మొన్న తాటి ముంజులూ శీతల పెట్టి లో పెట్టి పంచదార చల్లుకొని తిన్నాను అని మొహం పుస్తకం లో పెట్టాను. చాల మంది "నచ్చలేదు" అని "నొక్కి" మరి చెప్పారు. ఇవాళ ఇంకో ఘనకార్యం చేసాను, జీవితం లో ఇంతకూ ముందు ఎప్పుడు చెయ్యనది. మూడు రోజులు క్రితం నా సహోద్యోగి, తాటి కాయలు ఉన్నాయి తీసుకుంటారా అని అడిగాడు. నేనుఎప్పుడు "తినడం" తప్ప "వలవ లేదు" ఇంకా అతి పెద్ద పని ఏమిచేసాను అనుకుంటే, వాటి తో చేసిన బండి తో ఆ కాలం నాటి "స్కూటీ" లా ఆడాను అని అన్నా. అబ్బే అదేమీ పెద్ద పని కాదండి, "buthcer " కత్తి ఉంటె సులభమే , లేదు అంటే పళ్ళు ఉన్న కత్తితో బంగాళా దుంప చిప్స్ లా చేక్కేయండి అని సలహా ఇచ్చాడు ఆయన. ఇదేదో బావుంది అని చెప్పి, ఓ పదిహేనో, పదహారో కాయలు ఉంటాయి అనుకుంటా, కారులో బస్తా వేయించుకుని ఇంటికి తెచ్చా.
"ఆహా", "ఓహో" అని ఇంట్లోనించి ధ్వని తరంగాలు వచ్చాయి, కాని ఇంట్లో కూరలు కోసే కత్తి తప్ప వేరే "ఆయుధం" లేదు అని అనుమానం వచ్చింది. శ్రీమతి ని అడిగితే మనం "ఒమిరికా" నించి వచ్చినప్పడు కొన్ని కత్తుర్లు
కటార్లు పట్టు కొచ్చాము కదా, ఉన్నాయేమో చూస్తాను అంది. వెదికితే దొరికాయి. ఒక 12 రకాలవి. అన్నిటికి "పళ్ళు" ఉన్నాయి, కాస్త సినిమా స్టైల్ లో వాటి వంక చూసి, ఒక బలమైన పట్టు ఉన్న దానిని తీసా. మొదటి కాయ కొయ్యడానికి సుమారుగా 4 నిమషాలు పట్టింది. పది ml చెమట కూడా పట్టింది. ఆ తరువాత పదమూడో ది కొయ్యడానికి 40 సెకనులు పట్టింది. ఆఖరి దానిలో ముంజు, ముంజు లా కొంచం చెక్కుకు పోయింది తీస్తే, మొదటిది కోసినప్పుడు వచ్చిన గుజ్జు ఎలా ఉంటాడో ఊహించ గలరు. గణితం ప్రకారం "inversely proportional " అని తేలింది. ఒకటి కి రెండు సార్లు చేస్తే ఏది అయినా సాధ్యమే అని మనసులో అనుకున్నాను.
కొండ ని తవ్వు ఎలుక ని పట్టు అన్నట్లు, ఆ బస్తా కాయలు అన్ని వలిస్తే, ఒక చిన్న బౌల్ లోకి సరిపడే అంత వచ్చాయి, ముంజులు. చెత్త మాత్రం ఒక వారం చేసే పచారి సామానం పట్టేటి అంత ప్లాస్టిక్ బ్యాగ్గు లో వచ్చింది. పాపం రోడ్డు మీద అమ్మే వాళ్ళు ఎంత కాస్త పడితే ఒక ముంజు బుట్ట లోకి వస్తుంది....
"మొన్న తాటి ముంజులూ శీతల పెట్టి లో పెట్టి పంచదార చల్లుకొని తిన్నాను అని మొహం పుస్తకం లో పెట్టాను.".... ఇది మళ్ళా రాయాలి అంటే ఇక్కడ తో ఆపేసి, "fridge " దగరకి వెళ్ళాలి .... ... సశేషం
firefox - no image loading phew !
Yesterday I have to delete some stuff from my PC and unfortunately during that process my firefox setup was reset. i.e. when I opened it it behaved as if I am opening it first time. During this process, I could see some images are not being loaded properly. Especially flickr.com On the same page some get loaded and some do not. After searching on google found out following steps, which fixed the issue.
* In the browser bar, type about:config
* Go to the property permissions.default.image, set the value 0, irrespective of whatever value present
* Close the browser, re-start. Browse couple of pages and reset the value to 1 in the above method.
* Now close the browser again and re-start, this fixed the issue.
cheers
* In the browser bar, type about:config
* Go to the property permissions.default.image, set the value 0, irrespective of whatever value present
* Close the browser, re-start. Browse couple of pages and reset the value to 1 in the above method.
* Now close the browser again and re-start, this fixed the issue.
cheers
l.yimg.com
Recently after flickr updated their interface, during the beta run as well after live, I had problems about some buttons not working. e.g. Actions, all sizes etc. I use firefox( 3.6.8), chrome(whichever is latest build) as well as IE8. This used to not work in any browser. After multiple iterations of research, found that the relevant information to run javascript for this is taken from l.yimg.com. If you leave first window after loading for sometime till all objects are downloaded from l.yimg.com, then they will be in cache and they work fine. But if you click fast before loading full page, it may not work.
There are numerous complaints about l.yimg.com server slowness.
cheers
There are numerous complaints about l.yimg.com server slowness.
cheers
Minerva Coffee Shop @ Road No. 36, Jubilee Hills
Well, mood came in to write some thing and here you go....
Last weekend while driving from city during dinner time, family is discussing on what kind of food to have and where to go. Obviously when we are four sitting in car, four choices pop up and nothing will be decided immediately. Typical family drama. Just after crossing Jubilee hills check post, I did see median hoardings about this new joint Minerva Coffee Shop saying "We are open at Road no. 36". My son also immediately got attention of the Brahmin caricature on the hoardings. He like it too.. :-) Immediately I proposed and we took a U turn in the next available median. I visited the same chain couple of times in Ameerpet and my expectations are quite positive.
It seems like a home is converted in to restaurant and only 4 car slots are available in front of that "home". Valet parking is available and those guys are pretty active and available in huge numbers and there is a coordinator to take care of the rush. We already saw some people waiting outside for seating and have been thinking about decision we made. One point is Sunday evening most family outing for everybody and another reason I could feel was due to Friendship day. Took a chance and inquired about waiting time and he asked my name and replied saying "you are just 4th person in queue"
I had put my grinned face one more time and asked him again, How much time it will take irrespective of my token number? he replied 15-20 minutes. There is a open area with chairs and we sat along with other folks. As usual more than 50% of the crowd are hanging with their mobile phones and what they speak on phone and their facial expressions and their presence is totally out of sync. A waiter brought a try full of glasses filled with cold water. A good gesture for waiting customers. Liked it there.
After 15 min or so, we got a call to come in. So called Minerva coffee shop-house-converted-restaurant was neatly decorated but all tables are scattered across different rooms. I would say 2-3 tables in each room based on room size. Here also I do see lot of staff to cater. Pretty agile and quick in service even during that peak hours.
For the sake of kids choice, we went for some chinese option, hot and sour soup, some soft noodles, schezwan noodles and manchuria. Manchuria is fine but schezwan noodles are as crappy as at max I can think off. Chilli sauce is mixed with regular soft noodles. The soup is very diluted. At the end I recollected my oath earlier I took and disobeying it again. "Never eat Chinese food in south Indian Restaurants". I swear again, do not do it again. Kids might have enjoyed the dinner because food was their choice but we did not like it.
Over All
Service 8/10
Food 5/10
Ambiance 8/10
Will I go again - No
Last weekend while driving from city during dinner time, family is discussing on what kind of food to have and where to go. Obviously when we are four sitting in car, four choices pop up and nothing will be decided immediately. Typical family drama. Just after crossing Jubilee hills check post, I did see median hoardings about this new joint Minerva Coffee Shop saying "We are open at Road no. 36". My son also immediately got attention of the Brahmin caricature on the hoardings. He like it too.. :-) Immediately I proposed and we took a U turn in the next available median. I visited the same chain couple of times in Ameerpet and my expectations are quite positive.
It seems like a home is converted in to restaurant and only 4 car slots are available in front of that "home". Valet parking is available and those guys are pretty active and available in huge numbers and there is a coordinator to take care of the rush. We already saw some people waiting outside for seating and have been thinking about decision we made. One point is Sunday evening most family outing for everybody and another reason I could feel was due to Friendship day. Took a chance and inquired about waiting time and he asked my name and replied saying "you are just 4th person in queue"
I had put my grinned face one more time and asked him again, How much time it will take irrespective of my token number? he replied 15-20 minutes. There is a open area with chairs and we sat along with other folks. As usual more than 50% of the crowd are hanging with their mobile phones and what they speak on phone and their facial expressions and their presence is totally out of sync. A waiter brought a try full of glasses filled with cold water. A good gesture for waiting customers. Liked it there.
After 15 min or so, we got a call to come in. So called Minerva coffee shop-house-converted-restaurant was neatly decorated but all tables are scattered across different rooms. I would say 2-3 tables in each room based on room size. Here also I do see lot of staff to cater. Pretty agile and quick in service even during that peak hours.
For the sake of kids choice, we went for some chinese option, hot and sour soup, some soft noodles, schezwan noodles and manchuria. Manchuria is fine but schezwan noodles are as crappy as at max I can think off. Chilli sauce is mixed with regular soft noodles. The soup is very diluted. At the end I recollected my oath earlier I took and disobeying it again. "Never eat Chinese food in south Indian Restaurants". I swear again, do not do it again. Kids might have enjoyed the dinner because food was their choice but we did not like it.
Over All
Service 8/10
Food 5/10
Ambiance 8/10
Will I go again - No
BSNL బాధలు
I am having BSNL broadband issues and I am jotting down my interaction with them in this blog now onwards.
7-NOV-09
Lot of noise in the line and attenuation is very high. Unless I switch on phone too, I can't connect to broadband. This method also depends on luck. Only 20% choice. I raised a complaint with BSNL 1500 Swagatam services on 7th November 2009. Complaint no. 11060618639
10-NOV-09 4:30 p.m.
Called up to follow. Fortunately the customer rep is far better than expected standard from BSNL. He queried "No body turned up since 7th?" "Not even called you?". Then I made sure that I called them for followup and he should log the same against incident. He assured and somebody will attend on tomorrow. Fingers crossed again.
12-NOV-09 9:30 p.m.
Called again after two days. Status OPEN. Exchange people responded to call complaint that they are checking the line. If I need to know more information, I need to call 197 number and find out JTO's telephone number and I should talk to him/her :-)
13-NOV-09 1:00 p.m.
BSNL technical person Mr. Raghunandan from Gachibowli (who in fact installed my set while took the Broad band connection) called up. Again same story started to explain and he started asking me to check the modem lights, modem settings etc. Finally I was able to explain that it is the issue with disturbance and SNR value is very low and Attenuation is very high > 45 most of the time. He wanted to make sure that no port related issues or exchange related issue before sending out technician on ground to verify the physical wires at different junction boxes between exchange and home.
16-NOV-09 1:00 p.m.
Obviously some coordination required when a person is planning to visit home. This ground technician Sattiah called and tried to tell us that he came and no body at home. Typical first excuse that they already made an effort. I fixed an appointment at 2:30 p.m on 16th Nov 2009. I called him at 2:25 p.m. and said that I am at home(drove from office for this purpose). No turn of this person till 3:30 p.m. and when I called and the answer is "I will be there in 10 minutes". I had change my voice and give him some lecture about my work /boss and his work/boss are same as far as office is concerned. He promptly came in 10 minutes. Now he was asked to check line has disturbance or not. He says, telephone is working. It is tough to explain this guy about broadband, ADSL, SNR and attenuation because he is not familiar with this. Only point he made is, lights are glowing so it should work. I called Raghunandan to explain, and he pointed to Sattiah that disturbance should not be there. He verified wall level wires etc and found out the initial point and did some cuts and joins again. Asked me to verify and definitely I could hear no change in the dolby digital noise from the line. He will be checking various lines from home to exchange in reverse order.
17-NOV-09 12:30 p.m.
Since last night i.e. 16th Nov 2009, Internet connection at Home is gone. Earlier I had 10% chances and now it is totally gone. The green light on modem which indicates "Internet" is gone. Unfortunately, the technician who came and verified the ports at home at two different places, the caps (crabtree switches) are gone and they are loosely fitted to just hold on. I was there but not sure when he just pressed forcefully. Pathetic feeling to get after seeing them damaged. Coming back to connection issue, today morning I called the same technician to find out the status and he identified there is a port issue and today they are going to replace the port. Keeping fingers crossed again.
18-NOV-09 12:44 p.m.
Both broadband and phone lines are dead since 17-NOV-09 afternoon. Reason, some digging at Gachibowli Y junction for flyover and whole network on Gachibowli side is gone. As usual, can't contact or no body lifts the phone if you call Gachibowli exchange. Raised a complaint for dead phone 11075537682
19-NOV-09 4:21 p.m.
Today morning by the time I woke up, telephone lines are restored and land line is working and was able to connect to internet but it was slow process and noise is still there.
20-NOV-09 11:40 a.m.
Called up Mr. Raghunandan. They are still busy with Gachibowli Y junction dug up. He promised he will verify the disturbance issue.
22-NOV-09 9:00 p.m
Called up customer service desk again as I could not connect at all. The probability of getting connected dropped from 5% to 1% or zero percent. I ask the CR to enter that I am filing a case in consumer court and he tried to evade the conversation and promised that he will escalate. I made sure that his team lead came in to call to discuss as this fellow does not want to enter additional comments. To my surprise, team leader says, that their customer support system will not allow any kind of additional information or updating facility once the ticket has been risen. Isn't it weird? After couple of persuasions and serious notes, he said that he can't do anything to the ticket. I had to hung up helplessly.
23-NOV-09 Monday 10:00 a.m
Visited Gachibowli exchange to meet folks and no person is there around and only line men are there and they do not know anything about who comes when. They suggested me to call JTO.
24-NOV-09 Tuesday
I tried to reach since Monday morning till now (Tuesday) evening and and both Satyanarayana (JTO) and Raghunandam are not picking up of the phones even when I called from my home (such that they can identify by location / caller ID).
27-NOV-09 Friday 10:00 a.m.
Since morning the telephones and broadband are totally down. Will wait for half a day before rising a complaint.
01-DEC-09 Tuesday 12:05 p.m.
For the last few days, things are going smooth and was able to connect to Internet with out any trial and errors. One thing I did was kept the modem on for 24 hours after first successful connect. Hoping for the best in future and giving a break for this write up till I find another issue with BSNL. :-)))
7-NOV-09
Lot of noise in the line and attenuation is very high. Unless I switch on phone too, I can't connect to broadband. This method also depends on luck. Only 20% choice. I raised a complaint with BSNL 1500 Swagatam services on 7th November 2009. Complaint no. 11060618639
10-NOV-09 4:30 p.m.
Called up to follow. Fortunately the customer rep is far better than expected standard from BSNL. He queried "No body turned up since 7th?" "Not even called you?". Then I made sure that I called them for followup and he should log the same against incident. He assured and somebody will attend on tomorrow. Fingers crossed again.
12-NOV-09 9:30 p.m.
Called again after two days. Status OPEN. Exchange people responded to call complaint that they are checking the line. If I need to know more information, I need to call 197 number and find out JTO's telephone number and I should talk to him/her :-)
13-NOV-09 1:00 p.m.
BSNL technical person Mr. Raghunandan from Gachibowli (who in fact installed my set while took the Broad band connection) called up. Again same story started to explain and he started asking me to check the modem lights, modem settings etc. Finally I was able to explain that it is the issue with disturbance and SNR value is very low and Attenuation is very high > 45 most of the time. He wanted to make sure that no port related issues or exchange related issue before sending out technician on ground to verify the physical wires at different junction boxes between exchange and home.
16-NOV-09 1:00 p.m.
Obviously some coordination required when a person is planning to visit home. This ground technician Sattiah called and tried to tell us that he came and no body at home. Typical first excuse that they already made an effort. I fixed an appointment at 2:30 p.m on 16th Nov 2009. I called him at 2:25 p.m. and said that I am at home(drove from office for this purpose). No turn of this person till 3:30 p.m. and when I called and the answer is "I will be there in 10 minutes". I had change my voice and give him some lecture about my work /boss and his work/boss are same as far as office is concerned. He promptly came in 10 minutes. Now he was asked to check line has disturbance or not. He says, telephone is working. It is tough to explain this guy about broadband, ADSL, SNR and attenuation because he is not familiar with this. Only point he made is, lights are glowing so it should work. I called Raghunandan to explain, and he pointed to Sattiah that disturbance should not be there. He verified wall level wires etc and found out the initial point and did some cuts and joins again. Asked me to verify and definitely I could hear no change in the dolby digital noise from the line. He will be checking various lines from home to exchange in reverse order.
17-NOV-09 12:30 p.m.
Since last night i.e. 16th Nov 2009, Internet connection at Home is gone. Earlier I had 10% chances and now it is totally gone. The green light on modem which indicates "Internet" is gone. Unfortunately, the technician who came and verified the ports at home at two different places, the caps (crabtree switches) are gone and they are loosely fitted to just hold on. I was there but not sure when he just pressed forcefully. Pathetic feeling to get after seeing them damaged. Coming back to connection issue, today morning I called the same technician to find out the status and he identified there is a port issue and today they are going to replace the port. Keeping fingers crossed again.
18-NOV-09 12:44 p.m.
Both broadband and phone lines are dead since 17-NOV-09 afternoon. Reason, some digging at Gachibowli Y junction for flyover and whole network on Gachibowli side is gone. As usual, can't contact or no body lifts the phone if you call Gachibowli exchange. Raised a complaint for dead phone 11075537682
19-NOV-09 4:21 p.m.
Today morning by the time I woke up, telephone lines are restored and land line is working and was able to connect to internet but it was slow process and noise is still there.
20-NOV-09 11:40 a.m.
Called up Mr. Raghunandan. They are still busy with Gachibowli Y junction dug up. He promised he will verify the disturbance issue.
22-NOV-09 9:00 p.m
Called up customer service desk again as I could not connect at all. The probability of getting connected dropped from 5% to 1% or zero percent. I ask the CR to enter that I am filing a case in consumer court and he tried to evade the conversation and promised that he will escalate. I made sure that his team lead came in to call to discuss as this fellow does not want to enter additional comments. To my surprise, team leader says, that their customer support system will not allow any kind of additional information or updating facility once the ticket has been risen. Isn't it weird? After couple of persuasions and serious notes, he said that he can't do anything to the ticket. I had to hung up helplessly.
23-NOV-09 Monday 10:00 a.m
Visited Gachibowli exchange to meet folks and no person is there around and only line men are there and they do not know anything about who comes when. They suggested me to call JTO.
24-NOV-09 Tuesday
I tried to reach since Monday morning till now (Tuesday) evening and and both Satyanarayana (JTO) and Raghunandam are not picking up of the phones even when I called from my home (such that they can identify by location / caller ID).
27-NOV-09 Friday 10:00 a.m.
Since morning the telephones and broadband are totally down. Will wait for half a day before rising a complaint.
01-DEC-09 Tuesday 12:05 p.m.
For the last few days, things are going smooth and was able to connect to Internet with out any trial and errors. One thing I did was kept the modem on for 24 hours after first successful connect. Hoping for the best in future and giving a break for this write up till I find another issue with BSNL. :-)))
Thats it, you are grounded......
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