Raining free gifts, but what matters is I GOT IT late.

Title to this is bit of an exaggeration but i didnt find a way to put it across. So my apologies.

I got this from Nokia india marketing as a complementary one for my Nokia mobile purchase, wait there is a long story behind how i got it. On jan 5th ( the day i bought the device) the shop person was getting some details from me, my phone number, email blah blaah, then he called Nokia customer care or some dept to validate the details given by me and after few minutes i got a message on my mobile "Congratulations you have won a genunine Bluetooth headset, to claim you gift call to toll free number and there was also a voucher code", the shop person was very cunning that he said i can take either the Reebok watch or this gift, at that moment i was desperately in need of a watch so i opted for watch, this fellow to took this as a chance to grab a Bluettoth headset by calling that number and addressing himself as me and informed the customer care exec to deliver this one at his residence.

                                                         Some sensible guy/girl who attended this call noted shop person's address but entered my name and mobile number for that parcel and they shipped it via Bluedart on 13th jan, i got a call from Blue dart on 15th jan(friday) that i have got a courier i had no idea what it was and asked that person who called from where it has come??, he replied 'From Nokia' and the address was wrong i was clueless and confused why nokia would send me a courier which has a wrong address i already got their phone i thought it could be some marketing services. Also i didnt want to leave that beacuse it has got my name and Phone number in it correct. Saturday and sunday went past and on Monday 18th jan at 1.30 p.m a person from Blue dart called me and said your parcel is ready for delivery, i told that person to give it in one of my office sites since i was at other office site, the parcel was delivered and due to some bunch of irresponsible people who doesnt take care in other's items it was given to a wrong person who holds same name as mine also that parcel didnt contain any initial there was simply 'Krishnaswamy' (i dont know why they used 'y' instead of 'i' in the end i hate when my name is mispelled) with my Mobile number.

                                                    Next monday 25th jan i called blue dart, dont ask what were you doing till that time beacuse i was least interested about it also i didnt even imagine that it would be a bluetooth headset, i got the parcel number from that person who called me initially and asked status of this parcel number they said its delivered on 18th jan 01.45p.m and it was received and acknowledged, that was ridiculous how could a parcel a physical item which was delivered didnt reach me for 7 days, i started to probe on to this and found a soul in office has received and acted lackadaisically also was instrumental in sending that parcel to other person with the same name of mine. The person who recieved it (who got the same name of mine) was surprised and knowingly or unknowingly opened it, to my foolish mind i didnt think in the way that it could have gone to the other person having the same name finally i got it on 25th evening, Thanks to my H.O.D who helped a lot in unearthing this mystery.

That was the story.

Thanks for reading........

What do you call this... fate???

              One Friday when I woke up it was 2pm in the afternoon don’t blame me for sleeeeping that long that’s because I slept after night shift at work adding to my frustration there was no power in our area and there was less amount of rice too, so took my bike and went out to buy rice so at least I can manage with curd rice to fill my starving stomach to my surprise rice shops nearby my house were closed due to lunch time only disadvantage in my area is you don’t have hotels, mess or any kaiyendhi bhavans.
                    Guess what my next idea was let us have Pizza for lunch today (en nenapula theeya vaikka). Nearest pizza shop from my place is about 3 to 4kms that wasn’t a great deal for me since I was ready go there considering my starvation at that moment, found the pizza shop it was Dominos' Pizza saw the list and found they are having veg pizzas from Rs39 onwards, in the billing counter i just told the lady give me a small size pizza pointing this Rs39 one of the chart, I don’t know what she understood and billed me for a 107Rs pizza again considering my starvation I gave the money and got it and something made me to take it home and eat.
                    
                           I was heading back home and met with an accident with another two wheeler (don’t panic its a mild one)and my right leg got bruised and it led to a severe damage to my bike left handle bar got dislocated, mud guard broke and controls on the left side including indicators, horn didn’t function OMG look at the chain of events here, what next at around 4.15 pm I entered my house with this pizza but hats off to dominos' pizza packing it was rock solid inside and that didn’t even move an inch from its place, thinking it will satisfy my stomach I had a bite, I was totally disappointed it was so horrible to eat and I felt why did I decide to get this one I have eaten pizzas sometime back in bakery shops for Rs30 and it kicks dirt on this one from a familiar pizza shop.

Bottom-line: A lunch which could have got over by 25rs had I found a rice shop ended spending more than 650Rs , Yes doctor consultation, medicine, bike repair and this crap pizza cost. I show less interest towards fate, Raghukalam, Yemagandam but incidents like these really make me wonder, do these virtual things make changes in our day today activities, I admit the fact that it was a horrible decision from me, there could be two reasons for this when I would have opted against my instincts saying nothing will happen secondly I have no other go to doubt these virtual things

So with what can I conclude????

1. Never ever in your lifetime have pizza that too for lunch.
2. Don’t sleep long even after night shifts.
3. Drive slowly.
4. Don’t believe these virtual things.

Thanks for reading comments welcome

Its time to scratch your heads

"Diwali Offer scratch the card and get exciting gifts worth lakhs"

Get the hell out of here, what are these people thinking, you see alot of these at the time of festive seasons and the truth behind this is you are wasting time in scratching that card, it is not worth a rupee and gifts what you get is only disappointment "Better luck next time"

Often shop owners dish out these "fit for nothing" offers to allure customers to buy products in their shops and malls and for a surprise this time its a major mobile phone company which has stepped in to these crap offers and i have never heard anyone by luck has benefited by these offers also there will be no announcements that "this" person has won the lucky draw. they make offer announcements and forget to give the prices after, true fact is there will be nothing to give neither the scratch card or coupon etc..have the wordings " Congrats your are the luck winner of this 'crap' "





This offer was a total farce that almost no one got great cash backs instead got useless wallpapers, ringtones and applications why on earth one should buy phone only to get applications and wallpapers as offers when there are umpteen available on the internet a simple google search would do wonders here, had it been any free gifts like headphones, blutooth headsets, speaker systems etc there are a lot which can be given and no one would have cursed that company on that auspicious day

what i have observed in the recent years is it is only an act of hood-winking people and make them fall into the trap and sincerely the prices and offers are not present in it, mostly i advice relatives, friends of mine not to buy products capped under these offers

You can even rely on discounts like 10% to 50 % but that too have cons in it, but when compared to the said above they are considerable

So when next time you see any sort of these eyewashing offers stay away and avoid it or dont be the first fooled out instead check with the others who were fooled

Diffusing B in movies

Bomb diffusing sequences in most of the indian movies will be a nail-biter, hero will be in a situation to save some people in factory, public meeting, old building etc....

This will be the moment everyone scratches their head which wire red, green or blue in that bomb needs to be disconnected so that the timer stops, there will only be fewer seconds left and finally our hero cuts any wire and the timer stops just at 2 or 3 sec before the time of blast, thats acceptable our hero is not a bomb diffuser nor a electronics engineer

Now this is interesting who on earth said that hollywood movies dont have such sort of artificial nail-biting scenes one night i saw Armageddon movie(released in the year 1998) on star movies and it was the first time i saw it i wont go into the story though and it goes like this hero, his crew, an astronaut from NASA and some sciencetists are on a space mission at one stage people down on earth decides to abort the mission losing hope that it will not be a success so they trigger a nuclear bomb so that the space shuttle explodes on space

That NASA astronaut is the only person who knows a bit about it and hero will literally fall on his feet to deactivate it and promises the astronaut that he will complete the mission successfully for god sake and finally persuades the astronaut, 3 min left he dont know which wire he should cut, sweat pours down from everyone's face red or blue, red or blue...... is the murmur, finally he cuts the blue wire the times stops at 2 sec

Hey let us be logical here a NASA astronaut who would have surely known that the bomb would be triggered at one stage was he not told how to deactivate it atleast in case of emergencies and why he should break into the circuitry of that nuclear bomb to diffuse it ??