" Chettaaa . . . . . . . "
on thursday, 20101202 I had been to the city, that is ernakulam almost 25 kms away ( by the time I came back lily had logged more than fifty kilometers ) It was not that i was taking a joy ride - I perforce had to make a trip.
Almost every equipment I had with me have stopped working during the last five months or so I had been in “valayil”. The latest in the casualty list was my television set. It was not getting powered on. I decided to take the television to the service agents – it is a good old onida. My first stop was at the service agents'of onida.
The gentleman was not there or he was having lunch or whatsoever I was asked to leave the thing there and may be in the next week or so they will be able to tell me about the prospects. A firm “NO”; repair or no repair I refused to leave the thing there.
Reason – past experience.
Incident in question:
my computer's monitor- repairing of .
It was with a supposed to be service technician for almost three months that is immediately after I landed up in this place. Initially he said it is the LOT ( what is that ?). He was going to set it right and is waiting for the spare part to arrive.
but later the fellow came up with a story there is something wrong with the main board. the problem I had seen was that the thing was not getting switched on. I am afraid it was at this stage the indian pimp service on duty got involved.
Weeks and weeks and then months passed. All I had with me was the monitor man's cell phone number. you can find "n" number of calls that had gone to this number from my home telephone – I got a detailed list of the calls I made in july kind courtesy the telecom accounts.
After a stage the chap stopped responding to calls made from my home telephone ; I persisted and started making calls from outside pay phones which of course he cannot avoid attending – it could be another fly.
Ultimately when nothing happened after three months or so and I was still at large the fellow probably gave up on the pimp ( not quite, as you would come to know later on) and agreed to deliver the monitor. This time unlike on the earlier occasions I was really met by some one who claimed it was he who was “the monitor-man”.
I had handed over the monitor to a shop at chembmukku on telephonic instructions from this “monitor man” ( the owner of the shop had washed his hand of later on and said that his shop had nothing to do with the monitor affair ) and had never met him in person earlier and it is very much possible that a member of the pakkichi police was posing as the monitor man – there is every reason for the original fellow to avoid me for after all those delays any body else would have given him a piece of his mind especially so when he realises that the monitor has not been repaired at all! I thought he had set it right and wanted to see that it is working properly. It was then that the “monitor man” came out with the real fact that all the three months waiting had been in vain. His claim was that it was beyond repair and whatever things he had put in he had taken out. Well there is nothing much i could do about it and I took it home and there was absolutely no point arguing with this character.
It is an old 15' monitor that came with my first computer I purchased in 1999 and such CRT monitors are no more available in the market. as with all other parts of that system it was a rugged thing and never developed a problem before I landed up in this commercial town. to me it is a big thing – I am perfectly happy with the fifteen inch CRT monitor and am not at all keen nor do i have the wherewithal to spend another five thousand rupees on a new monitor- the cheapest available being likely a lcd type coming to at least five thousand INR when this one would have worked fine for me.
So I took the crt monitor to another shop keeper who said he could get it looked into. Later on this young man said that they had looked it up and nothing can be done about it - there are parts missing. So that is that.
There is no reason a young technician who has got a good job in his hand be interested in pinching my dilapidated old 15' CRT monitor which can at the most bring less than one thousand INR at second hand price. I am afraid the fellow was taking orders.
The assurance that the indian pimp service had given the locals was that the great men were going to pick me up And once I am booked they, meaning the indian pimp service and their sub-contractors, can all share the booty! the pimp service had kept their subcontractors amongst the population humoured telling them that they are going to
"pockum"
"nalle" ( tomorrow) ,
" budhanazhcha " that is wednes day,
" velliyazhcha " that is friday.
and are carrying on the same vein even today. the spy network is highly "intelligent". there is always another nalle or friday or even wednesday.
right now there is lot of anticipation over here in and around the vala. a reception committee has been formed it looks and they even had a pandal at the gate for almost a week. the vegetation around the court yard of the house "valayil" where i am just now has been cleared a couple of days and ms. elikutty had come this evening to sweep the court yard. she told me that she had been specifically asked to come and clean up the place before saturday that is today - may be the big boss is coming to "pockum" me.
by the way there are two people with whom i converse over here - one is elikutty who once in a while come and sweep the court yard. there are plenty of mango trees around and she has a very tough job clearing the rubble. another is kunjumon who does the rubber tapping. we meet only very occassionally for by the time i get up on most of the days he would have come and finished his job and gone back home.
It was a few days back that I found that the television set was not getting powered on and after the trip to the city it is back and still not functional.
I was particular that I should not leave my tv with the service people for if I do so it is going to be a repetition of the monitor story – either I will never get it back or if at all I get it back it will be in the same condition as the monitor.
And I am indeed feeling a bit of relief rather now that the tv is not there for otherwise I would have been watching the friday and saturday movies on the national channel and a bit of this thing and that thing and would not get up from my easy chair. With the tv off road I feel I have some time in my hands after the mandatory duties like cooking washing and such.
almost every equipment I have with me here have been damaged after my arrival here
it is not only the monitor of the computer or the tv set that has been tampered with - that way almost every equipment I have with me here have been damaged after my arrival here. deprive me of all my money and the property I have and make me a homeless pauper and then i will come down to mother earth - I have mentioned this strategy of the indian pimp service some where else.
My motor bike
My motor bike got repaired thrice in the last less than five months of stay over here and I paid around five thousand . Still, if at the moment it is working it is thanks to a bit of tinkering by myself. Of course with a bit of kind help from a local work shop - the nuts and screws of the clutch has been made so tight there was no way I could loosen it and make adjustments and so I requested this young man and he got it loosened for me. All three stalwarts were telling me, parrot fashion, ( the original is from the same source in all cases) the reason for the problem is my bad driving – I have driven that bike, a coveted enfied bullet, for almost one hundred thousand kilometers and never had a problem of this sort. But once in ernakulam the “engineers” had fiddled with the clutch plate thrice.
Last week I have taken the bike over to thiruvananthapuram out of reach of the “chettaa"s. That is one job well done for I drove it myself over the two hundred and odd kilometers on the fantastic road that you have in this area – trivandrum is any time a thousand times better .
At kundanoor just as you get on to the NH coming from thripoonithura there is such a big kundu I thought I was gone – by the time I had seen it I could not have stopped the bike but bullet being bullet both of us came out of the pit unscathed.
I was worried about the machine breaking down enroute with all the tinkering the great engineer “chettaa"s had done to it – but it is my lucky machine and never ever failed me in spite of tremendous odds – chethak mahan hai tu!
petite lily
petite lily: Immediately on my arrival here I used to go with anyone who said that there is a piece of land for sale anywhere near by. And later on it became a joke, sort of – if the gestapo wants to get me out of the place ( obviously for a security check inside the house) some one will lure me away with the prospects of a piece of land for sale.
And it was immediately on my refusing to go to some place about twenty kilometers from this place on the pretext that the car is off road that the vehicle developed problems. One cell of the battery was gone some one said and I had to change the battery and the clutch of the car was also gone! It could be just a coincidence as well, I admit – it has already done forty thousand kilometers.
But later on after the vehicle came back from repair I found that the electrical system has been tampered with - The earthing wire had been disconnected and carefully hidden underneath. I do not think the maruti's service agents will do it and if they have not done it some one has done it over here in this compound while i was away.
My vehicles are all lying in the open and any one can at any time fiddle with it provided I am away from the house. But things need not be out in the open to tamper with them.
cooking gas cylinder
My cooking gas cylinder was very much inside the house; but a hole had been drilled in to its cap. And I had to take it all the way to trivandrum in my petite lily.
From jyothi valayil
The fridge
The fridge was also inside the house sent in a truck ahead of me; but by the time I fetched up it had been made non-functional. Luckily I could make out that the flaw was that the power supply wire has been cut and reconnected it and did not have to go for a fridge repairer.
smps
Incidentally I have purchased two smps – things that provide power supply to the computer - after coming here. I had a number of spare ones but all of them had their wires cut at critical points and made useless. Could it be possible that rats have chewed away the wires ? In that case were these rats quadrupeds or do they happen to be bipeds?
my computers
All my computer systems – I have two as well as a collection of mother boards and other fittings – have conked off. in the case of the 865GBF main board the main problem was with the display – it must be a minor problem some where but I cannot identify exactly what and there is no where I can get help. The machine revs up but the monitor does not show anything.
So I brought a new main board over here from ernakulam. I had taken it off after using for a few days and was banking on the net book Today I tried it again after an interval and found that the hook that holds the fan to the processor has been broken – the pieces are there inside. It could be that I had accidentally broken it – possible but not probable. All the same I managed to get the thing going by keeping it flat on the side so that the fan does not fall off. I had to for I am not allowed to write cds from the other machines – the cds will all be chewed up. And at the month end I had to make a back up of the data. And I did write a dvd as well as three cds yesterday – november 2010 back ups; Good.
Earlier, my 810 main board ( which I use with my win98 ) as well developed the same problem but there I had an old spare one and I am using it on this puter I am working on right at this moment.
For some time now I had been banking on my net book for almost everything. But the latest is that the netbook's usb key board is not being recognized any more and so from yesterday onwards I had a difficult time typing out documents – there is an obvious very drastic difference in the speed with which one can type on a normal key board and that of a net book. And by the way I use touch typing and not pecking with one finger like you do! So I perforce had to mobilize the win 98 system.
The pda the acer's netbook had been completely compromised. The settings have been fully changed. And the previous night I was trying to change the power settings I was not being allowed. Ultimately in a see saw struggle the whole power options have been wiped off – I removed some to spite the Indian pimp and the pimp in turn did the rest of the job. In fact what happened was that I named the powersystem options a “name” and clicked ok and when I returned the name was not there. So I deleted the default name and named the “name” again and when I had a look I saw that the whole choices including the one with the “name” was gone.
So I changed the user name to the “name” and rebooted and the user name was not becoming effective – it had gone back to the old one and my manipulation was not working.
Well; I am not one that gives up that quick. There is another provision for settings these things using the “control userpasswords2” command and I changed the name of the user to the “name” and that name is still sticking. I have got a picture of it on the net - of course with a fig leaf on.
This was all happening on the pda while I was not connected to the net. And as an added precaution I have disabled the wireless network card and in spite of that things are happening. In fact I had pointed out a few things to the service personal at ekm when I got it back after replacing the keyboard and it could be possible there was a fly in the ointment from then on.
ittoopp puranam
Some time back while driving in the ernakulam city I had crossed in front of a police jeep and the fellow had driven at least one kilometer along to catch up with me and tell me “thekkum vatakkum okke nokki otikanam” you have to look north and south while driving. Look at the audacity !
I keep a look out in all directions , not only north and south and just ignored the clown.but one cannot blame these characters - their circumstances are such.
" i thief, you thief;
all business man thief."
Have you read Ittoopp puranam by VKN. One of the many famous saying of ittoopp I still remember is his telling the russian business man: “ I thief, you thief; all business man thief.” The problem with this place I am afraid is what mr. Ittoop from trichur very rightly said.
Ernakulam is a commercial city and business man being business man ( exactly what ittooop bluntly said ) cannot afford to say “no” even to the lowest ranking bureaucrat leave alone a police man uniformed or otherwise - multiple skeletons in their cupboards! They worship those in power.
that includes the lowest ranking local policeman out of necessity. The wretches know it ( hence the audacity ) and so take on airs. So just imagine what will be the mindset of a member of the “elite” indian pimp service ( it is a plain clothes policeman who calls himself cbi "officer" and his axe men from the so called "special" - pakkichi - branch of the local police) !
It is immaterial whether it is a authorised service agent or a free lancer when a member of the indian pimp service tells them to destroy whatever tne mad man has handed over to them they will destroy it. And there is no point in my asking questions. As you have seen there is no point going to the courts also.
So I decided to keep the “the neighbours envy” that was a very catchy ad that onida used to put up about their television sets with myself hoping that one day things will clear up and I could get my things in order and will be able to watch neelam and sudhanshu and all in the comforts of my own home on my good old tv ( it is model 8888 that I brought in 1988 original JVC ) .
