Third World Existence
Our neighbourhood is eligible for the govt. owned BSNL internet connection only. We don't have a choice and almost everyday I wake up, turn on my computer with a little prayer that the net is working. Of the seven days in the week, it's out for about 3 days and then during the remaining 4 days, it flickers in and out every 20 minutes or so. "Your internet connection is experiencing problems [again]".
So try downloading music, uploading photos, or watching videos on this "high speed internet" connection, and you could be stuck here all day restarting the whole process just when you thought it had gone through.
Well, what do you expect from the government? We'll wait for the private companies to come around.
But private companies are douchebags as well. On April 9th, I sent a document to Goa via DTDC Courier Service, India's leading and omnipresent delivery service. It was supposed to have reached by April 12th but there were no signs of it. Tried calling DTDTC only to realize that the numbers written on the receipt are about 2 years old. Went over to the nearest center and the guy has no clue about "tracking" the document. Managed to wrangle a Goa DTDC office number from him to find out minutes later that the folks in Goa can't help me because there is no electricity in their office [inverter anyone?].
I gave up, it'll reach when it reaches. {why didn't I look them up on the internet, you ask? Because the high speed internet connection at home was DOWN. Did you think I was that dumb?}.
One week later, I get a call that the document hasn't reached. So I don't even bother with DTDC and decide to send it again with Blue Dart. More expensive equals more reliable (don't argue with me). At 9pm, they called me to tell me they don't deliver to the address written on the envelope. Yelled at them. They agreed to deliver. Fingers crossed.
Bloody third world existence.
So try downloading music, uploading photos, or watching videos on this "high speed internet" connection, and you could be stuck here all day restarting the whole process just when you thought it had gone through.
Well, what do you expect from the government? We'll wait for the private companies to come around.
But private companies are douchebags as well. On April 9th, I sent a document to Goa via DTDC Courier Service, India's leading and omnipresent delivery service. It was supposed to have reached by April 12th but there were no signs of it. Tried calling DTDTC only to realize that the numbers written on the receipt are about 2 years old. Went over to the nearest center and the guy has no clue about "tracking" the document. Managed to wrangle a Goa DTDC office number from him to find out minutes later that the folks in Goa can't help me because there is no electricity in their office [inverter anyone?].
I gave up, it'll reach when it reaches. {why didn't I look them up on the internet, you ask? Because the high speed internet connection at home was DOWN. Did you think I was that dumb?}.
One week later, I get a call that the document hasn't reached. So I don't even bother with DTDC and decide to send it again with Blue Dart. More expensive equals more reliable (don't argue with me). At 9pm, they called me to tell me they don't deliver to the address written on the envelope. Yelled at them. They agreed to deliver. Fingers crossed.
Bloody third world existence.
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