I dont know if you people remember Surender Sharma, the stand-up comedian, But I met and heard him live today. I dunno if he has grown old or our taste of humour has changed, but he wasnt THAT great as I remember he used to be.
Though he looked the same and most of his jokes were aimed at the ‘better-halves’, the spark that used to be there was missing.
Another thing that wasnt as great as I thought it to be when it turned into a reality.
I hardly ever scrutanize the bill. I just see the amount, fill in the cheque and pay it. Thats it. But my dad has the habit of going through its details, which I now know why!
In my current bill, they have levied “CLIP scheme” charges. I havent applied for any such scheme, neither did I request them to activate this service for my phone. On my dad’s insistance I called up the customer care to have a sweet word with them.
Their executive had the nerve to tell me that the company started with the scheme and decided to charge me for it on its own, regardless of whether I am interested in availaing such a service or not. And even if they began the service and provided it to me, I was never intimated of such service being available in the first place. What if tommorow Airtel decides to provide international calling facility and starts charging me extra rental for that even if I dont want it? Why should I pay for it!!
I went to this chinese restraunt on friday with great expectations only to be highly disappointed with their service. And yeah, the food didnt taste any great either.
Well, the beginning itself was a reflection of what was instore for us for lunch. We had ordered for drinks and the waiter did arrive with the right ones, but brought them in his hands. Seems like they just ran out of trays. Moving further, we had to remind them 3 times for a drink that we ordered again. Such well known restraunt and they didnt give us napkins, but cheap tissue papers. This was a complete put off for me.
I know half of you (infact more than that) would be wondering where the hell is that?
Well it seems they have a branch there in tamil nadu which their system search simply refuses to recognise. Today I went to them to get a DD made which would be payable at Karaikudi. But was shocked when was refused by their executive on the context that they dont have a branch there. Fortunately unfortunately, I had got a DD made for the same place from the same branch (GK) of ICICI from another executive sitting on the very same seat.
I was the one who had to give that poor girl, the details of the last cheque through which I had got the DD made so that she could locate her ICICI branch. And voila she finally realised that THEY DO have a branch there, 6069, which somehow their search refuses to show up !
Yah right. My foot !
This is what I felt like telling the security people who kept hushing me from talking to my colleagues. As if my whispering would have disturbed them. Oh yah… Did I forget to mention the strength of MPs in teh parliament who would have got disturbed?
Leaving aside the Prime minister, there were hardly 15 MPs present in the whole session !!
And among those who were present, there were just 4-5 from the opposition. And to top it all, it was the MPs of the same ruling party who were chatting away to glory while a MP was making his presentation for minutes (read hours!!) at a stretch. The poor speaker got so fed up of requesting him to windup by pressing the buzzer that he actually anounced the next MP’s name who was supposed to make the presentation. 
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Saw the item number starring Mallika Sherawat with Abhishek Bachchan in his upcoming movie GURU.
Nothing so great. Had a bit more expectation out of a Mani Ratnam movie.