2012 April 20

Apr 20 2012

Meet Melissa Version 2.0

Well you guys remember that on the 4th of this month I had got a BlackBerry phone? I had a white BlackBerry Bold 9780 delivered to my house and was quite happy with it. But it turns out that it was defective. Well out of 500 order by my friend it turns out that 3 or 4 were faulty. It took just 3 days for me to start having problems. Turns out that when the phone was unlocked some OS issue happened and the phone just froze on Sunday 8th April and refused to reboot no matter how many times I tried. After contacting my friend, I was able to get in touch with the store owner who has shipped the 500 BBs and he asked me to try and get the OS reinstalled, which I did. I visited Reddington (official BlackBerry service centers) and they reinstalled the OS for me. But they also pointed out that there was a problem with the panel of the phone and to ask for a replacement.

On Tuesday I spoke to both my friend and the store owner and it was decided that I would get a replacement phone. I couriered the white phone back to the store which took 3 days and then I had to wait till this Wednesday for them to get me my replacement. They had run out of white and so I said that I would take a black one instead. I received the package today. Look at her all coy & shy still in the bubble wrap.

I must admit that black certainly seems to be the way to go when you buy a BlackBerry phone. The white was cute & sweet but the black looks a lot more sleeker and streamlined. This is the first black BlackBerry I have ever owned. I did like the white one but if there was a problem with it, I didn’t want to be stuck with it. So anyways, the replacement works like a charm and I’m happy. I’ve been charging her on my laptop and I’ve installed some of the stuff I need and configured my emails, Facebook, Twitter, Gtalk, WordPress and now BBM remains.

I really like the look of the phone. I’m not going to call her by another name. This is Melissa v 2.0. Say hi to her, she’s a beauty.

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By Roshan • BlackBerry, Photos • 7

Apr 20 2012

Breakfast For Dinner

It depends on what the food items are. I kinda think that us Malayalees have breakfast items for dinner a lot. But then a lot of those dishes are considered to be for both meals. Confused? I guess you would have to be a localite to really get that.

The usual breakfast items in a Malayalee household or atleast in mine are various styles of dosas – with either chutney, sambhar, dosa podi or chammandee, idlis, puttu with either kadala (lentils) curry, payare (green gram) or banana, appam with egg curry, potato stew, or kadala curry, various upma – avil (dried rice flakes), godham (wheat) or plain, puri & lentils. That’s for the local stuff. A lot of us eat cereals, bread with eggs, cheese, butter or jam. At my home we make veggie sandwiches with tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers & coriander chamandee. And a lot of us eat most of the same food for dinner as well. That is pretty common over here. But wit the exception of sandwiches and occasionally appam, dosas & puttu I don’t like having the breakfast stuff for dinner. Dinner items should be different from the breakfast items.

That’s just my thinking. Plus I don’t really want rice stuff all the time. Lunch is almost always the starchy white rice so I don’t really like to have breakfast & dinner with a lot of the same stuff in it. Ugh! But I do because I live with my folks and that is what they like. When I get the chance I move away from the rice stuff.