Fudge » Screwed Up! http://www.fudge.co.in Dosent it make you hungry ? Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:37:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Technologically Broken Place http://www.fudge.co.in/2007/01/28/technologically-broken-place/ http://www.fudge.co.in/2007/01/28/technologically-broken-place/#comments Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:16:27 +0000 Aman Yajurvedi http://www.fudge.co.in/2007/01/28/technologically-broken-place/ In the age of advancing technology, the capital lags behind disgracefully. If there is one thing I hate about the capital is the fact it is so technologically rotten. My personal experience has been utterly horrid. To get a decent broadband connection, it has taken me 2 years and I am stuck typing this article on a a dial up !
Here a few things I noticed about the various connections.

MTNL Triband

  • Overly expensive
  • Not worth the money
  • Pathetic customer support and don’t expect it to work in areas with bad telephone lines

    • Local Cable Connection

  • Erratic (I once got 200 KBps on a 64 Kbps line)
  • Cant get overly frustrating (expect a few things on your house to break)
  • Again no customer support

    • Dial-Up

  • Consistent
  • No Disconnections !
  • Slow

    • Well well well, So I guess you know which connection to choose ! ;)
    The problem with most of the local broadband connections like Sify, Airtel and others is the lack of coverage area. MTNL which is a government run organization is taking over small and new pvt. sector companies in the hope to build a good infrastructure. I still await for the results. Oh and the irony, the I&B minister says ” 2007 is the year of broadband and internet ! ” :D

    ]]>     http://www.fudge.co.in/2007/01/28/technologically-broken-place/feed/ 10     Day of Errors http://www.fudge.co.in/2006/08/11/day-of-errors/ http://www.fudge.co.in/2006/08/11/day-of-errors/#comments Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:29:26 +0000 Aman Yajurvedi http://www.fudge.co.in/?p=6 Life is not a bed of roses and some days can be worse than a cactus. Hasn’t it happened to you have you have exclaimed “Damn! Today is just not my day! ” Well today was my bad day. Evrything i did went wrong and every plan failed. It all started with my great plan to bunk school and watch a movie. It was the Shah Rukh Khan starter blockbuster, Kabhi Aldiva Naa Kehan. I have an exam coming up shortly so my parents advised me to wait ; but I couldn’t wait for 10 long days to watch it – so the plan. Now the movie has generated lot of hype and tickets were all for grab! I thus asked my brother to book the tickets three days in advance. We fortunately got the tickets and were set to go ! Now here is where the fun begins, I had my inter house basket ball match the same day and my friend asked me to stay. I told him I could wait till 10:45 as the show starts at 11:!5 and i cant miss the opportunity. So I went on the morning of 11 the august , the eventful Friday, I got up in the morning and went to school normally as if I have an important basketball match. I wore my basketball shoes thinking the school authorities wouldn’t mind as I had a game. When I reached school I realized the matches had been pushed up during the day so has to accommodate some studying periods before ! Shoot ! I hade to leave before 10:45 and was hoping to play the first match .Now during the assembly the teachers decided to hold a special no-excuse, no-nonsense checking! I got caught for my wrong shoes, which I never have , and the sports teachers was not going to let us go easy. He wrote our names and said we wouldn’t be allowed to play the matches. I went and talked to the school captian and requested him to butter him up a little and tell him to excuse us. He did so and we gave an apology letter by the second period and he let us go. Next we went for our basket ball practice and the second sports teacher caught me this time. He ranted about me wearing some wrong shirt it was actually a white shirt made blue and had the school logo badly aligned). Thankfully he let me off without creating a scene. After our practice we decide to take a break and rest till the matches began and I decided to give my brother a call to check up on the plans. So I borrowed my friends cell and was calling up my brother’s cell when another sports teacher(female) saw me this time. “Okay beta , hand over the cell !” What the f***! What is it with these sports teachers?? My friend was not looking too happy and we decide to follow her and plead her. She sat there enjoying all the pleads but didn’t give the cell. I had had enough , I was leaving school !
    I quickly forged out a fake letter on behalf of my parents requesting me to attend school only for half a day and got it signed from the class teacher. He thankfully bought it and did not say anything. Just as I leaving the classroom he called me back and said “Hey , get that note signed from the principal , just in case !”Oh no!! No choice , I went to him expecting the worst … Fortunately he was busy so I asked the peon to go in and quickly get it signed. He came out after two minutes and handed me the note , duly signed( or shall I say scribbled ) by the principal. I managed to make contact with my brother from the pay phone and he was going to pick me up at 10:45 . He was on time and we were soon on are way to watch the movie ! Well the movie was great (totally worth the trouble) but that’s another story. As we were headed back home the car broke down in the middle of the crowded Vasant Vihar street ! OMG ! I hurriedly got out of the car and pushed it to the corner. The problem was diagnosed as no petrol and my brother went and bought some. We resume our journey and ‘lo the cell begin to ring. I answered it ; it was my mom . She was surprised that I was with my brother. I told her that I had gotten late because of the Basketball match and he was picking me up. So I finnaly reached home at 3:15 in the afternoon and had my lunch without anymore question being raised. Gosh what’s next ?

    ]]>     http://www.fudge.co.in/2006/08/11/day-of-errors/feed/ 2     Blog Gone Topsy-Turvy http://www.fudge.co.in/2006/07/08/blog-gone-topsy-turvy/ http://www.fudge.co.in/2006/07/08/blog-gone-topsy-turvy/#comments Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:33:07 +0000 Aman Yajurvedi http://www.fudge.co.in/?p=9 The Blog is under going lot of changes in terms of design and functionability ! I dont get time to work on it and my friends have been overgenourous and helped me as far as possible .
    So I would like to apologise for any inconvenience faced while browsing and for not updating the blog often.
    After 20th I promise the blog will be much better !
    CHeers :D

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