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20220406 : update - crowdfunding

Well, I promised to let you know how it ended... For the past ~2 weeks, I have been doing back and forth on email and WhatsApp with the crowdfunding platform. I have interacted with many folks from many groups - campaign manager to generic support to escalated support to review team and every other nonsense team. The first thing each time is "please send us a selfie video explaining the campaign holding your aadhar card". I wonder if anyone had read the campaign ask! I have to start each time saying this is my condition, blah blah blah.. i can't take a video.. blah blah blah.. That's when they would not know what to do and pass me to someone else. Anyway, the last but 1 interaction was a little encouraging. They said, if I can't speak, get a friend or relative to do the video and explain the campaign with both our aadhar cards. I said what is the use of someone parroting the words which I give. Anyway , I said ok and I needed a few days to coax someone. I was cont

20220329 : Polished bowl

Some days back, my TV broke. No, it did not break down. It broke! Period! When I was in the hospital, my nurses took turns alternate days to stay at the hospital. One of them, one of the days, thought it was a good idea (and it was a good idea), to open all the windows and air the room. We get very high winds in this apartment. It's especially high if  windows are open on both sides due to cross winds. The TV is in front of one of the windows. Like an open sail, it caught the wind and tipped over. These LED TVs are very light also. So basically it committed suicide. The screen/ panel looked like a windshield of a head-on collision. I was not sure what to do. I definitely needed a TV. I would surely go insane without one. The last time I had needed to get this model repaired, it took months and they had given up - unable to get the parts for this model. They had given a replacement as it was still under warranty. So, getting it fixed, was out of the question. I had to buy one. Again