Saturday, February 24, 2007

Satisfaction Guaranteed ... !


Well people all of us wonder whether the people at Pizza Hut actually mean it, when they proclaim free pizzas for unsatisfactory service..
Thanks to my friend Shekhar, I have experienced this not once, not twice but three times in a row ... and that too in the same outlet at Jurong Point :D
Shekhar must be thanking his stars cause the people at Pizza Hut just do not seem to get his order right..... Once they missed the capsicum .... once they gave us a regular for a large one and today they removed the tomatoes instead of the mushrooms.....lol ....(the event that inspires me to write this post.... though am struck with a hangover ... well its understandable.... its 4 am ..)
It was our first time in a PH here in Singapore... it was Sulabh's bday treat (yes "MR." Sulabh I am mentioning you here...)
Shekhar was telling us how he used to have free pizzas back in good old India for small faults of theirs' and most of us including me were thinking he was just bragging... we were proved wrong however ... and it dint take too long either.....
It was a hillarious scene for all those who were present there. we seemed to have realised that our family size pizza was missing its Capsicum .... and that was something cause we had already eaten half .. yes half of the God-damned family size pizza before we actually realised.... and everyone obviously turned to Shekhar to prove his point...
fortunately for us... Shekhar gathered the guts and called on the staff to explain.... it was kind of a scene that was created... the manager came in and apologized for the mistake (am sure he was quite pissed.. we had eaten half of the wonderful thing... Lol :D ) .... we got a full Family Size Pizza in return and we were all quite thankful to Shekhar while enjoying the extra slices.... none of us had really thought something similar would happen the next time we would step into the same PH.....

To cut a long story short the next they gave us a regular pizza and this time we realised their mistake almost instantly. but since we were in a hurry (we had to be on time to view Eklavya... refer to last post... ) we requested them to give us another regular asap... and thankfully again.. it was with best complements from our beloved... Pizza Hut.... :D

The third time (this also happens to be my third time in it along with Shekhar... )that is today.... we really customised our Pizzas and Shekhar was in the hope that they would miss something.. and once again... OMG.... once again .... they removed the tomatoes along with the mushrooms and this time again Shekhar realised it only half way through his pizza (unfortunately it was a personal size this time... lol ) ... and trust me even the pizza that they got in return dint have it alright.... They dint remove the mushrooms ... hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Well I dont know why.. but the humane part got the better of us and we made a really sad face to the attending person from PH and told him that look its really against Shekhar to eat Mushrooms (lol) but since we dont have so much time ( we had already waited an extra 20 mins for the new replacement pizza) we were going to somehow manage...... how nice... lol :D

I dont know how Shekhar does it... but man... he surely is very_very lucky at the Pizza Hut.. So next time you want to have a slice of your favourite pizza .. dont forget to take Shekhar along....

Cheers
Sparsh

Here is a pic that comes straight from the man himself.... lol :D

PS : Dont go on his innocent looks... lol :D

Monday, February 19, 2007

Eklavya , esplanade , fest , music , bowling...... hmmm its been an interesting weekend

The last three days have really been the most exciting of my stay here in Singapore...
My friends and me decided to start the two week vacation (well its almost two weeks ....only 2 days of classes in the middle....) by watching Eklavya at Jade..... it was a nice movie though some dint like it but what was really amazing was the walk down what is truly the landmark in Singapore .... the Esplanade ... sitting beside the merlion , shekhar , siddhant , raghul and me chatted away for hours finally walking by the Fullerton .... down till the Parliament area and then back to NTU ... (hehe ... we din walk down to NTU.. God! that would have been a feat.... )

On Sunday we had this really cool Indian fest called Tarang and people from SMU and NUS had also come down to NTU to take part in the fun..... The Quiz was a disaster.... i kept singing... "yeh kahaan aa gaye humm" ...lol .... the singing was induced by a hangover due to the really late night practice that we had on Saturday for the band performance.... ) .... wait a minute.. .did i say Band performance.... that was the most exciting part of the evening..... we had solo singing before that where i sang Such Keh Raha Hai Deewana from RHTDM ............ The band performance was really really really ...... cooooooooooool.... We people did 4 numbers which were falwless (atleast according to the band )... haha ... well I was personally expecting (or to put it honestly fearing )that the SMU people would throw stuff at us... lol :D there were a lot of technical snags during their performance and there was a lot of booing going on.. so we expected something back in return..... fortunately nothing of that sort happened... and for this thanks to the SMU people... I really was sympathetic with your band... (my buddies from SGC ... nitish and Rishabh were in the SMU band ).....Though we dint win (I dint win in the solos either... ) , I think that the crowd had a fairly nice time.....
A special mention here to the NUS Indian band which was amazing ... the violins were absolutely fantastic.. I do not have a video of that ... it was really professional... it seemed to me that I was attending some sort of an international concert... it was that good.. Hats off to you people.... :D
Had a nice time meeting my pals Nitish and Mishti at the event..... It was a bit frustrating though that were really interested in seeing the entire thing (even i was) and we dint get enough time to talk .. will catch them sometime later.... its sad sometimes being in the same city we hardly get time to meet each other..... man NTU is so isolated from the rest of Singapore... (in a way its good as well.... A university best functions in a sub urban campus......... )

Overall its been an amazing weekend.... Will never forget it ..... now its time to cover up lagging work... and trust me there is loads of it..... Website Designing competitions have a bad tendency of giving headaches and I have threeeee of them simultaneously to deal with ..uffffffffffffff...

anyways people ... wishing you a Happy Chinese New Year.. (haha am sure most of you reading this blog wont even know that such a thing exists... unless you are studying in Singapore..... )
Cheers
Sparsh

PS : Check out the videos of my performance in Tarang in my orkut profile.. that is if you have the time.... lol :D

Thursday, February 08, 2007

India Poised

Hey people

This is a really interesting video from the website http://www.indiapoised.com ... DO have a look..




Lets take India forward.
Cheers
Sparsh

Monday, February 05, 2007

NTU Model UN 2007

Hey people....
The last week certainly has been one of the most hectic days at NTU for me. It was great fun though.
This was my second Model United Nations conference so I had a decent idea about the proceedings of the councils and decided to do something different. So I took part as a member of the Press Corps - the Fox News Team . It was a tough job, staying awake almost the entire night compiling the articles together ... We made some great newsletters for the delegates and though we did not win , it was a great experience working with some wonderful people (this goes out especially to Dei and Ketki ) . The pressure of working under fixed deadlines was tremendous but at the end of the day, it was a huge learning experience. Though it really hurt in the end on not being mentioned during the vote of thanks for the effort on making the event's website (every other member of the organising committee was mentioned. :(
Here are the pdf's of the newsletters that we had made for the MUN . Hope you find them interesting. I would really appreciate any feedback.

Cheers
Sparsh