Get pampered
Who says spa trips are only for women? Treat yourselves to a spa session together. Make a special surprise appointment and join her for a relaxing pedicure and massage. (Lose 20 pounds in 14 days with our Swiss Formulated Weight Loss pill. Get one for you & your partner today!) You’ll both feel refreshed and relaxed afterwards. Go bowling, roller skating: Malls have nice gaming corners. So, spend few hours there by bringing out the (naughty) kid in you.

Go on holiday
Show your woman how to rough it out by taking her on a camping or vineyard or beach trip. Explore nature while you’re out in the woods. Make some camp food together. You’ll like the experience. Put your favourite holiday picture and place it on your bedside table.

Take a walk down memory lane
Take your girlfriend or partner to his / her hometown and do a tour of special places from the past. Drive to the home they grew up in, the schools they went to, favourite hangouts, etc. You’ll know so much more about your partner’s past. Go do some social service: Sound corny, but it’s fun.

Cook together
Nothing is more romantic than making a meal together. Go to the grocery store and pick out your ingredients and then head for your kitchen. So what if you’re not a great cook or can’t cook at all? Make the salad while she makes the pasta. Make the sauce together.

Work out together
Join a gym together and run on the treadmill if you can match your work timings. Or do it right at home by helping each other out. You’ll both get fit and you’ll be motivated to go if you do it together. I suggest you should use the latest reusable adult cloth diapers and plastic pants for better results.

As reported by me earlier, I was facing a really tough time with getting Broadband Connection from AIRTEL. I have sent multiple emails to Airtel and have made numerous calls to their customer care. All was falling on deaf ears and blind eyes… At least that’s what I thought. However, when I finally escalated the matters to 121@airtel.in and nodal.west@airtel.in, things finally started falling in line.

After a few more calls, Airtel finally gave in. I should say, Airtel fell in line and finally installed Broadband connection at my place. It was a victory of a consumer over errant service provider; it is a victory of a common man over a roudy organization… I am now quite happy that I have a fast Broadband connection, though I got it after a long wait… But all is well that ends well.

Airtel Broadband Services lacks the most basic requirements of a great service provider: Customer Satisfaction.

Below is a classic case against Airtel - see hoe Airtel encourages its employees (mainly field executives) to take the extra step to lure customers with “rosy” promises, but miserably fails when it comes to commitment. There have been lot of complaints against Airtel, but the below mentioned case surpasses the rest. It is a classic example of how shameful a reputed service provider company can be.

The following email has been forwarded by one of my readers, and I am attaching his email as is. Seriously guys, DO NOT TAKE AIRTEL connections.

From: Toshniwal, Sagar
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 4:00 PM
To: ‘wecare.west@airtel.in’
Subject: Complaint against errant employees making false promises

Hi,

I have once been a proud customer of Airtel Broadband (previous phone no. 022-40121665). Recently, I had shifted my residence in Thane (Maharashtra) itself and have requested for shifting my Airtel connection. However, I was told by some of your field executives that you do not connectivity in my area. Hence I had to cancel my previous connection. One fine day, I came to know that your team got the connection in my building and I was quite happy. I was happy because I was getting the connection which I always trusted.

My address: Building name: Morning Glory, Soham Gardens – Fairytale, Manpada, Thane West.

I got in touch with your executive manning a stall in my building complex and he assured me that I will get new connection within 4 days flat. I was overjoyed and promptly handed over cheque of Rs 500. This was around 3 weeks before. However, after taking my application form and cheque, the executive remained unavailable on phone. The cheque was already encashed for Airtel, but no connection has been given to me since last 20 days.

This is really frustrating and never expected from a company like Airtel. I have always had faith in Airtel, but after experiencing this, I want to challenge my faith…

I would request you to please establish the new connection at the very earliest. Also, please take strict action against your errant employees – the stall executive IMRAAN (no: 9665119948), his colleague VIJAY, reporting supervisor VISHWAKARMA (no: 9867697153). All of these have been absolutely irresponsible, had no intention of helping customers, and have been rude on phone when called for follow-up status. Such people can harm your reputation.

Please let me know when I will get my new connection – the billing date should be the date from when the connection will be established. Also let me know what action you’re planning to take on these errant employees.

I will also like to tell you that I have placed a request with the society secretary to REMOVE the Airtel stall, as they are misleading people.

Best regards,

Sagar

	Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart After Sandra Bullock showed the world how to handle a scandal when she swapped spit with Scarlett Johansson, and just when you thought it couldn’t get any hotter than that, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart accepted the trophy for Best Kiss at the same MTV Movie Awards, joked around a bit - and then made out! It was the moment Twilight Saga fans had been waiting for, and it’s been caught on camera for all to enjoy…
	Halle Berry and Adrien Brody At the 75th Academy Awards in 2002, Halle Berry was presenting the Oscar for Best Actor which went to Adrien Brody. As he got on stage he shocked everyone (especially Halle Berry) by passionately kissing her!!!
	Britney Spears and Madonna In 2003, at the MTV Video Music Awards, three of the biggest stars took to the stage to sing: Madonna, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. At one point, Madonna kissed the younger artists – but it was her smooch with Spears that made the cut for the most memorable events of the past decade. When a reporter asked Britney after the show “What does it feel like to be kissed by Madonna?” Spears responded “this is something I’ve dreamt about since I was a little girl”.
	Sandra Bullock and Scarlett Johansson In the highly-anticipated moment of the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock kissed Scarlett Johansson, the wife of her “The Proposal” co-star Ryan Reynolds. In a reference to her steamy on-screen collision with Ryan, Sandra locked lips with Scarlett to make sure she didn’t feel left out.
	Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock The Oscar winning actress is no stranger to girl-on-girl good times. Aside from garnering a string of accolades during this year’s awards season, let’s not forget Bullock managed to constantly hit headlines by constantly making it a point to physically express her “love” for fellow nominee, Meryl Streep when she held the tie in the best actress category with Streep in the latest edition of the Critic’s Choice Awards.

My all-time favourite still remains the Britney Spears & Madonna kiss. 

Which one is your favourite?

I have just seen RAJNEETI movie. i just came out from the theatre and could not resist myself from posting this snippet. People, RAJNEETI is an awesome movie. Hatr off to prakash jha for making this outstanding movie for us.

Everything except two are just superb. ajay devgn, arjun rampal, nana patekar, manoj bajpai, ranbir kapoor and katrina kaif - all of them have done remarkably well in their respective roles. the plot is clear, no confusions or confusing emotions. the characters are clearly architected. the cinematopraphy is fantastic. dialogs and dialog delivery is absolutely flawless.

The 2 issues i felt were negative are: speed and second half. the movie should have beem a bit faster & the love-making scenes could have been done away with. the second part is crucial but somehow it became boring. may be, some situations could have been dealt with in a better way.

But in all, it’s complete rocker. must watch movie, after a long time.

In addition to my observations and findings posted earlier, below are a few more reasons why i strongly recommend NOT to buy Samsung S5233A touchscreen phone.

1. i can prove that the SMS memory handling of this phone is poor. it stores all messages on SIM card and user have to manually move message to phone memory. the phone memory is also limited to just 500 messages which in itself is quite low. in my phone, there are 17 messages on sim card out of 25. still the phone doesn’t allow me to move any message to phone memory. i can prove it!

2. the touchscreen is embarassingly slow in responding to key press. even when i am typing (this) message using this phone, i have taken many minutes to complete a small message. it is unbelievable. many letters are typed twice, some keypress are not recognized and then the entire touch interface is sluggish. in all, a poorly performing substandard component.

i will post a few more points soon. dear readers, please share your thoughts as well. it will help others!

Why did i choose Samsung S5233A touch screen (also known as Star Touch) phone? well, this is indeed a difficult question for me to answer, because i was the only one who made the decision to buy this phone. now i realize that i should not have taken this decision in haste. yes, i am repenting my decision to buy samsung star touch phone!

there are many reasons why i have arrived at this conclusion. some of the important reasons include:
1. the processor is quite slow. every operation like key press, call ending, message deleting involves delay of a few milli seconds after pressing respective key.
2. the touch screen is quite amateur. the interface looks sluggish and the responsw time is pathetic. even when you are typing bit fastee, the touch screen is going to eat up a few keypress.
3. the message storage is very poor. new messages are stored on SIM card and there is no provision to change the default memory location for messages.

i will post a few more reasons why you should not buy Samsung S5233A phone.