My suggestions

1. Thattidalaama sir?
2. Poaturalaama madam?
3. Can I amukks?
4. Vikram movie Janagaraj style ‘kitta vaayyaaaa’. lock button ‘kitta vaayyaaaa’.
5. lock aa simha narasimha current saakaa?
6. veetla sollitu vandhuteengala?
7. enakkoru unmai therinjaaganum. lock panlaama venaama?
8. Gandha kannazhagi, aa left la konjam poosu. right la konjam poosu. lock button amukks

Romba mukkiyam!

1. The current government is elected by us. Now who elected Anna? What makes everyone think he can decide on civil society? Who appointed Anna as the sole custodian of civil society?
2. Why would someone so serious against corruption, plan for a 30 day fast? Will fasting for 30 days resolve corruption? Why not for 1 day? Or 300 days? And if you look at all his activities, they are perfectly suited for 247 news channels. Barkha Dutt talking about anti corruption is the biggest joke of the decade.
3. Basic assumption of Anna is that 542 parliamentarians are corrupt whereas every single Indian is pure and believes everything that is white is milk. This is a totally flawed logic to build your anti corruption campaign on.
4. Who does Anna report to? Who will review what he does? Do public get a chance to review his work?
5. A Raja, a former minister, Kanimozhi daughter of a powerful man, Kalmadi yet another powerful man. All of them are in Jail. JJ is facing a hearing in Bangalore shortly for a case against her. Yeddy has stepped down and he is going to be questioned now. Except for Gandhi family, which corrupt politician has escaped the clutches of law? Now what will Lokpal achieve?
6. Will it not set a wrong precedent? Tomorrow can all service providers protest for a paypal bill and take the country by ransom?
7. I see people telling TV cameras that they have bunked work or college or school to support Anna. Integrity anyone? Do you trust such people to come up with anything useful?

Finally

8. Baba Ramdev also protested against corruption right? So what special qualities or superpowers Anna has over Baba?

Anna has planned really well to get a nobel prize or some award and get his name etched on history books for ever. Well played.

1. When I Submitted porting request my balance was 10 Rs.
2. No call was made nor was any message sent. How did I get into negative balance then?

After lots of talking the call centre guy finally conceded that the 10 Rs debit was wrong and agreed to refund it. They did refund the money immediately. But now I have to resubmit the porting request, wait for 72 hours. Luckily this was my spare mobile and I am ready to wait till eternity till Airtel gets fed up and allows by porting request. But how many will? Is this Airtel’s way of getting back at customers who want to move away from them? If this is not cheating, then what is?

I am waiting for the day I can get rid of Airtel.

1. Stayed at Mayura River view, or Karnataka Holidays, Srirangapatna. Very nice place, overlooking the river cauvery. Food is not that good. Value for money. You can book online. Cottages are really good.

This Mayura River view is very good for relaxing. During our stay on one of the days, we had a very heavy lunch and then dozed off for a while. Once we got up, I was amazed to see around 150 people waiting outside my cottage. I was wondering if people misunderstood me to be someone influential. Only later I realized that the crowd was for Karnataka home minister R Ashok who had come to the resort for lunch. I had not brought that many business cards as well. From next time I will make it a point to carry more business cards.

2. Brindavan Gardens musical fountain is wonderful.

3. Chamundi hills and sunset is great as usual. Mysore palace looks gorgeous at night with the special lighting. I am not very sure if its there in all evenings.

We went on a Saturday evening (Between 7 to 7.30 PM. Lights were turned off at 7.30 PM).

4. Ranganathittu is good. Apart from the boating, even other areas within the sanctuary is good for bird watching. Dont worry about the couples who are hidden behind shady areas. Even birds don’t go there. We even spotted a kingfisher close to the parking.

5. There is a huge huge water tank called Thonnur Kere somewhere near Pandavapura (From SH17 take left after srirangapatna while going towards bangalore. Once you reach Pandavapura ask people for banghetta cross and take left there. You can follow the typical bangalorean directions of straigghtt hogi(Which means go for 10 kms by asking people every 1 km if you are on the right track, dead end means t junction etc).

Its a must visit place for people who love old temples (Krishna and Yoganarasimha temples), lovely paddy fields and this water body and lots of birds(Look at the blue bird in the photos above). But better be prepared to watch the mass bathing and diving ritual of fat indian men. In fact some families do group bathing following the kattoadu kuzhalaada aada (Tamil sentence which means something funny) sequence

Entire set of photos available here.

Am not interested in iPad, iPhone, 3G, 4G, 12G(KK Nagar to Anna Square) events. Thank you!

1. Getting an appointment(Minimum 1 month waiting time).
2. In case you do not have an appointment, you have to go and stand in line. There are 2 lines, 1 for online applicants called as ‘Priority Queue’ and 1 for general applicants. Now, nowhere they mention that only 50 applicants per day from the online applicant list are given a token on first come first serve basis. Once you stand in line for 3 to 4 hours, this information will be known to one by experience. Wont it be simple if they just count 50 and ask the remaining to try next day or later? Why make more people wait, when there is a fixed number of slots? I really fail to understand the meaning of ‘Priority’.
3. In case you are lucky and get inside, and if there are some issues with your documentation you need to follow procedure 1 and 2 again.

I do not think these are teething issues. It is lack of common sense. If they can put up the rules clearly on their website, and also on notice boards it will solve most of the troubles.

I really wonder who gave the idea to try out Bengaluru as a city for trying this so called Pilot.

1. No care about safety.
2. Civilian safety at risk.

I would advice anyone not to travel by this train. The condition of the coaches are worser than any mode of transport one can imagine. Worst part is they charge more than the mysore shatabdi which has far better coaches.

Maybe Arundhati Roy can flag off the train once it is renamed as Naxal express.

Step 1: Send a SMS to 58355 in the following format. E.g. Nokia N900
Step 2: You will receive 4 configuration messages which can be opened with a PIN no.
Step 3: PIN no is 1111
Step 4: Use the PIN, open the configuration message and save it. Do the same for all messages.

Thats all. Initially your phone will show 3G, and when you successfully configure it becomes 3.5G.

As mentioned in the previous post, the speed is really good and network coverage is quite good( It catches only in big cities/towns though. I tried in Hosur, Ambur and Vaniyambadi where the network went to 2.5 G and from Vellore to Chennai it became 3.5G again). Ofcourse it works in many places in Bengaluru/Bangalore.

So far so good. ]]> http://prabhukrish.net/2010/02/27/bsnl-3g-configuration-settings/feed/ 212 http://prabhukrish.net/2010/02/27/bsnl-3g-bangalore/ http://prabhukrish.net/2010/02/27/bsnl-3g-bangalore/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:44:39 +0000 F e r r a r i http://prabhukrish.net/?p=1917 Speed is pretty good indeed.

P.S. N900 Rocks!

A lion is shown in the forest. Lion keeps walking back and forth. There are herds of cattle in front of the Lion, but it is not hunting. Suddenly a fox comes running with a chit. Lion opens the chit and sees the word ‘OK’. And then it rushes towards the cattle. Immediately we show Vijay and a group of dancers dancing under the hot sun in Parangimalai. Since it is a Vijay opening song, it should rhyme with da.

Lion kooda permission ku line la nikkum da
Adhu enga vettaikaaran da
Line cross pannadhe da
T* vittu ippave odi poidu da

Once the title track is over, Vijay is shown as an auto driver. Add some scenes where he is shown as a man with good heart. Especially for bokkai vaai thaatha and paati’s. Heroine two wheeler scooty hits Vijay by mistake. But since she is daughter of powerful man, she puts case against Vijay. Vijay goes to police station threatens the police. And says he will hunt whoever does bad to the society.

Some comedy scenes. Heroine keeps twisting and turning on her bed, thinking about Vijay’s hunting dialogues in the police station. Next day she goes to meet Vijay and says ‘Vettai pathi solra nee autokaaran illai. Vettaikaaran. Naan MTV oda VJ Hunt la kalandhuka poren. Since you are a hunter can you help me?’. They fall in love and Vijay teaches her dance movements, cat walk etc. And there is a room in Vijay’s house which is always locked.

Meanwhile the policeman who got bashed up by Vijay is a kai aal of villain who happens to be the heroines father. They are doing some shady business and the gangmen are beaten up by Vijay frequently. So they have a score to settle with Vijay.

One day accidentally heroine opens the door and we just see her shocked face.

Interval.

After interval we see the other side of Vijay where he is helping infants in orphanage and also senior citizens in mudhiyor illam. One bokkai vaai thaatha and paati sing a song praising Vijay and all infants sing la la la la. And one of the kids goes choo choo in comedians dress.

Then there are some scenes where villain keeps plotting for Vijay’s downfall and how Vijay overcomes all that. Suddenly it is nobel prize season. And to the surprise of everyone they announce that one Indian has won the Nobel prize for peace. The person who won the price is pazhani.

Who is pazhani?

Flashback. We see an ordinary boy who is having major problems in his house as his parents leave their parents in an old age home. And the school in which he is studying, is used for selling kalla saarayam by local rowdy. The boy is Vijay. Local rowdy is Heroines father. That time Vijay takes an oath (English meaning). He will hunt everyone who stops kids from studying, and whoever sends elders to old age home. His target is to help people with No-pal(Infants and elders). He starts a No-Pal illam for these people. And the people whom heroine saw behind the closed doors were her grand parents who were sent to mudhiyor illam.

Recognizing all this, Pazhani aka Vijay gets nobel prize for his no-pal effort. And he was in disguise to take revenge on the villain.

La la la la

P.S. I havent watched Vettaikaran, nor its trailers.
* – Theatre

Straight hogi – No. It is anything but straight. You would have started before the guy completed giving his instructions. He would have actually meant, go straight, you will get a circle. Turn left at that circle. Go straight for another 500 metres and ask yet another person for directions.

Straiiighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhtttttttttttttttt Hogi – Forget it. You are no where near the destination. Atleast 3 to 4 kms to go.

2nd left, 3rd right – There are that many roads in this area. So the address you ask might be in any of these left or rights. It all depends on how you interpret. You never asked the person giving directions, from where you need to take the second left or 3rd right, right?