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Phew

Gave the SAT Subject Tests yesterday (Math Level 2 and Physics). Chose the other Delhi centre – St Michael’s Senior Secondary School (it’s right next to Springdales School, Pusa Road) – instead of the American Embassy School. The atmosphere’s better, because the invigilators don’t bark at you. That, and the fact that the dustbins there are penguin-shaped. Guess whom I met over there in the morning? Gothking, from CW! (He was there to give the SAT Reasoning Test.)

I hope the ‘curve’ is lenient this time during the evaluation. With this over, I can now ‘focus’ on the Pujo. And getting a new phone.

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Personal Reflections Technology

Crash and burn

My phone crashed yesterday. That event, by itself, is stunning since this is a dumbphone. ‘Twas just lying on the table, switched itself off – and when I powered back on, ALL of my stored data was gone. No contacts, no messages, no settings – even the phone memory and my SD card had been formatted! When I tried to re-sync contacts from a backup on my computer, I kept getting a ‘USB device not recognised’ error. Eventually I did get it to work though. This whole incident really pissed me off. And now, GPRS doesn’t work no matter how much I try the correct settings. Try calling Airtel customer care and all you get is a recorded message asking you to SMS any query to their toll-free number. When you do that, you just get an SMS back asking whether you want to know your balance. I think they’ve been playing Bureaucracy lately.

BTW, Pony is off to UK now. Back to UK, that is. On 17th. He’s planning to impress some teacher by show her Pradeep’s Fundamental Physics for Class 12. I don’t exactly have all the details on how that will work out.