Intelligentle

"We are not giving you a new car, we are merely servicing it", was the response of one of those sincere service engineers when I pointed out the humongous service cost I had to incur after the last scheduled service. Besides questioning your intellect with such naive statements, they are also used to face the customer with any regret after doing a bad job. To put things in perspective, I shall provide a rough calculation of the maintenance cost incurred for my  Chevrolet Beat Diesel LS from the second year service: Year 2 service: 12000+ INR: T his includes a PCV valve replacement which was not included in the actual service manual. They told that they can alter the service manual without informing customers. Year 2.5 service: 6500 INR.  After one week of this service, a spring near/connected to the clutch was broken costing around 500 INR and I had to leave the vehicle for a day, causing me great inconvenience,  Both the front brakes jammed for no ap...

Its been a while, and if I am being completely honest with myself, its been quite a while. Oh, I have a valid excuse. I was busy trying to be a better person, so I could not write for almost a year. What?! Did I say a year? 12 months? 365 days? Well, almost that. So, am I a better person now? No, I don't think so. I am still trying to be one, though. However, I am happy that I was busy catching up with life. I learnt that the best way to be a better person, a better husband, a better dad or a better anyone is to be honest, more with yourself than with others. Digressing a bit, as many of you, I'm also a big fan of 'Joker' played by Heath Ledger. While catching up with the human being that I am, I realized that I am missing a bit of 'villanism' in me, the 'message sending' kinds is what I am talking about. I am in the mushy zone more of the time than in the 'tough'y zone,  Hey, that could be a problem for an aspiring villain, right?...