Last weekend, I probably went through the worst of it (I hope). Fell horribly sick. And then got depressed, since I hate being sick. I think after the initial excitement it suddenly dawned on me that I was in a new place. It’s not a nice feeling to be sick and alone. I called up all my friends on Sunday (from Kanyakumari to Delhi, I don’t have friends further up north!) and made Reliance a really happy phone company. By Monday morning, I was back to my cheery self again! After a really busy week (and therefore no posts, besides absence of home Internet connection), I was really glad about my company’s five day working week. On Saturday, I finally got a bird’s eye view of Bangalore city. After hearing lots about it, I made it to Ebony at the Barton Centre, 13 floors off the ground. The weather was lovely; it was drizzling intermittently. After cajoling the waiters, my host for the afternoon, Arun, got us a seat in the shaded section. I have …

Hasn’t the weather been gorgeous? The only problem of course, is that when it starts raining, the roads get mucky, the ricks totally disappear and the cabbies take ages to appear. Or so I found out this Saturday when I had a dinner invitation in the evening. I called about 3 city taxi services to be told (rather rudely) that there were no vehicles in my area. One of them even hung up on me, when I was mid-way into the call! Finally, I got someone who was ready to accept my money in exchange for a ride! Boy, was I relieved. For a moment, I thought money had gone out of fashion and no one cared about it anymore. I’ve been having rather bad traveling experiences lately. My colleague dropped me off at Fab India one evening after work. I did my shopping. Walked out and looked around for a rick. Waited. Looked around. Of course, there was absolutely not one that was empty or wanted to go in the direction I was going! …

The last few days I have been emailing different service providers to find out more about broadband and Internet connectivity. Sadly, there has been hardly any response. It shows the total lack of importance given to the customer. Most of these companies have Web pages, but I doubt they really bother to reply to email that they receive through their feedback forms. I sent most of these emails/ feedback on the 5th of May. Via Email Tata Indicom – No response Dishnet DSL – Got a response in the morning. They asked me to email my address. Still waiting to hear from them. Via Web based forms Atrias Convergence – No response Reliance Infocomm – Filled up the Web form but couldn’t submit even after four tries Hathway – No response Via phone Touchtel – Left a message on their answering machine. No response. I’ve had two positive experiences via email. Sify, who got back to me the same day saying that they did not offer connectivity in my area and that they will keep …

The cat has landed. So has all my worldly possessions! Trying to get connected now. Called Touchtel and got an answering machine where I left my name and number. Emailed Hathway and they mailed me saying they would get in touch (hopefully, they mean soon!). Called the Reliance Webworld outlet and it was closed (on Saturday!). Shucks. Looks like it will be another week trying to figure out how to get online 🙂 There’s a land line connection at home too. Problem is, it ain’t working. The phone guy says I need an electrician to fix it. The electrician I have been trying to get keeps telling me, “I’ll come tomorrow, Madam.” As we all know, tomorrow never comes! I finally tracked down another one today and he says he can’t fix the phone line. I think me and the cat will have to figure out a way to fix the connection. More later. When I manage to figure out how to get a broadband Net connection in Bangalore.