Yesterday, it was vishu for us – the celebration of astronomical new year day, on which we believe that, an auspicious at the crack of dawn on the Vishu day would prove lucky for the entire year, or has a belief what that day provides will continue for the whole year. And on that precious day, it happened – the curious case of k750!

Oh! there was a flashback, I reached Bangaluru on Thursday morning for a week long vacation to celebrate the vishu with mother, sister and her husband. The mobile validity was only up to 14th midnight and it was not rich in balance, and I went to recharge the mobile for an amount of 169, that provides a 3 month validity for my account. I bought recharge card it failed to recharge the account (luckily the store keeper allowed me to return the card). He offered me a flexi recharge that too failed heavily. I came back to home, making a request to one of my classmate to recharge my number.

Well, on vishu day, right after the Vishukkani , which was at half past four in morning the mobile felt from my bed to ground. It was usual, its been falling from bed to floor everyday, exactly with in the next three minutes, as i clean up the bed spread. I never looked on it, continued to sleep and the sleep continued for the next four hours!

The first step from the bed at 9 was exactly on the side of mobile phone, i felt that I stamped over a rat or a cat, i kicked at once, and nothing was their on floor. I walked simply and had my breakfast. After eating some one shouted in my mind – IT WAS MY MOBILE!

I rushed inside to the room, the kick made the mobile to reach the corner, i took it, as usual the battery went a slight out from the mobile making the cell off. The usual trick applied – cell was inserted again to the set, some presses and pressed on. It went working, no problem for set, there was more than a dozen of messages on the queue, read them and kept aside. A call came, suddenly the set went off.

I tried to power on it again, the trail failed. The charge was low, was near to red, i connected it with charger, and it showed charging status, pressed on power button again, it worked.

I checked for the balance, it showed a 12 hour validity and 1 rupees in account, went inside the sms box – it was empty! Null as in Null! No incoming, sent, drafts and saved. Its empty. I switched the set off and made it on again, no change. A message came from some number, the number not in my contact list, that was another vishu wish, but from one from class – the signature said it. But i had his number on the contact! I checked the contact, it was empty! All contacts, nearly 700 in number went cleared! I checked the cell again, empty memory card, empty phone memory, empty message memory. All database went flushed!

I had received more than a dozen of messages on that day, from numbers that i don’t know, along with some miss calls. I went irritated, as being in roaming I cant even ask them whom you are. On 15th noon, I had an enlightenment – the contact backup in system. I went to room and took my mobile. It was off again, i powered on again. The system was a mesh, i had over 25 backups manually and gnokii created ones. I started sorting it and finding the latest, the mobile was vibrating, that was messages, mostly from Google SMS (I had made sms notification for Planet FLOSS India). Its from Google. The numbers are back!!

What’s curious on that? I have a practice of keeping the most frequently used numbers just in alphabets, A for Anivar, P for Praveen, K for Kiran and H for Hitha and so on. And I LOST all of them – the single-lettered-name-containing-contacts! It was fair that english contains only 26 alphabets, and I could remember whom they are!