Vikash Gounder

These last couple of days my mum and I have been really busy running around since my grandmum who was 100+yrs old passed away on Dec 25th, 2008. It is very hard for my mother since my father passed away 4 months ago and now grandmum. Lucky she has got me here with her, otherwise it would have been very hard for her.

My grandmum has 9 children; 3 has deceased and 6 are currently alive residing in Fiji, Australia and Canada. Grandmum wasn’t a Indentured Labourer from India, she was born and raised in Nausori, Fiji. I think my Grandpa was a son of a Indentured Labourer and he was 7-10yrs old when he came to Fiji from Calcutta. For more information about Indentured Labourer in Fiji, follows these links:

• Girmitiyas: The Origins of the Fiji Indians
• Indian Indenture System
• Girmitiyas in Fiji

This year would be very memorable for me, since alot has happened in my life in the last 6months. This Christmas has been a sad one for me and same with the New Year. For all the readers, Wish u all a Prosperous 2009.

Recently I bought a new Nokia E71 and it turns out it has a really good battery lifetime. Understandably battery lifetime depends on the usage of your fone. So i decided to test how long the battery lifetime will last and had intended to monitor it too. Unfortunately I totally forgot the monitoring bit and my fone was out of juice this morning.

After charging and switching the fone on. It asked for a SIM PIN which I totally forgot and after 3 failures it asked for a PUKS code; I have no idea what my PUK code was. So I decided to visit www.vodafone.com.fj and on the lower-right is a Live Chat.

I managed to get my PUK code and able to reset my SIM PIN within less than 7mins, way faster than standing in line for a Customer Service. I have to applaud their Live Chat Customer Service and the person who chatted with me was Sailasa. Attached is the transcript of my conservation:

Vodafone_transcript