Time Warner Sucks!

I am exasperated after India won the World 20-20 cricket championship...can't believe that myself!! All credit for this goes to Time Warner for their :|.....they ruined my special day!

Monopolies suck and companies that misuse their power suck even more.. I really don't understand how FCC even allows monopolies like Time Warner to exist..they don't care for their customers, hardly fix any problems (They send technicians who are no good :( )...and they make you wait forever on the phone call...their internal departments dont talk to each other...customer service and complaints are "totally alienated" from each other (wonder how they can even exist separately!!)...and moreover no proper channel for escalation..so if you have a problem, you shout, vent out your anger and then curse your fate for having fallen into Time Warner's domain..Unfortunately for me, I live in an apartment and use a VOIP phone making it difficult for me to elect FIOS/DSL .. one not possible and the other doesn't make practical sense..if I had the option, I would have left Time Warner a long time back....

I just have a very simple erratic problem!!! Time Warner drops my cable modem signal intermittently every afternoon...duration for drops sometimes run into hours...imagine yourself VPN'ing into your office network..all you will see in the afternoon is HELL!!! I have had atleast 10 tickets open in the last 2-3 months and no resolution yet...After talking sweetly, sternly, angrily, pathetically and now madly, no resolution yet....All kinds of people were supposed to call, but nobody really does...I have no special equipment at home..don't even have a flat screen TV!! and yet have this problem...no digital cable ofcourse...shouldn't it just be simple? Come over, check wires, modem (already replaced by them), external wires and then fix? Wonder where they get all their service agents from...nobody has a clue...I am writing out of frustration and realize that there will be no resolution because I live in a MONOPOLISTIC world!!!!!!!!!! People say all kinds of things about Microsoft..call them all kinds of things...but, what about Time Warner? I think they deserve a lot more hatred...they surely have all of mine!! Hope FCC wakes up and does something about this..this is not how businesses are run...

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Hyderabad hell

Hyderabad was jannat, a paradise to me...it still is, will always be, but people are hell bent upon breaking hell into the hearts of the dwellers in Hyderabad :(. They are hell bent upon breaking the back bone of a city that gets better and richer every single day. Richer in cultural diversity, heritage (preservation too) and all it's ethnic roots...It's a place where pizzas and Hyderabadi biryani are equally savored (well ofcourse Biryani is the best!!)...panipuris and puffs are guzzled in the millions every day...it is so cosmopolitan, modern and still very "traditional"....I am a Hyderabadi and love my city, but I really wonder how these "few" others couldn't! Wonder how they can live a life of murder and chaos after being an integral part of something so divine....

Personally, I have very fond memories of going to Gokul Chaat and Lumbini (both these places were targetted). I have some very strong memories associated with them. Gokul Chaat was frequented all throughout my Engineering days..infact, it was on my way home and I remember going there atleast a 1000 times! We used to sell textbooks and eat in Gokul chaat...such was our liking for that place! And now, somebody does this? People new to the city wouldn't know about Gokul Chaat because it is not a pompous place and nothing to be talked about in terms of interiors etc..It was and is a little known secret for "city dwellers"...anybody targeting that place has to be from the city...how sick!! you inflict an injury on your own mother! how very sick!!!!

So what can we do about such attacks? cower in fear? well, that would spell success for the terrorists, isn't it? What else then? Well, all I can say is that it is time to responsible and aware of your surroundings....look out for suspicious people, suspicious activities and for heavens sake SPEAK UP!! atleast, folks from Old City where all links to this terror seem to be emanating from....and please don't make my city a POLITICAL selling point!! Hear it, Congress, BJP, TDP! Work together and save the city..Do one nice thing in your lives and give my jannat back to me :(...was really hurt when my mother who has almost lived there forever said that people including herself were living in fear....that's not how I saw my city and that's not how I see it...Please be conscious and let's all play a role and nab these wrongdoers !!!!

Kumbhakarna wakes up

To those of you that don't know Kumbhakarna, Kumbhakarna is a very interesting character in the great Hindu epic Ramayana. He was the brother of Ravanasura (asura meaning a rakshasha, a demon). Being the brother of an asura, he was an asura himself, but that's not what made him interesting...he had this special lifestyle of sleeping for 6 months in a year on the stretch and eating for the next 6 months! That was his life :). I am sure it sounds interesting now...He was powerful and had was devoted to his brother (this eventually brought him down when he had to fight Lord Rama who was fighting against Ravana).

The name Kumbhakarna itself appears to be cleverly coined as karna means "ears" and kumbha means "pitcher". The name Kumbhakarna, therefore, is symbolic of man at the end of kaliyug, when his motive is to simply eat all day and sleep all night without any motivation or remembrance of God. It means that when God descends to impart the knowledge of the Gita, most people would be in the deep sleep of ignorance as illustrated by Kumbhakarna. The knowledge given will be heard with their ears, but they will not be able to imbibe and inculcate the same. The knowledge will reverberate as it did in the pitcher-like ears of Kumbhakarna and not be absorbed by those who receive this knowledge. Mythologies are good, every story has a deeper meaning associated with it..unfortunately not many (including me) have read them enough!

Anyways, back to my title...well, I called myself Kumbhakarna but am really not as bad as him....I had taken a "lonnnnnngggg" sabbatical from Blogging because I was trying to show more devotion towards my brother, my work...Food, I always love, don't eat for 6 months but sure do dream about it for that long :P...nyways I will cut down my devotion for my brother (Good excuse, huh!) and get back to the Blogging world..I really haven't been doing a lot of things that I would like to....high time I get back to this world..

Life always gets busy, but it's up to oneself to make it better!