Last couple of days have been a mixed bag for me. After a lot of planning I could finally take a break from my not so hectic schedule( I have seen worser days) and what a break it has been. I first decided to take a train to Mumbai. Bangalore to Mumbai is a full 24 hours train journey. It took me back to my college days where I would travel for 52 hours to reach home from college.The only thing you could do was sleep ,eat and sleep again. Well hats off to Laloo ( and his team at rail mantralaya) trains are comfortable and cleaner. And with functional charging points available in plenty, I could very well enjoy long stored movies on my laptop, a good amount of sleep and treat myself to some greasy but tasty grub which they sell in the trains .
With crude hitting new highs every other day , the airlines tickets are becoming more and more expensive by day. That’s still OK when you compare the time taken to travel but when it comes to flying out of Bangalore I would prefer taking a train for shorter journeys. It takes approximately two and half hours from my place to the airport. It makes no sense to fly to places like Chennai, Hyderabad and Mangalore .I was wondering why can’t we have a dedicated rail track to Airport from the City railway station. We can have check in counters at the railway station itself. Imagine you can go to the railway station, check in there, hop on to a train and reach the airport in less then an hour. And also imagine the amount of fuel saving possible.
Anyway before I digress further, the main reason why I am off blogging is the painfully slow and intermittent connectivity offered by my reliance data card. This is the second time I got taken in by this piece of s*** sold by Reliance under the garb uninterrupted connectivity. Couple of things which I have observed with Reliance. They are very prompt when it comes to reminding you to pay your bill. They will never mail you the bills and expect you to pay on time.Its only when the due date is over they will inundate you with reminder calls and SMSes. It has the worst customer care you will ever come across. Nothing gets resolved there ,its just that you end up wasting your time and keep talking to some ten different people every-time you call them.
Well till I get back to my regular broadband, I will have to bear with this and so will I be (Off and On)-line , at the mercy of datacard.So before I get disconnected again, I am hitting the publish button.
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