Sachmuch Solid

Now picturise this, A man walks into a bar and orders a particular brand of beer, takes a sip, picks a dart and hits a bulls eye. To out do this gentleman another guy orders a beer, picks up a dart and hits bulls eye. The caption reads Sachmuch Solid.

Sounds familiar? you bet...the first guy ordered a Haywaryds 2000 and the second one ordered Haywards 5000.

And why am i telling you all this...because yesterday i had the heavenly experience of driking Haywards 5000 in US of A. Yeah you heard it right...indian beer in america :)

We were tipped by one of our friends (Jiten) who by the way does not take alcohol, that a particular place sells indian beer. So being such a big fan of indian beer (american beer sucks!!) we had to give it a shot, maybe we would return empty handed but then what the heck. If we did get the beer we would be as victorious as the Spartans.....(really??)

So we set out on our journey to Edison, Oak Tree road. It was almost 5months that i had been to this place so it took us a while to get there. We were racing against the clock as it was already 8:40PM and we were stuck in a jam. If we didnt make it to the liquor shop in 20mins all the effort would be nothing but a waste. I really never understood why the liquor stores have to close by 9:00PM. But time was on our side and we made it. The store was more of a supermart...with different liquor bottles lined up on each wall. It was huge. It took us a while to figure out where the Indian beer was lined up, but when we found Haywards 5000 lined up against the wall......our eyes popped out....it was a moment we will never forget.

There was a bright light and I was running to grab the bottle of Haywards 5000 in it. The beer was mine for the taking, then suddenly something hit me on the head....Damn you Mayank.....couldnt you have waited until I opened the bottle and drank it. What the heck it was a dream anyways..... (by the way if you are still wondering....this never happened, thats why its in a paragraph by itsef)

So we picked up the beer and now our next challenge was to find a BYOB....cmon you dont know what that is?? Dont worry neither did anyone in Edison. Its Bring Your Own Booze.

Since i was driving us around, Mayank was responsible to walk into every indian restaurant and ask the owner if it were a BYOB. Now since no one knew what a BYOB was he had to explain then in words, what followed was an angry NO from the owner and a sneer of hate from all uncle and aunties at the tables nearby, who obviously overheard the conversation....bloody desis :) (no offence)

We tried a couple of places but none of them were BYOB's, but as they say....At God's house there is Late but not Dark (bhagwan ke ghar der hai andher nahi)...we finally landed at Rasoi II which served Haywards 5000 and ofcourse Chichen tandoori!!!

After waiting for about 15mins we finally got a table and the server was amazed at the fact that we knew what we were going to order even before he got us the menus. 3 Haywards (for Me, Mayank and Pratik) 2 chicken tandoori and 1 chicken lollypop. What happened in the next 2 hrs was an experience that cannot be put into words.....there was beer, chichen and some really heavy philosophical conversations....that how you know its true indian beer...it has the power to make a philosopher out of anyone!!

Cheers to Haywards 5000 (P.S. This blog is not a marketing gimmic and the author of the blog is not sponsored by Haywards...but if you are a marketing guy from Haywards i am open to offers)

the BOSE experience

Yep i am writing a post about one of the most famous names in the business of sound. I have proudly owned a bose triport headphone for more than 3years. Thanks Akta for gifting me the headphones (and sorry for making you gift it to me).

Trust me to know what a bose feels like you have to wear it over your head......nothing else comes close to the experience......but ofcourse you would have heard about it and thats not the reason that i am writing this post.

So the first reason that i am writing this post is beacuse i havent written one in a long time.....and i wanted that to change....

It was about a couple of months back that my bose headphones quit on me.....the ear cushions got spoiled.....now we all know that i was born lazy.....i know some people struggle thru life to be as lazy as me...but what can i say i was born with a silver spoon...
So i never bothered to get the cushions replaced......until last week when i really got fedup of not being able to use my bose pair.....and finally called up the customer centre to place an order for the replacement cushions. Now what happend next just caught me by surprise.

So i called in the customer centre and talked to Jason....which could have very well been Rampur Deva from some call centre in India, but i doubt that, because Bose doesnt need to employ that many customer reps....now does it.....not if they make the products that ppl say they make.

After i placed the order for ear cushions...i just asked jason as to why i couldnt pick up a pair of cushions from a Bose showroom...to which he proudly replied that "Sir they dont need replacement except for a few cases" and i guess i couldnt disagree. I had owned this pair for a long time without any trouble, i dont think many ppl would be able to keep the headphones in a good shape for this long. Then i just happened to mention that one of my head bands was loose....and if i could get a replacement for that too.....

To this the reply was "Sir you could just send us your pair, instead of charging you for the repairs we will just send you a new courtesy replacement" i was shocked.....it took me a minute to realize that i was not shocked but surprised. Here i had a pair of bose that were a bit messed up and needed repairs....and this gentleman was going to send me a new pair if i returned my existing pair...Now thats what i call service...mind it the headphones were no longer within the 1 year warranty period....

Jason told me that they just get a few cases each year and they would rather replace them instead of charging the customer for repairs. I generally say that with higher cost you wouldn't necessarily get a better service....but guess what...BOSE does deliver better quality....of sound and service....with the higher cost.

So if you ask me which headphones should you go for....you know my answer .....BOSE!