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I could feel a twitch in my nose

Poetry, Uncategorized, What I Call Poetry February 14, 2012 Leave a comment

I could feel a twitch in my nose
They say love is in the air.
I could feel the music in her prose.
They say its her charm and flair.

I could feel the spearing black hole
They say I have fallen prey.
I could feel the love overdose
They say its the love spray.

I could feel it flowing from the hose
They say don’t fret, its all gray.
I could see the need to reach a truce
When I saw your heart on the tray.

I could ask them “But what’s love?”
They just smiled but didn’t spare.
I could be the fantasy or your muse
They say its love and you must share.

Why I don’t like WP Mango

Uncategorized January 10, 2012 Leave a comment

I have been waiting forever to lay my hands on the Nokia Lumia 800. Have been tracking WP Mango for a long time. Now as I have the phone for over a fortnight, I am loving it, but not quite.

The issue is, I love the OS for the Live Tiles and the People’s Hub. And this is where the problems begin. Live Tiles are awesome but developers are not really making use of the immense possibilities with it at this point in time.

Even Windows Phone isn’t, for that matter. Case in point”: If I get an sms the Messaging Live Tiles shows the number 1. If the People’s hub can show pics of my contacts in a 3×3 grid why can’t messaging? Why doesn’t it flip the picture of the person who has sent the sms? Same with calls.

Expecting app developers to make full use of this OS when the makers themselves aren’t. Worrisome.

Anyway, this is my opinion.

My second and last grudge with the OS is the absence of push notifications in the Me Tile.

Now, the idea of one stream of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is compromised because of absence of push notifications.

Why should I open the Me Tile swipe right for notifications and wait for the phone to tell me if there are any mentions on Twitter or on Facebook?

Now, to solve this issue, we have to rely on third party apps like Seesmic which gives push notifications for Twitter. This means, that if someone tweets to me specifically, the phone will alert me right then. If the Me Tile had this option push notifications, then the possibility of a third party app would have been greatly reduced.

Because it doesn’t do that, I have installed Seesmic which notifies me if there is a tweet mentioning me. With this, I have actually doubled my social networks on the phone.

The People’s Hub also has my entire stream and just for the notifications, I have Seesmic, which again gives me my Twitter Timeline.

And same goes with the Facebook app. It gives notifications hence downloaded.

So now, I have the Facebook app, the Twitter app (Seesmic) and the People’s Hub. The need for Facebook app and Twitter app would have been nullified (in my case) only if Microsoft had given push notifications in the Me Tile.

Why I hate Nokia all the more now.

Uncategorized January 10, 2012 Leave a comment

To begin with, I am fan of Nokia. My last Nokia phone was the 6600 and before that, 8250 and 3310. After 6600 I lost my love for the company. Not because it wasnt a great phone. I loved it. But, because of the policies that Nokia adopts to ridicule its customers.

With the Lumia series, I thought Nokia would have changed itself and won’t take the customer for a ride. It turns out, I was wrong. Again.

I have been waiting for the Lumia 800 since the day it was announced. Bunked office and went to book the phone the moment bookings opened. Tracked everyday when the phone is
launching and was the first one at the store to take the delivery.

nNow, Dear Nokia, the price of your Lumia 800, at Rs 29,999 ( $577) is pretty steep. And I come from using an iPhone4. Yet I decided to pay this money to buy this phone. Because I love Nokia and the WP OS truly is amazing.

And this is how you care for your customers?

Just a couple of months after launching the phone, you launch a bigger and better phone, the Lumia 900, in the US. Exclusively.

People talk about the brand loyalty and customer loyalty. I want to ask where the company loyalty towards its customers?

The early adopters of Nokia Lumia 800, the phone, you are supposedly betting your future on, are being treated as a second class citizens.

I dont really care about the dual core processor but a front facing camera and a better battery is missing on Lumia 800 yet people are paying through the neck.

Because its Nokia’s comeback phone and all the fans want to be a part of the success story.

And this is how Nokia responds to us. By launching a bigger and better phone exclusively in the US just 2-3 months after Lumia 800’s launch.

Nokia’s comments that the phone will be priced aggressively clearly shows that Lumia 800’s price will be slashed going forward.

Clearly, Nokia has no regards for its customers who believed in the company and waited to buy Lumia 800 and 710 for such high prices.

I feel stupid that I was so excited about the phone and spent a fortune to buy it when the company doesnt value its customer.

 

Me Vs Myself

Poetry, Uncategorized, What I Call Poetry December 31, 2011 Leave a comment

I shed tears
She shed her skin.
I touched her raw nerves
She touched my heart.
I felt I belonged to her
She collected her belongings.
I lost my love
She lost her mind.
I emptied myself
She was full of herself.
She was selfless.
I became self-less.

The Optimistic Jungle

Poetry, Uncategorized, What I Call Poetry December 31, 2011 Leave a comment

Even the scars may heal,
Or heart may dry up.
Red may turn into teal,
Yet, I will fuck up.
No more layers to peal.
Nothing more to blowup.

Nothing left to steal,
The blood, chokes me up.
You make it into a meal,
Continue to sail on the shallop.
Black heart in a veil,
Still far from the final stop.

It may not be a great deal,
And I try to pull the plug.
Time says will help to heal,
Life is the floor & it mops.
Someone will end this ordeal,
A flight from that perfect hilltop.

Whatever This May Come Across As

Poetry, Uncategorized, What I Call Poetry December 29, 2011 Leave a comment

Respect what’s gone
Your attitude is callous.
Nothing comes through
From the deathly hallows.
I scratched the surface
Life turns out shallow.
Hollow from the inside
yet the shadow follows.
Means & ends are split
Like a cut marshmallow.
This makes no sense
Left my mind fallow.
The sun smirks and life
Hanging from the gallows.

And it rained that night

Poetry, Uncategorized, What I Call Poetry December 15, 2011 Comments: 3

And it rained that night.
A blessing in disguise,
Could hide my tears,
As you walked away.
Each drop fell heavy on me
Each full of memory
Falling to the ground
Blue skies now dark
And black, dissolving
Into nothingness.

And it rained that night.
When you said we were
Not meant to be. I asked,
Why is it raining then?
And you walked away, slowly.
As it poured on me…

I felt I have been there before
And I wasn’t wrong. I was,
I was there, I was there.

And it had rained that night,
When I first told you,
What I feel about you.
The world was falling
Upside down,
And in that slipping sand,
Bloomed our love.

And as it rains again,
My heart is drowning,
No one to look after it,
As you move away, so did I.

Between Gray And Other Colours

Poetry, Uncategorized, What I Call Poetry December 11, 2011 1 Comment

The spoken lies
The blatant truth
The game of love
is nothing but a truce.

I ask you a question
You reply by one…
I wait for a sign
You paint the town red.
I tell you what I feel
You tell me what I don’t..

The spoken lies
And the unsaid truth
What’s a greater tragedy?
You not being with me
Or Me living
with you nowhere in sight.

I ask you a question
Its like a script
I know what you would say
Hopelessly in hope
You don’t disappoint
And I am proud

I don’t wish anymore
For wishes don’t come true
Unless I make them
I am lazy
No one can change that
You tried and failed
I never tried.

An experiment

Poetry, Uncategorized, What I Call Poetry December 10, 2011 1 Comment

Yes it affects me
What all you say.
I hope you suffer
Thats all i pray.
Your fallback
sunshine, make hay.
Its cold outside
But not yet gray.
What you gained
Will have to pare.
Life is a balance
Our options weigh.
The world of equals
We have our share.
This is a reality
Not trying to scare.
Peeled off your skin
Layer by layer.
Will see in the end
How you and I fare.

The mood

Poetry, Uncategorized, What I Call Poetry December 5, 2011 1 Comment

I cant stop grinning
Much to your chagrin.
The face is now aching
Heart filling up to the brim.
The insides are burning
The mood is not yet grim.
Although, its fast growing
The beard needs a trim.
I wish you were thinking
Of not making a prim.
If done with the accusing
Standup & accept your ruin.
What were you thinking?
I am extraordinarily dim.
Accuse me of cheating
Watch me go over the rim.
Kick someone else now
With your fancy and your whim.