Party-Presentation-Engagement and a broken connection

March 14th, 2005 at 09:56am

Party-Presentation-Engagement and a broken connection…are the words that summarize my weekend :)

I would say this week end was very hectic…. its passed over like a breeze. What did I do? hell lot of things!. Saturday, we had a computer awareness session in the office for security guards. It was a small intro kind of a session telling them the basics of computers. We also told them about the uses of computers, MS Word..etc.

Had a haircut in the afternoon, and then I had to work on a presentation for my uncle. Had to scan some photos, and design a PowerPoint template etc. In the evening, we had to go for the birthday party of chitra’s 4 yr old cousin niece @ chitra’s house. After the cake cutting, our entire family gang went out for dinner @ The Maharaja.

The Maharaja is a pretty good restaurant in Mangalore, specially if you like spicy non-veg. My favorite food there is chicken ghee roast! :) hmm…. Anyway.. do visit it to get a taste of it. Our crowd was of around 30 people, and we did make hell lot of noise. We had a full hall kind of booked for us. And other people would just peep in the hall, and move out to other location after seeing what is happening inside… Finally, everything went on smoothly, and we were back home by 10.30PM. I had to work on the PPTs, but just could not sit in front of the machine. So, crashed off to bed.

Sunday morning again, started working on the PPTs, and they finally got some shape. Afternoon, we had to go to Puttur to attend an engagement function. 1 hr drive. Attended the function, and got back to Mangalore by around 8 PM. One more stretch on the PPT, and finally finished it off at around 11 PM, with all the photographs, graphs etc. Burn the PPTs on the CD, and slept.

One stupid thing that happened over the weekend was, my touchtel (Airtel) broadband connection was down. I guess, this happened somewhere around Sunday noon. The land line was dead, and upon investigation I could find some wires broken nearby which were exposed to the entire world. According to airtel folks, the wire should be dug in deep inside. But, this is sheer negligence on their part. I have raised a complaint, but since it was Sunday, they did not have anyone to repair it. I hope it would be repaired by today EOD.

So, yesterday, I had to connect to the net using the old dialup method :)..and it sucks :).. My BSNL account had also expired, so I was forced to use the NET-ONE service of BSNL. Anyway.. it was kind of a life saver,… I could atleast check my mails!

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