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Disclaimer: I am in no way associated (except as a subscriber) with the mobile service company I am blogging about.

Let me share with you this impressive mobile phone service I subscribed, for free, that keeps me up-to-date on some of the latest happenings around the world, eh, India whether you can spare the time to read the morning paper or browse the Internet. I came across their service after a friend (I can't exactly recall where it was a she or he) forwarded me an SMS sent by this mobile service.

I did not know what kind of services they provide but had seen their SMS in other friends' mobile phone inbox (not through peeping though). What I did after that then was Google them out their website. I read their services and also, ummm, their privacy policy (always do this lest you don't want to be bombarded by ads and calls from other companies).

I followed the instruction posted in their WAP-supported website on how to receive their services in my mobile phone, more out of curiosity then. After a week or so, I found them to be quite impressive and genuine. I don't get SMS junks or calls from unknown companies looking for customers except from my mobile network who kept on sending me unsolicited SMSes and computer recorded calls (I once rough-shod a lady 'customer care' executive when I was busy in the office and her call came).

Many of you would probably know which mobile service I am talking about if you are already a subscriber to their service. Many of you may have not. For those bitten by the curiosity bug, try out the free services of MyToday, which calls itself as an India-centric mobile internet portal. They will send you News Headlines, Jokes, Bible Verses, Words, Horoscope, Quiz, and what not, everyday. I have the feeling - rather than getting agitated with your SMS beeps - you will love and get addicted to their services like I already am. They provide their fabulous services only to mobile phone users in India. MyToday is an initiative of Mumbai-based Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd.

Always the curious one, their services got me to thinking - how could they financially manage to send SMSes to thousands of subscribers with almost (?) no ads in their SMSes at all. Maybe they have their own SMS servers. But that would need a huge amount of finances. Sometimes I would say - they are rich guys and just want to serve others with the money they already piled up through some other business they ran. And sometimes - they got a good sponsor maybe, who have huge pockets. Also sometimes - maybe they tried out some and found a reliable and dedicated server out of the supposedly free SMS servers that Google listed when you goggled for such and such keywords. I am still without any probable and right answer. I even sent an inquiry to them once regarding my curiosity. Haha. I receive no replies though. :-S

Maybe someday I might. In the meantime, I just got to bask in their great service. My wish for them is that they do not get bankrupt, die and vanish like many start-ups. And the prayers to them? Don't charge for the free service in the (not near but) future or compromise the privacy of your subscribed mobile users. Keep rocking with your service guys!

For wanna subscribers to their services, you can get their daily SMS updates by doing the following (I am showing the example of only the topic I subscribed. To get the full listing of their SMS updates topic, go to the MyToday SMS section):

SEND THE FOLLOWING SMS TO THE MOBILE NUMBER 9845398453:

1. start news
2. start jokes
3. start quiz
4. start bible
5. start word

There Goes My Extra Eyes

Well, this is yet another of those unfortunate incidents in life. This has happened to me more than thrice now as far as I could recall. Just tough luck or simply carelessness could be the causes of it. Whichever it is, there is none of those “Life is Good” feeling whenever these sort of things happen and as a consequences one lose some dearly-held stuffs.



I had been four-eyed with glasses since my teen, maybe after I was freshly out of school. That probably was in 1996. Ten years wearing extra eyes sort of get me hooked to it, almost like a very old old man. As times pass by, it has somewhat become an inseparable part of me – an insignia of me. It sometimes felt like it is one part of my body. I am never without it unless going to bed or reading or writing. Although I assume it to be part of my body, I felt it dispensable during those mentioned occasions. Those are when I often left it lying around somewhere in the messy room, only to be searched amok when in need of it. Messiness and absentmindedness does not go along too well with each other indeed. Ouch!

However precious I may felt of it, it was around 11-12 last night when I broke my glasses. Maybe I needed new glasses as I wasn’t that comfortable with the very thin-rimmed glasses whose screws often get loose and required to be tightened every now and then so that it does not sha-ka-la-ka on the bridge of the nose, ever ready to fall off. The two extra eyes were only three-months old. I bought it in Shillong, for Rs. 1300+ (that’s rather expensive I believe) when I went home last April, after breaking the previous six-months or so old glasses while trying to re-angle the crooked frame. I broke (technically, not me) the previous’ previous while trying to untangle a friends’ brawl when one of them griped my glasses and three it on the floor – in anger (for my interference?). Bah! So much for trying to be a Switzerland! And so a lesson was well learnt.

To get back to the goodbye session of my last glasses – it was around that mentioned time last night. The room (also the building and locality) was in darkness. Thunder and rain was most likely the cause for the power failure. I was lying in my bed on the floor (with my glasses taken off), playing with the Nokia 1100i phone – sending SMS jokes and intentionally arguing with SMS friends (favorite pastime. Har Har). After a short while, the electricity was thankfully restored. I then thought, now I am going to shoot dead those bad guys in the “Hidden and Dangerous” PC Games. This is the one and only PC Games I get myself involved with, otherwise, I am not into PC Games. It surely does get very irritating when you are the one who get shot – bleeding, moaning and swirling on the ground in pain, lay motionless and die – again and again by those b@st#rds! But the excited thoughts were very short-lived. I had forgotten all about the glasses lying carelessly on the side in the bed. And now I need to get brand new glasses very soon with already a tight budget for the month! Whoa! Whoa!

Look at this – this is what I did to my poor and dear extra eyes: