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/ 81 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?

Breaking news: In yet another celebrity detention, tamil actor Mayilsamy was detained in Renigunta station. Andhra and TN CM to open statues in respective states!

Mayilsamy has confirmed to ‘Machi TV’ that he was indeed detained at Reningunta station. Mayilsamy said I even tried telling the railway police officials that ‘Enakku Mamtava theriyum’. But unfortunately they had seen the telugu dubbing of that Vivek movie and asked me back with trademark telugu tamil of ‘Aamava?’ followed by ‘Avangalukku unna theriyuma?’.

Mayil said he was detained because he had a common name and if I could mention the reason why I was in Renigunta. I could not convince them that since I did not get a direct ticket to Tirupati in Saptagiri express I had to travel unreserved in Mumbai express, get down at Renigunta and catch a bus to Tirupati. In fact there were some I-know-tamil-I-know-telugu guys from chitoor in the interrogation room who could vouch for me.

Mayilsamy said he was taken to a different room where other unreserved passengers were waiting. I tried sending messages to Sun Music, Isaiaruvi etc. It took me almost 2 hours. Later Mr Mayil said he was released after someone had a thiruttu VCD of the movie Dhool and the police officials watched it. Mayil also said ‘I am fine with this as am popular. I really felt bad for other unreserved passengers who were being checked for this independence day security.’ I do not understand why they should check actors?

Throughout the chat with Machi, Mayil was his usual self and did mimicry like YSR, Naidu etc and never lost his sense of humor. When we asked him if he could manage to get laddu from Tirupati, he said ‘I have Jilebi’ if you want.

Union Minister Ambika Soni was furious at this incident and said that all Tamilnadu policemen should detain telugu comedians. Since this issue could snowball into something major, TN CM Dr MK and Andhra CM Dr YSR met to resolve this issue. Late reports suggest that it has been decided to open a statue of Mayilsamy in Ongole and of Telugu comedian Brahmanandam in Vathalagundu to improve the relationship between the two states. Hindu Ram is getting ready with a boring 7 paragraph editorial on how this is going to be useful.

Fun apart, are they going to conquer ‘Mount Everest’? No. They don’t even conquer St Thomas Mount.
They have to do things like cross from one wall to another with help of a rope (Add a dozen helpers, ambulance for emergency situation, bed and sand cushion in case they fall down). So if you jump from one wall to other, then you are brave and you have no fear. There are some more amazing games like walking on a narrow wooden plank for 50 metres (Ofcourse with a lifeguard and 10 people around). If you do all this you are brave.

Funniest part is they replay (With english ezhavu music) when someone commits a mistake, as if it is the magic ball that bowled Mike Gatting. One soplaangi lady fell down from 3 feet and sprained her ankle. Immediately ambulance rushed in and she was interviewed from within the ambulance. That peter soplangi spoke as if she sustained a major injury while conquering mount everest.

As usual this program is aruthufied(anchored) by Anu Hassan, with amazing running commentary, who thinks wearing all black means being brave. Well only a brave person will wear all blacks in Chennai( Please exclude men in black like captain). Watching Hollywood movies in Tamil is a much more braver act than what these clowns do.

Did I tell you that this program is sponsored by some Parvathy hospital who specialize in Orthopedic treatment? Maybe Kilpauk Mental Hospital should have sponsored this program.

‘aNu aLavu bayam illai’ should have been named as ‘thuLi kooda mooLai illai’. Rejetted!

Since Cauvery is overflowing ,last weekend, we(purusan and pondaati) had been to Shivanasamudra. Ok?


* It is around 120 kms from Bangalore (It also depends on where you are in Bangalore)

* There is lots of water, and I suppose it should be the same for next 1 month at least.
* Only 1 hotel in Gaganachukki. So it is better to pack your own food.

* Whilst going, we went via Maddur and on the way back we came via Kanakapura Road. Maddur to Malavalli is bad (Not very bad). Otherwise the roads are good.

* Kanakapura road (NH209) is very good from Bangalore to Kanakapura and from Kanakapura to Malavalli. In Kanakapura the roads are stolen by someone. In case you know who stole them, please inform the police.

* If you are visiting Shivanasamudra, ensure that you view the waterfalls at Barachukki, behind the Dargah and also at Gaganachukki.
*In case you pack your food, beware of monkeys. (I meant the ones with the tail. Not the ones which try to jump or overtake you when you are climbing down the rocks)

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Though it might sound like a Vijayakanth movie scene, something like that has already happened.

Is it that easy to steal a train?

It seems a guy called Anjan lived there around 90 years ago. He was a very popular guy. And one day he suffered from severe headache and nothing could cure him. And he didn’t know what to do . His wife who was cooking that time felt that if she applies something hot he will be alright and in the heat of the moment she mixed ghee, haldi(manjal) and stuff and applied it on Anjan’s forehead.

And to everyone’s surprise his headache got cured. And they named the combination balm Amrutanjan.