Whenever I move home, getting a net connection is usually a nightmare for me.
Some 15 days before
we moved home, spoke to ISP called Sky for broadband and telephone connection
so that we can get the connection by the time we go
to our new home. Only on the day of the appointment when no one turned up for
installation we came to know the jokers somehow screwed up
by entering some address in Manchester wrongly. How could they possibly enter
Manchester address instead of Farnborough address which are hundreds
of miles apart.
Spent ages on
telephone speaking to their customer care/being put on hold to hear music/being
transferred to different departments/yelling at them on their incompetence…
At one point, I actually
started acquiring zen like calmness and inner peace when I know I can’t do much
except to wait. Actually these things mellow you a lot.Remember Sheldon in
Big Bang Theory telling that he waited for 2 hours over phone in AT&T
customer service queue just to complain about their customer service waiting
times.
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It is one of the
rarest moments when you have no internet/telephone and TV, you are left with so
much of time that you can sit back and ponder about life,spend time with
your wife/loved ones or watch the pending list of movies in the hard disk. I
did the last two. Watched Denzel Washington’s “The Great Debaters”. Tells about the
difficulty and tribulations of being afro-americans in 1930’s America. When the
system(or you can call it government) that is supposed to take care of people
fails Or when the law is
unjust. People resist( by civil disobedience.) or rebel(violence). I
remember the last dialogue in that movie.
"An unjust law
is no law at all”, Which means I have a right, even a duty to resist. With
violence or civil disobedience. You should pray I choose the latter.
We got used to no
internet/ no tv days. Actually we got more time to talk and went for long
walks. You should try this no internet/ no tv for a week and see the difference it makes to your
daily routine. The only regret being..couldn't watch Beyonce in "All the Single ladies", the
nerdy bunch in The big bang theory and Vijay TV Super singer.
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Some 3 weeks later
on the new appointment date, an engineer came and installed Sky TV which came
free, a service which we didn’t ask.Then he tested
something on the telephone socket in the wall, looked at us. My wife and I eagerly
looked at him. He turned his eyes back to the telephone socket and told that it is
connected at this end and Sky needs to find the exchange to plug in the other
end. By the time we realized the potential impact of those lines he is gone. Please
read the first sentence of the second paragraph again
Never thought I
would stop by to watch Sky arts1 channel when changing channels.It was a program on
John Lennon composing in Ascot,near London in 1971 with Yuko Ono. Watched with
astonishment, the Beatle who gave “Give peace a chance” and “Imagine” strolling
in the nearby fields smoking/drinking with Yuko.On the other side,
thought about the musical geniuses like Ilayaraja and Rahman who are deeply
religious.
Couldn’t understand
where music comes from. Remembered Vadivelu’s comedy “Isai engirunthu
varukirathu”..
Between, the next appointment for Sky folks
to install BB and Tel is 3 weeks from today.
The wait continues..
