A Trip to Atlantic City

Its been more than 2 years since we live in NJ and we haven't visited Atlantic city. We used to plan but something comes up and we kept postponing. A friend is here on his business trip, so we had a chance to plan for this trip yesterday. It was a short trip. We started from NY yesterday noon and came back by 12 in the night. 

We have never been to casinos before, so we had a good time. We went by bus and got down at Trump Plaza.

We didnt know where to start in the casino but started playing on a machine. A started with 5$ and lost everything. I too started with 5$ and to my pleasant surprise I won 64$. I was full of smiles when the machine started adding money and rang the bells continuously to annouce the winner. We were all curious as when the counting would stop :p

A kept trying with 5, 10 and 20$ and didnt win anything. I played with the money I won and won 20$ again. We kept moving from machine to machine and had fun. When we were roaming around, A showed us a machine with 5 written on it. I and our friend immediately thought it was a 5c/credit machine and inserted a 5$ bill. sema aapu - it swallowed our bills and allowed for one spin :D

We had some snacks and continued to walk near the beach. It was so cold yesterday. Anyway, we knew the weather and arranged for the trip as we have other plans for the forthcoming weekends. 

We moved to Caesars, Ballys and Wild west casino and played randomly, lost around 80$. Before we decided to start back, we tried a game. thani thaniya vilayadama, I and A played together. Mudhal Mariyadhai'la Sivaji, Raadha senthu meen pidikara raasi maathri ;-) and yeyy,  luck was on our side. We won 115$ :-) Since it was a 5c credit game, the points kept adding before it reached ~2000. So, we were like all excited and laughing. 

Our bus was at 9.15pm and we headed back to NY and reached by 11.30pm. We then reached home by 12.30pm. It was a fun trip :-)

J

Motivation

Glimpsing through the book 'The Success Principles' (by Jack Canfield) motivated me enough today. Planning to read that book soon.

Srinivas's Songs

I happened to listen to this song "Kaiyil midhakum kanava nee" from Ratchagan and loved it so much. I dont know how I missed it when the movie was released long back. Srinivas sung that song. I did not immediately get a list of Srinivas's songs on my mind. Like, Hariharan nu sonnaalae, I can recollect so many songs..antha maathri varalai...But coincidentally when I listened to some of my playlists recently, I found quite a number of my favorites sung by him. Here is the list:

* Poovukkellam siragu muLaithathu - Uyirodu Uyiraga

* Indha nimidam - Pallikoodam

* Uyirilae enathu uyirilae - Vettaiyaadu viLaayadu

* Mounamae unnidam  - Mozhi

* Azhage sugama - paarthale paravasam

* Nenjam Ennum - Aaru

* Mangalyam Thanthuna - Alai Paayuthe

* Apple pennae nee yaaro - Roojakootam

J

Ellaa Pughazhum Iraivanukae!

2 Oscars to A.R. Rahman! Yayyy! :-):-)

J

Fav Food

Of late, my fav food is lemon rice (my preparation). evlo saaptaalum thigaatama silathu pidikum la...antha maathri. India la irukum pothu, that my was least fav dish. Now, I have become an expert in preparing lemon rice and love eating it too :-)

Which is your favorite food?

J

Dell Customer Support Sucks!

A couple of fellows came from Hyd office to NY. They asked our help in ordering laptops from Dell and I bought one from my Dell account and another from A's account using same billing address. The online account shows 2 orders in my account and 2 orders in A's account. I realized it because of the same billing address but it didnt make sense. Anyone's account should show the orders made only in that account. I wanted to confirm this issue and make sure that Dell wont process 4 orders.

* I called customer support and the call kept transferred to 5-6 people and I had to explain the issue again and again for ~45 min

* Finally, the last person gave an email id (X) to contact for these kinda issues (hhmm why not the first person do that?)

* I emailed and waited for couple of days to get a reply asking me to email to another address (Y)  (why not they do themselves and get me a reply?)

* I emailed to the new id and waited for a day and got  a reply asking my account information (still they didnt solve my issue)

* I sent all information and waited for couple of days

* They replied saying that there are 2 orders in my account (hhmm was that my question?)

* I replied again explaining the situation and asked them to clarify the issues before my order got processed (I became impatient by then)

* I got a reply after a couple of days asking me to forward this issue to email id X (thats where I sent my first email)

* I replied asking them the same question and didnt hear from them yet!

I understand that the customer support has to follow certain guidelines but it is pathetic to see the lack of common sense which irritates the customer. Wont they be careful enough to read the complete email thread and take responsibility to clarify the issue? I received two laptops last week and my incident in Dell customer support is still pending!

Fortunately, it was just a clarification request. I dont know how a person would suffer if there are any real order issues. 

J