CARnama...

India seems to enjoying the love and affection and attention by the car makers of the world.

It has become the hottest destination..it seems the YASH RAJ in the part of world excluding India, must have painted a very rosy picture... or may be a GREEN (money green) picture.

You walk into a showroom and every type of car imaginable is available to you..

Big - small, petrol - diesel, fast - economical, red - yellow, MPV, LUV,SUV, UV, auto-stick, import - export,
winner - losser, affordable- just about affordable - need a loan - can just about afford a loan - need to lick behinds to afford, and then need to sell behinds to afford and last... dont have enough behinds to sell to afford

so what thus all this mean ? i think -

1) India is a filthy rich developing country ... USA- imagine how rich we will be when we D E V LOPED..
2) People in INDIA don't use bullock cart and elephants to move around , unless Honda, Fiat, Rolls Royce sell em.
3) Lot of traffic
4) Really lazy Indian, but rich.
5) finally you can make use of the speed limit (less) expressway ( you know what i mean ;-) )

but thats me.. INDIA is full of colorful people with colorful attitude and thought process..

but now have to get back to work.. so more on that later.

cheerio.. feel free to share your stroke of colors regarding this post...

I M BACK

Well its really been a looooong break...

Have been off blogging for a really long time.

but somehow today i was directed towards my blog, and having read the posts (my own), i realized, i was damn good at it.

so i am BACK

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*Vanilla Ice Cream that puzzled General motors!!!!*

An Interesting Story Never underestimate your Clients' Complaint, no matter how funny it might seem! 

This is a real story that happened between the customer of General Motors and its Customer-Care Executive. 

Pls read on..... 

 A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors: 

 'This is the second time I have written to you, and I don't blame you for not answering me, because I sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we have a tradition in our family of Ice-Cream for dessert after dinner each night, but the kind of ice cream varies so, every night, after we've eaten, the whole family votes on which kind of ice cream we should have and I drive down to the store to get it. It's also a fact that I recently purchased a new Pontiac and since then my trips to the store have created a problem..... You see, every time I buy a vanilla ice-cream, when I start back from the store my car won't start. If I get any other kind of ice cream, the car starts just fine. I want you to know I'm serious about this question, no matter how silly it sounds "What is there about a Pontiac that makes it not start when I get vanilla ice cream, and easy to start whenever I get any other kind?"

The Pontiac President was understandably skeptical about the letter, but sent an Engineer to check it out anyway. 

 The latter was surprised to be greeted by a successful, obviously well educated man in a fine neighborhood. He had arranged to meet the man just after dinner time, so the two hopped into the car and drove to the ice cream store. It was vanilla ice cream that night and, sure enough, after they came back to the car, it wouldn't start. The Engineer returned for three more nights.

The first night, they got chocolate. The car started. The second night, he got strawberry. The car started. The third night he ordered vanilla. The car failed to start. Now the engineer, being a logical man, refused to believe that this man's car was allergic to vanilla ice cream.

He arranged, therefore, to continue his visits for as long as it took to solve the problem. And toward this end he began to take notes: He jotted down all sorts of data: time of day, type of gas uses, time to drive back and forth etc. 

 In a short time, he had a clue: the man took less time to buy vanilla than any other flavor. Why? The answer was in the layout of the store. Vanilla, being the most popular flavor, was in a separate case at the front of the store for quick pickup. All the other flavors were kept in the back of the store at a different counter where it took considerably longer to check out the flavor. Now, the question for the Engineer was why the car wouldn't start when it took less time. 

Eureka - Time was now the problem - not the vanilla ice cream!!!! The engineer quickly came up with the answer: "vapor lock". It was happening every night; but the extra time taken to get the other flavors allowed the engine to cool down sufficiently to start. When the man got vanilla, the engine was still too hot for the vapor lock to dissipate. 

 Even crazy looking problems are sometimes real and all problems seem to be simple only when we find the solution, with cool thinking. 

 Don't just say it is " IMPOSSIBLE" without putting a sincere effort.... Observe the word "IMPOSSIBLE" carefully.... Looking closer you will see, "I'M POSSIBLE"... * 

What really matters is your attitude and your perception.** *

P.S - this post is a forward recieved by me.

Lauching the Nuke - 2010 525 d

Guys today is and will be the best day of my life till i become a proud BMW owner (or until i have Megan Fox making me breakfast ).

It is the day , i tick one thing off , from my bucket list.

Today was just like any other Monday morning , get up at 8 , do the regular stuff , have breakfast , watch tv and wonder why the H*** do i have to go to office today.

O damn !!! its 10 , running late . Put on the music player , the Custom painted Helmet and ready to feel like god all the way to the office ( ya right feel like god my foot , ask god to ride a bike in the rush hour , under the super sun with trucks blowing smoke all over you - even god wont feel like god then ).

Sitting in the office , with some work to do , over crowded area , masala aloo for lunch with half cooked puri ( no it aint my moms food ).

Still siting , trying to work ,wondering about all the pending personal work , just wondering and not doing anything about it .

suddenly my Crank ringtone jumps up and my erect communicator doing a break dance on the table , telling me , my friend Beemer Boy is calling.

Beemer Boy - ye kya caller ringtone hai , bhojpuri ?
Me - chodd na , maja aya na sunke.
Beemer Boy - wo sab chood , Turbo (thats what alot of ppl call me) , there is a 2010 525d , just for today , chalyega ??
Me - .......
Beemer Boy - chalayega ??
Me - .......
Beemer Boy - aree , say something
Me - when and where ?
Beemer Boy - come to the showroom NOW , car going by 5
Me -  thoda late chalega ...
Beemer Boy - if u want to drive , u come now or forget it.
Me - ok (confused ) , but abhi thoda KAAM hai ( suddenly i feel like a hero employe who gave up this oppurtunity (of driving the reason he feels he exists) to finish his work which was not that important)..dekhta hu, will call back in 10.


Now thats what the new 2010 BMW 525 looks like ..
Isn't she beautiful ??

So on one hand i had to finish my work ( which i was not aware was not as important as i thought ) and on the other hand i had a killer opportunity to drive a car ( which i believe is what i exist for "to tame the wild Beemers) .

Drive the car - loose the job - go broke - never be able to buy it  OR  Do the work - get a promotion - make money - buy my own 525d.

and so i sat there thinking , thinking , thinking and still some more thinking ..
You see i am not a big fan of the King Khan ( no not Amir Khan) , i meant this guy called SRK of KKR ,  once said  " jindagi jiyo.....(something i didnt pay attention to , all i remember ) , kya pata KAL HO NA HO"
so hell with whether i could buy one later on , i am going now ..heee haaaww
Went to boss
Me - Boss is this thing urgent ?
Boss - what thing ?
Me - this Ppt
Boss -  Whatt ppt ? ( this is when , is become of how less important is the work am concerned about )
Me - that corporate v/s government thing.
Boss - No , why ?
Me -  I need to go for 30 mins.
Boss -  where ?
Me - worli
Boss -  Why ?
Me -  Once in a lifetime opportunity ( what crap )..want to test drive the NEW 2010 BMW 5 SERIES
Boss - ....
Me - ....
Boss _ what is so once in the life time about it ? you can go tomorrow , day after or whenever.
Me - no , you see no one will get a Demo Car for until sometime , it launched last month , only this showroom has it for today , then she goes. i want bragging rights
Boss - bas***.......
Me - ( SHIT !!!)
Boss - Go
ME - ( NO SHIT !!!)
Boss - anything for a set of good wheels
Me - yes , the Boss is always right ( and at times like these , i love this thought ) .

So am off with a colleague , who is interested in getting out of the office and does not care a damn about the whole BMW thing .  YET

So we off on his Bullet , me sitting behind like a murga ( his backseat does not have a handle to hold on too , hence i kept on slipping backward . so to avoid falling down on my ass i was holding on to the knee guard , very bloody uncomfortable ).

Its 4.15 , we have to make it to worli , from parel by 4.45.
" Kushal , we need to reach there fast but ride slow ( feels like a shitty client brief ) ."

4.45 , we reach . Kushal has to wait outside ( just like any other driver ) , while the Boss ( thats me ) goes in and does the talking .

So am walking towards the entrance , full ARMAGEDDON style ( i am suppose to act like a serious buyer to protect Beemer boy ). Walking as if , i am gonna go in , look at the car , open my cheque book and buy off the whole damn lot .
The first gate , the watchman throws a tight salam and greets me " Good Evening "  with a big smile ( i guess he must be expecting me to buy one of the BIG cars his company sells )