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Screw ups

August 21st, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted in Musings, Personal

My Provident Fund settlement seems to have been screwed up. I am praying someone unscrews it. :-) The moolah from the PF is in transit for the past 21 days. I got a copy of the letter whereas my bank has still not received the original along with the cheque.

I am mighty impressed with the PF guys for processing my settlement without a flaw but the last mile seems to be taking more time than required making me wonder who is to be blamed.

But I hope this issue gets resolved without any sort of “jugaad”

Finally a home on the web

August 20th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Uncategorized

After trying out various options, blogging on various blogging platforms I decided on setting up my own home on the Internet. And its right here.

I chose GoDaddy for the hosting service and am thoroughly impressed with Wordpress for the blogging platform. In fact Wordpress obviates the need to know HTML.

Also I merged both my personal & travel blogs into one blog here. After all home is where everyone comes to at the end of the day

Second Life

August 8th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Uncategorized
A few ex colleagues met up for a drink last night. While we were excited that we were catching up after a really long time, I was more excited to meet Suman. Suman met with a near fatal accident in Delhi a few months back and had his head fractured at 52 places. He went through 3 plastic surgeries and was in the hospital for over 2 months. Ironically other than his head he didn’t suffer any other injuries.

He was conscious through all these times and it was nerve wracking to hear him recount all that he went through. But the greatest joy was to see him sit up there confidently, laughing and smiling. He is all geared up to enjoy his second life.

I really admire his guts and salute his spirit of life.

Free annual report

August 6th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Finance, Personal
This one surely beats me! Amongst the multiple annual reports that I received over the past 2 weeks the one that surprised me was from Hotel Leela Venture Ltd. It came with 25% discount coupons on a purchase of Rs. 6000/- at any of the Leela Hotels. I was impressed. Even more so since I do not own any shares in Hotel Leela Venture Ltd. I checked my demat and then again rechecked my demat account. And it was true I didn’t own any Leela shares.

I plan to write in to the folks and request them to allow me to retain the 25% discount coupon :-)

Online Reunions

August 3rd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Uncategorized
As you go along you make many friends and as time goes by you lose touch with quite a few of them. You never mean to but that’s how it turns out. Infact Shoba Narayan has a good take on friendships in yesterday’s Lounge.

So it was great to bump into some of my 12th Std classmates on Facebook. Some of these folks I haven’t heard of ever since we passed out. That’s 18 goddam years back. Man that suddenly feels old :-) Would be great to meet up with the gang and head to the canteen for some bhurji pao & cutting chai.

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