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Miss Bijlee

Miss bijlee has been eloping with her favourite star Mr. Wapda the whole day today. There was a scheduled shut down from 8 in the morning to 12 in the noon. But then there was this unexpected break down in the humid hours of the afternoon. No electricity for 3 hours in the afternoon really cooks up a lot of things in the sun. This lead to me spending very little time on my step 2 prep today. I hope i am able to make up for the loss tomorrow inshaAllah.
My modem is broke and i have asked for a new one from lahore. I hope that i get it by tomorrow (actually it should be today now). Without a mdem there is no life. One can't put the computer to any use unless there is connectivity.
I asked for GPRS activation on my mobile and i have been obliged by the vendor. Its an expensive proposition for the customers of mobilink. They charge almost seven rupees per MMS whereas Warid charges much less. Similarly the charges for surfing the net are also much higher than all other vendors of mobile phone connections. The company is pathetic and i have let known my anger at it multiple number of times.
There is news that mobile number portibility is coming to Pakistan as early as October this year. But the only major hurdle in the process is Mobilink. They don't want the system to come to Pakistan since they fear loss of major clientel. I hope that they are made to taste disaster in this country since they have been looting their customers for a long time now.

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