Retail - Cheating

I shopped at Music World / Books & Beyond (Kukatpally, Hyderabad) today. I paid by card, and the cashier swaped Rs. 473 without even asking. I never expected this kind of cheating practiced by RPG group.

This is a common practice in Hyderabad. All the retail stores are into such practice. Even when you pay by card, they dont bother to charge the right amount. Beware.. .you are being cheated.

@ The V

We have shifted to The V yesterday. It was a grand opening. Well...... I would say grand opening for a grand office. Everything is grand here. I hope to spend a grand time too. Lets see.

Road to Bapatla

From the AP Tourism Guest house I walked with mom for 2 Km. This is the video on that. You can see what we experienced in that 2 km. Nice one. Enjoy..

Note: The video was taken on 23 Dec, from my mobile phone.

Keep the change. Are Indian banks listening?

Bank of America's new Keep the Change program.

Everytime you buy something with your debit card, Bank of America rounds it up to the nearest dollar and deposits the change into a savings account for you. For the first three months, they'll match your savings 100%.

Sometimes, powerful innovation is based in the simplest of ideas. This is so tempting, I may change banks. Check out this link for Keep the Change program.

Portable Video Player

After going though some online research, I landed up buying Nexus MP4 player yesterday. Tested the product for 4~ 5 hrs. And the result.. good product man.
The product is packaged with the player (with 2" screen), and easy navigable buttons, usb charger cum data transfer cord, earphone, case, CD-ROM, and a manual. The product requires Windows Media player 10 or 11 for data transfer.
The CD comes with a software, which converts nearly any video format to the players format. Till now, I have converted mov, divx, flv, mp4, real video, asf, dat... (the list is quite long). The video format that the player uses is Xvid.
The player supports album art. Beside its got FM radio, picture viewer, txt options.. and couple of things. Its got a linux operating system, built in. Costs (INR) Rs. 6999.

I would rate the product very good. If not excellent at this stage.

So, guys am ready to watch.. कजरा रे , बीडी जलाई ले , video killed the radio starts.. and whole lot of things on the move..

A song written in late 50's Sheldon Harnick during the cold war, is so significant in todays world. Listen to it, you will understand yourself.

Big Flicks

Reliance is getting everywhere in the Indian family. Started off with clothing, then to mobile, landline, broadband, agro food sector and now their latest venture movie rentals.
I got a membership for 3 months. Costs Rs. 650. And I can borrow 1 DVD /VCD at a time, and can watch n number of movies a day. The best is they give only original prints, so no piracy. The funniest part it, they also stock loads of Regional movies. I never expected them to stock Bengali movies. Wonderful.

You can check out at www.bigflicks.com for a store near your home.

Om Shanti Om

Went for O-S-O at Imax complex Prasadz. After a long time, a good weekend bollywood feature. A feature which can be kept in personal collection for watching quite often. Good comedy, an perfect timing. Deepika was awesome. By now she will have thousands of fan followers (you can count me in too). I would say a must watch movie.

Unfortunately, experience at Prasadz was not so pleasant. They didn't allow parking inside their premises. Instead I had to park it outside the movie complex (also managed by them) and was charged Rs. 5 for that. Next, the show was as 10:30 am, and they allowed us to enter the complex only at 10:15 am. Prasadz has lot of other shops beside the screens. Top of that, 3 levels of security checking including 1 level of frisking. Too much man. Next, time I would think twice before going to Prasadz. PVR will be a better experience.

Booked rail tickets.

For the first time I booked rail tickets online (www.irtc.co.in). The tickets are supposed to be delivered (this case my office address) in a day or two. Lets see. If it works, then another prompt service by the Government..

Life at last.

I had a 3 day holiday for deepawali. And the bad news was, my phone was dead, so was the broadband. Reliance was closed for 3 days. Yesterday, the reliance technician came. He said "Sir, cable melt हो गिया। ". For me, it was like what the hell. He was good enough to change the cable promptly, and get my computer back to life. Thank you reliance once again.

TataSky

Got the Tata Sky installed on my television. I must admit the picture is superb. Truely, speaking I had no idea that, my Sony TV have great picture quality. The guys, came on time, and showed true customer management skills.
The first two months is free. Lets see how the service is. इसको लागा डाला टोह life झिन्गालाला ।

Thanks Honda...

My Dio was giving me lot of starting trouble after I got it serviced. Yesterday, I had sent an online feedback about the service to Honda India guys. Like most of the Indian companies, I didn't expect a response. But Honda did prove me wrong. They not only called me (the first call was from Delhi, then from Bangalore and then from Hyderabad..the dealer himself), and I got the problem rectified in 1 hr. They didn't charge me a penny. Wonderful job Honda. बहुत सुक्रिया।

বাংলায় ব্লগ করা.....

এই প্রথম বার বাংলায় লিখছী. হোয়েটো প্রচুর বানান ভুল হবে.. তাও..লিখতে ভালো লাগছে..

Only one problem, the fonts are not rendered correctly। Use http://quillpad।in/ for Indian languages

हिंदी में ....

पहेले बार हिंदी में ब्लोग कर रह हु। जुग जुग जियो गूगल।

Am mama....

Today, is a wonderful day for me. I became mama. Can't believe my own little sister became mother. The most beautiful day, in her life.
The confusion starts now. She have a little baby boy.. and what do we name him. Being in south, and today being a very holy day (for me every holiday is a holy day), the day got to do with the birth star of Lord Venketeshwara or lord Balaji as he is poplarly know out here. So, I suggested mom why not name him as Venketeshwara Balaji Mitra. We can then follow the modern trend, and call him Venkei Bala Mitra. Lets see how his parents react.

Movie and the blast.....

I went for Ratatouille, a movie I awaited for last 6 months, today. Saturday being a holiday for me, I did choose the 18:15 show, at city's best multiplex Prasadz. So, prepared for the movie, I started bit early from home, as the clouds where rumbling.. and grumbling. With my Dio, battling the rain, I went straight to the theaters.. well 1 hr in advance. Got, my web ticket exchanged with the actual ticket.... after having the corn (well a cup of corn costs Rs.35/-.. that's quite an amount) went in for the movie.
It started with a Pixar short film.. well... Pixar.. Apple always excites me.. you can say.. a die hard fan of both..
Ratatouille.. well.. one of the best animated movies I have ever watched. It's seemlessly perfect..
The show ended, at 20:00 hrs.. and as we were coming out.. the complex where filled up with all the Khaki men.. I mean the policemen. They looked serious, and asked us to vacate the place immediately.. as there was a bomb threat.. and the whole area was sealed off. People were rushing. I calmly walked out of the main hall went to the parking place with my girl, took my Dio, and was out in a flash. After I came out.. I found that there was a blast at Lumbini park. Well, the park is probably 300 mts from the complex. So,........ well. .. i came back home, switched on the TV and say.. there where 2 blasts in the city, one at Lumbini park and the other at Gokul Chat Bhandar (@ Koti).
So, a day with a wonderful movie and then blasts... I don't know what to say. I pray, this shouldn't happen again, anywhere in the world.

Bohemia

Went to the new restaurant at Magna (Banjara Hills, road No 12). They got some exotic dishes.. really mouthwatering.
Unfortunately, you need to wait for 45 mins for the food. That's too much. But if you love exotic, Mexican, Spanish, French food.. you must visit it.

The photograph at last

Nearly after 2 months got some one to click my picture with Dio.
The image is taken with Sony w710i. This is near Bharatnagar bridge.

Durgam Cheruvu

Today I went to Durgam Cheruvu or Secret Lake. Its situated behind the Hi-Tech City. A wonderful place. Its 40km to and fro from my house. Took some picture with my mobile, take a look.

In front of the Lake...













The Lake..













Another view of the lake....













A small foot bridge over the lake.....













A paddle boat on shore...

Its raining again..

After a long gap of nearly 2 weeks, it started raining from yesterday night. As, the saying goes........ it was raining cats and dogs. I dunno, how many cats and dogs it rained, but was quite extensive. Now, its cool. Hope the rain eventually stops.. as I need to go out.