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Good/Bad follows in cycles

Well, for the last three days, its been really hectic, frustating and elating. Yes, I decided to go to India and started shopping for tickets. I tried to contact some local agents and was not able to get contact to a sales rep, pretty weird, then I did online shopping www.makemytrip.com and the rates they gave me are out of proportion. I started freaking out and started wondering if its a right decision to go on such a short notiece. Then I again called a local ticketing agency, got some outrageous rates. Again did some online shopping and got frustrated. I again called the same local agency, Lawson Travel and luckily a rep called Nilophar picked the phone and she gave me some cool rates and I booked a tikcet on NorthWest airlines immediately. Next day she called up and said that my return date does not fall under promotion that is going on for NW and I will have to change my return date for about a week, which made me go buts again, then she gave me a nice deal on Air India, fianally I am flying on Air India, for a change. The worst part of Air India is they don't accept credit cards, I don't know what to say about that, its really funny, if I have to pay using credit card, I will have to pay extra carge for credit card processing. Some body save Air India and its passengers.

Well, then Nilophar gave me a link to my itenerary and I checked it yesterday morning, the journey is going to be Dallas --> Chicago --> London --> Mumbai and back on the same route. I clicked on the link again yesterday night and the route is changed for my surprise Dallas --> Newark --> Paris --> Mumbai and return on the same route. I don't know whats going on, I tried to call Nilophar today, she seems to be not there. Gosh, I am going crazy. This is just one story.

Then, total yesterday was pretty frustrating, HP service people told that my laptop has a defect which is not covered under warranty, for gods sake I want to know whats covered underwarranty, and they asked me to pay $650+tax for the repair, I decided to ditch the laptop and I frenzily started shopping for a new one, and everybody has a return policy of 15days, if something goes wrong with it, I cant return it as I will be in Indai and I will be in a mess again and I was trying everywhere no luck, everywhere its just 15 days. Then finally my roommate Sekhar told that he saw some laptops at Sams Club and they usually have more returns period. I drove frenzily and they closed the door on my face, hmm, what a day. Then returned back home and tried to download all the stuff and organize it on linux box with the help of Sekhar's laptop. Sekhar is one real good roommate I got after a long time. Usually 19 is a lucky number/day of mine and for a change this 19th is completely out of sync. Then once I entered 20th everything started chaning, the stuff that I downloaded and organized on linux box was going really well with out any glitches and my mom came on line and had a real nice chat with her and everythign seems to be falling in place. Then in the night at arround 3 in the morning talked to a guy in London about a huge project and if I can get hold of that project, it will be a huge one and a stepping platform for my future, what a DAY! Got up in the morning and went to Sams Club and inquired about return policy, they said they have return policy of 6 months, wohoooo, and their warranty covers anything and everything for 3 years, what more better will I get at this point of time. That was it, cool I bought one laptop, no interest, no payments for 90 days deal and a nice warranty, cool na. Then in the after noon Sri came and I discussed about the project that I had a call about and he gave a wonderful solution which blowed my mind, that is kind of perfect solution. After that both of us went to BestBuy and I ended up buying one cool digital camera Canon ELPH S410. Its a really cool small camera which I just put in my pocket and go anywhere. I am all excited about that. And finally this long post is also possible to do. Looking forward to more exciting things today.

One more exciting thing, I published my first complete infomation oriented post completely written by me at Living In India.

WOW WHAT A DAY!

Good things and bad things follows in cycles and all one should do is just be patient and capture the best of them.