Transferring Gas Connection

Jotting down the process while transferring my connection from Mangalore to Bangalore.
I had Bharat Gas Connection

The documents which are required:
1. Voucher (which the earlier Gas Agency will give once you return your cylinder and regulator).
2. Address Proof copy (rent agreement copy)
3. Electricity Bill copy
4. Id Proff copy
5. Affidavit

This Affidavit took me time and so thought of putting the process.

The Affidavit is required on the Rs 2 stamp papaer (that's it). Nothing else is required. You can go to any of the Sub-Registrar office and there will be photocopy/printout shops who will have these stamp paper. They also have the Gas Connection Affidavit format. This costed me 35 bucks. What extra I did (and which is not required) is that I went inside office and got it registered (they put some 20 Rs for this). This is not required.
If you can get hold of Rs2 stamp paper, you yourself can get the printout done - getting stamp paper though is problematic.
Some Notary people will ask for 100 Rs or so, don't get that done from there as all those things are not required at all. Just the printout on the required Rs 2 stamp paper is what is all needed.

I am back :)

It has been almost 2 years since I have written something seriously, including my papers. OK last part is not true, have written my exams very seriously.When I used to write earlier, it used to be something different happening in the otherwise normal life. It doesn't mean that in the last two years everything has been normal, on the contrary things had been different very often which didn't allow me to write so often.

So now you might be thinking, why am writing again - when even though my MBA is not yet complete, nor I am on bench :)

Well what else can be done best - while sitting at hill top, overlooking a green beautiful landscape and Arabian sea further. This beautiful setting just make me think and I write best when I have my thinking hat on.

So this is just going to be our secret, hopefully my managers don't think I am too lukkha sitting out there and assign two more projects :)

What I am going to write - lots of pending things. Life during MBA, life back in Mangalore, relating the learning's and daily events and other things....

So stay tuned....

An evening at Elliot beach

Thinking about where to be in Chennai right now, the place should be Besant Nagar beach or the Elliott beach. Well I am here by chance, wanting to grab a coffee from Barista wandered here, only to be greeted by jam, blockades and swelling crowd which is currently filling the beach. Occasion is the culmination of the month long cultural fest which goes on in Chennai. Well though I am not a person who appreciates a lot of these cultural thing neither I know a single bit of tamil in which all the traditional sings and dances are happening, but the huge crowd of people and the thundering applause which is reverberating the beach definitely crowds are loving it.

loss of being an "early adopter" - letter to HTC

Long one, but tells the frustration of an avid "early adopter" of HTC products - who now lives every moment hating his decision to purchase so early.

Well I purchased the HTC Touch HD as soon as it got launched in India - in April end - unfortunately on my birthday as a gift for myself. Costing Rs 44,000 I assumed it to be a perfect gift for myself until now when looking at what HTC has offered as HD2 at a much cheaper price, making me think why did I tried to be an "early adopter" for this HTC product?

Within 8 months my gift is well Rs 8,000 expensive (as HD2 is coming in 36,000), is 0.5 inch smaller screen, 160MB less RAM, has one downgraded version of OS (Win 6.1 in HD while 6.5 in HD2) and above all is 496 MHz slower (almost half the speed of HD2). Looking at these numbers I just can't console myself that what I assumed to be a phone from HTC which would not die out in years have become obsolete within just 8 months and the next generation phone is way too far ahead.

Above all it has changed my perception and view about the company. From being a advocate for HTC products, I now have moved to a stage where I would definitely recommend everyone planning to purchase their next new phone to wait and not grab the current best one as the next best is just a few months away.

I would definitely like to hear what the company officials have to say about this. Waiting to hear from them.

an ex-HTC fan

Biased reporting - CNN-IBN too in that league

Read this news about the death of a schoolgirl in the school: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/asthmatic-student-dies-delhi-school-faces-ire/90826-3.html and then this one: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/delhi-schoolgirl-in-coma-after-punishment/90482-3.html

Find any similarity in the news? Well both report the unfortunate death of schoolgirl in the school in Delhi and both these happened around the same time.

Did you find any dissimilarity? If you would have read carefully you would observe that in one of the news article the school name and location is not mentioned whereas for the other school almost the entire address is mentioned.

The school details which are not mentioned are for an "elite" Delhi school while all the details are mentioned about the municipal school where the other accident happened.

Clearly double standards by the CNN-IBN also. Goes on length to prove that news channels are definitely biased in their reporting.

It will definitely take a long time for me to start believing that CNN-IBN news are not biased.

Note: I left these comments on the CNN–IBN site, but looks like they don't like taking feedback on their biased reporting.

Just observed TOI's report mentions complete details - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Aakritis-parents-seek-action-against-school/articleshow/4437405.cms

A day in Hyderabad...

another blog on the fly. well this one is while coming back from Hyderabad. yeah came here for few hours, well started from Chennai after bunking my extra class and reached here in the morning. For those who are still wondering how come I started bunking the class, I came here to meet my sister

Well Hyderabad pretty much looks like Bhopal as in the old Hyderabad city. With the latest addition of hitech city it is much bigger than Bhopal. The thing which brought the similarities of the two cities was people speaking urdu, watching signs in urdu and hindi (a sweet break from Chennai where finding someone speaking urdu is one of the great achievement you can count) and well the Necklace road seeing which I only think of bada talaab and the lake view drive.

This time it was just an 'overview' visit, where I did not go out at all. hoping to have a proper trip someday.

its time to blogout and go to sleep...

report indicts armymen for killing two civilians....

The magisterial inquiry has indicted armymen for killing of two civilians in Sopore earlier in Feb 2009.

But the biggest irony of this case (and which also is there in Manipur) is that these army men cannot be prosecuted by the state as the army in J&K enjoy impunity for their actions under Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958.

Let us see what the army and the defense ministry does to the murderers in army dress.

On Wiki
Bomai killing: J-K govt inquiry commission indicts Army