So, I just called up Radio Tuk Tuk to book an auto. It’s 6AM in the morning. I was told that I cannot get one till 10AM.
I do not get it. If a person cannot book an auto 2 hours in advance at 6AM in the morning, why are they not expanding their fleet?
I would call up Autocall next. They are supposed to be open after 6:30AM.
I thought it was a coverage problem at my place but looking at Twitter and other places, I can safely say that airtel EDGE went down in some parts of Delhi NCR region.
I am not sure if it is back now because my phone is currently connected to the web through Wi-Fi. But this is the second time in the last couple of months that I have noticed airtel network disappearing on me.
Mobile number portability is an option with me. Vodafone might be an option worth considering once I have spent 6 months on my current connection.
I would be 30 later this year. And today was the first time I made the effort to vote.
The elections are related to the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon which has largely been a dysfunctional body.
People are hoping that these elections would change the entire scene and we would see some improvements in the infrastructure of the city.
Anyways… here is how it went. I reached the voting booth at around 8PM. There was a small queue. Women’s queue was of course smaller.
People in the queue were talking about the same problems I have faced in the recent past. It is literally impossible to get the mistakes in your Voter ID card corrected. One of the guys standing in the line said that he applied for corrections 4 times and even that did not help him out.
The process of voting was rather simple. Showed the required documentation (they accepted PAN card as a proof). Got the famed ink on my finger.
Pressed the button to register my vote and that was it.
The shameful part of the elections in the city has been the annoyance it has caused to people living in the city. For the last couple of days, there were loud noises coming from speakers in cars promoting different candidates. The entire colony areas are defaced with posters representing the different candidates. They have not spared the walls of houses. They have not even spared cars. There are strict rules against such defacements but apparently nothing was done to stop the mess.
I have been a non-believer in my right to vote. I exercised it for the first time today. It was exciting. I am not expecting anything in return. Nothing is going to change. Gurgaon would remain the mess it has been for a decade now. The candidates who were visiting door to door would no longer be accessible.
But I guess I would continue to vote in the future. That’s the best I can do in current circumstances.
I recently discovered this new burger chain in India… Buddy’s Broaster is also American based I believe and they already have a couple of outlets in Gurgaon.
Their veggie burger is pretty darn awesome. Much better than the comparable veggie burger from McDonalds.
And they have a pretty solid non-vegetarian offering in Masala Chicken Burger. Do check them out if you have an outlet in your locality.
Their home delivery is also pretty nice. They give you a 10% discount. McDonalds charges for home delivery I believe (they charge money for packaging material!).
I have to admit that airtel was the first mobile service I used. That was long time ago in Chandigarh.
Since then I have tried a lot other options including Hutch, Tata Indicom and even Aircel.
Now, I am back to airtel. And it took a lot of effort on my part. I have waited for Mobile Number Portability forever… it still has not arrived. airtel stores in my regions turned out to be awful. They are out of prepaid sim cards pretty much all the time. I had to get airtel customer to do something about it.
And when I went to the airtel store to get the sim card recharged, they were incidentally out of prepaid recharge (amazing! Huh?). Anyways… I am now using an airtel prepaid number with their pretty nice data package that costs 100 bucks for 2GB. And it works on roaming!
Data on roaming was the primary reason for my switch to airtel this time around. Of course, they are one of the four options I have here in Gurgaon for 3G services whenever they are launched. But I am not very optimistic about that. I can only hope that their existing 2G plan would remain available and the company would not temper with its speeds in the future.
Tata DOCOMO is being accused by a lot of folks that they have made their 2G speeds so slow now that they have launched 3G.
Noticed this on the road in front of my home here in Gurgaon. As you can see the material lying on the road makes it impossible for a car to pass through.
The crappier part was that the other side of the road was blocked by a locked gate.
The gate has been put on by the people living in this lane. In fact, my dad had to pay the money they collected for these gates unwillingly.
The gate is probably illegal if HUDA rules are to be believed.
airtel broadband forcing their customers on older plans to switch to one of their crappy new plans. No options provided.
Gurgaon cops beating men for entering the women’s compartment in Delhi Metro.
Seriously… crappy times we are living in.