Complaints, Excuses And More !

Well, I know, most of my readers don't even care that a blogger named Ankit B. Rathod ever existed. A lot of them might have wiped out Good For Nothin' out of their memories. But, but, but... I'm a phoenix, who rises from its own ashes (for those who need a citation, click here). I will always come back from a sabbatical, like this.

Actually, kabhi kabhi mujhe achanak se bhoot chadh jaata hai blog likhne ka. And probably, that's the reason why I can't give up blogging completely despite being busier than an Ambani. :P

Being very less frequent on the bloggerdom is my only weakness. And this time, seriously I'm working on to overcome it. My last post was on Nov 26, 2011 and today is Mar 07, 2012. That's exactly 3 months 10 days or simply put, its 102 days. Yayyyy !! I've hit a century !!! I should be happy, its my first century ever. Cricket mein to kabhi century maari nahi, blog pe hi sahi ! Well, don't worry, this is probably my first and last century ever !

Of late, I've been listening to a lot of complaints about myself. If I were in school, I could've been thrown out of the school considering the number of complaints I'm getting ! And being a true Indian by heart, we don't accept complaints against us that easily. We have excuses for almost everything ! Even if someone complains about Team India's poor performance down under, a true Indian fan would have something to blame on - the one less ball that wasn't bowled in the tied match against Sri Lanka. :P

Coming back from the larger perspective to a relatively smaller one, I'm gonna enlist a few of the complaints that people make against me, and the excuses that I give, and some more mirrch masaala. :P

Don't worry,  I won't enlist all of them in the post, nahi to jitne bache khuche readers hai wo bhi padhna chhod denge !

Complaint :

Aaj kal message nahi karta. Pehle to roz subah tera message aa jaata tha. Ab kya ho gaya hai?

Excuse :

Arre yaar, I've stopped messaging everyone ever since I lost my Nokia E63 (more than a year ago, on the onset of 2011 !). Us phone mein mera saara message ka collection chala gaya. And then I took HTC Wildfire. The phone is good, but its really a pain to send group messages in that phone.

And More :

The account that I gave is totally true. And this is one of the genuine reasons that I have stopped sending SMSes to everyone. Other genuine reasons not to be disclosed. ;)

Complaint :

Oye... tu blog likhta tha naa.... Kaafi din se tere updates nahi aa rahe hain... All well naa?

Excuse :

Ya... Of course, all is well. Blog to mera abhi bhi hai, but us pe post karne ka time nahi milta. Jab se ye MBA start hua hai naa, bahut zyaada busy ho gaya hoon... saans lene ki bhi fursat badi mushkil se milti hai.

And More :

Somewhat true ! :P

Complaint : 

No tweets for so long ! Pehle to teri twitter updates se pareshaan ho jaate the.

Excuse : 

Ye hi soch ke maine twitter use karna band kar diya. Wo kya hai naa, mujh se tumhari takleef dekhi nahi gayi !

And More :

Dude, if you think you're sarcastic, think again ! Sarcasm mein main tumhaara BAAP hoon ! :P

Complaint :

Mota ho raha hai !

Excuse :

To us mein bhi takleef hai tumhe? Pehle patla tha to kehte the kitna patla hai, ab mota hua to kehte ho mota kyun hai !!!! Complain karna kab chhodoge?

And More :

Its true ! Main mota ho raha hoon !! :(

Complaint :

Tu kitna travel karta hai? Bore nahi ho jaata kya itna travel kar ke?? Kabhi Pune, kabhi Mumbai, kabhi Falna.... Ek jagah to tere pair tikte hi nahi hain... Bhatakti aatma hai kya?

Excuse :

I love to travel ! And ghar pe jaane mein main bilkul bhi bore nahi hota :) Well, you can call me a bhatakti aatma, but a nomad would be a better word ! :P

And More :

Contrary to the excuse that I present, I don't love travelling that much, but its the destination that excites me more. Ghar jaane ke liye to mujhe aadhi raat ko neend mein se jaga ke bhi bologe to bhi I'm ready !

Complaint :

Less Facebook, Even lesser blog posts, Almost nil tweets? Kitna badal gaya insaan....

Excuse :

Actually wo kya hai naa ke mujhe ab gyaan ki praapti ho gayi hai... Ye sab moh maaya hai ! Aur main in ka tyaag karne ki koshish kar raha hoon.

And More :

Told you, I'm Sarcasm ki dukaan ! :P

Well, these were just a few. Agar sab likhne baith jaaunga to shaam to idhar hi ho jaayegi. Plus I have a lot of other things in my priority list. :)

People will never stop complaining. You just have to be more creative in the excuses that you present. That's what I'm trying to do !

Such is life !

Wildfire !

I remember publishing my last post titled (UN)Happy New Year on 3rd January. The same evening gave me another reason to call the new year even more unhappier ! I lost/dropped/forgot (whichever applicable, as I myself don't remember what happened) my beloved Nokia E63 somewhere in a hurry.

It was like parting with something I have always treasured. It was an irony that someone who couldn't stay without his cell for a minute lost his cell. I never believed in destiny. But of late I have started believing that everything is destined. And this time the loss of my cell was destined !


Well, after a 'mourning' period of 17 days, I bought myself a HTC Wildfire on 20th of Jan. That too within 10 minutes - something that is by far the 'fastest' deal of my life ! And I'm happy to buy this Android.

Initially loaded with Android OS ver2.1 (Eclair), HTC Wildfire with 5 MP camera with autofocus and LED flash comes a great value for mony at Rs. 13,600/- with bill. The upgrade ver2.2 (Froyo) to the OS is available. Although I haven't upgraded it, my brother who took the same cell the very next day has already done it and is loving it to the core !


The camera quality is great. The touch is awesome. Loaded with HTC's Sense UI, Wildfire aptly suits its name. The browsing speed is way way better than Nokia's age old Symbian phones. And even when connected on PC via cellphone, the net gave a lot better speed than its Nokia counterparts.


One thing I loved in Wildfire is the contacts integration with the social networks. The contacts get linked with their respective virtual profiles - be it Facebook, Twitter or Flickr - and then displays their photographs (from FB, Twitter, etc) and their latest status updates at the time of making or receiving a call. Its something unique, as of now.


The in-built web browser is flash enabled making it more attractive. Being from the HTC stable itself gives the quality guarantee. And being an Android, lots and lots of apps can be downloaded from the built in Android Market.


I was wondering why was I stuck with Nokia's age old Symbian OS for so long. And in fact, Google should have named this OS "Sky", coz just like sky, Android has no limits.


Starting with the looks, although it doesn't have some damn attractive looks, it has pretty simple and decent looks which is a HTC benchmark. With four soft keys and a fairly large capacitive touchscreen on the front and the 5MP camera and flash on the back, its a no fuss phone. Coming to the display, it offers SIX different home screens which can have a number of on screen widgets, icons and shortcuts.


The voice quality in calls is fairly good and the volume levels are excellent. The loudspeaker volume is also great. The image gallery offers some great features including slide show, filmstrip view and of course the pinch to zoom feature. The built in video player is a showdown in this package. Not upto the mark for me. And add to it no support for xViD and DiVx codecs. In simple words video files with .avi extension will not be played in the built in video player. To sort out this issue, I have downloaded QQPlayer from the Market. And now I can play almost all video formats on the phone.


The music player is fairly good. Nice interactive interface and easy to use options make it more attractive. The clock, the weather feature which locates your current location (with the help of GPS) and displays the current weather and temperatures on the home screen are some awesome features in it.


The Android Market offers you a wide variety of applications, games and other downloadable stuff. Just look out for what you are searching for and you'll get it in minutes.


The battery life is just ok. With full net usage, it stays up for a day. For some, it might be a good battery back up, but I definitely expected more from it.


THE OVERVIEW
All in all, HTC Wildfire is a great package. In fact its a 'mini' version of the HTC Desire. A competitive price tag makes it a real value for money phone. And with Android OS, it gets a MUST HAVE tag too. Wildfire, although not amongst the cheapest Android phones, is definitely a first timer's Android.