The Broadband Blame Game

Its January. Half a month past. And the rest of the month is gonna be an absolute drudgery. Im worried. Im really worried to be honest. Im using this BSNL broadband plan500 which lets me use 2.5GB per month. It is quite a lot i agree but suddenly i wake up on the 15th and find just 400MB remaining in my account. Granted, I do use a lot of Bandwidth for voice chat and use the rest of it for browsing. But still this much of usage just midway through the month is simply unacceptable. Still you can’t just blame the company. Its got a decent record and its website shows exactly the times i have used it. Well im really shocked to be faced with this. But then shock is no reason to be irrational. Oh no…

I know a lot of people using broadband out there in India face the same problems. It essentially arises because its a new concept that has come in and taken us all by storm by its sheer power and addictive nature. When people here go out and get a broadband connection here they don’t know what a 1GB per month usage equates to in actual use. Its one of the old tricks by the companies. Tell the people about something they don’t know. They end up thinking its something sophisticated not realizing its nothing but a marketing gimmick to fool them. Well i am one of them who knows what it means but still my usage keeps shooting up every month. Yet I don’t think i use more and more. The best option for me is to live with the present and plan for the future.

From next month i guess i gotta keep some stringent measures to check if there is any flaw in BSNL’s billing system. Another option may be because there is a problem with my own PC. So im make my long intended switch to the Opera browser. It actually shows you the amount of data being downloaded in the taskbar which is exactly what I need. But so far as this month goes i’m just hoping i got college every single day. Because simply sitting at home not able to use the Net is something that’s sure to test my nerves.

[SEM PREP DIARY] Day -3

So this was the day of reckoning. The day i told myself i wud start studying for the first exam(communication theory and systems… has absolutely nothing to do with blogs as a means of communication) As i was finally facing upto the reality the clock just ticked over 12pm making me realize how late i had gotten up(no big deal… i get up same time everyday :-p ) There i was willing myself to study with no book what so ever to study from!! So it forced me into the illegal act photocopying a text book. (As if noone does that! booo…hoo…) And avoiding all forms of distraction ranging from my frend niki wanting to meet daddy to roadside girls throwing awkward glances(!!) at me One girl in particular seemed extremely mischievous! not my fault though!! ) i finally got some reading material in my hands.. yuppeeee… And i literally tried to put my nose through that paper only succeeding in sleepin with my face flat on it. I did do a decent bit of studying though… a few pages lets say… And here i am blogging. Man what the heck am i doing when im supposed to be studying. Shit i gotta go! tata….

(And he disappears…………)