So, now that my posts have turned into Email cribs :), here is continuing the series - what to do, my little Blog is the only expression mode left for individual consumers like me taking on beeg corporates. So, this is apropos my last post which can be read here. To summarize:

1) I had been an Airtel Internet + Landline user for ~5 years before I moved to a new house last November. My billing cycle used to run from 23rd of every month and I moved on 21st Nov to my new house. I filed a "connection movement" request on 21st Nov which was supposed to happen in 7 days. After waiting duly, I filed a disconnection request on 28th Nov - subsequently the Nov bill had been generated and I paid it promptly.

Can't even tell you guys to stay off Airtel - every Telecom operator is as bad, I guess :) - pick your devil types !!! They have told me they will respond in 4 hours, will keep this updated :P !

From: Kant Ranjan

Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 12:12 PM

To: '121@airtel.in'

Subject: Complaint on Billing and disconnection from Account no. 14309089

Hi,

I have been asked to write to you by Mr.

Heylo :),

First up, a bit of feel-good on being able to post so soon after my last post, *sigh* my average posting time had ballooned to months if not years - but the important thing is there is improvement, yesh !

Coming back to the topicz, as probably some of you would know, I am a die-hard (and boley toh die, die hard) gadget aficionado with the bug having bitten me ever since I can remember which is a longg time when you are 30 years old :).

And so it happened ! After years of multitudes of closet prayers and trying to impress whoever and whatever with my techno-laden boring tweets and status updates, by the will of god - it happened ! With an amazing set of fortuitous circumstances (and yeah, they keep happening to me, good or bad !) somebody gave me the chance to review the Nokia E6, with the handset being mine to play with for a month or so ! Unfortunately I can't tag my benefactor due to confidentiality reasons - but yeah many t

Today got a call from a friend who has got this interview for a Product Manager position at Google and wanted to discuss a set of questions that Google guys had given him in advance to ponder and think about. The questions were the run-of-the-mill kinda around competitive strategy, improvements etc. but one theme stood out - What is next for Google ? How are we gotta stay big and stay the best ?

So, I got into this long discussion with my friend and came up with a few ideas off-the-cuff.

**EDIT**: This post started off as an only-iPad post but got delayed by 2 months ! And hence, including my newest acquisition as well - the Blackberry Torch 9800 (hope I post it soon :P) !

So, here I am hit by the iPadic (will that be a word anytime soon, no :-) ?) bug, typing another one of those fanboy posts - but sometimes somethings truly leave us speechless and ipad does that to you,but more on that later.

Heh,

I am getting my iPad delivered soon (more about that later) - so before I get all taken by that ossum device, I wanted to take a minute to list down some of the apps I have got on my BB curve 8310, somehow making my lot with the woefully small 64 MB ROM (BB doesnt allow you to install apps on the memory card - some security crap - and you know everything is fair when it comes to security :P, especially when you have the Americans in picture).

So, as it happened BCG deemed good to send me on a 2-day training to Kuala Lumpur (Hey ! I am a okay enough employee, I guess :-)) and as is the norm, Tanya and I converted it into a weekend trip with 2 days in Langkawi and she doing the shopping on the training days in KL (so tough to plan, nahin :) ?). And as with all things Ranjan, this also deserved to be blogged and here I am with the 10-pointer (seems like the iPad - iPhone analogy of consulting's 3-pointers :-)):

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