I'm in my hometown for my friend's marriage and its hot and fuming here in Nagercoil, though this should be normal this season. Arrival was not so fine bcos mom wasn't feeling well this day. Before too much boredom could surround me, I had to do something which I could do only this holidays. Maybe I wouldn't get some other time like this, after getting back to work, for setting up the broadband connection, which I had applied 9 months ago and still waiting. This small-huge thing had seemed an unattainable task for me in the past half year. I had been very thoughtful quite a number of weeks just thinking if this were possible bcos things of this sort were happening only in my hometown; the powercut, the delay in providing a connection, and few more.
Don't really wanna compare such things with Chennai, where I'm for the past 4 years now, bcos I know that would bring about the worst impression of my hometown to anyone and mainly the hometown-boaster in me. But still, this has been a v.long wait until now for a broadband connection since the time I applied for.
March 23rd - this day, as I mentioned earlier didn't seem fine when I landed at the railway station. After arriving home, I reminded mom to call up the BSNL office and check status of our connection as they had assured us of giving the connection by month end. So this definitely had to happen now before I left for Chennai. 'Twas good news when mom told me that BSNL staff would be arriving sometime in the afternoon and will be setting up the connection by today. I was happy on hearing this, but not surprised much. I was moreover anxious about their visit and kept thinking if they would really show up at our door. After an hour, we called up the engineer again and enquired about their visit time so that I could rent a PC or get it from a friend coz I hadn't taken my system with me there. After they confirmed, now I was really happy, phoned the nearby system people, who could provide me a laptop and not a desktop PC, for a day's time. I din't expect such rentals for a laptop in my hometown - Rs. 200/day. But it din't matter me today. Fetched the laptop home then.
Now, I was waiting for the BSNL people to come home. I couldn't do much with the laptop I rented, until that time, bcos it din't possess a sound card for me to enjoy some songs. And by 4 pm, three people arrived; a senior engineer, his jr. (i suppose), and a lineman. I welcomed them as I should be and they immediately stepped to work; took out the brand-new wi-fi modem from the box, connected the lines, powered on, got the cables to the laptop and configured. Hurray! my home is connected and broadband internet connection is working fine with good speed. All this done within 15 minutes. They cleared my doubts, which I asked them as well, and they left asoon.
I only had smiles later this day after 4.30 pm. Checked mails, offlines on IMs, Orkut, and then I din't know what to do. The feeling that I'm at home and connected over the internet kept me wondering. Is this what I've been waiting for so long? And all thats now over!! But this indeed is a v.long wait considering the time I had got multiple connections at our home in Chennai and also the previous place we resided. But I'vnt felt happy after acquiring a connection from any ISP in Chennai - bcos it was that so simple there. But this day - maybe this is one of the simplest things on earth - I felt happy. But I really shouldnt' get smiles for this bcos I'vnt got it for free; I've paid and waited for months, and connections are supposed to be given to anyone who has completed all required formalities. Still, this was Herculean task amidst all criticisms. This must be what "the simplest things sometimes seem very unimaginable."
This "part of duty" for the officers seemed a huge task for me. Just taking the positive side of things now, I would anyway thank all of them at BSNL for providing this now without further delay. Maybe everything happened as per schedule.
This day has brought me some Smile, real Smile.
[I started this post on March 24 (Tuesday - 14:51:01 IST) with the rented laptop, but before I could finish and publish, I had to return the rented laptop.]
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