Category: Experience

  • Open letter to BBMP Commissioner

    Update: After sending this post to Sathish, on 16th July, 2017, he has transferred INR 3000/-. Still he owe us INR 2000/-. As mentioned in my post, if it is an official fee, we would need a receipt. If it’s a bribe, action must be taken. Since he has at least done his job by…

  • A note of appreciation to Bangalore City Police

    This morning, we have found a person teaching driving near to our daughter’s school. Since it was time when school gets started, we have asked him how he would teach around school zone. That guy was super rude in responding; even he was least bothered when we told him we will report to police. We…

  • My experience with Bethel Webhost

    Recommended by a good friend, I started using services of Bethel Webhost for about last 6 years and I never felt disturbed. Never experienced a down time with server. Client Area portal is quite usable and easy to use. Their customer support is amazing. Though sometimes you may not get a response by calling their…

  • On-hold payment on Paytm

    This morning, while I was on my way to office, I was looking at my Paytm pasbook and shocked to see an INR 350 as on-hold payment with a transaction number. However, it did not show the merchant name. That made me feel confused what that on-hold transaction is all about. Thankfully, there is a…

  • Recent experience in obtaining passport for our daughter

    As advertised by the Government, Passport services have been improved to great extent. Recently we have obtained passport for our daughter and experience is quite good. We have filled in application form online Passport portal. Scheduled the appointment (dates are just available; we got it for very next day). Printed application form and fee receipt.…

  • More Mega Store vs eZone of BigBazar

    Last month, we have purchased a few home appliances and dealt with both More Mega Store and eZone of Big Bazar. Here is our experience. We have first visited More Mega Store near Gopalan Mall and experience was horrible. Staff were not courteous; were not willing to find out the information that we needed. We…

  • Remember the settings that you have made on your computer!

    On the other day, screen on my Mac was looking rather ugly and whatever images I look at, they look very odd. Looked into several options including display settings etc., was almost decided to reinstall OS X. Reached out to Apple customer care and their agent tried investigating for about 2 hours including a remote…

  • Andhra Bank needs to improve its technology – my experience in reset pin of debit card

    In August this year, I wrote about my experience with Andhra Bank Online services – opening a new savings account and today, I’ll be sharing my experience with reset debit card PIN. Firstly one needs debit card PIN for many purposes including to reset transaction password on it’s internet banking portal. Unlike many other banks…

  • My experience with BlaBlaCar – a step towards green!

    I’ve learnt about BlaBlaCar (nice name!) about a year ago through ads and recently experienced it both as a co-traveller as well as offered rides. When our second child was born in July, I have visited Tirupathi and since we cannot estimate our departure time, I decided to search on BlaBlaCar after my darshan at…

  • Google Apps Support team is awesome

    I recently had to reset password for one of my google apps accounts and sadly, I did not have access to recovery phone number that I configured. So other option is by verifying ownership of domain; which requires us to add a CNAME to the DNS. I went ahead and added CNAME as per instructions…