A dark night indeed. Storm , low power , thankfully no power outage. Sitting from way before midnight to wait for Satyam ticket site to open its flood gates to all those Batman fans out there. No i am not one of them , i am an exception , above them all !!! (or atleast i feel that way). Told wife i shouldn't be disturbed as the next 2 hours would be real sensitive time and precise calculations and permutations must be done to successfully get tickets from Satyam's site.
For some unknown reason Satyam has this policy of opening its online ticket booking on Wednesday . That's fine , they say start good things on wednesday for sentimental reasons and religious ( for all those poor souls born on Tuesdays :( ) . But opening the online kounters between 12:00 a.m to 01:00 a.m ??? Of course you are going to have chaos . People stopping their game of Counter Strike by committing suicide , some stopping all downloads to make way for bandwidth , some even skipping sex for tickets !!!
Anyhow Got ready to book tickets.
Time : 23:40
Tools : Chrome , IE , FireFox , Opera
Food : Kakkara and Pistascios
Started of with chrome and it went to the site without a hitch. Was curious to know how many people were actually online for this . Posted on FB and got responses slowly . I could hear the head shots people giving themselves in CS land.
After all this , finally get a comment on FB where someone tagged me stating they got tickets for Friday nights show. I was like WTF , impossible. Went in again to double check for cancelled tickets for Friday nights show . Let the system do the booking and finally got two tickets for FRIDAY !!! Yes, but No . Why??? Almost like watching the movie back to back . as it ends at 01:00 and next movie starts at 09:30 . That too without watching the trailer or reading anything about it.
Kraziness I tell you !!!
And after all this effort , i get a call from a popular food joint the next day stating i got invited to a special screen of the movie for Saturday morning !!!
For some unknown reason Satyam has this policy of opening its online ticket booking on Wednesday . That's fine , they say start good things on wednesday for sentimental reasons and religious ( for all those poor souls born on Tuesdays :( ) . But opening the online kounters between 12:00 a.m to 01:00 a.m ??? Of course you are going to have chaos . People stopping their game of Counter Strike by committing suicide , some stopping all downloads to make way for bandwidth , some even skipping sex for tickets !!!
Anyhow Got ready to book tickets.
Time : 23:40
Tools : Chrome , IE , FireFox , Opera
Food : Kakkara and Pistascios
Started of with chrome and it went to the site without a hitch. Was curious to know how many people were actually online for this . Posted on FB and got responses slowly . I could hear the head shots people giving themselves in CS land.
Time : 00:53 :
Cool , not even 01:00 hundreds hours and i am in !!! ... or so i thought. I never seem to win those contests that show up well before the bookings too !!!
Feels a bit slow. Increase speed , almost like warp drive tech from star trek . no luck !!!
Time : 00:56 A.M
Somehow the system logged me out , so had to log back in , but was stuck on this for ages. Was in Nolan's Limbo as i couldn't ESC this screen nor proceed any further. F5 again :(
Time : 01:01 A.M
Might not be an issue with the internet i thought. Ok lemme check the system usage. Pretty high for my system. So closed a few windows and tried again. Firefox just seemed to hog memory without doing much , plus my personal content settings and custom font and colour sizes screwed up the system. Opera on the other hand , had a neat option to reload the page after every customizable minutes. However one you reach the main page, i was unable to click on the movie option. DAMN !!!
Time : 01:08 A.M
Selecting the seats was the toughest part as i chose to select my own seats. Big mistake. These were the only seats i found available !!!
Time : 01:38 A.M
This was after the payment was made. So was the payment made or not ? Was the order done?
Time : 01:46 A.M
Finally victory. I can watch the movie in peace , without any 'idiot' trying to spoil the plot for me !!!
After all this , finally get a comment on FB where someone tagged me stating they got tickets for Friday nights show. I was like WTF , impossible. Went in again to double check for cancelled tickets for Friday nights show . Let the system do the booking and finally got two tickets for FRIDAY !!! Yes, but No . Why??? Almost like watching the movie back to back . as it ends at 01:00 and next movie starts at 09:30 . That too without watching the trailer or reading anything about it.
Kraziness I tell you !!!
And after all this effort , i get a call from a popular food joint the next day stating i got invited to a special screen of the movie for Saturday morning !!!
