To CANCEL a Connection…

Posted on June 11, 2008 by Jerry

Take my advice.

If u don’t have a Reliance connection phone/datacard or anything similar don’t take it.

And if by chance and you had to take it. Don’t think of Canceling it!!!

Why? Hear my story :

It was during Barcamp Banaglore 5, that i had discontinued the Tata Indicom Broadband connection as their service was shity. YES damn SHIT!!!.

My thoughts went like this – i have a laptop so why don’t i go for mobility. Let me take the the Reliance NetConnect connection. The data card looks good and works out of USB plus their tariff plan is also good.Finally at an unfortunate moment i took that connection.

Is there a word in the dictionary that describes worse than ‘shity’? Even ‘ultra-f***king-shit-able’ doesn’t properly suffice. It disconnects if i try to check Gmail and connect to GTalk at the same time.

So i decided, after 2 months, enough is enough – cancel the connection. Filled all the forms, submitted the application, paid the outstanding amount and answered two rounds of dumb feedback calls.

Q : Sir, why did you cancel the connection?

A : The Service is BAD.

Q : Why sir?

A : Its Shitty!!! (how the hell am i supposed to know why its BAD. You should be knowing it)

When i thought all was done, in comes a bill at my door step, the next month. Dialed the customer care, told them the scenario. Thought it could be a genuine mistake. WRONG!!! In comes another bill the next month and the next and this month too.

After that a wave of calls in Hindi, Kannada and English asking me to pay the bill. Still the woes continue and the bill amount keeps on adding every month

Nothing helps. Complaints at customer care doesn’t help, blasting them for calling me doesn’t help, pleading doesn’t help….

PLEASE DON’T EVER TAKE A RELIANCE CONNECTION…

Yes!! Mr. Anil you’re having a very sustainable and rewarding relation with ME.

How ‘NOT’ to Blog!!!

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Jerry

I have been blogging for more than 2 years now. Though there are no hard and stead fast rules on blogging. Its a free space, people start with enthusiasm and finally their blog just die out. Why?.

“What not to blog!” or “How not to blog!”, though was never discussed as a topic, but at times we have had discussions on this. Surprisingly majority of the bloggers had the same views on what they promoted, what they looked in a blog, what they expect in a comment and the commentator, what was considered as a good post and when they thought as not so good blogs too.

As the blog-o-sphere is free to any one and any one can write about anybody, doesn’t really mean that you can post about anything. People have secret blog shrines for their love, have extensive write up on the topics that they love, that’s all fine, if its really yours …

CopyPasteFertig How NOT to Blog!!! Everyone agrees to the fact that, when they visit a blog, they believe that what ever you have written is yours. So if you are not writing yourself and just doing the Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V (copy and paste), chances are that the person wont come back, ever!!!. If you are desperate enough to put a mail forward, as it is, even if its a very good in reading, make sure that you give a brief intro to it. Like

“This is a mail forward that i got this morning. It is worth a read ….”

At least you will let the reader know that its not you who wrote it. If possible avoid mail forwards as posts in your blog.

Plagiarism is a strict No! If you want to put someone else’s content in your blog, give them the damn credit. Wont you feel happy when some one credits you for your work? and feel dejected when some stranger reaps the fruits of your creativity.

How to do this?

Link back to them from your post and give and excerpt of their post with your views. That will be appreciated, the other person will sure visit your blog too. Trust me, thats one way to build the network and gain popularity.

Internet is a good place to remain anonymous. So if you want to buildup credibility and wants to be known, then include a name that doesn’t look like “3l33t_wr1t3r”, “the nice blogger”, etc. Put some creativity into the naming, because at the end of the day, you will be known by that name. I remember calling up a fellow blogger who by the name Woke (full name – wokeupjustnow), and asked for “Woke??”. Well i gave him a shock, as nobody had ever called him Woke before.

This particularly helps in commenting, as the author of the post will only recognize the person by the name and blog id that has to be provided. Having a personalized Gravatar or Globally Recognized Avatars is a good idea.

By | Balu | on Mar 29, 2008 | Reply | Edit

Did you get to speak to the owner? May be has a loong story to narrate!

By Jerry on Mar 31, 2008 | Reply | Edit

no balu … This was a mail fwd that i got recently

I too agree .. he might have a long story to tell .

So your comments will look like the ones shown above.

Everyone may not be a master of English, but just avoid making common spelling mistakes. It really turns down the audience that you have in hand. Just like you wont really enjoy reading

This was the sameple post thwt i was trying to type and this ended like thios.

Dont be hasty, take time. Get used to the keyboard.

Its all that i can think of and from my experience. Urging others too to share their thoughts ..

Happy Blogging!!!

A Very (In)Convenient Truth

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Jerry

pollution A Very (In)Convenient Truth Do we really care about the environment? NO! Simply because we only care about ‘today’. Spare a few, but we never think of tomorrow beyond our savings and how to survive another day. A few is really a few, not even 1 in 100, not even a 1000, may be one in a ten thousand if we are just lucky enough.

Yes i know that countless many actions, meetings, movements, walks, runs, talks, videos, documentaries, features, etc are happening to many people aware of the changing face of the environment. But, if we really look at it, at the end of all these, we still drive the same oil-spilling, low mileage, polluting vehicles. So who is to blame? Is the common man still to blame? Should we point our fingers at the authorities for not enforcing the laws properly. Talk about enforcing!, they don’t even have time to set up a stable government up there after satisfying all the mouths.

Developed nations are like that model in the Marlboro advt., smocking the cigarette and showing off; while developing nations, they are trying to imitate the model by breathing in that smoke and saying, ‘Hey even i’m cool enough!!!’. Don’t they know cigarette is – fire at one end and idiot at the other end. Be at either side you stand to loose.

Take a look in that mirror. Look at you. Are you even half healthy as what your parents used to be at this age. Ya you do earn 10 times as compared to what they earned. We don’t even get up from our butts to get our own food, we ‘get’ in by punching numbers into a machine that is speculated to cause impotency in men and brain cancer.

Carpal-Tunnel Syndrome, was for some hardcore keyboard player. But now every one has one or the other wrist problem, have we all become Elton John. We are the Elton John-s of a different keyboard playing generation, of a different economy, of a different industry.

The 3Rs – Reduce, Recycle, Reuse – are still motto’s of this generation; Reduce physical exertion, Recycle gossips, Reuse inner-wears. I see people taking tonnes of print-outs every day at office, some times they do it by mistake; pages with just one line printed. What do they do? Leave it at the shredder. Cant they just take that can use it for scribbling notes?

As mentioned by Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth – We all are like the frog sitting inside boiling water, not realizing that we are getting cooked…

Kerala’s New Feudal Lords

Posted on March 22, 2008 by Jerry

…Unlike elsewhere in the country, no farmer in Kerala can use “bourgeois” things like harvesting machines, unless they have the comrades sanction. Each farmer must apply to the local office of the CPM’s Travancore Karshaka Thozhilali Union (TKTU), part of Kerala State Karshaka Thozhilali Union (KSKTU), the party’s farm worker union…

Here is a rather comprehensive coverage of what lead to the loss of crops in Kerala

Good one Panchajanya…

Valentine’s Day Contemplations

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Jerry

“You don’t have to get me a red-rose. I’m already yours!!!”, well i still don’t know if that was a trick question or not that she threw at me. All i asked her, “Shall i give you a red-rose?”

Or rather i wasn’t supposed to ask anything like that. May be it was stupid cupid playing the role of the culprit. How the hell would i ever know what she meant? Cant they just ask us what they want rather than using virtual pointers. We run Java, pointers are not an option and why else do you think we date so many and never result in garbled memory. The core is never dumped.(2 years with IT industry this is all that i have left in my mind)

Sandy had said it the right way,

“And they say, love makes the world go round.
It sure does, in damned circles of nothingness.”

Inspired from Love and his post on Nothingness, came my two posts Second in Love and Second in Love – The Closure, two close to reality stories. 3 in fact!

Trust me “Guys who are Single”, the world will be mean to you, but once SHE is there in your life, your life can never get meaner. Jokes apart they do bring in a sense of orderliness if your really serious. I have seen that in people. They change overnight. Power of Love, they say, Power of HER i say.

Some people really live their life out on LOVE. They forget that they have a life that’s precious and they forget it. All the sweet words that you might have said and those moments that you cherished are all good. But once you break-up, you need to move on. Kambath Ishq, is to be blamed? No dude. Its you at blame’s end. Move on!!!

GUYs never ever on a very special day, especially on this day, tell her that you will get food from outside. You can never be convincing enough and wont sound sweet to her at all. Trust me all that She would hear would be, “I cant eat the carp that you prepare everyday! I need a break at least today. So lets eat outside”. Let her to decide. Its the safest bet. Watch “Pyaar Ke Side-Effects”, its a nice start for beginners.

As a parting gift, here is my 2 cents – Never trust someone who says, “I cant live without YOU! You’re my life”. Thats the biggest lie in the world.

And with all these said, I wonder why i’m still here in office on Valentine Day’s eve, working. She hasn’t called either. He phone is not reachable too…

(This post is now abruptly stopped. There has been a Fire Alarm at my office and Its a fake!!! Somebody got too steamy in love on V-Day i guess.;) )

Jerry Mannel

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Category Archives: Advice

To CANCEL a Connection…

How ‘NOT’ to Blog!!!

A Very (In)Convenient Truth

Kerala’s New Feudal Lords

Valentine’s Day Contemplations