Cellphonanandha and his Tapas

Once upon a time there lived a swamiji called Cellphonanandha.He performed a Tapas towards Lord Brahma.At the end of his Tapas Brahma appeared and told him that he will grant Cellphonanandha whatever he wants.

"The sweet sound of my cellphone should sound wherever i am,be in a classroom or a group meeting,be in a party or in a temple,be in a theatre or in my Lab.It may ring due to an incoming call or message.It may ring due to alarms or reminders.Everyone around me should be delighted hearing my ringtone." wished Cellphonanandha.

"thathastu" said Brahma.

I am seeing a lot of descendants of Cellphonanandha around me everyday.They jus let their cellphones shout anywhere and everywhere.May be one can forget to switch to silent mode occasionally.But some people jus dont want to use the silent mode.Why dont you people jus put your damn cell in silent mode atleast in public places and let others in peace?

The Six Sixes

I will be telling my children that there was a batsman called Yuvraj during my time, who had hit 6 sixes in an over.
thanks to you tube as i missed seeing the wonderful innings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bob85WbW8cU

Woes of a Hutchian

Scene 1
One fine morning our honorable researcher(referred henceforth as HR) is sound asleep when he gets a call from an unknown number.He lifts it and hears a voice saying "hello this is Rahul Dravid" from the other end.Jumping from the bed he starts listening seriously to what the person at the end says.It turns out to be an ad for some cricket related services Hutch(Bangalore) provide.Uttering a few curses,the frustrated researcher continues his sleep.

Scene 2:
Mr.S is busy preparing some X project report while he gets a message from Hutch which says"Recharge with 299 and get full talk time.Offer valid only for two days.Rush!!".He gets the same message ten times that day. Atlast he thinks "oh.this seems to be a good offer.Why dont i jus recharge".So he recharges for 299.Instantly he gets a message"Your recharge has been successful.You account has been refilled successfully by Rs.99.Your hutch prepaid balance is XXXX(Not to be revealed:) .The unfortunate and angry Mr.S has to call and blast the hutch care guys 100 times that week to get his remaining Rs.200 worth talktime.

Scene 3
Our researcher wanting to be free from all monthly recharging woes goes for an year long plan for Rs.XXX giving a talktime worth rupees Rs.XXX and XXXX free messages.Being so happy having XXXX free messages he starts sending "happy new year" to all his friends on the new year day.alas he is charged Re.1 a message..Shocked, he calls the customer care to report the mistake in billing.The customer care guy (its not even a babe:( ) replies

"Free message offers are not valid in special days,Sir?"
Honorable researcher: Since when..I was not informed abt this
Customer care guy :Sorry sir,we messaged all our customers a week back..May be you havent received that message
HR :Its again your fault,if i dint get the message..I think its your responsibility to inform ur customers properly..Ok atleast tell me what are the days you have marked as special days??
Custome care guy: its big list sir
HR : how am i supposed to know it..
Customer care guy :!?!
HR : a few blasts and cuts the call

To date our HR doesnt know the logic behind identifying some days as special..For hutch Father's day and Rakshabandhan were special days whereas Vinayaka chaturthi and sankaranthi were not.

Scene 4:
One fine day Honorable researcher gets a message like this" Recharge now with Rs.88 and call any STD mobile at Re.1/minute.Offer will be activated within 24 hrs of recharge." so HR recharges with Rs.88..The next day he calls his home chats for long time and was surprised to see that he is still charged at rs.2.40 a min..Again he calls the CC and starts blasting as to why the offer was not activated within 24hrs..But as usual gets some irresponsible(but seemingly polite) replies from CC guy who says it will be definitely activated the next day..But the tomorrow he said came after 17 days..

A request to Hutch Bangalore (Bengaluru to be precise)
I understand and appreciate that u do business for earning money..But please dont cheat your customers to earn
money..Respect their privacy and dont disturb them unnecessarily.


P.S
Recently Vodafone has acquired Hutch and I hope the new management gives some relief to Blore Hutchians..