How about this telephone stand… yeah it is at my home !!!

found it with the road side sellers ..  just cost 150 rupees…   it was meant to be a flower stand..  but i thought it would be better as a telephone stand

making strawberry ice cream wasnt a complicated process at all..

1. Bought Some Strawberry crush (available at most of the super markets)
2. Bought milk (milma )
3. Boiled milk
4. added sugar
5. Mixed the strawberry crush (with the mixer)
6. kept for freezing and went to sleep

Woke up after 2 hours and found great icecream is ready.. it was awesome..

strawberry icecream

The Year 2009 paves way for a new year 2010 . at this moment i’m looking back to the eventful year 2009 to see the footprints it left over in my life.

The registration of a personal domain name (this site) is the first thing that comes to my mind when i think of 2009. yes it is an achievement.. and a big thanks to DreamHost.

I decided to give up my dream of an MBA. i just realized i should not waste much time thinking of MBA.. if it comes my way any time in future, i will take it.. but i’m not gonna dedicate too much of time on it.

Twitter!!! i wasn’t just a few months and few friends old in twitter when the year was born but at the end of the year i stand her with more than 7000 tweets and 550 friends. It was great to make contact with a lot (really a lot) of new friends through twitter and then through various other ways like tweetups and barcamps etc.

Barcamps and tweetups became a new way of social interaction for me.  A lot of friends sharing a lot of views , a lots of dreams, a lot of ideas and ideologies.  what i thought as a big things in life were in my hands this year through my friends. TedX was something i missed this year.

A few electronic items were bought this year and some are still in pending list. My  New PC ,My New Camera(Fujifilm s200HD) ,My new TV tuner Card, new Headphone etc are the notable new things around me.. A new Mobile and a laptop are in the pending list.

Few Good Films were in theaters this year.. and i experienced multiplex for the very first time.   i’ve already written a post about my take on the malayalam movies of 2009.

Micheal Jackson’s death  is the be the saddest moment of 2009, MJ was great in all means

Traditional Main Stream media vs New age media (blogs, twitter etc) was a unhealthy fight in 2009.. even though the Main Stream media was very strong in 2009 i can see a day not too far away were we main stream media is fought down.

For me Telangana issue sounds like a serious shame for India.  it all sounded like someone is seriously planing a divide and rule policy on india.  shame on how our leaders dealt with the issue.

YS Rajashekar reddy’s death was a shock to India and Andra pradesh.  A salute to the great leader.

Mullaperiyar issue is blown out of context by senseless and brainless tamilnadu leaders. they should learn to respect lives of 40 lakh people..

Regionalism is becoming a cancer on Republic of India. we really need a strong leader at the center to stop the regionalism issue.  Mumbai , Telangana , Goorkaland, and a lots of other narrow minded rationalist maniacs still on news is a real threat to United India.

Wish You all Merry Christmas..

An old quote says :

if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree

Yes friends be happy and make others happy that will be the best thing to do during christmas

some days back i had written a post about some difficulties i faced regarding the service of my honda activa (read it here)  I posted the same in the feedback form of the Honda 2 wheelers India website.   Now within no time the response came flying in.

Mr Abilash , the Customer Care Manager of EVM Honda contacted me through phone and offered any help i need to fix the problems.  Today evening he spared some time for me and patiently heard the issues. (He has good patience and temper.. i should admit it ) . He apologized for the trouble and offered every help he could.   The pending issues were fixed free of charge.

I had a chat with him about the system they have in place regarding making the customer sign the job card saying “i’m satisfied with the Service Done” even before showing the vehicle to the customer.  His concerns were reasonable like it might not be too practical when there is a lot of customers around 5.30 PM (he said sometimes there might be around 80-100) comig to pick up the vehicle.  I suggested if not practical to implement it fully at least implement it for non-free services issues . that should be a practical work around for it.

He also added they are taking strict care for issues like missing an internal part of the vehicle.

I wish he don’t end up in screwed up situations like this  again

and to all those who are pissed of due to the bad services. try posting a complaint in the company website. it will make the service prompt and faster

In case of Honda 2 wheelers is Honda2WheelersIndia.com

I had Met With an accident on Sept 8 . My Activa had some minor scratches on the front side.

I gave the Activa for servicing on 26th Sept. Delay was due to the fact i couldn’t drive Activa due to my leg pain.

Any way i gave the activa for servicing.. It took them 7 Working days for the servicing.. which i feel is normal.. i have no complaints on that..

After Servicing They Gave me my Activa back on 7th October.

I don’t Understand Why the EVM Honda has a policy to get the customer Sign a form saying “i’m satisfied with the Service Done” and make the customer pay bills even before they show us the serviced vehicle. Which i feel is a kind of cheating the customer to get that signed even before showing the vehicle to the customer .

In My case the Service Personal had said there is a bent in the Handle when i gave the vehicle for servicing. They Promised to replace the Damaged Parts. which includes the Head Light , Front Right side Indicator, Front Top Panel, The Crash guardes on the Front Side and Painting Work. I had asked them to check if anything else is wrong.

When I got My Vehicle Back they had lame excuse of non availability of Indicator Light and Crash guards.
They Had called me on Oct 6th and informed me Head Light and indicator light will be available only next day and i agreed i will collect my vehicle on 7th. But they failed to arrange the Indicator Light for me.

I was surprised to see almost every single drop of petrol was still in the scooter which just means they haven’t even test driven the scooter after the servicing.

The Vehicle still had the Handle Bent when they delivered it to me. which they had quoted as the primary complaint in the vehicle.
The Indicator buzzer was Missing. They Just Forgot the put it back after the servicing.

The Front Top Panel after their Fixing Had a 5 cm Gap and was in no way suiting the Body. The Front Panel also had a Gap and it looked like there is a bend in the Panel.

I went back on 8th Oct in order to Fix it. Their Response was like You Hadn’t said there is a Problem of scooter stopping in between ride. After a accident i gave it to them for servicing i had told him the ridign isn’t comfortable . Isn’t it the Job of the Mechanic to test drive a accident vehicle and identify and inform me if there is such a issue?.

I really Had a heated argument about the issue. Any way the mechanic gave up argument soon and said he will fix the problems.

He added the Buzzer in a few minutes and then he had a long time checking and fixing the Front Panels of the Scooter. it was very evident that they had been very careless in fixing the Panel. He had so much to do to fix it.

The Scooter Still have a weird loud sound. I’m not planing to give it again to EVM Honda to Fix it. My Friend have suggested a place near vytilla to get the ACTIVA serviced. He said he too had many bad experiences regarding the service offered by EVM Honda..

I will never advice anyone to buy any Vehicles from EVM Honda. I’m so pissed off with their Service

UPDATE

I logged a complaint on the official Honda website 3 days back siting this URL and they called me up today to ask me  about the issues with EVM honda …

Waiting for action From Them