DiGiTaLmAnIc

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are victimized first

‘Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous

‘The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it

Once you start working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it.  People who work sincerely are the happiest

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction

A man is great by deeds, not by birth

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years..For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth

Source: A forwarded mail which claims these are from - “Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC 75 BC”

It was their advertizements which lead me to give my laptop for servicing at LaptopClinic at Cochin. Unfortunately it was a horrible story for me. I have the bill and enough proof to prove I am not trying make false allegations against this shop. If somebody want, mail me at praveenATliveDOTin.

I do not know whether this shop still exists there, I write this story just to keep it in my mind so that I will not face similar issue in future.

Here is the story:

1. Got phone number from one of their electric-post advt. board.
2. Calling - One lady attending the call and since I was speaking ‘technically’, she handed over the phone to another guy
3. I was interested in chip-level service as I did not have plans to spend much money for this laptop as I already bought one for my personal use
4. They informed me, Chip-level service will take only < Rs. 3500/- and they can deliver it in 4 days time.
5. Gave the laptop and exactly after 4 days, I got a call informing it is not possible to do the chip-level service since it was already serviced by somebody else. Of course, I had a visit to HP servicing center before and they opened my laptop in my presence. HP guys simply informed from their experience, it is a display chip problem and they do not do chip level servicing and need to replace the mother board which is going to be costly (Around Rs. 14000/-). I did not know what this LaptopClinic guy meant by ’serviced by anothe company’, Even if it was a ’serviced one’, what was their problem?
6. I went to LaptopClinic to get my laptop back. But they told me, they will replace the mother board with a ‘brand-new’ mother board which will cost Rs. 8000/-. I was happy as it was a better price than HP’s price. They told me they will need 1 week to replace this.
7. But surprisingly it took more than a month, and a dozen phone calls to get me the laptop.
8. Now, the funny story…..
9. The guy swiched on the laptop and typed password 12345. I checked the menus using my mouse and shutdown the system.
10. Problem 1: There was an LED elumination at the adapter jack of laptop, it was faulty in my old mother board and it used to blink. - Same problem exist for ‘new motherboard’ also. I pointed out this problem and they said it is because it is not a part of motherboard and they used some exisitng LED. (The statement was not true!)
11. Problem 2: There was an LED elumination near the touch pad which was faulty earlier. ‘New motherboard’ also behaves same.
12. Problem 3: …. there is many such problems which remains unchanged from my ‘old motherboard’
13. Since I was in a hurry, I paid the full amount and I thought at least the box started working now.
14. BIG PROBLEM: I asked my old motherboard. Their FUNNY reply - They sent the old mother board to HP, Singapore and they returned the new motherboard! - WHAT THE FUCK? - So my old mother board is now with HP!. I do not know what HP is going to do with my ‘faulty’ old motherboard. How can this LaptopClinic guys can give me back my ‘old motherboard back’ as my ‘new’ and ‘old’ motherboard is fitted inside my laptop case?
15. So my conclusion is this LaptopClinic people did a chip-level service on my old motherboard and sold it to me for the price of new one.
16. BIGGER PROOBLEMS: That day itself I had to travel to Trivandrum. At my home I found these very annoying problems.
17. 1) Left hand keys only works fine - Since the password was 12345, it worked fine, from 6 to 0, Y to P, G to L etc. are not working. That means, it is because of my faulty ‘old motherboard’ or they replaced my ‘old keypad’ too.
18. 2) System is not stable. It restarts the machine automatically after 20 minutes of use. Trust me, I had this problem exactly for my old laptop too at its last days.
19. Now my laptop got no use and it is sitting inside my shelf.
20. My God forgive them for this cheating.

Btw, If this shop can return my Rs. 8000/-, I am ready to give the whole laptop to them without any extra cost.

I do have a good habit of saving to draft folder if it was a rude mail. And I have the habit of deleting it after few days.

A quick script to calculate percentage of amount.

Don’t ask my ‘why’. I got this from internet.

(List not in order)

• Sleep
• Solve puzzles
• Keep away from Stress
• Aerobics
• Avoid smoking, drinks etc.
• Diet – Food with high fiber, Fish, Tea or Coffee, Colored Vegetables etc.

Time pass

Not sure where I heard this. But is very good.

Do not say YES when you want to say NO

Another one:

When you think you can’t say anything nice, better keep quiet

Keep in mind below face shapes when you meet a next person

Face Shape	Possibility
	Thinkers Analytical Skills Philosophers Desire for Knowledge Researcher Adviser
	Intelligent Relationships Business Sales slow thinkers Food
	Decision Maker Justice Manager
	Finance Insurance Trustable Less Risk Industry
	Speaker Marketing Quick Temper

There will be no visible symptoms for High Blood Pressure.

This is why it is called  “Silent Killer”

Anyway rarely we can consider these as symptoms:

• Headache
• Dizziness
• Blurred Vision
• Nausea

Beware… High Blood Pressure can cause Heart Diseases, Stroke, Kidney failure, Eye damage, etc. if you did not care.

This is a useful link.