Picture: Taken by taken by Andy at Jaisalmer. From left its Boda, me and MK.

“If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with would jump first, I would be at the bottom to catch them.”
- Anon

I have a dozen of domain names which I bought from godaddy. All of them have been easy and clean transactions. But this time I wanted a .in domain for filmcamp which is not sold by godaddy. I thought either sify or rediff will be good. I settled for rediff as it was much cheaper. I happily paid Rs.640 and went to sleep after I got a mail that the transaction is in progress.

In the morning I was eager to map it to my hosting service. I tried logging into to rediff to see if I can access the domain records. There was no clue! Then saw the order it showed “Delivery Status = Pending”. I was not sure what it meant, All I bought was a domain name. I did a whois search to see that it showed nothing. I was lucky. I went to Name.Com and bought the filmcamp.in domain again. Can you imagine buying a domain second time? If they can’t handle a domain purchase properly how will they handle business emails? I feel sad for them. God save their business customers. BTW Name.com was cheaper than Rediff and I could use paypal.

Then I thought may be rediff will send my money back in a day or two. But it didn’t happen. Then I became busy and didnt think about my 640 rupees. Today I logged into rediff to see the status. Here it is.

They still think they can get the domain for me. Idiots. I sent a mail today to customer service. (They don’t have a toll free number. They just have one land line number of std code 022.) Lets see what happens.

But one thing for sure I am not going to buy anything from Rediff. It looks like Sify is no better than Rediff.

The first ever FilmCamp comes to an end with a decent satisfaction. FilmCamp produced more success than what I imagined. I can not express my thanks to the effort put by Hrish, Hari and Raghu in simple words; great job guys. They spent days to plan the event. Big thanks also goes to the conventional and non-conventional (aka blogs) media for spreading about event. I appreciate the efforts taken and time spared by Sanjay Jha to attend the event.  And last but not the least thanks to BRTFF community for all the support.
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What saves a soldier in this cold? Is it the Old Monk, photos, magazines or GOD? Its the faith that they have in super power. Baba mandir is one such place where both civilians and service personnel arrive for faith. Baba Mandir is at 13000 ft on the way to Nathula pass. The road constructed by border roads organization is very good. In fact I would like to drive on that road one day.

All of a sudden in between the white and brownish mountains you will see colours like green, yellow and saffron.Thats Baba Mandir driver informs us and warns us not to far from Mandir ” there is a chance to get lost or caught”. Its biting cold but everybody gets into the samadhi bare footed. The crowd becomes silent. Not sure if they are praying or they are just shoked to see this wonder amidst the barren land. I just think its a place where you go to respect your soldiers who laid their life for us.

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Inspiring speech by a football coach. Found it on Zoomr Blog. The game in life/field is won by moving inch by inch. Or in small steps. Just need to put our effort and have faith in team mates.