Being a Girl.. Is it a curse....

I keep thinking what is it that makes a girl feels like that. Is it only in India or abroad too. Well i have no idea about the culture abroad but i am very much aware about India.

In India people are more bothered about others and not about themselves because they feel that their life is perfect and they are needed to make other lives perfect. You might think this funny but this is actually the scene.

A girl in India has to fight from right in the beginning. For her birth, For her studies, for her education. Here they are treated as mere commodities who are required to do all the labour work. Those who are uneducated feel that they need not educate their girl because ultimately she is going to get married so what benefit will that bring to their family. And those who are educated think that the girl should be educated so that she can get a better Husband.

I love the indian culture bur this whole gender inequality thing will take time. When will the people realise that there is more to a life than being a house wife. They are eqally competent. Let them go and choose their dreams.

Here you cannot stay alone for your whole life and hence you need to be married and raise children before you die of your old age in some old age home. That too is not guranteed since, you know today's generation.
For that girls have to get married as soon as possible( no clue why?) otherwise it would not be considered good for the society.

It is time that girls need to raise their voice and make people realise that life is just not for others.

All the best!

What was i missing?

I woke up in the morning and started with my chores but i knew that there was something missing. My roommate cooked food for me and she left. I was getting late and hence took a look at my wall clock and tried to finish everyhting in time. And even though i knew i could get late i thought no worries i could take a metro train and reach half an hour late. Big Deal!! No body cares.

Then i was running towards the bus stop, panting! just to get that bus on time. That bus comes early when i am late, and comes late when i am early. I keep thinking how does these ironical things occur and that too all the time. Who watches us and make such things possible or is it just in our head that we get paranoid (may be because of our job, in my case.. :P your case can be different..) and start thinking or even imagining that the whole universe in conspiring against us ;)

finally i got into that bus, and got a place in the front. We have to stand by balancing ourselves otherwise we could be out of the door at any point of time. I was standing there and looking at people and thinking that they are going to different places some to work and some to colleges. and then i saw a security guard looking at his watcha all the time and cycling at full speed( if it would have been a car he would have flown it.. ;)). And then i realised that i was missing the importance of time.

Time is important to everybody , we believe or not. At first we waste our time and then we crib that we dont have time either for office , for family or for us. I took a resolution to get up and reach office on time so that i can finish my work and then get the whole time for whatever i feel like doing. :)

Mobile Number Portablity ( From Aircel to Vodafone)

MNP came on 20th and i ran to the vodafone store to get my operator changed but i was not aware of the challenges which came on my way.

We have to message PORT [your number] to 1900 and i messaged but i think aircel didnt want to let me go and hence it messaged my unique ID very late, which is very mandatory for this procedure. And dont forget to take your id proof along with one photograph. After you fill all the forms they will give you their own simcard and tell you that this will become active in 7 days. Mind IT!! 7 days.. :P because it did not happen in 7 days.. :P I again had to go to the vodafone store and told them that this is not done. They sent me home saying that there is some technical fault and it will take aroun 7 more days. :-o. And then one fine day!! which came almost after 10 days. My sim card registeration failed and Vodafone sim was activated, i was so happy that i cant tell you. :P But then.....

People randomly called up my room-mate telling me that my number was not existing and i was like WTH! :D and then i realised that people were not able to call me, but i was able to call everyone only if i had balance. You will get yoour vodafone activated with 2 rs balance and pay per second calling. I thought let me recharge it online but then the transactions failed because i was not able to get the messages. And even e reacharge was not able to help, sadly, i spent around rs 500 on such things and then finally i had to go to a shop and get the scratch card and then only i got it working. So, i was like crippled for almost 2 days. Some of my friends who are out of station are still not able to call me.

But this was not it. I had heard that vodafone is famous for its GPRS so i wanted to activate it on my phone. I called customer care. They told me to message ACT VL to 144, which i did and then i had to message S [your IMEI number] to 52586. After these series of events i got the settings and saved them. But still my GPRS is not working. I keep calling customer care but they are not able to help. And the network isnt good, like I expected.

I am not still not able to make out that which is worse, Aircel or Vodafone but i will have to say that i miss my Aircel because of its schemes and GPRS. It was cheaper with the same quality of network. So this blog was to aware you about the loopholes in the procedures if you go for MNP.
All the best.. :)

New Phones and Confusions

To find a new Phone is a very tiring job.. Since you need time and mind to decide what your wants and needs are. If you go by the needs you can easily find a new phone but if you go by the wants you will be engulfed in a vicious circle like me.. :D

Like any other person i am a fan of Nokia and cant give up that brand easily because of its durability. According to me no other brand can provide such a strong phone. I was going to buy a Nokia phone when Android came into existence and i was left in confusion. What to do now? Go for an android but then i will have to leave Nokia  and switch to Samsung or LG or Even HTC. 

I will help you out in this confusion. Samsung, LG and HTC are good phones but they are not as sturdy as Nokia. And i am one person who is very careless with her phones, so need no 1) was that phone has to be strong and durable. Second, Android was coming in touch-phones. I already had Nokia N 97 and was in no mood to buy another touch phone. Again i like to chat very much so my another need was that i needed a keypad.. it could be of any kind but i needed that desperately. So Touch Phones were ruled out, at that time i could have gone for Motorola but they were not as attractive as other phones and i was not too sure if i could handle Motorola flip out with its uncomfortable design. Third need was stand by time.. i talk a lot too, I need a phone with good battery. And since Android is a very interactive OS that takes a lot of battery, which is not able to last long. 

I so desperately wanted an Android phone but needs were more important than wants and hence i went for Nokia E 72 and i am in love with it. It may not have a very playful OS but it is not less that Android.

Plus i get a qwerty along with 1500 MAH battery and a 5 MP camera and i don't regret my decision at all.

So go and figure out your wants and needs and you will be able to buy a new phone and never regret it.

All the best! :)