My international calling facility on my landline got deactivated couple of days back and the customer service guy said it would take another 3 - 5 days to re-activate it. I wanted to talk to my mom, so was chumma googling for "free calling India" ;-)
Found this and a bit excited to see the trial offer of 10 free min (to India)..wanted to give a try and see if it works....Yipeee :-) After asking your name, mail id, phone number details, he sent a confirmation mail with a pin...thats all..call their toll free number, and dial the destination...I talked to my mom for 10min :-):-) orae kushi :-)
Also, I found the calling rates in this site pretty cheaper than the other sites I went through....anyone using their calling cards already??? lemme know.
I was curious to know if there were other sites with the same free trial offer. Yes, I found this. Used and talked for another 10 min with my sis :p
I was greedy by then, searched for other sites, but they seemed to have a tie up with the earlier ones, so they displayed "Our database records say that you have already registered with us blah blah".. naan "okay right thanks"nu veliya vanthuten :D
Appa thaan therinjuthu, ethuku phone number detail kaetaanu :D though I have 2/3 email ids, I could call only from my landline phone by then :D
anyway, waiting for A's mobile to use another 20 min from both the free trial offers :p
J
Friday, February 16, 2007
Monday, February 12, 2007
Nee'nu solraalaa?
A was on phone the other day with his mother talking abt some veedu-vaanghara stuff...
Aunty: ippa veedu vaangharathu pathi J enna solraa?
A (sirichutae): Avaluku enna theriyum....elaathukum ok nu solraa...nee vaangharenu solriyaa, ok...vaangha vendaamnu solriyaa...adhukum ok.
Aunty: (forgets that I am ok for anything and worries for..) unnai nee nu solraalaa??
Me:#-o
Aunty: ippa veedu vaangharathu pathi J enna solraa?
A (sirichutae): Avaluku enna theriyum....elaathukum ok nu solraa...nee vaangharenu solriyaa, ok...vaangha vendaamnu solriyaa...adhukum ok.
Aunty: (forgets that I am ok for anything and worries for..) unnai nee nu solraalaa??
Me:#-o
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Horror Night II
continuing the horror night experience
Note: Ayoo, ippa andha bayam feeling'ae illayae :p will try to write...illana elaarum vanthu adichuduveengha pola iruku :-)
A and I looked at each other after hearing the door knocks again. When I was about to switch on the light, A said "no, dont switch on the light". We both walked in the dark towards the hall. We stood near the dining table and A whispered "will it be the thaatha that you said who came to repair the room heater today morning". [The background for this question: I usually tell A abt the happenings at home. And, generally I will be happy if someone talks to me nicely. A always warns me (enakaevaa ;-)) not to give so much details and trust ppl.]. Ok, coming back to the story...I was confused for a moment "epdi elaam doubt varuthu Ugghh". He then asked "you have (Apartment) Super number". Yes, I did store the number and the telephone table is kept a few distance from the main door. I was not courage enough to go there and pick the receiver. Idhula enna kodumai'na, I was scared to see A's face with a detective kinda look and asking questions in the dark..ufff.
A slowly went near the door and asked "whos this". There was a reply this time "This is Thomas. Please open the door". OMG, this is the peak of my fear and I asked A not to talk to him anymore and lets call Super. But A replied "I dont know who you are. I cant open the door". I was like adapaavi..inum en pesitu..lets call Super. A was showing his hand, "nothing is happening..you stay there". enaku ennamo avan kaila gun ethavathu vachutu, andha door vazhiya suda poraannu thonitu irunthathu. So, I was asking A to come out of that place.
"Bang"--we heard the sound of the lift door opening at our floor. There was a silence after that. We were not sure whether that person was still standing there and somebody accompanied him or he left the place.
After waiting for 5 min with no door knocks or bell sound, we both went to the room. I tried to lift the window curtain and saw if somebody was going out of our building. I didnt do that finally. We went to bed. A was about to sleep. naan kotta kotta muzhichutu irunthen.
"Be careful. I dont know what I do if I wake up in the middle of my sleep. I might go, open the door too" -- A calmly said this and slept.
??!!!!??? (my face was like the yahoo emoticon :-O)
P.S: sound** [in the first part] -- Next day morning, when I opened my wardrobe, I saw my belt in the floor. :D
And our guess (still) abt Thomas is that he might have mistakenly come to the wrong floor and tried to knock the door located in the same place/direction of his apt.
J
Note: Ayoo, ippa andha bayam feeling'ae illayae :p will try to write...illana elaarum vanthu adichuduveengha pola iruku :-)
A and I looked at each other after hearing the door knocks again. When I was about to switch on the light, A said "no, dont switch on the light". We both walked in the dark towards the hall. We stood near the dining table and A whispered "will it be the thaatha that you said who came to repair the room heater today morning". [The background for this question: I usually tell A abt the happenings at home. And, generally I will be happy if someone talks to me nicely. A always warns me (enakaevaa ;-)) not to give so much details and trust ppl.]. Ok, coming back to the story...I was confused for a moment "epdi elaam doubt varuthu Ugghh". He then asked "you have (Apartment) Super number". Yes, I did store the number and the telephone table is kept a few distance from the main door. I was not courage enough to go there and pick the receiver. Idhula enna kodumai'na, I was scared to see A's face with a detective kinda look and asking questions in the dark..ufff.
A slowly went near the door and asked "whos this". There was a reply this time "This is Thomas. Please open the door". OMG, this is the peak of my fear and I asked A not to talk to him anymore and lets call Super. But A replied "I dont know who you are. I cant open the door". I was like adapaavi..inum en pesitu..lets call Super. A was showing his hand, "nothing is happening..you stay there". enaku ennamo avan kaila gun ethavathu vachutu, andha door vazhiya suda poraannu thonitu irunthathu. So, I was asking A to come out of that place.
"Bang"--we heard the sound of the lift door opening at our floor. There was a silence after that. We were not sure whether that person was still standing there and somebody accompanied him or he left the place.
After waiting for 5 min with no door knocks or bell sound, we both went to the room. I tried to lift the window curtain and saw if somebody was going out of our building. I didnt do that finally. We went to bed. A was about to sleep. naan kotta kotta muzhichutu irunthen.
"Be careful. I dont know what I do if I wake up in the middle of my sleep. I might go, open the door too" -- A calmly said this and slept.
??!!!!??? (my face was like the yahoo emoticon :-O)
P.S: sound** [in the first part] -- Next day morning, when I opened my wardrobe, I saw my belt in the floor. :D
And our guess (still) abt Thomas is that he might have mistakenly come to the wrong floor and tried to knock the door located in the same place/direction of his apt.
J
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Horror Night
After having a long walk yesterday evening, I was very tired and went to bed by 11pm. Mr.A too woke up early yesterday, so both fell deep asleep as soon as we went to bed. After some time--I didnt know how long I slept--my subconscious mind woke up after hearing a sound**..like something dropped down from the wall. my sleep was disturbed a bit. Though I didnt wake up physically, my mind was guessing that the recently hung wall clock or the dry erasor board might have fallen down. My mind was scared that the product was damaged and at the same time thought abt the already-complaining-ppl at the apartment right below ours. And I was still sleeping!!While all these things running on my mind as a dream, my conscious mind heard a few knocks at the door followed by the door bell buzzing once. With a sudden jerk out of fear, I woke up in a confused state thinking that the below apt ppl came to complain that we disturbed them and asked myself "Did the door bell ring really?.". I was 50% sure that it did and I woke up A saying "someone is knocking our door".
Without hesitation, he rose from the bed and directly went to the bathroom. Then I was very conscious and saw the time, it was 2AM. I couldnt stay on the bed, so followed A. He was refreshing himself but in a very calm way. I was surprised as how one could be soo cool after hearing a door bell in the midnight. I told him "enna ivlo nidhaanama panra..I said somebody is knocking our door. enaku bayama iruku". I was shocked by his answer "Oh, did somebody knock now..u kidding?". Hhm I then realized and remembered that A generally doesnt know/remember-in-the-morning what he does when he sleeps or somebody wakes him up suddenly.
When we were discussing this, the door bell rang AGAIN. OMG! Both were looking each other. Then he woke up completely and he was aware of his activities. He started walking straight away to the hall and went near the door. A asked "Who is this?". There was a complete silence!! I was like, sollavae vendaam. My hands and legs started shivering and I could no longer stay in the dark. I switched on the lights. My body went chill. I quickly glanced the whole place and checked whether things were alright. I remembered the sound and wondered if any of the hanging things is on the floor. To my surprise, everything was at its place. I wondered "What was the sound that I heard then? was that a dream? or related to the real knocks that I was hearing?"
After waiting for couple of minutes, A told that we could go back to sleep. I switched off the lights and we both went to bed. I started praying all the Gods in the world and held the Goddess in my thaali that we should not hear the knocks again. Man, door knocks at the night is soo scary, I tell you!
paduthu 1 sec kooda aagalai...Somebody started knocking AGAIN..This time, more knocks, and 2 door bells... My fear level, heartbeat went up. Thriller padam elaam paatha effect vera..All the recent movies were running on my mind. I started guessing somebody with the gun or something, trying to rob or kill us.
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Okay, this post is getting longer than I expected. Let me continue the rest of the real story later.
Stay Tuned ...
[idha solrathu enakae over'aa dhaan theriyuthu but couldnt control it]
J
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Yesterday's koothu
I had been to NJ MVC yesterday to take up the driving license written test (and yeyyyy, I got the license too :-))..I just wanted to write the funny thing happened there.
After three rounds of documents checking and photo session, I paid the fees and was directed towards the driving testing area. A person out there asked me to show the documents again. Unfortunately, I couldnt understand his English accent. I had to ask him repeat the sentence again. Ok, I entered the room imagining that they are just gonna allot a computer to take the test and didnt expect anything else.
Here is the incident:
- He showed a small instrument next to me and asked me to stand there..I thought he was going to take a pic.
- I stood there, stared at the piece and looked at him again.
- He asked me to keep my forehead on top of it. I was confused for a moment and wondered whether he was going to take a forehead print like the finger print or something..how dumb I am!
- After a few seconds, he asked me to read the 2nd line...OMG, appo thaan I understood it was the "vision test" that I was undergoing....sigh!
- Only then, my subconsious mind was alerted and sent a signal to my eyes.
- I could see the 4 lines in my left eye only and immediately read the alphabets in line 2 and was waiting for his next order.
- He sarcastically said "there is something on your right too"...Ughh, I was like ahhhhhh...I zoomed (dho da :-)) my right eye if I can see something....but seriously, until I concentrated and blinked my eyes couple of times, I could see only a blurd yellow light.
- Then, I saw the letters clearly and I read those.
- Thought, I screwed up the test...indha ponnu vandi elaam otta mudiyaathunu ezhutha poraarnu nenachen :D but he sent me to the written test :-)
Totally, had a thrilled time yesterday...taking the test, waiting for the result, expecting them to accept my Indian license, getting the NJ license card the same day etc :-)
J
After three rounds of documents checking and photo session, I paid the fees and was directed towards the driving testing area. A person out there asked me to show the documents again. Unfortunately, I couldnt understand his English accent. I had to ask him repeat the sentence again. Ok, I entered the room imagining that they are just gonna allot a computer to take the test and didnt expect anything else.
Here is the incident:
- He showed a small instrument next to me and asked me to stand there..I thought he was going to take a pic.
- I stood there, stared at the piece and looked at him again.
- He asked me to keep my forehead on top of it. I was confused for a moment and wondered whether he was going to take a forehead print like the finger print or something..how dumb I am!
- After a few seconds, he asked me to read the 2nd line...OMG, appo thaan I understood it was the "vision test" that I was undergoing....sigh!
- Only then, my subconsious mind was alerted and sent a signal to my eyes.
- I could see the 4 lines in my left eye only and immediately read the alphabets in line 2 and was waiting for his next order.
- He sarcastically said "there is something on your right too"...Ughh, I was like ahhhhhh...I zoomed (dho da :-)) my right eye if I can see something....but seriously, until I concentrated and blinked my eyes couple of times, I could see only a blurd yellow light.
- Then, I saw the letters clearly and I read those.
- Thought, I screwed up the test...indha ponnu vandi elaam otta mudiyaathunu ezhutha poraarnu nenachen :D but he sent me to the written test :-)
Totally, had a thrilled time yesterday...taking the test, waiting for the result, expecting them to accept my Indian license, getting the NJ license card the same day etc :-)
J
Friday, January 19, 2007
First Snoowwwwww :-)
Epdi irundha naan ...
Ippadi aayiten!
Today morning, I woke up and opened the window, OMG the green land, plants, road all covered with a white carpet!! Went downstairs, walked around the place, touched the snow, it was soooo soft..took in my hand, made some balls and played with it :-)
Yeyyy, me all smiles today :-)
J
Ippadi aayiten!
Today morning, I woke up and opened the window, OMG the green land, plants, road all covered with a white carpet!! Went downstairs, walked around the place, touched the snow, it was soooo soft..took in my hand, made some balls and played with it :-)
Yeyyy, me all smiles today :-)
J
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