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  • Don’t #BookMyShow 

    Or why it’s so difficult to see a West End show in Bombay

    Today I hope to see the much hyped West End production Jeeves & Wooster that’s playing at the NCPA. Hope is the operative word because the tickets to this show have been gifted to me by Daughter No 1.

    Daughter No 1 tried to #BookMyShow online but her credit card was rejected because it wasn’t issued by a bank in India.

    So we went to NCPA but were turned away  because tickets for the play were not being sold at the Box Office but ONLY on line through #BookMyShow.

    So she asked Anna Shetty to buy them on her behalf which she duly did.

    Now once the purchase was made we had to get the tickets because the scan code on the e-receipt wasn’t a valid entry pass.

    But we also found out that to collect the tickets we had to ensure that the Credit Card holder was present or at least the Credit Card presented with a letter from the holder authoring the ticket presenter to attend the show!!!!

    Now isn’t that a sure way to NOT see a West End show?

    Does this also mean that ?

    Now if that isn’t discriminatory than what is ?

    Shame on you #BookMyShow! Shame !

    Update

    This morning Daughter No 1 had to run across the road to collect the signed NOC and credit card from Anna Shetty who was on her way to a scheduled surgery slated for 8 am ( poor patient was fasting for 12 hours).

    I now have to make another trip to NCPA and exchange the e-receipt for the Real Ticket after which I can see the show.

    Will I see the play? I’ll keep you posted

    I’m linking this to WriteTribeProBlogger Challenge

  • Three in One day! International Blog Delurking Week 2016

    Image by Mel

    Well, I myself am simply amazed that I’ve managed to write up THREE blogs posts in one day and that too in the first half of the morning. That is simply because I have some time on hand now and decided to catch the bull by the horns and make hay while the sun shines and seize the day. That’s three proverbs too many and before this becomes a litany of proverbs, let me get down to International Blog Delurking Week.

    Frankly, this is the first time I’ve ever heard of such a week and such a blog event and even though I’d glanced at Alphabet Salad’s post on WriteTribeProBlogger Challenge, I just didn’t have the time to have a proper look. Then I   actually read through it and thought to myself – Hey I know the feeling of being an un-acknowledged blogger.

    It is quite disheartening to find that you type word after word on a keyboard, often stealthily as I do, between baby naps, or half cooked meals, sometimes even furtively at a boring social event, only to find that there are no real visitors to your blog. Or even if there are visitors, they are just random visitors who quickly exit even faster than they came.

    So, what is International Blog Delurking Week?

    According to Mel  (of Stirrup Queens ) who I presume started this tradition and who I’m quoting verbatim

    Back in the olden days of the Internet, the first full week of January was declared International Delurking Week, and I still celebrate this ancient holiday. It runs this year from the 3rd until the 9th, so you have about seven days to slither out of the reading closet and check in with an “I’m here” comment.

     

    Having already commented on Alana’s post and Parul’s post, and also commenting on Mel’s post, all that was left for me to do was put up my own blog post commemorating this event.

    What does this entail?

    Hello!

    This is really a shout to find out if  all you readers out there are really following me? Are you really visiting my blog? Or will you remain the phantom visitor who somehow makes it to my visitor count but doesn’t really tally up as a real visitor?

    Show me that you’re really there by commenting on this post. A simple Hi or hello will do. Better still, leave a comment telling me a little about yourself, your favourite holiday spot or movie or chocolate or favourite anything to make me know that you are out there.

    And hey, you can share this badge and invite others to link up too. But hurry, you only have till tomorrow to do so!

  • Fallen tablets #WYHO

    I must hand it to Corinne. She truly seems to have those creative juices not only flowing but pounding through her veins. This time she’s come up with a wonderful idea that gets you committed to writing or creating . This week she has even managed to make a new badge for the #WYHO a weekly blog hop which I am describing below :

    Write Your Heart Out #wyho is weekly feature that appears every Thursday with a linky that will be open from Thursday to Sunday.

    1. Write a new post in which you free write.
    2. You’re also welcome to write on the prompts offered in current post and/or add links from your posts from the week.
    3. Visit and comment on at least two posts before yours.
    4. Use the hashtag #WYHO to share posts and you’re welcome to grab the badge too.

     

    I’m a sucker for pretty little badges and just couldn’t resist adding this one on to my blog. Sometimes I wonder if it is foolish or bravery that inspires me to join blog hops when I have so little time to organise my thoughts let alone pen them down. But then on the other hand, if I don’t have a commitment, I’m hardly likely to write in the first place isn’t it? 

    However, being short of ideas , I’ve used the photo prompt that Corinne has provided this week to come up with a few lines that this picture inspires

    tablets

     

    A hundred tablets fallen down

    And yet the pain won’t go away.

    How many  pills, ointments and balms

    Before the aches and twinges calm

    And creaky joints and

    Wincing spine

    Regain their nimbleness of yore?

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