For the last few days I have been singing/listening to this song a lot and PB Srinivas voice so good to hear with gr8 lyrics from an unknown writer. Its just gr8 nothing more than that..
Probably I will try to get the lyrics in tamil and post along with this post sometime.
I’m always up for paying non-pirated content when the price is right and that’s the reason why I still subscribe to Netflix, Hulu Plus , amazon Video and even RedBox sometimes.
I thought Willow TV was one of the good business that finally found a way to feed the cricket starved North American south-Asians with a HD streaming for a fair price of 15$ per month. When my friends were watching pirated online streams of World Cup me and my friend paid 150$ to watch Cricket world Cup and believe me the picture clarity and the feeling of not pirating was gr8. I was happily boasting Willow TV to my friends and encouraging to shy away from pirated feeds which broke all the time, but today I’m recommending all my friends please not to give business to Willow TV and below is the reason.
I took up the monthly package for the 2012 India Australia One day series and got it extended for the Asia Cup series as well. Since there wasn’t any India series coming up in April I wrote back a mail to Willow to cancel my subscription and I got 2 mails from them one stating that 5$ has been charged for cancellation charge and other from CSR stating the same which is ridiculous.
When I request the reason for 5$ cancellation they point to flimsy terms of service which is never shown when a user signs up for the monthly package. Looks like this problem has been going on for a while and this unethical of Willow TV to punish users for canceling service when they have monopoly over cricket streams over North America. I’m not sure if I can file a complaint with Better Business Burea or even report unauthorized charges to my credit card company since it was my mistake not to read through the terms.
The least I could do is make a blog post and show the world how Willow TV treats their customer and hopefully this posts hits the first page of Google during searches.
So long Willow TV no more business from me and hopefully all my friends.
Its quiet interesting that I’m posting my so called 2012 to do list exactly on the same day I posted last year.
As per the status on 2011 resolution I was able to achieve only 3&4 and partially the 2nd item where I lost 5 pounds but gained it over the end of year vacationing in India. So yeah last year wasn’t the greatest but it wasn’t my fault that I was totally occupied watching India win the world Cup with all my friends.
Thanks to Facebook which I joined starting of last year exactly today my blogging activity has drastically gone down to 7 posts for the whole year.
Well this year I have decided to stick with only 3 items and try to achieve it. Here it goes:
All of the above require need a lot of dedication and motivation to accomplish. Hopefully I keep my self motivated to achieve all of it before end of 2012.
Whenever I read/hear an variant of the below text from news organization or any politicians I just can’t control my anger and today its a little high after reading this.
“After a so & so incident(mostly bomb blasts), the so & so city city people stood resilient,bold and went for work with out any issue”.
These statement has appeared so many times across different countries during different times since I knew and all I have is these questions for the writers.
Just stop these statements it really doesn’t make sense and report/follow up on the investigation of these blasts and please delete this news template as well.
April 2,2011 a day to remember in my life and for lot of my friends as well. This is the day Team India won the 2011 cricket world cup after waiting for 28 years.
The last time we won in June 25th 1983 I was a 3 month baby and missed it out but this time I’m here alive celebrating, enjoying every moment and going nuts. I’m still high on the victory and not sure if it will go off in a day.
I feel bad that I’m not in my home Chennai, India to celebrate and party with the crowd.
Lot of people turned for the world cup finals @ my place and we had a huge party after the match and totally enjoyed it. It was worth spending money on Willow TV for watching the match.
Here is an winning moment video:
Well recently I ordered a PS3 from amazon.com during the promotional 50$ amazon.com credit period which could be used towards any electronics purchase.
After playing around with Ps3 I realized its not a good fit for my internet streaming content and decided to go with Roku which was offering more content that I liked. So when I bought the Roku XDS (99$ – 50 = 49$) from amazon.com again and the ps3 50$ promotional credit applied itself and there was no way for me to remove it.
In a few days I returned the ps3 as well and I got back the full amount of 299$ credited towards my CC to my surprise since according to their promotional offer for ps3 if I return the product then the 50$ credit would be charged to my credit card.
So I thought may be its a different work flow process and eventually they would charge me . After like 10 days and me checking my credit card statement every day I got really frustrated and sent a mail to customer service asking why Amazon.com hasn’t yet charged the remaining balance for Roku XDS order.
To my surprise when I checked my mails just during the snooze sleep time, an customer service agent replied that they will not be able to charge the 50$ to my account and keep it as a compliment.I ignored it assuming I was dreaming and went back to my snooze cycle. So I finally opened my mail in the evening to check my mails and saw I wasn’t dreaming but the mail was true.
Eventually I didn’t feel comfortable getting 50$ as a compliment so I transferred it to American Red Cross for the Japan earth quake relief through amazon.com.
I’m quiet impressed with Amazon.com service and I will surely use their business more. I just can’t wait for amazon.com to get more streaming content.
Below is the email communication.
Hello,
I understand that you’ve returned the PS3 but still the promotion of $50.00 was applied to this order.
I also understand from your e-mail message that you need to remove the $50.00 promotions and charged to your Credit card.
I’m sorry it is not possible to remove the $50.00 promotions once it has been applied.
As our compliment, you can keep this $50.00 promotions.
Please accept this our compliment.
Thanks for your understanding.
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Your Name:A AL
Order Id:
Other info:PS3 promotional disc not yet removed from this order.
Comments:I placed this order and the promotional 50$ discount which I got through PS3 was applied. But I have returned the PS3 and amazon has credited the full amounts to my Credit card and gift card. I was wondering when will this 50$ promotional will be removed from my order and charged to my Credit card.
Looks like some where along the return process Amazon forgot to charge me 50$ and it won’t be fair of me to accept it as well.Thx
AL
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After being awake the whole night watching India vs England match my Internet connection dropped during the first 10 overs of second innings still not back up.
I’m pissed,sleepless and really can’t understand y the modem would go offline for an unknown reason.
This has made me to depend on att for the score updates and that’s how desperate I’m to watch the match and couldn’t find any open wifi as well.
Well I know its a little late to post my resolutions for 2011 but its always never late to do things.
Before going into the list 2010 has been one of the most stablest year in my life.No downturns, no pressure, no worries, no unplanned issues rising up,no resolutions to catch up for, tons of free time to spend time with my friends and I even made a 1 month trip to India for Diwali. 2010 was a year where I just roamed around in my own careless way.
So for 2011 I have a list of resolution that I need get it through and pretty much every thing is possible with a little bit of commitment on my end. Here it goes:
Well that’s pretty much the list I can think of right now and hopefully I will be able to achieve some of it by 2012.
Today morning I went in for H1b stamping @ Chennai,India US consulate and the consular asked me Are u a computer scientist? I was quiet taken back,perplexed, short of answer and was wondering am I really a computer scientist because I can program.
After a while of my thought process; I totally had to deny it and say I’m an web application developer.
But I’m still wondering why was that question asked and what was going on in consular mind?
What would you have answered if the same question was asked to u?
Yep I’m in India on a long vacation.
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