Aahhh for all those who thought something struck me again, and that I am no more gonna be seen posting on posterous.. Muahahhaha.. Im back!!

I have a couple of things I have written about, and lemme tell u it is exciting.. but the fact is, the post can have its consequences, which i need to take into account.. So yeah.. till the time I clear the coast and set the duck to roast..

Im not done as yet..

U cant see me, my time is now.

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Well, I wanted to do this last night, but didn't. Primarily coz of 2 reasons

1. Because of the 2 line conversation I had with Maneesh on Twitter (I know.. thats a weird way to spell Manish, and its not even numerologically right)
   
2. I was daaaiimmm tired and worried about the headache I would have this morning (which eventually didn't happen, and I think I know why)

So yeah, The First Time. I can easily assume and go with what I assumed about what you must have thought this post would be. (daaaiiimmm Im like the father of Assumptions now... and some one told me that Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups.. suddenly I'm like a grandfather.. I hope to show u my grandchildren in this post)

Crap, I think I already lost half my viewership by now. (that wasn't a filter technique). Getting back to what I was originally talking about.

This is the First Time I purchased a TV. I had never expected this to be an uphill task. Trust me when I tell u, I was completely frustrated by the time I actually bought one.

So this all started sometime around May 2008. (yeah yeah.. ur already laughin and some might have already said: "bloody procrastinator") Come May 2008 and I decided to gift my parents a 32" LCD TV, for their wedding anniversary, and I would love to say I was kicked about it at that time. Little did I know what I have signed up for. So going by the standard norms or Shopping, I pay a visit to the store/stores, and check out the various models, do my research.. the works. After a shit load of talkin, and ball talking, and more talking, I finally zeroed in on one that I thought I had to buy. At that time I felt like a marathon runner, who had made it against all odds.

So I now sent my parents off to the Store where I had fixed up on the TV, so they could check it out too. All set and done, everyone is done seeing the TV, and the anticipation is growing. Like any other normal being would assume, that he/she would go to the Electronics store in the neighborhood, pay the guy at the cash-counter, and get the deliverables. And I had planned on doing so a day before the D-day.
Unfortunately turns out that the buyer in question here, ME, hasn't inquired even once if the TV he wants to buy, is readily available. Now, who on earth would expect a TV to be out of stock, when India has hit the peak, as far as Inflation is concerned. SUCKS!!! Sucks so bad..

Yeah, for those of u who still dont know what Struck You.. Welcome to the gang.. I am the gang..I didnt get the TV because I didnt find out if they could sell one to me, even if they had one on display. So like, all this time, for 4 days, all the stores I went to showed me the TV but never told me they didnt have any provision to sell it to me. After giving my self 5 mins, I realised I had been long standing in the middle of the store like a destitute kid, who had be abandoned. Anyways, that feeling then, is just for me to know, and you to guess. So what followed is the most frantic effort at calling every Electronic store in the whole of Bombay, but in vain. I went to the extent of calling the Company up, and asked if they could make one set available. The answer was not the obvious NO, they said they are not expecting to re-stock for the next 3 months. I could now see phantom stores here and there, and was tryin to turn and re-turn every stone I had already turned, hoping I would find that one unsold set. :(

There goes... There goes my, not so well planned, Anniversary gift. So the first lesson,(my first grandchild, read fuck-up) ask all the necessary questions that you think, the store keeper will not tell you by default, and would lead you to assume something. For e.g.

• Can I buy this now?
• Will you be able to deliver it tomorrow/today? (depending on ur D-day)
• Do you have a fresh piece in this, or is it the Display piece that im gonna get?
• If you cant sell it to me, why do uhave it on display? (if u wanna sound like an irate customer, and may be strike a deal with something else. I regret not doing that)

So yeah time passed by, and this feeling kept haunting me. I now had a phantom TV that travelled with me everywhere, and played mind games with me. Trying to find a way to counter the phantom TV, I turned a blind eye towards other brands. May be it was exactly what the phantom intended to do.

I had now gotten used to the pain and agaony the phantom caused to me, and I lived with it. Till the month of August, when I again had an opportunity to make good for the loss I had suffered (loss mentally). It was my Mom's bday, and this was occasion enough for me to bring back the TV I had once thought of buying. The same TV wasnt part of the plan, but the phantom TV took me where it had to. Again, this time the phantoms premonition was wrong, and the Company had still not decided to re-stock. (Dont know how they intend to hold their market, when they dont stock for 4 months). I pulled the plug for the phantom TV then and there, and left the store, feeling lighter. I didnt have the TV on my shoulder now.

Reality now struck me, and I learnt that the phantom was just the price difference the TV came with. This alone had kept me from seeing anyother TV for 4 months and made me feel miserable. The Electronics store was the same, but was a whole lot better now. I could now see a gazzillion other TV sets, and all looked pleasing enough. It took me just one more weekend to decide which TV I now wanted to buy, and also make the purchase. (oops. I forgot to introduce my second grandchild (fuck-up). Dont ever get fixed up on somethign just coz its a tad bit cheaper and soudns attractive. Biggest mistake for an educated person to make.)

No No No.. it couldnt have ended to so well, could it. If you thought you could just step into a store, pay the cashier, walk with your TV, go home and start watchin..naaaahhhh, ur in for more. So yeah.. u do select your TV as such, and also pay the cashier,and then:

• Wait for the delivery guys to drop it off at your place (these are the most un-reliable species ever born, they called me asked me what time they can come, and half an horu later they asked me if my payement got cleared.. for hell's sake ur cashier swiped my card last night..and billed me)
• Once the morons from above have finally delivered your TV, you need for an Installation guy who comes in a day after ur TV arrives (this is specifically for those who need a wall mounted TV..also for the paranoid type who think th company guy should unpack the delivery, for any damages that could have occured during transit should be accounted for)
• And also for your Electric workers, and the cable guy (putting these people in place and making them work is like getting a wedding worked out)

So finally, finally 4 days after having bought My TV, I now get to see it today. So much for being a first time Tv buyer. Come to think of it, there a 100 other things we might never know of till the first time we see them this way, first hand. Lets take a few examples:

• How do u think u need to go about filing for Divorse?
• What do u think ur supposed to do when u resign for the first time?
• What do u need to do when some one dies? How do u do the last rites? Whom do u make the first call to, if the person u would bank on for all of this,is the person whos' dead?
  and many more...

Anyways, the learning curve is really big.. I can now rest in peace and see my TV...

Till then
For a convenient world, with lesser choices

P.S: Btw, this was one post where I deliberately wanted the pictures to be at the bottom of the post, coz it had the TV in a shopping cart. So much for holding your attention

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In my last post here, I was originally putting up a list of things I could write in the immediate week or so. But then I decided otherwise, majorly because of  2 reasons.

1. It would have become a poll and then I would have to give in to Popular demand (this was based on an assumption that I have uber cool viewership, and people respond to my posts. Well, the only time people responded to my post is when I put up my teenage snap.. looked more like fossil to me)
2. The element of Surprise. This is practically the only thing I might end up being intrigued by till the time I die.(alleast so far) So I decided not to Kill it last night.

Anyways, just so that you know, one of the things on that list was Hyperhomocystenemia, the ailment I have been diagnosed with. No No No, u don't need to get turned off with this part. Its just that I feel like keeping records of my physical well being (or the lack of it).

So yeah, today was the day to not be the uncrowned king of procrastination, and go ahead and take initiative (does that word ring a bell), to take a blood test. Allright, I would like to shed some light on why I hate taking blood tests. Its not the needles piercing my veins, or patch they apply later that partially waxes that 1mm x 1mm patch on my arm, that make me hate these blood tests. Its the lack of variety in life now.

I have spent more than 24 hours across the last 2 months in Pathology and other labs, and spent more than half the GDP of Ethiopia on my tests, still have no results. I practically feel the Doctors and the Lab guys playin table tennis with me as their Ping Pong (or whatever that ball is called). F~!@, im a ball now. My Lab guys know me so well now, they dont even ask me my name, only ask me what im testing for today. The blood extractor (if i may call her that), already knows where my vein is, she doesnt even need to spend time searching for it. (I still dont understand why I feel good when they search for the vein... some treasure hunt). Im like a prick and go model for them.

Will I ever be able to feel the same about blood tests hereon. Will they ever be able to detect anything from my blood, or are they just planning on cloning me (here I am assuming, I am a superior being.. just in case the hint wasnt clear)

By the way, I just realized I still havent told you what test I took today. I couldnt have gone back up in the post, and tried to fit it in somewhere. So yeah. I took the Antiphospholipid Anitbody test. I wasnt clear about what it does. Not that I know much now, apart from the fact that my Doc says: " If this is in the body, and high, the chances of a clot developing somehwere in the blood vessels is higher. SO we will know". Alleast someone will know something.

I am sure none of you would want to read about this. So just to cater to both categories of my audience (pause for a second. I made a lot of asumptions here. Firstly, I assumed i have an audience. Secondly, that some will want to read this.. and so there are 2 categories of audiences)

For the ones who dont want to read further:

"Antiphospholipid (aPL) antibodies have been found in association withclinical symptoms such as deep venous thrombosis, arterial occlusiveevents (eg, stroke, myocardial infarction), and recurrent fetal loss.They are also associated with vasospastic phenomena such as migraineheadache, Raynaud phenomenon, and transient ischemic attack (TIA)." -- courtesy Emedicine.com

Read more ...

Yeah the read more is for the other set of people. :D

If you are fed up reading just this, imagine me with an 10 times the amount of text here, only in prescritpitons. I now dont remember what page of my file holds what.

I think Ill move to Kailash Parbat ..the internet knows it as Mt.Kailash.

Till then..
For a time when I dont shed more blood..

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I somehow wanted my last post to go below the first scroll of the page, and so I devised this genius plan. There actually are a shit load of things I would love to write about. And none of these would be from times that I havent been blogging. Its all from off late. Its surprising that I actually also made a list of things I would love to talk and write about.

So what do I choose next? How does someone actually pick something that they feel will be written just right, right now? How do I know for sure that everyone just doesnt scrap a post half way, coz it just aint happening?

I think Ill never find this out..

Till the time I find my next.. and Pay off the bill for the Phone I lost..

C ya later alligator..

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This Drivers license has been in my wallet fro 11 years now, and I never saw it and thought about how I looked. For some reason, today Achint (a colleague at work), scanned my license and mailed it to me. At first I was taken aback and was really worried if he had sent to many people, but he hadnt. Thank u Achu.

But then seeing for more than once it suddenly dawned upon me that I had grown old in the last 11 years, and daaiiimmm old... I dont know why, but this suddenly made me feel good.. and for some reason this looks better when scanned.. Or is it just me who thinks this way..

So yeah moral of the story.. keep checkin ur license snaps..

Till then..
For a world that doesnt grow old

P.S. Comin up more scanned snaps of me.. when i loooked different

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And yeah, also having saved so much Talk time too. There are an un-imaginable number of reasons, I have that can justify me missing my phone. A few for example:

• Very Important : Shooting Texts in a meeting (now I keep a paper and pen handy)
• Twitter: I miss updating my twitter on the fly
• Now that I use Posterous too, I wish I could have used my phone for it
• Ohh Yeah.. I miss my phone for all the life saving data I used to carry on it, which now reminds me to replicate the backup on multiple locations, coz its not portable

I know, by now the average assumption would be that making and taking calls should have been the first thing on this list. But it changes a bit, I like not receiving calls from work, even when ur not at work, and this "losing the phone" act helps a lot.

There have been 2 occasions that I distinctly remember missing my phone daaaaaiiimmmm badly. Missed to an extent that  actually went on record cursing the guy who flicked my phone. These 2 occasions haev been the last 2 weekends that I have done without my phone, even moreso on the first weekend. When u wanna make that one call and get to know the plans for the day, and all u can then do, stuck in traffic is, sulk. These 2 weekends were the times when I actually went to electronic stores, and was so tempted to pick up some phone. But better sense prevailed, and I survived.

So far so good. Plans are to carry on without one till the end of August. Long road ahead, but I think ill manage somehow. Im hoping to get used to this way of life by then.

As of now.. My condolences to my Phone.. May its soul rest in peace.. and may the thug have his butt impailed on a cactus.

Till the time we start connecting again
For a phone Free world

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Its been raining Cats, Dogs, Pigs, Elephants,Lions, Giraffes andwhatever the hell it rains like, sine the time I woke up yesterday.Yesterday, however, was a Sunday. A day when practically everyone,alleast everyone I know, is only looking for an excuse to not move outof home. (May be we are the loser lot hehe). But then like you can seefrom my Sunday Schedule, that I did venture out, and to mysurprise I saw that the loser lot is actually only a handful in theworld. :D

 So yeah, I did think again. And guess what, i've decided yet againto share my thoughts with everyone. I woke up this morning with my newfound friend (my headache), and saw our domestic assistance, sweepingthe place, and then I checked how much it was raining. Then again Icalled over the electrician, to make things work for my new TV, calledthe cable guy; and they all agreed to pay a visit and do their jobs.Suddenly I am now thinking, and more so concluding that, WE, who getpaid well enough to do our jobs, are the first ones to bail out coz ofrains.

I understand this is not something that I alone have realized andthat it would never change the way people think, but it is crazzy towake up with this flash. :D. Just gives me that kick. Come to think ofit and we are the worst of the lot. Newspaper delivery boys, theMilkman, the Municipal sweepers and anyone else u can think of would beworking with their monsoon wear on. I again think it is people like us,who are spoilt enough to sit in the window and think about how greenthe leaves are, how good the rain is, be poetic (bloody wannabes) andtry to make our days better.

But all said and done; the way the Human was built, we will stillcontinue to be lazy in the Rains, and in Summers, and in Winters. Asfor me, im still contemplating, thinking of an excuse. HAHA

Till the time I make it to work.

 

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