The title is somewhat misleading i no, ( or maybe not ? ). The long awaited phone or I shud say, paragon ( not the chappals ) of hi-tech gadgets was out on 22nd aug in India. And i don't know whether its a very " inn "thing to line up outside the stores for something very anticipated or is it just me who's being humble and hiding my anxiety ?? but i honestly heard people lined up in delhi for the iPhone.
That said, airtel quoted a nearing-catastrophic price really, and even engadget.com people felt the after shocks of the tremors in India. Well, honestly , i don't blame the mobile carriers for such roof shooting prices. In US also, its coming for 599 $ without contract, n if people in india don't sell it for more than 30k's, then i guess, the business-way cud have turned around. People wud start selling iphones from india to US.. ;-) I've read on many sites, people not happy with the price ( neither am I , to be honest ) and want the iphone to be below 25k's. How is that possible without a contract.. And, for the some ( who just flowing in the iPhone 3G wave, ) really need to wake up n realize the fact that its NOT for 199 $ ONLY !!. So many people have come up n advised me to get it from US n saying " ohh iphone is cheap there, only for 9000,," n this has happened so many times that i honestly have started thanking them for the advice.
Neways, on the down side, I can't accurately describe how much disappointed i was at first about the price. cuz coughing up 34k's for an iPhone seems more of a luxury than a slick move, but as my reptile friend says (which he claims to have invented ) " Passion commands premium " .
which, i fully agree.
So i'll wait for the right time and when the gush of emotions really cross the threshold barrier, I'll be holding one that day.. !!
Last week can be tagged " lively " considering the events. Not just for me, globally I mean.. !!
Solar eclipse, iPhone release date announced for India, and my driving test.. Yes my driving test for license..
I got my learner's license back in April but due to misfortunes and my own efforts kept delaying things. But finally the day , date, time everything clicked for once n I was finally up for my driving test. First the time of the test was at 11:00 in the morning, but it got stretched to 2 ( for god knows obv reasons ). The govt officials really don't give a crocodile's ass for keeping others on wait.
Reaching the pt. where the test was going to be, i suddenly saw people peeping into some paper, cramming something. I went up to see and oh oh !! Traffic signs ... Yikes !! I just didn't see that one coming, not in my wildest of dreams. Honestly. Not that I am not aware of traffic sign boards or nething, but there are whole chunk of them , n specially Indianized ones which gave me a scare. Some were really confusing i tell you, and something similar i could sense was happening .. The long lost feeling of collg days ! They just flashed back i tell you. Really, the whole scene, people crowding in, to sneak and read from the piece of paper, even if it doesnt make any kind of sense. It was just as if we rolled back the days, friends standing outside E-F block, to take a quiz or exam. For quiz i guess, we were more involved in making formations :-) Okay, lets not get into that.
Coming back to the test..
After 2 also, RTO officer was no where to be seen and the ever growing tension on people's faces was somewhat giving me a shiver too. Cuz, if you dont get atleast 3 out of 5 right, "Next time " is what you hear before you can even press down the clutch for the 1st gear.
RTO came at around 3 and i no how i passed that 1 hr cramming those road signs, this was something which took me off-guard honestly. I never expected Indian driving test to be with such deeper and intricate detailed stuff. I thought it would be just a simple drive zig zac or back or watever kind of thing.
As the test started, the officer asked ques , not the road signs, just normal situation given questions. They were okay but some girls just stumped miserably in the questionnaire round. One guy was told to come back next time bcuz he had BECKHAM written on his bike's number plate :-). And what was more funnier was, the officer asked, who's Beckham ?? I no, some of you will point fingers at me that '- oh cumon, ' its not that everybody knows Beckham ' . I totally agree but still you no, i cud have dropped my jaws honestly when he asked - who's beckham. I mean Beckham has to be one of THE most famous footballers on the planet. And as it turned out, the officer didn't ask ne ques n told me to reverse uphill. Thats it. Nailed it !! It was one of a kind experience i must say. Experience which reminded of my viva's in collg :-).
N ya, the Solar eclipse which recently took place was a mob mover really. People didn't step out of the house during the eclipse, didn't turn up to the gym. I mean damn !! Even i was ordered though, not to look at the sun directly. But neways, in India i don't think nebody saw the actual moon earth n sun lining-up thing. But certainly these dude in the video were the luckiest of all i guess to have witnessed a solar eclipse from a plane.
ok, iPhone !!
It was honestly a patient wait from my side with few bumps of emotions ( recently ), But nehow, the thing i have been wanting to hold the day it launched is finally here. Airtel confirmed the launch date of iPhone 3g. 22nd Aug. Nobody has any clues abt the price tag its coming with. 20k to 25k's shud be worth a Flutter. Nething more than that will seriously ( as i said earlier ) price out my emotions.
