I did IT !!!

Quite a long time since I wrote ... Not that I din't have anything to write.

I wanted to write about that "chatter box" female whom I happened to see in my company bus, who din't stop her dialog about the organisation in her workplace as to, who is sitting where, throughout the journey.
I indeed wanted to write about that day when I was so irritated coz of spending almost two and a half hours to go home from my office and had a bus to catch (to Trichy).Also I wanted to write about the new house in Arakere to which we are going to shift in a week.

But superceding all those minor (!!!) stuffs is what happened today :-(.... JULY 25, 2005. A day which I would never forget at least as long as I would file IT returns !!!!!!!!!!!

Let me tell you what happened.... We were supposed to file our IT returns today for which we needed to get our original Form 16 (distributed already to us) and the SARAL form. Since I am a systematic (??!!) guy, I had brought my Form 16 to office desk quite few days before. No issues with that. I was able to get my SARAL form printed out from my company's intranet, fill it, sign it etc. Absolutely no issues with that too. When I thought that I am all set and just filing of the return remains, came the NEWS (shocking indeed) !!!! Looks like we need to have the photocopy of the PAN card. I thought that this is just a formality and proceeded to the queue. When we enquired inside I heard the inevitable !@#$%^&*( ... PAN CARD PHOTOCOPY IS MANDATORY FOR FILING OF RETURNS...

Wait wait.... I am getting what you are thinking now. "What's so great about getting a card xeroxed....???, a matter of Paises. ok.... Even if you do not have it with you go home, get it xeroxed, bring it back and submit.".... Great to hear.. But that was not cho chimple. My PAN card is in Trichy. I was not sure whether I had a photocopy of the same... Also, I had put all my documents in the house where I will be shifting next week. Booooooooooooom !!!

So .... started the day. Took an auto. Luckily I had someone in my club.... I got down at BG circle. Another auto to my place. Reached. Opened the suitcase. Opened my folder. Sh** !!! I donot have a PAN copy. So took an auto back and reached Silk board and waited for nearly an hour for the company bus. Came back......

In the meantime, I had called my father and told him the goof up. He had also made an auto trip around Trichy to get my PAN card from home.
Around 12:30 I was back in office. My father also. Now that he has the the card there were two options....

Option A : Take a copy of the PAN and fax it to my office. Sounds great. My father indeed did it. But receiving here had some hiccups. No film in the Fax machine... once that was fixed, "No paper ". That was also fixed. Then the machine, kind of vomitted, some 8 or 9 papers (backlogs). Mine came too..... GOSH !!! Neither my name nor my photograph was visible. The only thing that I could read was my grandpa's name printed after my father's !!! :-)SO called my father again and got it faxed again .... Believe me !! It was worse than the previos copy :-(((( Option A dropped.
Option B: Scan the card and send me a mail. Sounds cool.... But my day was so bad that this was also not coooool. The mail that my father sent first din't reach my inbox till now. Dunno where it is :-(. When I told this to my father, he sort of had a meeting with all his colleagues(pro'ly had a brainstorming session) and finally decided that he(they) will send the mail via their office ID to my office as well as Yahoo! Id. It did come at last. But only the front part of the card. That was good enough though. Option B worked !!!

The next phase was even more irritating. We joined the queue which was perhaps longer than the Hanuman's tail !!! We were in the queue for nearly 2.5 hrs and eventually I filed IT !!!
Called home.... My mother will be breaking a coconut to Ganesha. I asked her to add one for my account. :-)

The week has started like this.... Not sure what course it will take.... :-) Anyhow I won't mind blaming this on the Saturn transit ... After all I am going through the 7.5 year period of the Saturn ;-))

Ciaooooooooooooo !!