Today I got the high security registration plate stuck to my car. Now it looks like a proper car without those ugly white A4 sheets on the windshield. I was put in touch with this guy called Gautam (9830882082) who asked me to come over at 10 am. Went with him and the job was done in about half an hour. I had to pay him Rs 250 as service charge. It was a smooth affair. The only issue with that place is it is full of cut nails all over the place. These nails are used for fixing the plates. After that they cut off the protruding part and don't bother to collect it or remove it. No one seemed concerned about it. I personally removed the ones that were lying in front of my car. Hopefully nothing has happened. Will check it out later. Some little boys come from the nearby slum to collect them. I believe that's how a mountain of such nails has not grown there.
Now the next and final step is getting the smart card. I found the touts have stopped calling it the blue book. I am supposed to give my showroom a photocopy of the receipt issued to me today declaring that the registration plate has been fixed. The showroom will collect my smart card by showing it.
Today I also paired my phone to the media nav. It is fairly simple and quite intuitive. In fact I did the whole thing while driving down Lansdowne Road. It worked perfect except that it didn't recognise Monisha's number. I keyed in the number. After that I called Partha by accessing the phone book and searched his number by name. Worked fine. Partha said the voice quality was perfect. No boom. Monisha said there was a little hum.
After this I will explore the satnav one of these days. Let me see how well it works.
