[blonde cheerleader voice] Oh. My. Gawd. I finally have my scooter. OhmyGOSH! It's blue and I think it's awesome and I love it and I rode it and I rode it![/blonde]

Alright. Enough of that. Well it looks like I finally have my scooter. Hopefully it'll be permanent, and here's the reason why: I haven't paid for it. Allow me to expound:

I've been working with this dealership for about 3.5 weeks now. I ordered disc brakes on the bike because I wanted it to be safer than the drum brakes, and I was told it would take 10 days. Alright, I thought, 10 working days. Fine. 10 days passed. I called them again. 'Hi do you have the Blaze with the disc brakes yet?' 'No sir, it will be 10 days.' I became highly irate. 'You said that 10 days ago...' 'Yes sir it will be 10 days.' 'No I just said that--- ARGH.. forget it.'

I called yesterday and said, "You know what? Just get me the drum brakes. Yes. Don't worry about the disc. And yes I'd like the blue one. But guess what- if you can't do blue- that's FINE-- I'll do RED because you have 70 of them parked right here." I was met again with, "Oh right sir, yes sir, no problem sir."

TODAY I called an hour before I'm to show up and I say, "Is everything in order?" "Yes sir just come sir no problem sir." I show up at the prescribed time (5:30) and expect to have something else go wrong.

I was right.

"Okay sir, you filled out the loan details, right? Everything is done?"
"No, that's why I'm here- we were supposed to do all that today."
"Oh," and he gave one of those pensive stares going to nowhere. "Let me get the paperwork." I know immediately that he has no paperwork.

Basically the loan guy never got back to him because they were jacking around doing... oh... nothing.

After a lot of 'discussion' (to put it lightly) I gave them the ultimatum: "You give me this bike tonight, and you figure out the paperwork and whatever on your own time, OR you lose a customer tonight and you never see me again."

I got the bike.

Quote of the Day
"arshia > vinoj because i said so."
-Arshy. Sometimes, logic can be so hard to defeat.

Arrrrrgh. Alright so I'm getting a bit ..annoyed.. with India. First off Bangalore, quite probably, has more holidays than any other place I've been to in India. Now I know what you're thinking- holidays are good! No they're not. Not when everything in the frikkin state shuts down. Not when you can't go to buy milk/sugar/etc. And definitely not when you're dying of patience waiting for your scooter to arrive.

PLUS, tomorrow there's a 'bandh'. A bandh just means strike. So yeah. There's a huge strike throughout all of Karnataka. Banks, stores, autos, everything- closed. And what happens if they decide to run their business? The stores get stoned by losers who have nothing better to do.

GRRRRR... I just want my damn bike already!

After a tiring week, a wonderful weekend arrived. Tiring because I ran around like a madman trying to get a driving permit which I have yet to receive, tiring because I waited two complete days indoors waiting for a bank to come 'verify my address' so that I can be approved for a loan (for the scooter), and tiring because the rest of the time was spent either coding websites or chasing around auto drivers.

Sigh.

But, there is some positive to all of this. I got a good amount of work done. One of them is a church website, and I've actually posted it on my own server for now until they have the rest of their information to me. Make sure to check it out by clicking here, and leave a comment below as to your thoughts.

Another site had to be updated extensively, so that will be up soon too-- that should be Tuesday or Wednesday at least. But the link is here.

Last, Jojin came to me and asked me to do a poster for a church group he's part of. Considering he's my roommate, my cousin, and I like the guy, I said, "Yeah sure." Their theme for this summer camp for kids is 'Finding Nemo'. I think they want to equate it to the Jesus Fish and also about how the father searches for the son, and so on. Basically a modern-day prodigal son parable by Jesus. Anyway, there was a bit too much information with the design that they had proposed, so I finished theirs, started from scratch, and came up with another one. If you're interested you can check them out here and here. (Just a warning, they're both around 400K.)

So that's what's been keeping me busy. Also, I've started my own company- The Designs Bakery. I'll be taking orders (well I've already begun I suppose) for websites, print designs, whatever.

And with that, I bid adieu. Until next time.