CHIT CHAT

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(A HNUAI A KHAW HMING TE LEH MIHRING HMING TE KHU PHUAHCHAWP VEK A NI A. THU TAK A LAK CHI A NI LO.. LO IN NGAIHBEL IN AWM A NIH PAWH IN MAWH KA PHUR LO ANG).

Tun tum chu drama chhuah teks teng. Mizuram Chief Minister Lalphuailuaia, ex-Chief Minister Zoramkhama leh Indya Prime Minister Mcmohan SINGH te chuan conference table chu an thut bial thap a.

Lalphuailuaia: McMohan, hei Mizuram in sum kan nei leh ta tlat lo mai. Kan rawn fly thla ve leh tawp mai nia.

McMohan: In van heh em em ve pawisa state tereuhte si! A hmanna tur dik tak ah in hmanglo a niang chu.

Lalphuailuaia: Pathian nung ringtu te kan nia. A hmanna tur ah te chuan hmang te meuh mai. Englo a nia.. MNS ho khian...

Zoramkhama: CongreZ ho a nih kha.

Lalphuailuaia: Sawi pawh sawi hma a i lo in rawlh ve le. Ka chum let tawp mai tur che a nia.

McMohan: A tawk... ram khat hruaitu ve ve khatia in hnial nghal chiam mai. Tangrual tur awm tak zawk si. In pawisa indaih loh na chhan pawh chu ka hre thiam mai e. A nih leh mirethei tanpuina tur a 15 crores kan pek che u kha in sem zo tawh em ni?

Lalphuailuaia: Kawng laih tur a awm tawh lo a. Pawisa pawh kha kan dah tha mai.

McMohan: Enge i thusawi awm zia?

Lalphuailuaia: Aw mirethei te chuan kawng laih bak thiam an nei hlei nem. Kawng kan laih tir a, tichuan pawisa kha kan hlawh tir mai a lawm. Hrethiam em?

Zoramkhama: CongreZ ho style hi chu a!

Lalphuailuaia: Lo tawng ve sek suh Tuirini thleng rawk in ka pet mai ang che.

McMohan: Lei laih tir kher lo chuan hman tangkai na dang in hre hlawl lo em ni? A pawisa hlawm in sem ta ula lei laih tir kher lo in, eizawnna ngial nghet tak bul tan nan te an hmang thei awm sia.

Zoramkhama: Teeeuuuh lo mai! Tape recorder, TV, Karizma tih vel lei na ah a zo vek ang. Kar thum vel sa an hmeh deuh tlut tlut bawk a nga. Chu zawng chu a ni mai. MNS chuan ro han rel ila chu aw...

Lalphuailuaia: Kum 10 ro in rel chhung khan enge in tih? Tihdan tur vak in hriat bik miah loh kha.

Zoramkhama: Tih dan te chu hria e.. a hun kan la tilo mai mai a lawm. Term khat han lal leh chiah ila chuan engkim hi a dik zaih tawh ang.

McMohan: A lo nih tak chu!

Lalphuailuaia: Pawisa chu min pe leh vat vat teh kan haw duh tawh a nia. Kan nu in rawn haw hma rawh min ti lehnghal. A thin a rim chuan a chi miahlo a nia.

McMohan: Cheng engzat maw in mamawh a? Pawisa hi in ti reng mai a...thawhchhuah nei bawk si lo chawmhlawm state hi chu a buaithlak a ni.

Lalphuailuaia: Sherlui kan khuap mek a, kan zawh hun ah chuan kan rawn tibuai rei vak tawh lo ang che u. Electric lei nan hian kan hmang nasa deuh a lawm le. Builoom ho khi han chhuak zo se la kan ziaawm mai ang.

Zoramkhama: Sherlui tet tet nen..

McMohan: In duh zat chu sawi vat rawh u ka kham tawh teh mai che u a nia.

Lalphuailuaia: Tluklehdingawn Sawmthum panga, vaibelchhe sarih leh nuai sawm kua.

Zoramkhama: Tlem min pek ve loh chuan Shingapore kha a ni mai.

Lalphuailuaia: Ka pe ve em em ang che lo tawng tam lo phawt la.

McMohan: Kha... la ula haw chho vat rawh u.

Zoramkhama: Haw chhoh vat theih pawh a ni lo. Lo hal khu vang in flight an cancel a...buaithlak khawwwpp mai.

McMohan: Train in haw mai rawh u.

Lalphuailuaia: Kan nu in train chuan a phal lo.

McMohan: E!

I WAS A VICTIM OF POLITICAL ISSUES

Folks, I'm back from nowhere after a month. Wow!! A lot of updates while I was away from cyberworld.

From my understanding, it was a political issue which cut me off from the online world. I was a loyal* customer of Hathway but they needed to close down their operations in Chennai without any prior notice. I couldn't even reach their customer service and was quite frustrated. After many attempts to contact them, I could finally get in touch with one of their representatives and he simply told me that it's due to a political issue and was afraid to make further comments. I figured out later that it was due to this bullshit.

As soon as I realized that there's no more Hathway, I was in touch with other service providers like Airtel, Tata Indicom...etc. I really wanted to have Airtel connection as they provided landline telephone at no charge along with Broadband. However, they didn't have a service in my area so they left me with no other choice but to find another service provider.

One evening when I was back from work, I found an ads left on my doorstep. It was from Airtel and I called them up right away. The very next day, one of their representatives came to my house and collected the necessary documents for a new connection. It was August 6, 2009 when he promised that they'd DEFINITELY give me a new connection by August 15.

The big day came but with no words from them. I called them and was informed that it will take another week to have the distribution box opposite to my house activated. He said, "We will DEFINITELY come and give a new connection by August 23." We're patiently waiting until the deadline and yet no words from them. It was the day that I realized what DEFINITELY was for these people.

Days passed but we're getting nowhere fast so I called them again. They said it would take another 10 days to activate the box. Finally on September 4, I got a new connection after I had enough of conversation with them. I'd better not mention all the detailed conversation and promises I received such as call backs which never happened. How great thou art!

*Conditions Apply

A Few Updates

Update 1.

Got a new Television: I mean an old television she recently brought in from Mumbai, though it's new to me. My inability to pay for its stand and a dish net begs me to keep it at the corner of my house until the end of this month. I almost forgot to mention - this brings a new (old) DVD player as well. Makes me look like a rich man :)

Update 2.

A new Gym Equipment as well: This is very important to me since my weight tends to increase as I go. Though I'm not able to utilize it as of the moment, it's sitting at the corner of my house -- waiting for someone to make use of it before it's getting late. Will probably keep this pending until next month.

Update 3.

Ulcer's back: No restriction in the diet and my desire to have only spicy non-veg dish brings my ulcer back, which I almost forgot for a couple of months. Started taking bread and milk like a new born baby to keep myself alive!

Update 4.

Discussion on CM: This is interesting but shameful at the same time. One of my colleagues called out my name as soon as I entered my office. "David, David," he shouted.

"Who is your Chief Minister da?"

I simply ignored him since I found no reason as to why this guy would want to know what the name of our CM is.

"Did you watch the news today (this) morning a da?"
"Dai..Your Chief Minister said that he was a victim of racism in India da.. But today (this) morning he said in the news -- I never said like that da"!! Samma mokey da (which means very stupid/funny man)!! he continued to yell.

I think he was talking about this NEWS

Without much being noticed, we had a small discussion about politics and our CM for the first time in my office :)

Update 5.

Received an Award: We just finished to have a quarterly business review and fortunately, I was awarded for being the best Quality Analyst in our program. It isn't something to brag about, though I would like to mention here among my updates; given I'm kinda running out of words. The award comprises of a transparent trophy, kind of a glass type which has a golf ball on top of it, a green T-shirt bearing our company logo and a big hand bag. My gratitude towards Almighty, who gives me the strength to achieve this award for the second time :)

Yours Faithfully,
Dave.

Business Tips

The death of Michael Jackson definitely was one of the best sources to make money for many retailers. Sure enough, Amazon.com is one of them. Probably it would be one of the contact drivers in their call centers around the globe. Of course, people give more value to heroes especially when they passed away.

Amazon.com, one of the biggest online retailers displayed a brief note about Michael Jackson at the right top corner of their web site, which really attracted the minds of many customers. How much profit would they make? In other words, how much would they lose if they had not displayed it? Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon.com may even want to sing this song –

Mi te tana vanduaina tinreng lo thleng hi
Kei misual ber tan malsawmna

Out of my curiosity, I just checked out their music sales rank and I could not believe my eyes. Fifteen of MJ’s albums were on the top list within a single day. Amazon.com really make use of MJ's death to market his albums.

This is much more interesting. It’s not about MJ; it’s not about death either. Once, some employees from our organization raised their concern about the outrageous price of food in our cafeteria. After the management looked into the issue, one of the caters reduced the price of meals to Rs 28 from Rs 30.

However, they simply said that they don't have change and promised to return Rs 2 on the next day. This happened in most of their sales. Who on earth would think of getting back this small amount? They still earn the same amount they used to before the price of an item was reduced. Should anyone raise a complain, they'd simply point at their menu and say, "Hey! Can't you see this? It's Rs 28 not 30 idiot!"

This gives me a new idea and thought it would be helpful in future if I’d like to engage myself in business. As such, I used to get a lot of better ideas but as for me, I’m not sure of which would go in line with this kind of tricks!

I get knocked down

I'm not sure if this is due to the damn freaky hot climate but the only thing I know is I really want to get out of this shit. Gone are the days when I used to be active as someone and even blew things out of the water!



Huis..laziness took over my mind, my body and my everything. Perhaps not my mind because sometimes I used to think about doing something useful. Much to my dismay, these are only dreams because I could not take efforts to achieve what I had in my mind. This really makes me weak and leaves me in despair. I know they're quite simple for most of the people though, to me it's as hard as breaking the bones. I really wish to:-

1. Get up early in the morning, say around 6.00 am and get ready for work by 7.30 am.
2. Coming back from work, wash my clothes and clean the house promptly.
3. Come out with different ideas of cooking and prepare a nice dinner everyday.
4. Read some novels in my free time and learn good things from there.
5. Pray with full commitment and read the Bible everyday.
6. Be a man who really is worth to depend on.

Given the circumstances, I feel like I have been pushed to the innermost place of this world and being knocked down somewhere in the corner. I'm on my way getting back on the right track and hopefully this won't take much time. This is my Prayer!

Vandaloor Zoo

I'm not in a mood to write these days but to simply fill in the spaces, let me bring in a couple of pictures I've taken from Vandaloor Zoo, Chennai. After riding more than 20 kilometers from Chennai, a very hot place, burning like a hell was waiting for us with these animals in there.

We are engaged!

As in one of the songs by Firehouse, I've finally made up my mind choosing someone to tie the knot with. We started as a friend and then end up with this.

Well, now we're one step closer to say "I Do".

It was on April 17, 2009 that I gave her a ring, as every engaged person is supposed to. Haha..it was funny to ask if she's willing to marry me for her entire life despite how close we are to each other. With all my efforts, I asked her and she said, "Yes" :)





If things work out as we planned, we will be having an engagement party on June 12, in celebration to her birthday as well. We would love to invite everyone
to join us on this very special day.

With that being said, it appears somebody might as well write in here. Being a novel freak and a constant reader, I believe she'll be able to make out a couple of nice stories and thoughts.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.