Aslam's BlogBuzz: Best On Blogspot Contest

I don't know how many of you might have heard of best-on-blogspot contest. Well let me tell you. This is a kind of contest run by blogspot blog to give recognition to other blogspot blogs. In this contest, bogspot blog owners can submit their blog in various categories when the contest is running. Once the contest begins, various readers can vote for their choice of blogs in various categories and hence at the end of the contest period(normally 2 months duration), the blog with maximum votes will be awarded with prize.


Aslam's BlogBuzz was the part of this contest twice, once in 2008 contest and in Aug-Sep 2009 contest. And I am very proud to say that, both these times this blog was selected to be the winner.


In Aug-Sep 2009 contest, the prize amount was $30 and one premium blogspot($15) theme from OOruc for FREE

Aslam's BlogBuzz >>>>> Aslam'sBuzz

It was Sunday and I had nothing much to do. After spending whole week with Ruby on Rails and Word-press theme design at office, Sunday has to be something innovative. I have been thinking to redesign my blog template for quite a few time. And finally it was today. Woke up bit too late and after the daily basic routine of breakfasts and other stuffs, I was in a complete good mood to give a new look to my blog.


My friends always used to make fun of my blog as it had hell a lot of colors and it was all shabby. But I loved my blog all the time. Why wouldn't I. It has won the best personal blog title twice from one of the blog contests and it earned me few dollars. Anyways it was today that I decided to give my blog a new look after one and half year long time. yes that does explain how busy I have been ;)



Looking for some good and attractive free blog templates online, I finally found this particular template from BloggerTricks.Com Template was cool, after checking it's demo, I decided this will be my new template at-least for some period of time.


In my previous blog template, I had installed Intense Debate commenting widget, and going ahead with this new template had the risk of getting rid of all my previous comments which was stored in IntenseDebate's server. But I had to take this risk to give a new look and feel for my blog. After the final installation, I had to make a lot of changes through this template. It had few problems which I had to fix manually. It did not have "Read More" option in the front page posts, so I had to write manual codes to get it fixed. Also top navigation bar was very dull, so worked on it to give some hover effects as well.


Well as of now everything seems to be fine with the template. I would be sticking with this template now. But I noticed one problem here, and that's whenever someone visits the blog for the first time in any browser, the browser asks them their twitter user-name and password. I think this has to be with the twitter updates widget installed in the template. I will be fixing this issue very soon.


Okay, what do you think about this new template of Aslam's BlogBuzz(Now Aslam'sBuzz)?
Do you find any issue with this particular look, if so please let me know your views so that I can work on it to make it more and more better.


So for now, CiaO ^_^

ATM Transaction... How Strange !

Here is the deal.
I have two savings bank account from banks namely Sity Bank and Exis Bank. I had 10,000 bucks in my Exis Bank account and just Rs.4 in my Sity Bank account. Near my locality I did not have any ATM, either of these banks, but I found out an ATM of yet another bank named Onion Bank. Well, I wanted to withdraw the entire 10,000 bucks from my Exis bank account for some need. So I decided to walk into Onion bank ATM. I took out my ATM card from my purse, swiped it through the ATM of Onion bank and when it prompted me to enter the password, I entered the password. Password got  accepted  and then I enter the amout for withdrawal and then after sometime, i get a message of failed transaction. I tried it for 3 to 4 times, still the same error, TRANSACTION FAILED !. I thought that Onion bank ATM does not accept my card for some reason and I walked out of the ATM.



On the way back to my home, I just had a strange feeling for what might be the reason for transaction failure for no specific reason. Later I realized. Did I tell you, which ATM card I used to swipe through the Onion Bank ATM? I guess no. Well to my stuppidness I used the Sity bank ATM card which just had Rs.4 in it. How dumb I am. You must be agreeing to the fact that, yea I how dumb I am  for I tried to withdraw 10,000 from an account which just had Rs.4. 

That did not stop me from thinking deeply into that on the way back home. I cant be that dumb, I might have accidentally picked up Sity bank ATM card from my purse. Accidentally picked up my Sity bank card thinking it is Exis bank ATM card...hey hey..that means to withdraw money I must have used the Exis bank password right. Yes, I remember , I used Exis bank password on a wrong  ATM card. But then how the hell did the password work out on Sity bank ATM card and provided me with my bank details. This question is still killing me. Is something wrong with the Sity bank ATM system that on its card any random password just worked out. Oh crap this is very bad indeed, or is it something else, if it is what is it??


Have you ever been in this kind of situation or would like to share with me your ATM funny experince, just leave me a comment. 


Have a good day :)

iPod Technical Support

iPod Technical Support  is my yet another blog where I write about iPod troubleshooting steps. Mostly i write to the questions posted by my visitors. I started this blog at around mid of April. After starting this blog I never wrote any article. Actually I was thinking whats the use of this particular blog. later in the month of June I saw a comment in that blog from an iPod user and she was requesting a help. I was very much surprised thinking, how come a person comment on a blog which had any article or posts about iPod. I replied to that comment by writing a neat article on how that particular issue can be fixed. I think it was around July end that I must have written that post and one of my friend suggested to make use of Google Analytic to get the accurate stats of the blog. So on July 29th I decided to install Google analytic and from then on there was no looking back. I am very proud to say that 80% of my visitors come from various search engines. and I get many requests through comments and through personal emails to help on various iPod issues. Though I give help for FREE, i decided why not I include a PAYPAL DONATE button so that in-case any visitor is really happy about my help, he can donate me and I did not have to wait too long that one of my visitor was so happy with my help that he donated me some dollars and I was really happy for this achievement.
This is my one month Google Analytic statistics:

230 NIGHTS @ THE CALL CENTER - 2

Click HERE to read from the beginning.

The Three Months With  A New Team

Departed from the training team with whome i was living wonderful days of my life, it was pretty tough for me to accept that I have to be in a new team of nearly 15 members. All the faces were new. Few faces were the one which I used to watch during the traing days :P, so they did not seems to be that new though they seemed to be strangers in all aspects.

Team Leader Nancy.. A young lady in her mid twenties. With huge smile on her face all the time. Thus there begun new chapter of introductions all over again. I just hated this part, where we have to ask names,natives. Huh....But I loved when others asked me all these.. .My team had one of the cutest girl, her name was Monica, Everyone in the office had an eye on her.Did I mention earlier that, there were few faces which I used to watch during training days, well this face mite be the one.lol

Alrite, so days with new team were just going on. Initially we were not allowed to take any calls. Floor supervisors were giving us training on how to be professionals on the call, how to handle customers, how to solve certain issue. Well all these were pretty much useful to us as the trainer really sucked during training days. They never gave us proper training. Who the hell made them as Trainers, must be some part of politics within the company responsible for these useless people to get into these posts. No wonder why they played politics in final evaluations, Politics was running in their blood.

Well, Few of the Floor supervisor were really good at training us with basic necessity of call handling procedures and few just tried to flirt around with the young ladies in the team.As the days passed by, I started getting friendly with most of the team members and the Team leader Nancy...She was the best. We all liked her very much in a short period of time. Her character and the way she interacted with evryone, no wonder why most of them liked her.

Based on the good show in the training provided by floor supervisors and the team leader, few from my team including me was chosen to start taking calls. I was really nervous when I first took the call. I am not used to these American Accent. How am I gonna understand what they are saying and what will happen if i am not able to handle the customer well. All these thoughts was making me feel dizzy. But there was no looking back. I had the confidence that, if i collect some courage and handle few calls, i can then manage well. In my first few calls, some experienced representatives sat beside me to walk me through certain call handling procedures and that really helped to gain the confidence.

After few days call handling, i was being somewhat comfortable and I was having a good impression within my team. I loved it. My happiness did not stay longer, when one night, my team leader approached me and said that, One of the customer had sent a survey on my name and her remark was that, She was not happy with me and I did not resolve her Issue. I was getting depressed. Tension could be seen through me. But Nancy patted me on my back and told that, that paricular call was handled well by me(she had recorderd the call and listened to it), Customer was not satisfied due to some other reason. Nancy talked to me for nearly half hour consoling me and telling me that I was the best and I could do well in coming days. Her words were so encouraging and I promised her that I will gfive my best shot in each and every call and would not let her and the team down.

Very soon all of my team members began taking calls and sitting in a bay we all enjoyed a lot along with Nancy. We would play pranks with each other, Go for short breaks all together. It was really fun all throughout. The entire 15 members of the team were like a single gang out there  and there were other teams too in the floor and there used to be cat-dog race between different teams taking team performance on account.

There was a team Leader named Nathan and his team was equally good like us. Our team and his team used to sit next to each other and used to have a cold war all the time based on the performance.We had to agree to the fact that Nathan's team had some good performers because of which some weeks they topped the Team stats and some weeks we managed to get above them. All in all there were many teams competing with each other, but beating Nathan's Team gave us more satisfaction.
On the other hand, The guys who were moved to the premanent posts were having tough time out there as their team Leader screwed them all the time(As told by some of my old training friends). That was really pleasing to hear after what has happened at the end of the training.

After a month we came to know that, most of the guys from temporary posts will be kicked out based on the performance and only few will be made permanent. And till date what we have seen over here. We were pretty much sure that, no performance will be the factor. Just wish you were a girl, you would make it in there.Lolzz..After this news , everyone felt the heat and tension could be seen on every faces. I was also nervous though my performance never went down. But here anything can happen. I could also feel that My team was getting the heat in a pretty different way. I could see a line being drawn in between the team. Untill now, there was no groupism within our Team which we were very proud of, but after this news everything changed. There was no team spirit. Everyone just had only one thought. Just make it to the top so that Managers can never ignore you while preparing the final list.

All enjoyment was dried out. But the group in which I was a part, we still had a great time with each other.We wanted to live every moment of our days in the company. We had a slogan within us and that was "BUSINESS ROCKS". This slogan just added flavour to our bondings. Well if you ask what does that slogan Mean.. Well Just forget It.. :P

We could see that, other part of my team were trying to impress Team Leaders and other Supervisors to the max so that they be considered during final listing. Well not to blame them, They have seen the politics happen at the end of the training days and they are just trying to survive here. But we did not try anything. We just performed to our level and waited things to happen in its own way. During those days Our team also planned a one night trip to some tourist place. Had a great time. There were very emotional moments during this trip. We had to talk on each others character. All in all it was a hell of a trip and it would be remebered by each and everyone of us forver, though there was indifferences between each other during these days.

After the trip, within few days, shorlisting of candidates begun and few of the team mates were kicked out in no time. Actually this was not only with my team..every team was going through this phase. Few days later I was called into a meeting. When I moved into the meeting room, I could see some of the process managers and many other like me in the room. Once everyone who were asked to come for meeting had arrived, the meeting begun.It was said in the meeting that those who are present in the meeting will be made permanent from next month. I was surprised. A bit happy for my own selection, but sad a lot because this selection means, the rest of my best buddies will be kicked out.

Very soon the news was out. It was also said that one more shortlisting will be done to move some more into the permanent position. Most of my best buddies had to meet the HR's on the same day and they were told to submit their ID cards. That day was supposed to be the last day with my team as from the next day, new team will be made for those who were made permanent. We could see the sadness in the face of most of the guys. My team had some of the best technical representatives. My stats were good. So my chances were high to move into permanent position. But apart from me there was a girl from my team who too  was moved into permanent position. That even shocked my team leader.

She was no were near to the level of professionalism and performance showed by some of the other representatives.No questions were asked. We knew some bad politics went unnoticed behind the scene. Nothing could be done. Had to accept it and move on. When the next shortlisting was done, my other best buddy named Abhay got through it. I was really happy knowing this. I have someone with me from the old buddy list. The thrill to work was gone after the resignation of all other best buddies of mine.
But somewere I expected that much more BPO sutras are still left to be explored, and I did explore it in the rest of my journey in this field.

The Last Three Months With  Yet Another Team

Check back to Read what happens with Me in this new team....(Will Be Continued...) 

230 NIGHTS @ THE CALL CENTER - 1

Well actually i was planning to write down something here since a long time. But the life after graduation. OMG.. Its driving me nuts.

Anyways am here back with something to share with you all.
Okay. You must be thinking What the "F" is the title of this post all about. Well, those who knows me well must have guessed it right what am I gonna share with you all.

Infact most of you might have read the novel from Chetan Bhagat titled "One night @ the Call Center". Well I am not gonna bore you with any of my stories here.Lol
Here I want to share with you all some precious moments of my life, actually 230 days of my life at the city of garden, Bangalore.

I was here in search of a job. Well when I say about the job, I remember about the three Job offers which I had received when I was doing my graduations, but none of the three MNC dared to take a peek into the lifes of these graduated freshers.

Anyways, let me not divert from the fact that I am here to share something about those 230 nights. Okay, Now that you have read so far, and had a good look into the title of this post, I needn't mention what was the job I finally landed into.

Those who are getting bored by the stuff over here, Please just get the hell out of here.Just Kidding. Its your time.Why should I be bothered of your time.Wohaaaah... Okay back to track.

One Month Of Training:

I was really exited about this job, Though this was not the right kind of job I must be doing.Anyways job is a job untill they pay me for what I am doing. Well, The first day was pretty cool. My training team was great. trainer too was great. I was loving this place.Did I mention that i was a graduate fresher.Well okay, I am a graduate fresher and this was my first professional exposure. So I was just enjoying pretty much in all ways.
Days of training were going incredibly great,Why shouldnt it be. The Client to which we are supposed to work after the one month of training was a huge name in the market.

We had few tests based on the training. Some were exceptionally good that they topped the tests in all means.
Did I mention that this company is a call center. yea.. the final test which we trainees had to undergo was MOCK CALLs, where we trainees had to attend the calls of some other trainers and the calls would be monitered by some other trainers and finally all these trainers would evaluate each trainee based on his performance.. few of my team members were having a charming faces as they had done exceptionally well..and few had dull faces, for the reason that you must have guessed it right.My face expressions were pretty much fifty fifty kind of.Lol. And these dull faces were of those charming girls who were supposed to be always charming being the fact that they are always charming. Hahaha..

But surprise surprise.... The Dull faces turns out to be charming and few charming faces turns out to be dull. You know why.. haha...the results are out and it seems like the great trainers liked the charming faces of girls so much that performances were not looked into but the charmness and the butteryness of few others were the basis of test evaluations.

This was the begining of so called politics in a professional world. We had to accept it. We have to move on. Well the one with the charming faces and buttery character were straightly moved into the respective positions and made permanent employees. And the rest of them were put into a temporary positions for three months.What about me? I am not a girl with the charm and ya...i dont have buttery soapy words flowing out of me for my trainers, so I am in the Temporary post.

The Three Months With  A New Team

Click HERE to read the second part.

Back Online !

Hi Friends.

As promised am here, back to the world of blogging.I know most of you might have had a thought in their minds that I might not return.But I had to.Its been eight plus months I have been away from the Blogging.I had given the reason for the same in my previous posts.

Working as Technical support representative for US Process, I was so busy with the Bangalore night life that I never got time to turn around to se whats happening arond.Yea, A lot of things has happened.Satyam Computer, the firm in which I was placed is no more.Unfortunates happened with this company and thus unfortunates happened with most of the Satyam freshers of 2008.Am one among them.Hopes are high for the bright future.Never get dejected.Be calm and composed on every aspects of life.If you are destined for success, then no one can stop you from acheiving it.

I wish all the 2008 freshers who are hit by the current recession, GOOD LUCK.

MESSAGE FROM ASLAM

Hi Friends
I am really sorry for not posting here for such a long time.Reasons are obvious.From my previous post you must have guessed what kept me so long from posting here.Anyways life's hectic.Am here at Bangalore.Working in one of the prestigious BPO.Though its a prestigious organization,feels not that good as this is not what i am supposed to do.Anyways hopes are high.Hopes from Satyam Computers are dead.But life will give me a second chance to bounce back.pray for me.
Will be back with full flow to the world of blogging.untill then Good Bye
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY READRES AND FRIENDS

A Step Towards My Career

Dear friends,
Before I pen down something which surely gonna bore you like hell,I would like to quote two famous inspirational ones:

The turning point, I think, was when I really realized that you can do it yourself. That you have to believe in you because sometimes that's the only person that does believe in your success but you.

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.

Well good one's right.Anyways I feel it so.
You might be wondered what is the step which am gonna take towards my career.Its nothing that great.Though into one or two IT firms,but the current IT slowdown has affected the companies so much that, we, the freshers are suffering with the delayed date of joining.Been waiting to get a call from the company from past 3 months.Yet no sign,But hopes are always high.And with the wishes of my beloved and loyal readers am surely gonna have a mark into one.
Oh sorry friends still I have not mentioned what is the step which  am gonna take now though I haven't got any call letter from the companies who recruited me an year back.After so much of wait and frustrations, now I have decided to move on.I have decided to land my foot into the IT City,Bangalore.As am electronics graduate my plans are to drop my resumes over some of the electronics and communication based firms.Who knows, If am that lucky enough to be shortlisted to appear for an interview.Then wonders can happen to my career.lols.
Ok Ok Ok am not going  any more deep into my career plans.I will be surely updating the happening around whenever I get time.
Till then I just have only one request from my friends and visitors to this blog,
WISH ME LUCK AND REMEMBER ME IN YOUR PRAYERS.
Thank You...

Think Twice If You Are Planning To Torture Someone With Your Free SMS

Hi friends,
In every part of the society you can find annoying creatures in the form of human beings.Please do note the stress which I give on the word 'annoying'.You can find it in your neighborhood too.They can be anyone.Your friends or neighbors or someone within your family.This person might be the one you hate the most in your life.Hate in the sense just a personal hatred.Nothing like enemity and all.Its just that the particular person is cursed by the god with such annoying character and the result is the person ending up to be your friend or someone you know well and you are here the ultimate sufferer.
Well no point in raising fingers at them or shouting or trying to avoid them.They are cursed by god with such annoying character and you with his company.Lolzzz.
If you still didn't get me what kind of person am talking about,then I would suggest you to watch the Bollywood movie BEJA FRY(Click the link to check out the movie wallpaper)
Here I would like to narrate an incident of such a kind of person.
He was my classmate in college days.He is someone whom everyone would try to avoid.A guy with extra ordinary looks.Smile always the one which can irritate you like anything.When something unusual happens in the class or if some one is made bully of,then he would be leading to make the situation worst and pull the victims leg.

This is the era of mobile freedom.Everyone posses a handset with them.So do our Mr.X.
He is the one who would never spend money without any specific purpose of him.So it can be expected that our Mr.X is never going to send any SMS without any purpose.But unfortunately due to the ever increasing competition between the mobile network service providers,these service provider came up with many attractive offers to its customers.One such offer was FREE LOCAL SMS for one month.
What next,Mr.X activated the offer and rest you can just assume.Every morning when I wake up,my Inbox will be filled with his good morning messages.First few days it was fine with me.But daily......
He didn't restrict himself to his daily morning wishes.There is no reason for him to send an sms.Whatever it is,he will just forward it to everyone.It was being difficult for me to sort out other important messages in my Inbox.Days passed away.His sms irritation continued.Requested to him many times.But he would just never care to listen.So something had to be done to teach him a lesson.
So me along with one of my friend once decided to plan something such that it must have serious effect on our Mr.X and his irritating behaviour.
And finally we both ended up with an experimental plan.And if it worked out it's gonna be just amazing.

It goes as follows-

It was an usual day.When I wake up usually the first thing I do is check my mobile for any message.But after Mr.X's sms torture I never take mobile along with me to the bed(If am not wrong most of you like me love to sleep with mobile right?)..Anyways I had to be positive to implement the plan decided a day before.I have a friend who has got a fancy mobile number of the same mobile service provider as of Mr.X.So what I did was explained my plan to that friend.And to bring a huge and awesome result of the experiment we had to try something extra along with it.I asked my friend with the fancy mobile number to call Mr.X as the customer care executive and tell him about the new offer they are providing and the new offer is like, If the customer recharges for 500 INR,he gets credited with double the talk time value of 500 INR recharge.It was also said to him that extra doubled talktime credits only after 30 days of the recharge.
Being from such a fancy mobile number and pure executive sound of my friend(Yea,he has an amazing talent to fool others with his talking skills),Mr.X is never going to think twice about the call and the offer made.Everything worked as per our plan.Call was made to Mr.X. He fell into the trap. I could see a new message blinking in my mobile display.I was sure it's him.And I was right.It was him describing how lucky he is that he got such an offer from his mobile service provider.Me and my friend just couldn't control our laughter.I informed about the success of our plans first phase to my other friend along with whom the plan was made.
Next phase has to be cautious.Slight foolishness from my side,the plan fails.I was fully determined.It was now or never situation to get rid of his tortures.
After 3 boring lectures it was the time for lunch break.I congratulated my friend for the wonderful recharge offer.He was indeed happy(How fool he is.I was thinking with a smile on my face).My intention was to somehow get his mobile in my hands for few minutes.And in this part of plan I used a girl(my good friend) of my class with whom Mr.X had the crush.He would never say no to her.Before he left to hostel for his lunch,this girl intervened and asked his mobile.She said she is getting bored and needs his mobile to play some game.Guess what,it worked.Once he was away.My role starts.I took the mobile from her and then did something which is going to stop Mr.X from sending such tortured sms's forever.What I did was I edited his contact list.I had a friend at US and in Gulf Countries and had mailed them about the incident and the plans.I changed my number in Mr.X's contact to my friend's US international number.Also randomly changed few contacts to whom he regularly sends sms to few of my friends who are at Dubai and Abhudabi.
What next.Everything was just normal.Returning back to home me and my friend were happy that we escaped from his tortures.We knew what the result is going to be.He had 850 INR balance in his mobile and since international sms would cost 5 INR/sms, his balance gonna finish in a day.And guess what,the plan was successful.He never came to know how everything happened.He was there helpless.When he contacted actual customer care executive,they informed him about the international sms.Meanwhile he found out the change in his contacts.But never was able to find who the culprit was.But he must have learned a lesson from this as after this incident none received any torturing sms from Mr.X.

So friends,do you have any such experiences with someone like Mr.X.
Do share here with me and other readers.
Thank You

LBSCE-ECE:2004-08

The group with which I spent my 4 valuable years of life.
ECE-2004-2008 Batch
LBSCE Kasaragod
Kerala
India

Ramzan wishes To All

Ramzan as you all must be knowing is considered to be the sacred month for the Islamic community.And yeah it is also considered to be the king of remaining 11 months in Islamic calender.This particular month has got that special status in a Muslim's life.The picture which come to everyone when we talk about Ramzan is Keeping fasts(thats is, wake up early morning[at around 4a.m]-->have break fast-->no food or water until evening-->finally have food[at around 6.30p.m]
Well thats true.But it doesn't mean starve yourself.The whole intention of fasting is to purify the inner soul of an individual.During fasting the individual devotes himself to the god,performs prayers,visits mosque and engage in holy activities.Thus its all meant to control the inner desire of an individual and thereafter have a sacred life, the next 11 months after Ramzan.

Fasting has many benefits for health as well.Many great health scholars too considered fasting as beneficial to health.It keeps you away from many dangerous diseases which are likely to take a chance upon you.Anyways am not here to explain about the medical benefits of Fasting.You can Google search it and have a clear idea about it.
Once again I wish everyone out here A Happy Holy Ramzan

CHEERS TO ASLAM'S BLOGBUZZ

Hello everyone.
I am very much glad to know that my posts on SATYAM COMPUTERS are getting daily targeted visitors via Google and Yahoo search engines.What else would be more pleasing to a blogger like me.FEEDJIT widget does reveal the same fact.Because of the current recession going on software field most of the IT firms are delaying their joining to the freshers they recruited a year back.Myself too is a victim of such delayed joining and am here doing blogging.The frustrated students are in dilemma whether to go for higher studies or wait for joining in these IT companies.Am really glad by the response i recieved for my posts on SATYAM COMPUTERS.Thanks to everyone for the support and help this blog top the google search engine for search items related to SATYAM COMPUTERS FRESHERS. This blog has a Google Pagerank of 1/10 which is indeed an achievement for my blog.And I am grateful to my loyal readers and the visitors who spend their valuable time over here.
CHEERS TO ALL!!!

PURSUIT OF HAPPyNESS

Well friends,
As you all might be knowing Pursuit Of Happiness is a wonderful Hollywood movie starring Will Smith. Will Smith is amazing as always.Actually a friend of mine when visited my home had this movie with him.It was long back then.He then advised me to watch the movie the same day.But due to ma sheer laziness I did not turn up that day.And after that I never remembered I had such a movie stored in my hard drive.But recently when I was just cleaning up ma drives i came across it.And since I had no other work i decided to give it a look.Well friends my friend was right.Its such an awesome movie.Shit...why the hell didn't I watch it long back.Am not here to review the movie,but the script is just awesome.It reveals the struggle of a man( a father and a husband) who lives a middle class life and shows his thrive to achieve success.For those who haven't watched this movie,I just wanna say,do watch it.

ORKUT..MOBILE..AND LOVE--Point Of No Return!!

TO READ FROM THE BEGINNING CLICK HERE
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"Hello!, what's going on your side," Rahul said as he jumped from the bed. "You know am almost dead."
"I can understand dear and infact these days without speaking to you was just like a hell for me." Preethi sounded as if she was crying.
"Oh common," Taking a long breath. "Now do tell me what happened to you."
"Well actually my mobile monthly bill and you can guess the rest,"Her voice trembled as she spoke. "Mom came to know about our daily long conversation and she took away my cell phone.Returned just today with a warning."
"Our long conversation....huh...." Rahul murmured.
"Why what happened, You don't believe me?"
"Nothing like that. Can I ask you one thing?"
"Ask me anything sweetheart..I love you and I missed you a loooooooooooot."
"Who is Rihan?"
"Rihan??" Preethi spoke as if she was confused. "He is my friend in orkut.But why are you asking about him to me that too now?"
"Just like that," Rahul continued. "You talk to him through phone regularly?"
"He used to ring me at sometimes.That's it.Anything wrong? You sound as if you are hiding something from me?" Preethi said.
"Do not lie to me for any reason dear.." Rahul sounded as though he was crying. "Please make it clear what's between you and Rihan?"
"Sweetheart. I just love you and Rihan is just my friend through orkut.Nothing else.That's all I can say to you." She firmed her tone.

And as usual Rahul believed whatever Preethi had said to him.The three words always did the magic on him and this time too.Rahul was the happiest in the world today.He got his Preethi back which he thought he had lost forever.


This time they had taken a decision.And that is not to have regular phone calls so that the same problem doesn't arise again.And from then on everything went normal.Rahul and Preethi started living their so called sweetheart relation.

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Rahul returned from the college.He took off his jacket and his shoes and loosened his tie.Logged into gmail to check some important mails regarding his placement in some MNC.Unexpectedly at that time he got the call from Preethi.

"Hello my dear." He turned of the computer.
"Hi dear"
"So how was the day,How come at this time you call me?" asked Rahul.
"Days good.I need to talk to you one important mater." said Preethi.
"I know you love me."
"Please be serious" She said "You know Rihan right?"
"Yea your so called orkut friend." Rahul said casually. "What's up with him?"
"He proposed me today.." She said.
"Well if you speak so sweetly to everyone,anyone would fall in love with my dear. Poor Rihan..." He said kiddingly giggling all the way as he spoke.
"Why poor Rihan?" She asked.
"You must have broke his heart by rejecting his proposal." Rahul continued to giggle.
"I did not reject his proposal,neither did i accept." She said briskly.
"What..what do you mean by that..? The giggle was no more now from him.
"I mean..I said.." Giving a short pause. "I need time to decide."
"What the hell," He shrugged. "What's there to decide in it.You love me,I love you.
You just have to say no to him.So simple."
"It's not that simple for me.I just can't do that to him." She said.
"Why dear.What's wrong with you?" His voice was low now. "What happened to you."
"Rahul I love you very much and I expect you to understand me." She said. "Rihan, he loves me more than anything.I can't break his heart just like that."
"So what's in it..I love you more than my life.Doesn't that matter to you?" His heart pounded like an engine. "You surely gonna say no to him.then why make a delay dear."
"I don't know." She said.
"Do you love him?" Rahul asked.
"No I don't" She said.
"Well dear,that's it," Comforting himself he said. "Just say no to him."
"Sorry.I just can't say no to Rihan.Why don't you understand me. I don't want to hurt the poor guy by rejecting him." She said.
"What do you mean you don't want to hurt Rihan.You sound so different dear." Rahul fell on his knees.Tears rolled down his eyes.Everything went dark for him.He collapsed.
"I will call you back, Bye" Preethi dropped the call.

Rahul was nowhere now.sweat rolled down his forehead,his breath lost the rhythm.He felt so lonely in the dark room.Tears rolled down his cheeks and dropped into the floor.He sat there watching those liquids.
He couldn't wait longer.He rang back.But the call was on call waiting.He tried calling her later.But then the phone was switched off.Loneliness took over him.He didn't feel like having his dinner.He went to bed empty stomach.He couldn't sleep well.He woke up early and before Preethi's school timings he tried calling her.But then again the call was on waiting.
Rahul collapsed.He didn't know what to do.He just sat there on sofa lost in his thoughts,when suddenly his cell phone rang.

"Rahul..."It was Preethi.She was crying.
"Yea.So what's going on.Busy all the time." Rahul said.
"Actually I made the biggest blunder of my life." She said controlling her shaky voice.
"Blunder,What do you mean?" Rahul asked.
"You know na I love you and you too love me..right?" She said.
"Ofcourse I love you" Rahul replied.
"Fine.Then I hope you understand me."
"What's matter.Everything fine with you?" Rahul asked.His sound was sore.
"I accepted Rihan's Proposal.Poor thing was very much down to earth as I didn't give him any positive reply yesterday." She said.
"Please.." Rahul was confused. "Do not joke."
"I am not joking Rahul," She said. "I expect you to understand me and accept whatever it is."
"You mean to say, you love me and still accept his proposal.That bloody doesn't make any sense." Rahul shouted anguishly.
"Whatever you say," Preethi sounded differently. "I don't want to hurt Rihan in this matter.I have accepted his proposal and am bound to be his girlfriend from now on.And you Rahul..Well you have to understand it."
"Yea ...i have to understand it." Rahul murmured.
"You will have to forget me now." She continued.
"Can you forget me ?" Rahul fired the question back.
"That doesn't make any difference now.You have to forget me and move on in your life.forget everything which was between us.And am really sorry for this.i never expected this day to come." She spoke briskly and harshly.
"Will you be able to love Rihan?" Rahul asked.
"I will try..Infact i have to. He loves me so much you know." She replied.
"What about my love for you?" Rahul was full of questions.
"Please Rahul." She said. "No use of talking about that anymore.
"What about the promise which we made to maintain our sweetheart relation forever." Rahul's questions continued.
"No more sweetheart relation.You have to forget it and everything.Bye forever." And she dropped the call.

Rahul was nomore.He was similar to dead.The beautiful dream which he lived was nomore.Everything that made up Rahul disappeared from him.His smartness,his excellence in studies and sports,everything moved away from him.Or in other sense it can also be said that Rahul moved away from all these.

Days passed.Rahul didn't change.Always lost in his thoughts.Karan and Sangeetha tried their maximum to bring back the old happy go lucky Rahul to them.But all efforts in vain...

All these incidents seriously affected Rahul's life very much.he couldn't make a pass in two theory exams he wrote those days.And because of this is appointment in a major MNC was canceled.H is yet to complete his masters degree by clearing those two exams and still living a hopeless life.

(The End)

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For such a response from Preethi, Rahul never had any answer.Thus he too continued their long conversation everyday.This daily conversation turned out to be very special for both of them.They couldn't even imagine a day without talking to each other.It was like a dream for them.They named this special relation as 'sweetheart relation' in which they promised to maintain this relation for ever.

It was not the same always.Some time there used to be problem.Most of the time Rahul tried calling Preethi,her call used to be on call waiting.And this used to continue for a long duration.This made Rahul go mad.He was being more possessive on her.Every time he queried about those long call waiting's,she used say that it was her classmate.
And Rahul believed her every time.Now what's there not to believe in it.Preethi could never lie to him.It was such a special relation after all.Exams were going on for Rahul and he was living his best days of his life.

One fine morning he was there expecting a call from Preethi as usual.But it turned out to be an endless wait for him.He waited till evening and when there was no call still,he thought to ring her back finally.

But alas...her cell was switched off all the time he tried.Rahul got worried about her.He even didn't have internet connection so that he could expect some scraps from her.Meanwhile he tried Karan.

"Hello...Karan"
"Yupp...How's studies bro?"
"Well..Leave studies apart," Rahul said in a hurry. "You must help me out"
"What's the matter.Everything fine?"
"You know Preethi...?" Rahul's tone was low.
"Yea...Your hunny bunny booo" Karan made it sound funny.
"Please dude," relaxing in the armchair. "Listen to me."
"yea.."
"Her cell is switched of all the time." He raised from the chair and walked towards his dad's room. "Can you do me a favour?"
"Anything for you my friend." Karan tried to calm down Rahul.
"Well here's my Orkut username and password.You have to check if Preethi has left any message for me.Please make it fast." He popped a cigarette which was lying on his dad's table.Tension showed in his face.he never smoked before.
"You don' worry," Karan said. "I will check out and ring you back..You please calm yourself." He sounded more caring this time.

After checking through orkut,Karan called Rahul back.
"Rahul..a bad news for you." His sound was low.
"Wassup man..make it clear." Rahul trembled.
"No scraps for you from her side"
"Damn..How the hell am I gonna know what's going on." Inexperience in smoking made him choke.
"Dude relax..There is lot more you must know." Karan quickened through his dialogue.
"Lot more?, What exactly do you mean." Crushing the cigarette under his shoes.
"I mean, she was online few hours back." Karan said.
"How can you tell that for sure," his voice was shivering. "If she was online,she would have surely left me a message."
"I don't know all those things,but she was online few hours back and that is for sure," Karan sounded a bit harsh. "tell me who is this Rihan?"
"Rihan???" Throwing himself to the corner of the room. "I don't know."
"Then listen..there was a scrap in Preethi's page from the guy named Rihan and it said 'Hey sweet heart,Please take care of yourself' "Karan said. "And when I checked Rihan's scrapbook,there i saw Preethi's scrap and it read, 'hey Rihan,Am in little trouble.Mom came to know about our daily long conversation through the mobile bill.Will tell you everything in detail once everything is sorted out.' "
"Rihan...Long conversation...I don't understand." Rahul almost lost in his thoughts.
Moments of Preethi's call waiting's flashed backed through his tired braincells.
"Even I don't understand too.I have always warned you not to commit yourself into any sort of online relations.Now you get to see.Now forget it and study for your exams." Karan said.
"See you tomorrow for exam.Bye" Rahul disconnected the call.

'If she can scrap a guy called Rihan about her current damn situation,then why the hell she didn't bother to inform me.' The very thought made him go mad.He lit another cigarette.tears rolled down his eyes.His head was heavy.He sat there for next three hours lost in thoughts.

It was his last exam.He couldn't do well.Infact he didn't have any hopes to clear it.Lying on the bed that evening,he was giving flashbacks to his thoughts when suddenly his cell phone rang.It was she,Preethi.

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ORKUT..MOBILE..AND LOVE --2

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It was during his school days.He was in 11th grade.Though he was new to school,with his cricketing talent he managed to get a place in school cricket team and in no time he was selected as the vise-captain.Rahul's school team appeared to be the state champions and hence qualified for the regional level inter school cricket tournament which was to be held at Modern High School,Bangalore.Almost all the school team which participated in this tournament were best amongst their state and also were given immense coaching.But Rahul's school team lacked any coaching and also the team was bit inexperienced while compared to other teams.So hopes were less from this team.Almost every other match they played,faced defeat with a huge margin.But Rahul's individual performance showed a lot improvement.With his brilliant bating performance he won the hearts of many spectators.And among these spectators was a group of girls from the hosting school.Almost all the girls in the group were charming and good looking.Their looks can catch the eyes of any player out there.And amongst that group there was a girl with cute smile and the most good looking amongst the group.She was present for every match Rahul's team played.She passed smiles to Rahul and he would just wonder if it's reality.But he could never gather courage to speak to her.He always suffered from the so called starting problem.Matches by matches,Rahul's team just faced defeat from the opposition and finally they couldn't qualify for the quarter finals.So they had to pack their bags.It was the last day of the tour.Rahul's eye was searching for that angel but she was no where.Then Rahul realized how much he liked her and was dumb enough not to make the first move.There he was in the bus way back to home.
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So that was Rahul's first crush of life.And lying on the bed thinking about the beautiful girl about whom he knew nothing brought a kind of smile over his face.

'Why don't I search for that girl in Orkut' Rahul thought for a moment and there he was infront of his lap-top connected to orkut busy searching for Modern High School Bangalore community.There it is with 1000 plus members.But how to search for the girl about whom he knew nothing.Still Rahul thought to give it a try.He created a new thread in the forum in which he wrote about himself and the regional cricket match held in that school in 2003.

Few days passed.But Rahul did not find even a single response to his thread.He felt helpless.His try didn't yield him any result.So he killed all his hopes of getting in touch with his first crush.

One Sunday morning when he logged into his orkut account he was surprised to see reply to his thread in that school's community.Hopes started building within himself because the reply was from a girl with name Preethi.He slowly read the reply.

'Hi Rahul...So in search of your dream girl.Well all the best'

Rahul checked out her profile.She was at present in her 12th grade in that school.And this meant that it wasn't the same girl he was searching for.But still Rahul felt like sending a friend request to her and knowing her.Somewhere in him,there was a hope that through this girl he could find his destination.And he then sent a scrap to her. 'Hi Preethi...Thanks for the wish'
For his surprise she was online the same time and she replied him back.Thus with few scrap exchanges they came to know about a lot to each other.
Everyday evening they used be online the same time and used to chat for long.Thus they felt a strong friendship building in between them.Their this online chatting through scraps continued for a month and one evening they were chatting as usual.But this day there was something different.

Rahul: Hi dear.how you?
Preethi: Am fine my dear.So how was the day?
Rahul: Day was as usual.Fed up with studies actually!!!
Preethi: Well studies are always boring na....
Rahul: Dear, I wanna tell you something
Preethi: Ya tell me
Rahul: My exams gonna kick start in a week and my internet connection gonna expire today.So next i can be online is after my exams.Most probably after a month or so.
Preethi: Oh no...I gonna miss you a lot
Rahul: I will miss you too a lot dear.But ya,Though we won't be in touch for a month or so,never ever forget this orkut friend of yours.
Preethi: Well..I can't say that for sure.If we are not in touch then I may forget you..sorry I can't help it
Rahul: Oh common dear.Please understand baby.You know my problem.Please don't do it.
Preethi: Then there must be some way we can be in touch.Can't you think of any... you dumbo.
Rahul: You mean to say...I mean do you expect me to ask you for your contact number ?
Preethi: What else can be other alternative my stupid idiotic friend.Scrap down your contact number.I will ring you tonight.
Rahul: 09895198951
Preethi: Okies.... will call you up tonight
Rahul: Thanks dear...Gotta go..Has to study a lot...Bye take care
Preethi: Study well.Take care :)

That night as promised Preethi called him.Thus for the first time they heard each others voice.Indeed it was special for both of them.And thus there began a new episode in their life.
Preethi rang Rahul everyday morning,evening infact whenever she managed to get time.She liked speaking to Rahul all the time.Rahul too did.But he was little worried about this daily long conversation.After all it was an s.t.d call.Rahul tried explaining her the matter.But she never cared for any consequences.She just knew that she liked talking to Rahul and bothered nothing else.

Once when Rahul tried explaining her about the real consequence she just shouted at him saying,

'It's my cell phone,Am calling you,Am gonna pay the bill and face all the consequence,so you need not worry about anything..Or Is it you don't like speaking to me? '

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Rahul couldn't sleep well last night.He was in a daze of what's going to happen the next day.It was a much awaiting day for him.
Rahul,a final year MBA student always desired to own a personal computer and after his brilliant performance in BBM Degree examination, his dad had promised to buy him a lap-top.And tomorrow is the day.The mere thought of having a personal lap-top made his night the longest.Thinking of his new lap-top he never realized when actually sleep overtook him.

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It was a warm day.Rahul and his dad just had no idea which computer dealer to approach.they were new to the town.
'hey dude, Do you know any good computer shop here at Ramoji bazaar.I am not able to figure out any' Rahul inquired with Karan over his cellphone.

Karan is Rahul's best friend as well as his project partner.It was Karan who all the way took risk of intervening with college seniors when Rahul was being ragged.From then on,they both are real best friends.

'Electronix Mart, near to central Post Office.Check out.They deal with best systems and ya, forget not a big treat for the new lappy..hahaha'

Finally after a lot of search and analysis,Rahul selected a lap-top with best configuration which didn't trouble his dad's budget too much.

'Wazzup Rahul, Up with an brand new Lappy...congrats dear' It was Sangeetha.Rahul's classmate and a good friend.Infact Rahul had good company only with Karan and Sangeetha in the college.


'So any plans to have internet connection dude'
'Oh yea Karan,dad has already applied for Wireless Land Line(WLL) connection and expects to get the connection in a day or two'
'That's pretty cool.WLL will offer you a pretty good upload and download speed.I used it few months back before I switched over to BSNL broadband' Said Sangeetha.
'And ya do remember to sign up with ORKUT,India's fastest growing social network.Its awesome man.You would love it for sure' added Sangeetha.

It was a Tuesday morning and college was off due to some accreditation works.

'Rahul, Am leaving for my office.Be at home all the day.BSNL officials may come up any time to provide the internet connection' Shouted Rahul's dad from the downstairs.

That night Rahul was really exited. Sangeetha had told him about orkut.He had also heard about this site from many of his other friends too.So the very first URL which Rahul entered in the address bar of Mozilla Firefox was www.orkut.com
He soon created a gmail account and registered for the orkut account.There he was with his orkut profile. 0 friends, 0 scraps, 0 communities.He browsed through a lot of categories and since he was a quick learner he pretty well understood what the site is all about.He searched for his old school friends.And was surprised to find the profiles of almost everyone in this vast network.Also he joined some of the communities like Indian Cricket, friends, Ramoji bazaar etc.That night he slept late.He had a wonderful experience of being online for more than 6 hours continuously and chatting with few of his old friends.He woke up late the following day.Dad had already left to his office.He was not in a hurry to reach the college in the morning session as the session was meant for seminar research works.So he thought of having small nap for little more time.

Almost each and every individual must have had their first crush in their life.
Rahul was no different.....


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THE WAIT UNLIMITED

This is tiring,This is taunting.....What is this "This"....?
This is the so called WAIT.Wait in any sense can be tiring and taunting.
For example,You are in a rush to reach somewhere along with your friend and you are waiting for your friend at some place.And then what,he is not in time..Its 10 minute past the decided time..You still wait....its 20 minutes past...This is too much now.You ring him..He says he is on the way.....How would you feel..frustrating right?
Indeed it is.I personally have faced this situation with one of my best friend.He is a perfect late comer.Disgusting....



But today what made me write about this "WAIT"..what am i waiting for now.Well I have completed my graduation and now am supposed to be in some software or hardware firm.I was selected to three software firm last year.And I expected a joining once i completed my graduation.But nay...They say they will call.But when the hell are they going to call.Some say software market is down currently.But how long are they going to keep us waiting.Now this is again tiring, and taunting too.
The only one thing which I possess now is a big hope :) what else ...
And there is another hope too.And that is hope of many graduates still awaiting like me.And that gives some satisfaction to me as am not only the one in this long list of waiting.

Have a nice time

THE BRICK

Hi Friends.
Here am once again sharing with you a wonderful story with a good moral value.Do read it completely by clicking "READ FULL POST" at the end.
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A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down,when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jaguar's side door!
He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jaguar back to the spot where the brick had been thrown. The angry executive then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against a parked car shouting, 'What was that all about and who are you? Just what the hell are you doing? That's a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?'
The young boy was apologetic. 'Please, mister...please, I'm sorry but I didn't know what else to do,' He pleaded.
'I threw the brick because no one else would stop...'
With tears dripping down his face and off his chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car.
'It's my brother' he said
'He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up.'
Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, 'Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me.'
Moved beyond words, the executive tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything was going to be okay.
'Thank you and may God bless you,' the grateful child told the stranger.
Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy! push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home.
It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was very noticeable, but the executive never bothered to repair the dented side door. He kept the dent there to remind him of this message:

'Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!'

God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts. Sometimes when we don't have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at us. It's our choice to listen or not.

Thought for the Day:....

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.

He sends you flowers every spring.

He sends you a sunrise every morning Face it, friend - He is crazy about you!

God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

Read this line very slowly and let it sink in...

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.


note:-This story is not my work.i don't take any credits for this moral story.