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MH
Member Since:Jun 30, 2003
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I've been working in Mumbai for about 18 months (its my first time here) since 2002 q1. I've written so far about my: <i> - cars (City, Corolla, Sonata) - bank (HDFC) - credit card (HDFC Gold) - mobiles (Kyocera, LG, BB) - GSM provider (BPL) - TV car show (CNBC) - clinic (Dr. Batra's) - laptop (IBM ThinkPad) - hospital (Asian Heart Institute) - brokerage (HDFC Securities) - life insurance (Birla Sun Life) - watch (Seiko Perpetual Calendar) </i> It felt good to unload all my frustrations and to have others learn from my experiences. I plan to write about my: <i> - CDMA provider (WLL) - household/renter insurance (Bajaj Allianz) - tax advisor (FileMyReturns) - appliances (Videocon) - living in Mumbai (Andheri, Powai) - my apartment complex (Raheja) </i> I look forward to unleashing the dogs of war on them also! Its soo cathartic ... its a stress buster!! Fav quotable people: Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens and Yogi Berra (baseball player for the Yankees during Mickey Mantle's captaincy). <i> 'A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing!' - Mark Twain. <b> CARS! </b> My best cars/trucks I've never driven: - Jag S-Type R v8 - DC M-Class 430 v8 - Porsche Cayenne v8 - BMW X5 v8 <b>- PT Cruiser Turbo (GT) v6 </b> Most fun to drive for me: - Jag S-Type v6 - Corvette v8 - Saab 9-5 v6 Most dissappointing to drive: - Mustang v6 - DC 320 E-Class v6 - BMW 540 v8 Best city to visit: Viva Las Vegas! Cars I've owned (first 4 were bought used in the US and all 5 were automatic): - <b>91 Toyota Tercel DX</b> 1.5L 80 bhp - <b>95 Mitsubishi Galant S</b> 2.4L 140 bhp - <b>96 Infiniti G20</b> 2.0L 140 bhp - <b>98 Cadillac Catera</b> RWD 3.0L 200 bhp v6 (yeah!) - <b>02 Honda City AT</b> 1.5L 100 bhp (blah!) <b>Brand Loyalty: Seiko & Aiwa</b> <i>'I have a photographic memory - I tend to forget most things in a FLASH!' - HK</i>
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Education: M.Eng. in C.S & BS in CS
Quotes: 'Its impossible to make anything foolproof because the fools are so damn ingenious!' - Murphy's Law
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Mumbai Ola Luxury vs Uber Cabs
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Reviewed Ola Cabs
I have used ola luxury twice for going to the airport and got a CRV and Fortuner so the cars are decent. this option is best for those people who get ac taxi reread more...
Big discount from MUM - DUB - DEL [23% off]
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Reviewed Goibibo
We needed to travel from BOM - DXB - DEL this month and the trip cost Rs. 26k on Emirates site which is a pain to use since it does not display the fares until read more...
CDMA for Rs.8,500 but still a waste of money
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Reviewed Blackberry Curve 8530
The motto for upgrading your cdma bb should be’out of the frying pan and into the fire!’ I had to upgrade my 8703e [which was also reviewed on MS in aread more...
42" LED from Snapdeal for Rs.39 k [42PFL6357]
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Reviewed Philips 42PF9952
Philips 42 Inches 42PFL6357 Full HD LED Television Got it at 0% emi with 0 fees on my HDFC for 6 months. Placed the order on Nov 20th and got it delivered on thread more...
Avoid buying chargers from this site
Reviewed Deals15
Placed an order for iphone charger on 29th Sept and it shipped on 5th Oct - that’s almost a week to ship after payment! very slow indeed for a small producread more...
Hd nexus 7 for $225 [rs. 14 k approx]
Reviewed Asus Nexus 7
The biggest drawback with any android device is the lack of online updates /security patches/ bug fixes unlike iOS. Nexus goes a long way to address this with Oread more...
Smartstick is unusable; avoid this rs. 5 k mistak
Reviewed Micromax
This tiny android device is what the larger apple tv s.t.b. is for the Ios ecosystem - a way to upgrade your ’dumb’ tv to a smart one at about rs. 5 kread more...
Order Cancellation
Reviewed Ekstop
Despite delivering to Chembur, they don’t cover Deonar which is less than a km away given that the dispatch/warehouse is equidistant from both locations [cread more...
13" air for rs. 65k from snapdeal
Reviewed Apple MacBook Air
Got our 1st mac for a good deal since i’ve noticed 11" Macbooks selling for the same price in stores around Navi Mumbai. took it on 0% emi with 0 fees to eread more...
How to further improve the Big Basket site
Reviewed Bigbasket
Sent this a month ago and got a meaningless response [as should be expected from any Indian grocery site I suppose]: ’I want to begin with complementing yoread more...
Avoid 3d movies unless u like waiting after!
Reviewed Fame Cinemas - Vashi - Navi Mumbai
Saw two 3d movies here in the last week [epic and iron man 3] and decided never to repeat that experience ever again!
My 1st android phone: a9+ [black] from indiatimes
Reviewed Karbonn A9
Please stop comparing any karbonn with an @iPhone in the reviews - there is no contest! only those who have not used @iOS for more than a few days would try sucread more...
Apple tv 3 from rediff [STB]
Reviewed Apple TV
Bought this set top box from rediff for rs. 7.6 k all in. works fine but needs hdmi cable [not included] for your HDTV. obviously this will not work without broread more...
1450 UB
Reviewed Pioneer Deh 1450 UB
Just upgraded the factory music system in my 2004 sonata gold since it did not handle mp3. the pioneer was the cheapest one with remote [i’m a back seater]read more...
Brokers charge 25% more than permitted by IRDA
Reviewed HDFC ERGO General Insurance
Mufaddal Insurance Consultants avoid taking 3rd party cover from them - IRDA has set an upper limit for motor insurance and they charge 25% above the amount maread more...
Airtel HD vs TS+ HD
Reviewed Airtel DTH (Bharti Airtel Ltd) (Bharti)
We already had TS+ HD for one of our tv and decided to get the airtel HD recorder for the 2nd one. 1. installation airtel started calling us from the date of puread more...
2002 City, 2006 Corolla, 2004 Sonata on LPG
Reviewed Converting Petrol Car to LPG
I have had 3 cars put on auto LPG over the last 6 years for about rs. 20-21 k each in mumbai this assumes a breakeven of about rs. 1/km so around 22,000 km to rread more...
Used 2004 gold automatic with 44k from thane
Reviewed Hyundai Sonata
Bought this car used from Mahindra first choice since it was the cheapest automatic around that was certified and we were able to pay with our cards for airlineread more...
Used automatic from thane
Reviewed First Choice Car - Mumbai
We are buying a used car for the 1st time but due to the risks involved, we only bought new until now. our requirements for our second vehicle were:
3g 16gb from reliance digital on airtel prepaid
Reviewed Apple iPad 2
Yes apple fanboys, lets get the obvious stuff out of the way: great design / form factor, awesome app library, snob value and that’s it! reliance digital aread more...
Ek Deewana, Ek Ada, Aur Ek Dussehra
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Reviewed Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat
"Ek Aurat ki marzi hi, uski marzi hoti hai. Aur us marzi se badkar kisi Deewane ki Deewaniyat, kuch nahi hoti hai". This line refers to many of today’s genread more...
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Commented on rahul_view's review
i got 2 calls today about a 0% loan for upto rs. 30 lakh and 30 years tenure if you buy 5% of rlife policy upfront and loan will get disbursed after 18-21 days. remember irda free look period is only 15 days! he even gave a minimum salary requirement of rs. 8 lacs / year for max loan amount to read more...
Commented on pandeypoojaindia's review
fully agreed but do add a little more content! i think videocon might have launched 1 tb recorders. the space issue is compounded by the fact that the full amt is never available to us. over 100 mb is reserved for useless services like v.o.d. that 99% of TS+ subscribers never use - might read more...
Commented on own review
finally dumped my karbonn after a couple of months and switched to my wife's old iphone 3gs with ios6! feeling much happier now with zero freezing / crashes and no more overheating despite having: 1. no flash 2. single sim 3. single cam [rear only] 4. only 2mp
froze twice today while charging and i had to remove the battery for restart. also i was not using the handset both times... surely this is EXACTLY like any iphone! PS: it over heated again to the point that even the screen was uncomfortably hot to the touch. that's what i call a qu read more...
so far the a9+ freezes up every week but today it froze twice requiring the battery to be removed both times and i could feel the phone was overheating - lets stop the iphone comparisons! i can't believe how unstable the firmware is - do other androids also freeze up this often? it also read more...
since i've reached the silly 7,500 size limit for reviews, i'll continue in the comments here: there are people who actually keep comparing karbonn to iphone! yes, even a tata nano can be considered 'better' than a bmw due to the following valid points: 1. its much cheaper 2. more dealer read more...
Commented on SmartA55_Guy's review
the list of things iphone3g is better than a9+ is too long for this comment section - but there are a dozen points in my review since i don't want to copy and paste here... but to humor you i'll put it in my comments section since there is no more space in the review itself.
PS: if you found this review useful, please rate it! if you find this incomplete, then i can't help you since i've reached the max limit for MS permitted. however i could try to add the missing info in the comments instead. thanks...
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