Airtel - Chennai - Turbo 1299-Airtel/TN/FL/20

Aitel has a 1299 broadband plan which boasts a 512kbps speed during the day to a 1mbps speed between 10pm to 6am. I took this plan about a month ago and within a day into the plan I realised everything was terribly slower than it should have been. I got 30-50kbps at best at all times, regardless of the time of day. I even called up the customer service and they had me "test" download a file from the microsoft website while I was in the 1mbps slot at night. Yes, I did see a true 1mbps download but it was restricted to specific sites (including speedtest.net) TORRENT FILES HAVE NO HOPE! I'm sure that the plan has its strings attached because now that I've switched back to the 1699 plan, I've got my normal DL speeds. AS THEY SHOULD BE! This is just my opinion and I'd like to put it out there for those of you who share the same experience.

3110c - Review

I bought this cell in Aug'07 for Rs. 6K. All I wanted was a simple, sturdy phone with an mp3 player. This phone fullfilled its purpose. But as time wore on, I started to realise things about this unit that upset me.

• Terrible ring flaw - The ring tone (no matter what you choose or at volume) is so low for the 1st 3-5secs. The thing is, if people ever gave me missed calls, i'd be really hard for me to know unless I had the vibrator or my headset on.
• The music-player's 'play-list' feature messed up a few months after I got the phone and I could never organize my files again. I'd always have to listen to them in the order that they downloaded. I couldnt choose play-lists anymore.
• 2.5mm audio jack - an ordinary music player uses a 3.5mm jack (better quality output). This also meant I couldnt get the "in-ear" head-phones to use with this model.
• Restarting - The phone kept restarting after I began using a 1gb card. I realised it got particularly worse when I loaded the card more than 50%. After I realised this, I used to load it to a max of 200mb and it would be fine.
  
• Internal Memory - The phone boasted a 6MB memory at the start, which although isnt anything great, it was enough to have a message capacity in the thousands. I recall once having seen +2k messages in my inbox. For the past few months, the memory capacity has been shrinking considerably and it now caps at 200msgs.

Im planning on getting a new phone now. I'm considering the 5800 Music express. I will always love Nokia. But, Im not too sure about the sturdiness of their sets these days. Even the software can be frail. This is going to take a while . . .

Ghajini

I think of Amir as one of the greatest actors of our time. He's brilliant in every-which way. It's not just his skill and persona, but his intellect as well.

Given his experience and known efforts towards perfection in his works, how could he let the production of Ghajini continue and release with it's innumerable flaws. Given, that Bollywood is one of the largest film industries in the world, you'd think there'd be an abundant resource pool to fish out good talent from.

I was so eager to watch a good hindi movie after so long. That's what got me so frustrated with what I saw that I just have to put it down to express my distaste for it, so I'm just gonna list out here the ones that bummed me out right from the start.

Right when the investigation into the first killing began, I was disappointed. From the ridiculous presence of the spectators in the heavy rain over the killing of some low-life miscreant to the over done entry scene for the lead investigator and the local "mafia boss".


In the scene where the investigator runs after the bus Amir was on, there wasn't any time for him to get off. it would've taken the investigator not more than 30seconds to board the bus, he was fast and had an excellent view of the bus as he ran along beside it and Amir didn't even know he was being pursued.





Yet when the investigator gets on,
Amir disappears. LAME!!!






Alright, I had no idea this is where those advertisements (for some brand I can't recall) were from. I honestly thought they were just ads going over-board on the fashion, cutting off and rolling up what little was left of his sleeves. Amir happens to be the MD of the biggest Indian telecom company and he has landed at the mumbai airport.



This is just the 1st of 2 times he gets presented flowers from a foreigner on Indian soil. Ok, who thought that up!??

"Hello Sir, welcome to India.... YOUR country."




"Man am I glad I've got my entourage. Now the terrorists out there will never guess which one I'm in....Bwahahahahah!"






Alright, I get it. He doesn't want the sun's glare off the paper to burn out his eyes.




This scene should've gone:
"We're inside the the office now Sanjay(Amir), wanna take off the shades?"

"Nah! The sun's pretty powerful. Can never be too careful bout these things" :S


In less than 5minutes it cuts to a scene where he's addressing an audience and talks about the one thing that would keep the company from progress is VANITY amoung the employees. I mean of all the things to come up with!! The one thing he failed to keep up with all the way there.

But you know, I couldn't NOT watch it cuz after all Amir's role was yet to judge. So I stuck to it and I'm glad. Here are the things I appreciated most in the film.

• The plot: Things don't always turn out the way you'd like them to.
• The fight choreography: Excellent work. Not the best, but definitely respectable.
• Music: The main song is absolutely beautiful.
• The most crucial part of it all: Amir's performance. Stellar!! As I'd hoped and better at parts.

The Movie gets an AVERAGE on the whole, cuz I know it could've been so much better. But I'd say it's still worth the while for Amir fans.

SAP E-books

This is to save you guys out there some time and give you a link that took me some time to find.

http://www.the-arcon.com/sapbooks.html

If any of you out there have other sites you can share with the rest of us, please do.

Post the links in the comments and I'll put it up and credit it to you and the site.

I'd like to thank "the-arcon.com" for saving my time and Prasad_lg on http://www.orafaq.com/forum/t/64717/0/ who'd suggested this link in a forum that took me a half hour to come across.

You stink!!

This goes out to all of you who think its ok to stink like some open hairy armpit!! You know who you are and I hope you read this someday! For God'sakes man! Spare us!

You KNOW you have a body odour issue. Besides the fact that I keep telling you everytime, almost EVERYDAY! I may be subtle (except here :P) But I'm dead serious! Use a friggin deo!

Stink literally disturbs the people around. Nearly a decade ago, I 'd read this article in the newspaper where it mentioned that people could be fined for giving off bad odours within office spaces and could even amount to harassment of colleagues. I was soooooooooo happy when I read it cuz I thought it was the start of a revolution :p No really! There was this dude in my class who smelled like a donkey when he spoke. I've only come across donkeys twice in my life and yet the memory of how they smell has been etched into my mind. Sheesh!

There is this other guy I know. I dont know if he's just stupid at these things or 'kanjoos' (cheap) as can be cuz when I once told him to put on some deo... he went... grabbed a can... and "tss..." next arm and "tss."

I was like.... "WTF was that!!?" [Did I not emphasize enough on just how much you stink?]

an ordinary person would go "tssssssssssss" to say the LEAST!!

Yes yes i know... some of you may think... "Cmon... everybody knows these deos contain toxins like benzene..." Yes I do! I know that! But you can always use alternatives. Back in Kuwait, I'd use cologne... worked perfect. It wasnt all that effective here in India so I switched to powder. That works perfect too...

So dont gimme cheap excuses! Just do something about that REVOLTING smell!! *SHUDDER*

I love Similes! :)

I've always loved smiles. For as long as I can remember. It is the one single thing my mind obsesses over when I find the right one. And since they've always been those of girls I feel that's what I take into account first when it comes to "falling" for them.

Strangely enough, that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. I love smiles... in every-which way no matter whose they are, so long as they are genuine. It holds no boundaries within me anymore. Girls, boys, men, women, young and old. A brilliant smile can seem like the sun shine in a horror movie. Picture that analogy! (Don't get it? Think of how different it would be if the movie were entirely in the dark and since I've explained so far, I might as well add that the "horror movie" is infact LIFE!)
In text messages even... Consider a text msg that reads just the word "Hey" and another that goes "Hey :)"

I usually read the first as "Hey, m bored. wht r u upto?" or "Yea I had a bad day so dont reply with a smiley just msg me..." and the second as "Hey, since you're reason enough for me to feel happy, I just thought I'd freshen up with a lil chat wid u." or "I'm in a good mood and I'd like u to be a part of my day."

A smile in the right places can mean a lot.

It is no longer the sole factor that I take into account. But it still is one of the most important features I consider in assessing a person. I believe that a well timed smile can do a LOT of good. It can ease tension and stress and even liven up a seemingly boring situation.

Please do not mistake this to mean I'd like to have you smile at me 24*7 :p Even smiles, I believe have a marginal utility to people. The more you get from a person at a time, the less appealing it appears. It may even end up making me paranoid :D I've known people who do that. Remember, "genuine" is the key!

The video on making popcorn using cell phones.

Here's the link to the video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=V94shlqPlSI

I received forwards on this one too.

It was pretty evident to me from certain unnecessary things that the people in the back ground said (like one guy appreciating his friends cell phone like he'd never seen it before and the way the other guy reacted to the pop corn pop,) that it was all staged.

So as soon as I was done watchin the video I ran a lil search and sure enough... It was quite clear that the whole thing was a well planned out hoax.

I hope this trickster doesn't get to bask in the success of his lil game for too long.

Here 's a mathematical explanation as to why it doesn't add up.

"Popcorn pops because the water in it turns to steam and a kernel is about 14% water. So, if we assume a kernel of popcorn weighs 1 gram, it has 0.13 grams of water. Heat that water from 30�C to 100�C would take:

(0.14g)*(100�C-3 to turn the water to steam requires he latent heat of vaporization, which is 2259J/g.

2259J*0.14g= 316J
for a total of 316J 41J = 357J.

Wattage = Joules/seconds. If it took about 5 seconds to turn the water in the popcorn kernel to steam, then the wattage required was:

357J/5sec = 71W assuming all power from the cell phone transmitter went into the kernel.

Cell phones typically have 0.75W-1W transmitters in them. With a 1W transmitter, it would take,

334J/1W = 334secs, if all power is transfered to the kernel." -source