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Sunday, February 19, 2006

Do You have an IDEA?

Following is a typical conversation from my home, in my room, on my IDEA cellular phone.

ring..ring ........ring..ring.

Friend: Hello.
Me: Hey Wassup?

Friend: Hi? How are you?
Me: I am great what you upto?

Friend: Nothing much just watching t.v. What's Happening

Me: Well I wanted to know....[At this point I am talking away and that person is getting a very badly distorted, breaking signal of my voice ] ....if you wanna go watch...

Friend: ....hello ...dude, you are breaking up very badly...hello..hello..
[now I shift my head and torso around where I am sitting, in a very epileptic seizure type motion, trying to get a better signal]...
Me: Now can you hear ....

Friend: ...hello ...you still breaking up very badly......
Me: LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA

[by now my signal has marginally improved]

Friend: Okay stop I can hear you now...[so I stop going LALALALA] ....what were you saying?
Me: Do you wanna go watch "Rang De Basanti"?

Friend: What time is the show?
Me: Can you make the 5 'o clock.

Friend: Well I might be a bit late....

[Now whats happened is that I can hear him totally clear, but he can't hear a word of what i am saying...it's just blank...no distortion.]

Me: Why?

Friend: Hello?.....you there?...
Me: Yes.
Friend: Hello?
Me: Yeah I am listening.
Friend: Hello? Hello.....Heelllloooo.....Heeeeeellllllllooooooooo.....
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllloooooooooooooo... Hello Hello Hello Hello
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelloooooooooooooooooo... Hello Hello Hello
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellooooooooooooooooo...Hello Hello
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellooooooooooooooooo. Hello Hello

[Once again miraculously with my Mohammed Ali like movements the signal marginally improves.]

Me: Can you hear me now?
Friends: Yeah now I can hear you.
Me: So why you gonna be a bit late?

Friend: Because I have to......

Me: Okay so what I will do is that...[now he can hear me, but I have a total blank in my ear...]...book the tickets
[I now realise that I can't hear]...Hello? you there?....[and finally the phone gets cut and I hear two beeps].

That is the end of my conversation of exactly 1:34 minutes.
This happens every day REGULARLY, anywhere in my house.

I have had a few friends come over and go through the same thing...but they don't go LALALALALALA ...they just go Hello? hello ? heeeellllloooooooo.

I really wish they would do something for my area. I have a tower overlap problem. I get upto 6 different, all distant tower signals....Maybe they should just put a tower over my roof....
An IDEA can change your life....or speech impair you....



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Saturday, February 11, 2006

Why did this happen?

I was watching Star Gold the other day (and by the other day I mean in my engineering exams, preparatory leave, around a few years ago). I was watching the Neha Dhupia Movie 'Julie', because I had missed it in the cinema and it looked like the kind of movie I would not want to pay for and watch. So I thought what the hell I might as well watch it.

I was watching it and it reached the scene where Kiran Kumar's (I think that is his real name) character makes his indecent proposal to Julie. And just before he was about to make the proposal...the audio for the movie goes away and then there is techno music. I was laughing that Star tv could actually make such a mistake.

I was actually wondering later if they made a mistake or was some of the dialog being blocked by some moral policing policy...I still wonder.

Why show the movie if they are gonna cut the important dialogs....that too the plot turning point dialogs. Also don't they know that proper grown adults are watching!!!




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Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Some more fun with a Camera





This is in addition to my previous blog post, Fun with a camera













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