Yet another calendar year has come to an end. Overall, it wasn’t great for me; but that’s ok, there’s a new year around the corner!

I wasn’t even able to post a lot on the blog, just a few random scribbles here’n'there. Of these few, here are the Top 10 of this year.

The best part of my online activity this year was the Project 365!

Before I list the Top 10, take a look at the lists from the last couple of years:

Top 10 posts of 2009.

Top 10 posts of 2010.

And now, the list for 2011:

  1. Telangana agitation – The Bad: The actual face of the agitation at the time. This post outlines few things that come to my mind those tag the agitation as bad. Some serious concerns, some pun intended and of course a little sarcasm too! More than the post itself, the comments and discussion is what matters more on this page.
  2. Telangana agitation – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: An introductory post for the Telangana agitation series. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly are also individually on the top 10 list. This post was my attempt to examine the agitation from those different angles.
  3. Telangana agitation – The Good: While the agitation itself was mostly bad/ ugly, I forced myself to understand and see if there is any ‘good’ in it. A few reasons protesters quoted for why we need a separate state are discussed here.
  4. Close call with phishing on facebook: A close encounter that almost made me give out the credit card number to the ‘disguised’ friend on facebook. If you face a similar situation, please be more careful!
  5. Hampta Pass Trek – Reality Check: A wonderful experience in The Himalayas! A reality check to anyone else who’s dreaming of the trek. What to carry, how is it there, good things, not so good experiences, cold, water, energy levels, scenery, photography, etc are discussed in detail.
  6. Telangana agitation – The Ugly: In a nutshell, the agitation that changed the face of Hyderabad, to Ugly! This the THE actual post I intended to write about the agitation. Vandalism, mob mentality, bandhs, traffic issues and impact to common man are all discussed here.
  7. Review – LG Customer Care: Feedback to the LG team after a terrible experience with their service that took 22 days to fix a broken refrigerator. For the record, it broke twice in two months after that repair too! :(
  8. The Airport Bhoot: A funny incident that left us awestruck all night in the Hyderabad airport. May be it’s the time of the night, or may be there really is a bhoot, but our experience IS something I couldn’t resist sharing.
  9. Pearl YAMAHA – Feedback about your service: An escalation to the Yamaha Motors India about their service centers in Hyderabad. You gotta let people/ organizations know when there is a scope for improvement!
  10. Project 365: While the post itself on the blog received quite a good amount of traffic, the independent site where I post ‘pic of the day’ received quite a good response. Head to the site and check the clicks for yourself!

If you have enjoyed any other post and that’s not in the list above, please let me know in the comments!

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2011 Resolution check: 75% complete!

by Vivek on December 25, 2011

in Time Pass

I say, not bad!

This was my new year resolution for this year: 2011: Leave airtel and quit Orkut.

If you do the math in 3 secs, it would come to 50% complete. Let me explain a little further and make it 75%! :P

Leaving airtel was half of it; and the orkut quitting was the other half. I already wrote multiple times about airtel here, here and here.

I just deleted orkut account moments ago and immediately started composing this post, so that’s 50% complete already! (I know I should have deleted the thing a long time ago, but I had thought I already deleted it, until somebody sent a scrap two days ago. AND, I confirmed there is no way to change login email before I deleted, one of my primary reasons. Of course, copy-pasted the few testimonials I had in there.)

Coming to the other half: leaving airtel. I use(d) two services from airtel: mobile and broadband. So, 25% contribution each towards my resolution.

Now, I’ve cancelled the mobile connection very early in 2011 and moved to DoCoMo. So, another 25% of my total resolution target is complete.

The remaining 25% is incomplete. And here are the reasons:

  • There isn’t any other provider in my location to offer broadband connection.
  • When I told airtel my problems and requested to cancel, they offered a new plan at discounted price for a quarter. Nice gesture!
  • Didn’t want to be stupid and cancel the connection anyway when I have no alternative!

So, that’s my progress!

75% complete.

What about you?

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Elaboration for @HDFC_Bank

December 22, 2011

Dear @HDFC_Bank, Normally when I write a post with an intent to get to somebody, I spend some time, do a little home work, have a point and then roll it out. Am doing this post in a hurry; because, you know, you’re trying hard to assist me on twitter but are unable to. If you [...]

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Review – LG Customer Care

October 24, 2011

To: serviceindia@lge.com Subject:  Review – LG Customer Care Ref: RNA 111001029811 and RNA 111008006827 Dear LG, Life’s good, in general. But then, I bought an LG refrigerator. I bet you know the implications after that. If you don’t, read my story here. Grab a big cup of coffee, take a deep breath, relax and then read [...]

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Hampta Pass Trek – Reality Check

August 17, 2011

More than a month after the trek, it occurred to me that I didn’t blog about the experience. Bharani is working on the travelogue; so let me list a quick, top 10 noteworthy points (in random order) from the trek – The Reality Check. Ease of the trek: Many sources we checked with indicated that [...]

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Images from the Hampta Pass trek

July 28, 2011

A long planned adventure finally came true in July 2011 – Trekking in The Himalayas! Bharani is working on the travelogue; stay tuned to experience the magic! Meanwhile, here are the images from the trip. The images are hosted outside my regular gallery so am explicitly posting this link on the blog for your convenience. [...]

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Resolved Bhoot Mystery

July 15, 2011

I know I’ve used ‘booth’ in my previous post but realised later that ‘bhoot’ is better. Just the spelling -adapting to the correct one in this post. So, you know what happened at the airport that night. If you need a quick recall of events, read the previous post first. Up to date? Let’s continue. [...]

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The Airport Booth

June 27, 2011

It’s not the English booth, like the telephone booth. It’s the Hindi booth, like the Ram Gopal Varma’s movie. Telugu lo – deyyam! We’ve seen it live in Hyderabad International Airport. Well, not literally seeing with our eyes per se, but experienced it. I couldn’t stop laughing all night in spite of being in trouble. [...]

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