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Our city life has being all about finding an easier way to do things, do things within shorter time. Go home quickly from work and go back to work in a very short time without a hassle on the next day.

In this busy life pattern polythene bags provide the best and the comfortable solution for our good carrying requirements. But it is a much known fact by all of us that this comfortable solution has started giving us problems now. All countries around the world trying so hard to battle this problem, as it is creating life threatening effects to all living things in the world.

Not so long ago Sri Lanka also imposed a policy to control the quality of the polythene that we use. Because the greatest problem with the polythene is, unlike other objects certain polythene structures are harder decomposing in the natural decompose process.

Here I am not going to talk about how polythene has become a problem to us, but how can we control this and reduce amount of polythene that we release into the environment.

Have you ever wondered how much of polythene bags that you use for a day? May be when you are going shopping, when you are going to the market. Some of you may answer very rarely that you use them. But think about when you are buying food from super markets, pastry shops or when you are buying certain products from the markets. Most of the time the person who stuff your goods into your bags may be packing may categorized them and put them in the different bags. Yes it is convenient but think he/she may be packing things into 2 or many bags that you would not mind even they were packed in one bag. There at that point you are increasing the usage of polythene by 2 or many times than you could manage with.  At that point if you can mention to the person that you don’t mind if he/she put certain goods in one bag. You are cutting down that extra release of polythene into the environment. I usually do it even when I am buying pastries from the pastry shop, I always mention  to use one bag to stuff my food if there is no situation that I should be separating them into 2 -3 bags.

If we can keep our grocery bags for another use, we are cutting down the amount of bags that we release to the environment. As one person we don’t see a big picture, but imagine, if we all are doing the same everyday. I am sure we can do a huge impact on the pollution that caused by polythene.

This is not for the future generation but for the rest of our lifetime. To live in a clean environment.

It is always harder to think about the future and save all to the future generation. Sometimes it may by frustrating, so why not just think about today and about us. Coz if we create a good life for us today. The generation who is inheriting the same from us will not have any problem. So what we save for us will be saved for the future.

Please leave a comment guys.. thanX

Getting ready for a nice weekend..! so thought to post some comments about the “Talk in the Town” Topic AirTel,

So many happy comments, so many bad comments, Still I am getting emails with all sorts of comments about airtel.

Just now I got my AirTel Broadband connection activated, so far I am in a position of to post in few comments about our new visitor of mobile communication.

Ok enough with the intro. I’ll get in to the topic.

Though I got this connection activated today, It took me 4 days and 7 telephone calls to their Customer care, to get this activated. That means I get the credit for getting my connection activated today, since I the effort is mine to get that done. When I purchased this connection I was told that it would take maximum of 3 days ( 72 hours ) get my new connection activated. so the excitement that I had to test this connection got me counting days. I waiting for 2 days for the connection. I use to plug my modem with the New SIM card to see whether it is activated during that time. when I see no response I started calling Customer care to get my connection activated. I spoke to 7 different guys what they all did was taking my mobile number, my name, my SIM number (which i got really irritated reading that long  number 7 times ), and my AirTel number to log a complain.

So after keep on calling for 2 days for 7 times, today morning i saw the good news on my modem software status bar with the “SRI 05″ signals. I left to work and came back in the evening thinking “ok now I’m happy to browse around with AirTel”. well that happiness did not last long when I found that I need the HSDPA settings to get connected. so here I go again I called their Customer care thinking that within a 2 mins discussion I would get the settings and I would be a happy web surfer.

Well the answer was not that happy. the 1st one who spoke to me was like fallen from the sky he didn’t know a thing about what I was asking. as usual he took my number, etc etc.. saying within 1 hour they will get back to me with the settings. that answer was not good enough to me. so I wait for few minutes and called again then somebody else took the call. well shame on me I got the same answer.. but different time frame.. 3 hours. I thought to myself  this is not working.. and gave up the idea of getting the information from the CC. i started testing my own guessed settings suddenly WOW.. there you go.! one setting  got accepted and I got connected.

if one of AirTel Head people get to read this. I have a few points.

01. Please educate your Customer Care people, Don’t let the Customer take care of them, at least give them a printed paper with relevant details, settings, values, prices, packages. so at least they can defend them self with having  a sound about what the customer talking about.

02. The AIrTel website. I really don’t find it helpful, being a web engineer for about 6 years. I can clearly mention that the site is USELESS, I don’t even see a point on marketing view. it looks that it only wana talk about the company.

If you have an information oriented website, I am pretty sure that you are can run your Customer care call center with just a few people. I shall call it a well strategical website.

About “Sanga”

I got a few mails criticizing our beloved cricketer, criticizing the AirTel advertisement. Any one who is with a business and marketing mind would understand the basics of competition. I don’t see anybody who are in the category of mobile user complaining about the ad, so it gives a clear picture about the mud campaign.. (a public secret)

AirTel HSDPA Settings

Finally here are the settings for your HSDPA connection.

APN : airtellive
Dial in Number : *99***1#
Username : <Blank>
Password : <Blank>

OK quick update : just now one of AirTel guys spoke to me with the settings. so they did get back to me

as he mentioned following are his settings and it did work.

APN : AirtelLive
Dial in Number : *99#
Username : <Blank>
Password : <Blank>

Next week I am hoping to review about the Sri Lankan HSDPA Providers ,connection packages and qualities.