RIP Michael Jackson !

Another eccentric but talented musician, the only English singer I heard for first few years, rests in peace today.

MJ was probably the only famous 'English' pop singer that children (in India) of my age would know when I was in 10th standard. I liked his songs, dance and hated it when he made one bad decision after another.

Watching his videos on Youtube today.

Why I didn't join LibraryWala

Well, I registered at the website (Librarywala.com) and was disappointed by a lot of things.

They have a registration fee of Rs. 499 that's more than 3 month's subscription. So if you want to try the service, you have pay a minimum of 4 month's worth money anyway. Are they afraid people won't come back after trying? A security deposit makes some sense but registration fee for an online service where you would anyway be making monthly payments sounds like apne pair pe kulhadi for that online business. I can't understand why they would have a silly registration fee unless their main aim was to keep people away from their business.

You save (INR) 0.00, whoever has written copy for them doesn't really have much experience with sales.

You get no discount if you subscribe to the yearly plan. That's probably one of the silliest part of their pricing plan. Taking one of their plans as an example: Cubic Plan(3 Books per month - 2 Books at a time) - 6 months charges 834 Rs. 12 months charges 1668 Rs. Someone please put some business sense in this website's owners. They would do MUCH better if they increased prices of 6 monthly plans. By using this pricing, they are discouraging people from going for yearly plans.

Copyright dates: They are still living in 2008.

Invite mail doesn't have friend's full name / email address: I got a librarywala invite from a friend. It would have looked like a spam email if the friend had not informed me about it.

Library wala recommends / hot rentals: I would expect to see the book details when I click on these icons. They can have the 'lists' as separate landing page but don't make me search for a book that I already found.

Bad search interface: I don't think people will bother to use advanced search. The default search should let me search titles and author to start with.

I liked the customer service, as soon as I signed up but didn't buy any of the packages, I got a call and my registration charges were waived off but the person still failed to understand that their half-yearly and yearly rates are confusing. I might still try this service for a month or so because presently there are no good alternatives.

Part in Bangalore err.. Bangaluru

I will be in Bangaluru for a week. A vacation after a long time. Will also meet Steamy Tal and moderate fights between Anti-Me-Tal and Steamy Tal. You know which side I am on.

Plan to go to a sanctuary that I heard is good and may also go to other 'touristy' places that residents rarely go to. Saw this list of 30 things that Zishaan wants to do before he turns 30. I believe he has made really good progress in that and might be able to achieve / overshoot some of the goals he has set.

I don't want to set such goals but do want to find my 'status' on Zishaan30 goal scale.