Bloom - PhotoPost

Linking this post to June 29 Wordless Wednesday.

Reliance Jio 4g Preview - User Experience

When it fell into my ears that Reliance Jio was offering a test access to its 4g network, I immediately signed up for it. I was to get unlimited internet data and unlimited voice and sms services for three months. But there was a catch – to avail the offer one has to buy a LYF branded smartphone. Now LYF phones starts from a minimum 3999 INR. If you buy a LYF phone, you can get the Jio sim for free. I got the wind 6 which cost me a 6500 rupees but I think that investment is decent for free unlimited internet access.

The activation process is simple and I got my sim activated within 3 days. And god! The internet speeds are blazing fast. My house is located a few kilometres away from the main town but the coverage was awesome. Jio network really needs to be appreciated for it’s the wide pan-India coverage.

Here are a screenshots of the speeds I got.

The speeds aren’t that consistent. They vary anywhere from 5 Mb/s to 80 Mb/s. You have to understand that the network is still under testing and have very less traffic in it. The real speeds of Jio network can only be calculated once it is commercially launch.

I believe that if Reliance Jio offers decent and affordable 4g data plans once it is launched, it can take over the market easily. I am enjoying my preview offer very much and I hope that this enjoyment stays even after launch. 

Race Track - PhotoPost

Linking this post to June 22 Wordless Wednesday.

The Beginning | Life as a Chief in Clash of Clans

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I clicked the game’s icon for the first time. The developer’s name flashed for a second and the game loaded into beautiful splash screen with intro music blasting into my ears. When it finished loading, I realised I was not in my room. I was inside the game.

They took me to a barren village and made me their Chief.

‘Build the village and protect it,’ I was told. I promised I would to do my best.

It didn’t take me long to realise that the land was magical, that I had magic in me. Two builders came out to help me. ‘We will build everything you want. Guide us, Chief,’ they said. I instructed one to build our first line of defence and other to construct me a barrack where I could train villagers into an army.

I watched them thumping their hammers in empty air and wondered what they were doing. Solid matter started appearing out of nowhere in the area that they were hammering. My builders were magical too. A few minutes later they were done. A tiny cannon was built by first builder and the other built me a garage like house. I was about to praise them when I heard some evil laughs from the adjacent forest.

My builders immediately started running towards the Town Hall. They shouted at me to come with them. I couldn’t figure out what was happening so I followed them. Every other villager rushed inside too. The insides of the main building of my village, the Town Hall were fantastico. But I wasn’t in a mood to appreciate beautiful interior designs. I looked out of a window in the direction of the evil laughs.

Five green creatures with long and pointy ears were running towards the border of my village. They kept laughing as they ran. There was certain greediness in their laughter. ‘They are the Goblins; they steal our gold and elixir,’ someone near told me. The goblins were heading towards the town hall. I freaked out.

‘We have to do something,’ I told in general.

‘We already did,’ one of my builders told me and smirked. He was the one who had built the cannon.

When the green goblins were just near the Town Hall, I saw the air around the cannon simmer. I understood the goblins were now inside the cannon’s range. Within a blink of an eye, the magical cannon fired. THUP! A big stone ejected from it and hit the goblin on the front. He evaporated into emptiness and the villagers around me started cheering. One by one, the canon took out all the goblins.

‘That was easy,’ I sighed.

‘Not as much as you think,’ a beautiful lady with brown hair came up to me and said.

‘Why?’ I asked.

‘They will come back again and in more numbers than today,’

‘We will kill them again,’

‘One canon won’t be always enough,’

‘We will build more,’

‘We don’t have enough gold to build more,’

‘What is your name lady and who are you?’

‘I am your minister,’ She smiled at me. ‘Call me Katriona. Come with me, I will explain everything to you,’

And then she walked away. I stared a while at her wavy brown hair and ran towards her.

To be continued in Part 2 | The First attack.

Run Up - PhotoPost

Linking this post to June 15 Wordless Wednesday.

20 Questions about Me Tag

I think I want to do the first blog tag and what better than the 20 questions about me tag. I wasn't tagged by anybody ;) But I still wanted to do it. Feel free to tag yourselves. 

1. Do you have a middle name? Yes I do. It is ‘Mahesh’. It is also my father’s first name.

2. What was your favourite subject in school? My favourite subject in school was always Social Studies. I loved geography the most. But later on, I go to the science stream and bid goodbye to geography.

3. What’s your favourite drink? It is the plain and simple lemonade. Nothing beats the pure pleasure of this.

4. Favourite song at the moment? Something I’ve been listening to a lot lately is the Shawn Mendes ‘Something Big,’ and Arijit Singh’s ‘Sanam Re,’.

5. What would you name your children? Lol. I haven’t plan for that yet. Let me decide when they comes out.

6. Do you participate in any sports? Nothing professional. Just Street Cricket.

7. Favourite Book? I’m not really much of a reader, so I don’t really have a favourite book, but if it is compulsory to name one, I would name the ‘The Kite Runner’ by Khaled Hosseine. A friend forced me to read it and I quite liked it.

8. Favourite Colour? I absolutely love Red.

9. Favourite Animal? Dog, Always. I have two of them. J

10. Favourite perfume? None. I am more of a deodorant person.

11. Favourite holiday? My favourite place to go on holiday is Goa. I have been there only once but that place is heaven.

12. Have you graduated High School? Yep, I left school in 2008. That is a while ago. I already feel old.

13. Have you been out of the Country? Never. I am extraordinarily poor.

14. Do you speak any other Languages? Well, Yes. I speak Bengali, then there is Hindi and English. So I speak three languages.

15. Do you have any siblings? No, sadly. I am the only heir to my parents’ wealth.

16. What’s your favourite store? That local Marwari store counts? It is called Kanhailal Bhandar.

17. Favourite Restaurant? Barbeque Nation.

18. Did you like school? I really enjoyed school. There can never be anything like the days that I had in School. School is bliss.

20. Favourite Movie? My favourite film of all time is without doubt Back to the Future. Do I even need to say why?

The Village Gate - PhotoPost

Linking this post to June 8 Wordless Wednesday