Yesterday, like every other salary day, my ATM was a stop on my way back home. And yesterday, like most other salary days, the ATM was out of order. Well, not one to get put off by that, I trudged up to the bank to confront the manager (again, like I did last month) poor guy, he was packing up after another day at seven in the evening, and there I was with the old complaint.
No wonder he retorted by saying that it was only when I needed it that the ATM was going out of order! say what....
Actually sometimes I do wonder whether everyone else makes a big deal about such small inconveniences. Like, Iv been using a Hutch special card to call mom at a discounted rate. Now, its a pain in the neck actually using the service. And it didn't help my spirits that their toll free number to reach a live consultant was non existent (or so it seems) nor was the automated system which is supposed to tell me my account balance answering!
So I call up the regular Hutch number and get the usual excuses. So i ask to talk to the manager (and I know a thing or two about how things work in a call centre) and it seems he is busy in a meeting! Now would you believe, every time I ask for a hutch manager, I always get the same response. You would think that if they spent so much of time in meetings, customers wouldn't have problems!
Neither is it helping that Iv read TRAI regulations well enough to know that all these are actually 'offenses'. And it hurts even more to know that now Iv got them on the hook, with all the laws lined up against them, so Iv got to actually move my ass and go in for the kill.. Or atleast, do something apart from crib about it. Oh God, you'd think I was bored of being bored all the time!
Moving on, I was just surfing through youtube and chanced upon some videos made on Novak Djokovic (well, its pronounced just the way you did, never mind, anyway) Well, Djokovic, if you dont know, is considered as the practical joker of the ATP who, it seems, took over from where Dmitry Tursunov (if you read the last post) left off.
And he was imitating his fellow players on the tour like Nadal, Federer, Roddick Sharapova and the whole lot of them. Now I always have a thing for mimicry artistes. We seem to have many in Kerala. In fact, it became such a pastime with almost everybody that you could say it was a modern day art form, for its popularity. The favorite was an unlikely actor called Jayan, but soon followed impersonifications of Mohan Lal, Mammooty, later on, polliticians, like VS Achuthananthan, and when i was last there, even the bishops were caricatured on TV shows and sitting rooms!
Well, watching Novak, I couldn't help feeling that these people, they are so keen in observing small things about their models. Like, the way, Maria Sharapova fiddles with her hair before every serve, or Nadal with his, erm.., underwear (btw, I wonder why his mom never asks him to go and get the right size!). The way Roddick feels around for his shoulders whenever he prepares to face serve, or takes off his baseball cap only to put it back on from the back, after every point. And the way Federer greets the crowd after every match he wins (oh comeon, that's almost every match he's played)
Okay, so continuing with my wanderings, I find web surfing amusing for many reasons. One of them is being able to witness fights of all kinds (mainly ethnic).. Like, I was watching this video on Ana Ivanovic who is a serb, and the comments were mainly about wether she was a Serb or a Croat. And it mostly ended with th serb abusing th Croat's lineage (both collective and personal) and th Serb claiming, you can abuse all you want, but she's Serb!
Even better are the American racial fights. Maybe some day ill put up a few transcripts. Today, somehow I feel inclined to let this remain a boring post
chao
No wonder he retorted by saying that it was only when I needed it that the ATM was going out of order! say what....
Actually sometimes I do wonder whether everyone else makes a big deal about such small inconveniences. Like, Iv been using a Hutch special card to call mom at a discounted rate. Now, its a pain in the neck actually using the service. And it didn't help my spirits that their toll free number to reach a live consultant was non existent (or so it seems) nor was the automated system which is supposed to tell me my account balance answering!
So I call up the regular Hutch number and get the usual excuses. So i ask to talk to the manager (and I know a thing or two about how things work in a call centre) and it seems he is busy in a meeting! Now would you believe, every time I ask for a hutch manager, I always get the same response. You would think that if they spent so much of time in meetings, customers wouldn't have problems!
Neither is it helping that Iv read TRAI regulations well enough to know that all these are actually 'offenses'. And it hurts even more to know that now Iv got them on the hook, with all the laws lined up against them, so Iv got to actually move my ass and go in for the kill.. Or atleast, do something apart from crib about it. Oh God, you'd think I was bored of being bored all the time!
Moving on, I was just surfing through youtube and chanced upon some videos made on Novak Djokovic (well, its pronounced just the way you did, never mind, anyway) Well, Djokovic, if you dont know, is considered as the practical joker of the ATP who, it seems, took over from where Dmitry Tursunov (if you read the last post) left off.
And he was imitating his fellow players on the tour like Nadal, Federer, Roddick Sharapova and the whole lot of them. Now I always have a thing for mimicry artistes. We seem to have many in Kerala. In fact, it became such a pastime with almost everybody that you could say it was a modern day art form, for its popularity. The favorite was an unlikely actor called Jayan, but soon followed impersonifications of Mohan Lal, Mammooty, later on, polliticians, like VS Achuthananthan, and when i was last there, even the bishops were caricatured on TV shows and sitting rooms!
Well, watching Novak, I couldn't help feeling that these people, they are so keen in observing small things about their models. Like, the way, Maria Sharapova fiddles with her hair before every serve, or Nadal with his, erm.., underwear (btw, I wonder why his mom never asks him to go and get the right size!). The way Roddick feels around for his shoulders whenever he prepares to face serve, or takes off his baseball cap only to put it back on from the back, after every point. And the way Federer greets the crowd after every match he wins (oh comeon, that's almost every match he's played)
Okay, so continuing with my wanderings, I find web surfing amusing for many reasons. One of them is being able to witness fights of all kinds (mainly ethnic).. Like, I was watching this video on Ana Ivanovic who is a serb, and the comments were mainly about wether she was a Serb or a Croat. And it mostly ended with th serb abusing th Croat's lineage (both collective and personal) and th Serb claiming, you can abuse all you want, but she's Serb!
Even better are the American racial fights. Maybe some day ill put up a few transcripts. Today, somehow I feel inclined to let this remain a boring post
chao
5 comments:
It's so hard to deal with things brought about by tecnology. computers answering phones etc....It's enough to drive you nuts.
Race, religion, politics...why do people get so angry? Who cares? Blut it's always been this way hasn't it.
wow
and i thought indian men only thot about cricket. what happened to you? ;)
#BBE
sometimes you wonder wether all this jazz about technology being omniscient is worth sticking up for
and race, well, maybe we dont care because, by gods grace, we were born into a 'superior' race! (Now everyone dont complain about that word, I just meant a race where I dont feel inferior)
#Rama
I feel most of the men of the country think about only cricket. the rest, think that 'all the other men of the country think only about cricket'.. makjes sense? i guess not.. whateva :D
anyways, I take to all sports. but am in love with only Football and Tennis (though I havent played tennis competitvely:)
#everyone
an update: In Rohit Brijnath's coloumn in todays 'Hindu', he compares Maria Sharapova to a 'stork with an overhang'.. LOL. cos thats as near to truth as can get! and anyway, for all the beauty, she barely smiles during a match!
hmmm... i want to read about the racial stuff.. bring it on!
all the other men, and all the women, think most of the men of the country only think about cricket.
tennis is a delightful sport, even to play 'competitively' and lose.
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