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struggling with broad band

Quite incidental that the same mistake took three nights of efforts and hours of frustrations to rectify. In bsnl dataone once you change the password you need to apply and save all at two different pages. I forgot to save all and sweated out to find the same. Even the call center went about like robot trying to explain to me and then promptly hung up. But he was also the guy who taught me how to SAVE ALL. now atleast surfing would be cakewalk.

bent back

Imagine standing bent at 90 degrees with your backpack loaded with your lunch box inside a matador packed with labourers and ladies on putenahalli main road , desparate to catch a connecting bus at 15th cross, to reach infosys at electronics city otherwise face the dire consequence of changing buses at mutiple locations and jostle for space at each juncture. The bent and painful back experience was worth the sacrifice as I could manage to catch a airbus just in nick of time.

gym

doing gym after ages was a fruitful experience and even so wonderful because the outside was raining and thundering and inside was sweltering and sweating. The rains continued to play and have fun with bangaloreans.After a very long meeting we finally made to the gym and spent some quality time there that ended getting soaked in scented steam and bath on blue tiles. Journey back home was wetty as the poor swift was again peltered with heavy rain drops and roads had potholes,drains and usual traffic.Back home folks were unhappy because time was over ten.

talakkad

we planned to reached shivanasamundran on saturday morning. we had planned to leave by 7 in the morning. At 7 only I was ready and the rest were still dreaming fresh. I went anout in the kistchen and opened the window planning to drive away the flies that had settled inside but instead heard a bang and after opening the utility door found few peices of broken glasses and guessing that the bottle was deftly kept behind the window sill. It was not the best of times to start a adventure with broom in hand before the sun rose and made his presence felt. Everyone was ready and we postponed breakfast to some place enroute on kanakapura road. Then we picked up my brother's family and moved on. It was a packed house for about 5 km but then kanakapura road opened up and offered its corners and lakes and we feasted on the early morning wind. we crossed kanakapura and had breakfast under a huge tree with muskan sitting on top of swift, it was a ideal locale and model for mayank's SLR to f

catching infy bus at 7 in morning

the time to wake up was 5:30 AM todaythe time time to catch office bus was 7:00 AM todayI reached RBI layout wondering I was late and infact gave up hope when I reached bus stop around 7 then I started the painful wait for 215x becasue just yesterday I waited for her for 40 minutes and hung on to dear life on single feet with one hand holding tiffin and other the BMTC rod of support with shoes and jeans getting colored in muddy red I somehow reached 15th cross and searched for people with infy tag but surprising enough a bus dwindled in and was trying a U when I attempted to get in the driver queried "where to" infy and I said yes I thought there would only be few species getting in but the bus was full of being within a few stops with people settling in with their morning nap,radio stationor eyes dug into reading material only a few talked and there were fewer laughters.