch a train to Bhopal for Tini's wedding. We travelled in a train after a long long time! prolly 10 years! they just keep serving food in Shatabdi...nonstop! all i did was sleep, wakeup, eat, sleep again :D
Met all bhuas, phujis, didis, jijajis and others! it was a bhargava mela! the venue was a resort where all of us were staying like a joint family
wow, even the generation after mine has grown up. kids of ages 1 to 10ish...i could not recognize some of them (ouch)!! it was so good to see them all again!
had been a long long while since i attended a marriage...the last time i saw one was when i was very young and hardly understood what was going on :p
this time, i was a first cousin of the bride, and the only one at that counting just the brothers. noone else could make it.
Played my part in the ferehs as well. am glad i got to do things. such things however small bring brothers and sisters closer.
I flew back from Bhopal on Sunday morning to meet my APS batchmates in Dilli Haat. A school reunion of 6 friends from 14years back! wow! and i have to say, they were all very nice people. they have done well in life. am happy for them. we were together from 2 to 7 in the evening and i did not even realise how time flew so fast! the girls were pretty and the boys were..ahh..alright :p
at 7:30 i met another pretty girl. ha, keep guessing!
a few things i would love to write about but just can't...at this time...baut nainsaafi hai!
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
this is irritating!
:-) am in Noida.
haven't got any time since 28th Dec and neither did i feel like posting...perhaps i am more regular on the blog only when I have too much to tell but no-one to talk to!
but abhi control nahi ho raha!!!
it's irritating how sometimes mom & dad get manipulated...rather, how easily they let themselves get manipulated while knowing that they are! and they just tell me - karna padta hai.
And you know what, the more they do this, the more I get irrirated and therefore against doing the same. Implications jo bhi ho...
dilli ki trip update sooooon!!!!
haven't got any time since 28th Dec and neither did i feel like posting...perhaps i am more regular on the blog only when I have too much to tell but no-one to talk to!
but abhi control nahi ho raha!!!
it's irritating how sometimes mom & dad get manipulated...rather, how easily they let themselves get manipulated while knowing that they are! and they just tell me - karna padta hai.
And you know what, the more they do this, the more I get irrirated and therefore against doing the same. Implications jo bhi ho...
dilli ki trip update sooooon!!!!
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