Panastar RSCX 7500, 2-in-1 grooming kit, a review

Yes, I am now officially an expert on reviewing electronics. I have taken it upon myself to pick out the worst (or best) Made in China electronics and review them. Being a not-so-tidy man, I was hard pressed to be a little ‘put together’ leading to run to the local electronics store and buy the Panastar RSCX 7500, 2-in-1 grooming kit.

The Panastar RSCX 7500, 2-in-1 grooming kit is available only at this one store in Dharamsala. The box contains an electric shaver and little gizmo for nose/ear hair and a lot of plastic that doesn’t contain anything. It also has a small sheet of printed stuff talking about nothing in particular. When I saw this equipment sitting amongst other similar, misspelt names (Soni, Pansonic, etc) I just saw a vision of myself as a metro sexual male, always looking good, clean shaven and somehow in a suit. Cutting a long story short, I bought the damn thing because it was the cheapest.

Coming home I ripped off all the plastic, plugged the shaver in and went to work. A very interesting thing happened. The four whirling shavers got stuck in my stubble and just clung on to my chin. So here I am, standing in front of a mirror, with a buzzing shaver stuck to my chin. Luckily for me the makers of the Panastar RSCX 7500, 2-in-1 grooming kit, used the worst materials they could find and it just stopped and fell off. To be fair to the product, the little buzzing gizmo works just fine (if you tap it hard on the side of the sink) and the shaver does work under certain circumstances.

So, being very objective I shall give my expert opinion regarding this piece of equipment. Well, the Panastar RSCX 7500, 2-in-1 grooming kit can be a painful way to start your day, but hey, no pain no gain, right? It will not, I repeat, it will not shave ALL the hair off your face. It chooses to randomize its approach to which hair stay on and which go off. So you are left with a patchy set of hair that you can get with a razor yourself. I must say, the patches I got done were very smooth. The noise is just a little over that of an electric saw. My wife thought I was blending something in the bathroom and was very suspicious for a day or so. I t does have a red LED light showing it is charging and a power button. It looks like any other shaver though and can fool anyone casually glancing at your personal kit (nosy neighbors, jealous relatives) into thinking you are Yuppie!

I hope this review helps all those thinking of buying the Panastar RSCX 7500, 2-in-1 grooming kit. Please DON”T buy it. Until my next encounter, Cheers!!

Black and Yellow

As the rains finally wind down in our part of the world, I find myself spending some quality time at home. Playing music, hanging out with friends, shopping on the internet and having morning conversations with my new friend, Eddie, a black and yellow corn spider.

Eddie has taken up residence just above my sink and has usually made a large web all night which I invariably stick my head into every morning while cleaning my teeth. First few days he tried to attack me, but he now knows better. I am a recent fan of spiders, as we have quite a few varieties living in our house.

They are brave (Eddie takes me on every day without fail), can take on prey 4 times their size, make the most beautiful webs, the web itself is a miracle material, they kind of look cool, their toxins are used for curing diseases and they take care of insects. Eddie dumps his leftovers in my sink though I am sure with a little training he can be house broken.
Cheers

Nobody's going to pat you on the back...

While in Manali, I was whining to a friend of mine about how badly run this industry is and about the loppy practices most outdoor companies employ.He turns as says to me "Nobody's going to pat you on the back for your efforts but it will definitely change/improve the way things are." Good enough for me!

The last few months have been a flurry of activity - lots of trekking, attempt to reach Leh, meeting new people, getting really good ideas and opportunities to match these ideas.

The business side of it all also became so much better because of the effort from Elise and Prateek to fine tune our presence online. The ideas flowed in due to the quality of people we met. Even so recent as a year back, I had no clue we were doing the right things. Website SEO? Blogs? Social Networks? Metatags? Key words? We were swimming in unknown waters, in my case drowning! Things worked out as I realised that one day you just have to sit down and do it. One has to, at some point, remove the thought of instant remunerations and work at the job at hand. Patience is sadly a virtue. :)

The attempt at reaching Leh; the road was blocked for the 5 days we were trying to get across, but we met the coolest people and stayed at a wonderful place in Manali called the Drifter's Inn and Cafe. Wonderful place and good peoples.