I have been getting frequent updates from Reliance Mobile that their CDMA service is going to be curtailed soon. Free 'so-called' 4G sim was distributed to all CDMA subscribers with much gusto only to be found out later that they have still not started it and customers could avail 3G benefits on the new SIM. It’s been a long journey for me with the CDMA phones. I have been using it since 2004 and realised that they are far more reliable than the GSM. I remember the deluge of 26th July 2005 in Mumbai when all telecom service providers stopped their services due to torrential down pour even Reliance GSM was not working but their CDMA services remained on. The good word was spread by the local newspapers too. Turns out, the days of this iconic technology is numbered. It could not cope up with the fast pace of the world where smart phones and internet rules.
Problem with me was, I needed to give up on a reliable service and a reliable phone. A phone that required charging once a week. I was taking it slow and pushing this upgradation to a later date. One fine day my phone was dead sans any signal and understood it is now dead forever.
Ridhima has a new toy now- my simple phone sans the battery. I heard the batteries play nasty with kids. Last Tuesday I was woken up by Rinku in the middle of the night when she saw Ridhima writhing with high fever. She constantly had between 102-103 degrees the entire night and by the time the dawn broke she looked pale and sick. Incidentally, Rinku had an appointment with the passport office at 11 in the morning, she had to attend it anyhow so that the run-around of last week to get her a valid Indian passport remains worth the toil. I took her to our doctor at 11am and after a long wait (I have seen, Indian doctors do not have the sense of timing. They just neither value your time nor theirs. Useless fellows!) the doctor arrived and gave exactly the same medicine he prescribed when we visited him last. He confirmed that there is nothing to worry and it was normal stomach infection. She was fine by the evening that day. Rinku also got her passport application approved - only police verification is pending.
It was Saturday yesterday and we (along Ritesh, his wife and his kid) went to Juhu beach just to let our toddlers see the sea and the world that exists outside the confinements of shoe-box flats. We had a good time along with Ridhima who made and broke sand castles. I had to sleep early so that I could wake up and participate in the mini marathon (IDBI promo run) that was today - early morning Sunday. I left home around 4.50 am and reached Chembur just to see a huge crowd gathered at the prescribed place. The first shower of this monsoon made it even more interesting. We took or promo T-shirts and completed the 6 km run. I ran for about 5.5 km no-stop and then had to give up and walk. Once I stop running, I just cannot pick it up again and have to improve on that. Anyways, it was satisfying.
After a couple of hours of good sleep when I woke up Rinku informed me that Ridhima is looking sick again and have loose motion. Doctor told me in the last visit that she will go through this in order to clean her system. We are observing her closely anything looks worrisome, we will rush her to the doctor. She is having her afternoon siesta cuddled in her mother's arm and I have all the time in the world to write the blog for her before she wakes up.
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