Saturday, February 21, 2009

Luck By Chance

Distance between my office, and home is around 28Km and covering 28 km in Bangalore traffic takes more than one and half hour...So while commuting I am listen to Radio,
Then for 1 hour in evening I workout in Gym where I am listening to Radio again, and the last one hour before(rather while ) sleeping I am hooked to Radio......so total hours spent listening to Radio is
3(Home to office and office to home) + 1 (workout) +1(before sleeping) = 5 hours...
I listen to radio for 5 hours in a day....and that too all five hours dedicated to one and only one channel..Radio One, as this is the only channel in Bangalore which plays only Hindi music (and English songs late in the night from 12 AM - 1 AM)..So I don’t have much (rather I would say Any) choice when it comes to listening to Radio channel in Bangalore.
Radio One has so many contest running. Every 30 minutes they have some or the other contest where listener either calls them or sends them a SMS with the answer
And I too participate in these contests either by calling or sending sms. But whenever I tried calling to the number..either no one picked up the call or number was engaged....So I always send sms with answer. and to my surprise I never get any response for answer which is always correct (As i have vast knowledge on Hindi Movies and Happening of Bollywood....And I read a lot of bollywood news...)
I really think I am very unlucky...because neither my name is ever announced as a Winner, nor I get a call from any RJ.. poor me...
And later i decided why to waste money in sending sms to relentless radio one..
Many times, I could crack the toughest question (though they rarely ask real tuff question) and I would tempt to SMS them...but then I would hold myself back...because if I sms then, I ll HOPE to be a winner and this HOPE is followed by disappointment.....ahhaa so now i simply listen to radio...without participating in any of their contest.....
and then One Saturday afternoon, when i was relaxing...I got a call from unknown number, I thought another spam call from some bank for credit card, insurance...reluctantly i picked it and to my surprise a call from Radio ONE.....RJ Rashmi called me up ....My My ...and then she asked me whether i m interested to join one Contest where she ll ask me singer's name.....cool man and for that she will call me after 20 minute :)
On same day after 1 hour i had an appointment with my Doctor for my RCT...and getting an doctor's appointment is very difficult these days...I waited for the call eagerly 20 minutes turn into 1 hour ...it was time for me to leave as i had doctor's appointment....and as i was about to leave...I got a call from Rashmi...she gave me three Clues...It went something like this
She: Birth Date of the singer is on 30Sept 1972?
Me:No i cannot make out
SHE:His first Album was Q-Funk?
Me: Is it Neeraj Sreedhar...Wrong Answer
She: Listen to this music Clip ? "Musuu musu haathi duoo mai lei"..
Me: (if felt BINGOOOOOOOO) Answer is Shan ....
So I won the Contest and won myself a Goodie Bag ......yippee ....
She said someone from Radio One will call me and will let me know how to collect it.......So I am waiting for that call to collect my GOOODIE BAGGGGG :)
So moral of the story .Things (not Love) happen when you expect least. Or may be its just Luck by Chance

2 comments:

  1. That was indeed luck by chance only... so enjoy.. well now on I will too try if I can win myself a goodie bag... :)

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  2. You knw promy....till date i have not received any call from radio One regarding goodie bag :( so no luck ....poor me :(

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