Confused

Scenario:
I went to SBI (State Bank of India) to open a PPF (Public Provident Fund) account.

Reality Check:

The Documents required for opening of this account are as follows:

1) Address Proof

-Yay, I have a lot of address proofs! Water Bill, electricity bill, Rent agreement, but all are in my flat owners name, since I am on rent here, they are not in my name, so what, they still would be valid. When the Election Commission of India accepts it, so should they, attached with a valid Identity proof, and nationality proof
Reality Check: No they are not valid, you need an address proof in YOUR Name. Now that seems a tough task, why don't these government authorities sync with each other, why do you require "n" number of documents for "n" different purposes.

-Oh okay, I have a Landline and Mobile Phone in my name, and on this address, and the good news is that they do accept these private suervice provider's bills. But since I wanted to be nature friendly, I have registered for e-bill, obviously in order to save paper. So I can take a printout from my online account (of the mobile pohone service provider) and that should work!
Reality check: No you need a bill which has been delivered to your address, but what happens to the nature, I have registered for the e-bill. Well then I cancel that, wait for a month, get the bill and will use that. Now I want to cancel the paper bill and want to revert back to the e-bill, but there is some error / miscommunication, I don't know what, and the paper bill still keeps coming, f*&k with nature....

- Can I use the company letter stating that I live on this address, since the Passport authority of India accepts this, so should SBI. Isn't Passport authority of India more concerned about frauds and security ?
Reality Check: No they don't accept this, my company needs to have all salary accounts with them......

2) Passport Copy

-Wow I have that !

3) PAN Card:

-I have that as well!

But this bloody address proof gives me frustration every time I go to these authorities. I just hope that after the unique UID assignment these problems wont creep up. But wait, isnt that a Govenrment authority as well ? Weren't there already enough number of identities available? I am confused

Chutti hai.....

UP must be the only state in this country where we have so many leaves. Just spoke to Dad and found that they have 5 DAYS OF HOLIDAY. The breakup is as follows:
1) Vishwakarma Pooja
2) Jamat ul vida
3) maharaja agrasen jayanti
4) id-ul-fitr
2 and 4 I agree are regular festivals, but has anybody heard of "Maharaja Agrasen" ? Somebody save this state from Behenji....
A little googling gave me this info:
Maharaja Agrasena (also Agrasen) (Devanagari: अग्रसेन) was a legendary Indian king of Agroha, a city of traders, from whom the Agrawal and Agrahari clan traces its origin. He is credited with the establishment of a kingdom of traders in North India, and is known for his compassion in refusing to slaughter animals in yajnas
It seems that Behenji is out wooing the Baniya community now, she has anyways declared a State holiday for Parshuram Jayanti (in order to woo the Brahmins).

Wear an old coat, buy a new Book

Thanks to some Shopper's stop gift vouchers. I pampered myself with some new books

1) A corner of foreign field - Ramchandra Guha
2) Witout Fear (Bhagat Singh's Biography_ - Kuldip Nayar
3) Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (wanted to buy this since a long time)
4) A thousand splendid Suns - Khalid Hosseini
5) Kafka on the shore - Haruki Murakami

And I am very happy now!

Running back

Inspired by Manoj, I am thinking of running back from work. My home is about 11K from MG road, and Biwi can take care of the car while coming back. Guess we would reach in the same time with the crazy Bangalore traffic :)

Any suggestions ??

The Loneliness of Lalu Prasad Yadav

Guys you have to read this:

Loneliness of Laloo Prasad Yadav

The Jazz run

So with the Jazz run (ran 6.6K ) I kick started the training for the mumbai marathon! Yeah I know probably a little early, but I wasn't able to do it because of innumerable reasons last year and ended up running only a half. But this year I target a sub 4 hours marathon. For my non runner readers / friends, when I talk about marathon its strictly 42.195 KM. The idea to run that distance in a sub 4 is big enough..... imagine one who runs a sub four hour marathon (and there are a lot of fellow runners who do that every year) runs consistently at an average speed of more than 10.5 km/hr.

Now to the naming of this run, why did I call it "The Jazz run" well while running this evening I spotted a Honda Jazz being road tested, with all the logos removed. Now I waited 2 years for this car and they are launching it now, well I can say that probably the Jaz cannot have me as an owner, what a pity :-P. To all the other small car manufacturers: this kid is here to stay, so watch out for Honda Jazz!