Whenever something good happens in my life, I will be in my usual cheerful mood. Last week, we had booked our second car, and there was no excitement whatsoever in me. I am not a multi millionaire. But still, I was just reacting as if it was another occasion. May be, office frustrations are entering into my personal life as well :-( . Need to keep my emotions under check.
From "no where to now here", its been the sincere hard work from each of us in our family with blessings from elders, friends and wellwishers to reach this stage.
I thank all of my friends and well wishers and wish them good health, wealth and luck.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Location change
I have been asked to relocate to the heart of city called as MAHINDRA WORLD CITY :-( w.e.f june 22 2009.
Highlight is, I need to travel more than 60 kms for a single journey. Real test for my physical and mental toughness. Lets see whats in store for me.
May GOD bless us all!!
Highlight is, I need to travel more than 60 kms for a single journey. Real test for my physical and mental toughness. Lets see whats in store for me.
May GOD bless us all!!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Parakum Rayil
This term has created quite a lot of excitement a few years before when I was a child. As the term indicates, the train goes at a elevated floor.
This topic is not about the train but about the construction of stations.
This new rail segment starts after Park station and ends temporarily in Velachery (though the future plan is to lay it till St Thomas Mount). The way in which it began every one thot all traffic problem in these part of areas will be solved, but not so as it moved at snails pace till I have become an youth.
Now finally atleast they have managed to launch the train till velachery, but all basic amenities in the stations are absent.
No car/Bike park, No proper toilet facility. No finished structure which is the most important point to be noted.
When you build a house, if you keep anything house hold materials like window or iron bars or anything else in the open for days together, it will get rusted and will be ulitmately thrown in dustbin. The same things happening in these unfinished structures. Many iron bars are totally rusted and I very much worry how this structure will be in future :-(
Is someone listening to all these?
This topic is not about the train but about the construction of stations.
This new rail segment starts after Park station and ends temporarily in Velachery (though the future plan is to lay it till St Thomas Mount). The way in which it began every one thot all traffic problem in these part of areas will be solved, but not so as it moved at snails pace till I have become an youth.
Now finally atleast they have managed to launch the train till velachery, but all basic amenities in the stations are absent.
No car/Bike park, No proper toilet facility. No finished structure which is the most important point to be noted.
When you build a house, if you keep anything house hold materials like window or iron bars or anything else in the open for days together, it will get rusted and will be ulitmately thrown in dustbin. The same things happening in these unfinished structures. Many iron bars are totally rusted and I very much worry how this structure will be in future :-(
Is someone listening to all these?
Monday, May 18, 2009
Trip On Pilgrimage
Trip to Pillayarpatti – 3 day weekend
After a long time, everyone in my house didn’t work. It happens that most of the time on any day, except Sunday not all of them will be at home.But this weekend was an exception. We decided to go on pilgrimage by our car itself for a change and after some discussion it was decided that we will go to Pillayarpatti near Karaikudi and cover some of the temples en route.
May 1 – @ morning 8.25 amAll of us got ready and we kick started our journey from Nungambakkam. I put my hand up first since it’s my favorite hobby – driving the car. After having our breakfast at around 9.30 am, the journey began in full flow.
@ 2.30pmWe reached Sri Rangam amidst a long and wonderful journey in my car. The journey was to say the least ‘simply superb’. The roads were good to travel except in some places where they were still constructing 2 way roads and fly overs.
About the temple:
Sri Rangam temple was awesome. Though I have been some 2 or 3 times before I was very young and I only liked to play running and catching there. This time though my mind set was a bit different, only a bit different :-) .This was Iyengar’s one of most important temple. It's called Divya Desam and its 3rd on the list of the vaishnavites. Very very important for all of us. I last visited this temple when I was in 6th or 7th standard (pretty long time ago) At that time, it was a village, with population not more than 20 persons per sq km. Now it has come under trichy corporation and its resembles a city. Flats promoters are seeing big money there.
Good change but for a bad cause – NO more agriculture or dense trees.
We went to the temple in the evening. Since it was a holiday, there was one hell lot of crowd. Point to be noted is there was no air since they have renovated the temple in such a way that there is no entry of outside air in the premises. We were all sweating because of that wonderful innovative ventilation. Since the temple is not used to such a large crowd, the queue management was bad. Still ppl were gentle to adjust to those things.
Slowly queue started to move. As we were nearing the sannathi, we noticed that the Bhattar(the priest) and queue regulator were allowing people in the wrong way.
I was thinking, What the hell are you doing Sir? Being in a respectable post, You shouldn't be doing this. Whats the use??As long as lazy goose ppl are there, these set of people will thrive. When I enquired, he said for going in that line You need to get some reco letters. Another story from that idiot.
In pre independence era, it was the caste system that determined which people should enter the temples. In 21st century, it’s the money and power that’s determining the same. 'Good change', as I thought to myself.
To be frank, there was a 100 rupees ticket even. But these people will still go in the wrong way bribing others. Excepting a few, most of the Priests are really very good.
After a wait of 3.5 hrs we were back to our room.
May 2
@10.00 am
Morning we got up late and started to another Divya Desam called Anbil. I was already trembling thinking of the bhattacharrys there :-P. Mudiyala
But to my surprise, those ppl were very sincere. I was heartened to see such ppl. Also, there was no crowd at all.
Reason: Its situated outside Trichy. All divya desams are equally important and this one is being ignored just because its 15-18 kms outside the city.I can’t stop thinking about the ignorant people who doesn’t know that all temples are equally important.
Some of them might contradict even my statement telling that ‘Only divya desam are not temples, all the local temples are also temples. Yes I agree to this fact, but then why are you people coming to Divya desams. There is something special there and we have to accept it.
Now coming back to the topic,Anbil temple was damn good. It was quite opposite to Srirangam, the area was very small but very very divinely. The place was damn quiet. Good place for meditation and retired ppl to lead their life. At around 1.00pm we reached Srirangam, packed off and started our journey to Pillayarpatti. Journey was kool.
@4.45pm
Reached Pillayarpatti. Had a good darshan. Signed off at 5.45pm and started journey to Cuddalore.
@10.00pm
Reached Kumbakonam and we decided to take rest and start the next day. May 3 @9 am Started the long journey. On the way, we went to a temple which is located near Seergazhi called Kozhikuthi.
Strange named place. But the actual Sanskrit name was Kodihaththi which means even if one commits a crime which is equivalent to a crore murder and one visits this place, he/she will be freed from its effects.
Had a good darshan and started back to Cuddalore and reached there around 1pm. Went to my granny’s house and had a good lunch and started back to Chennai @5pm and reached my home at 10pm. The whole journey came to around 944.5 km and it was a good experience of car driving.
Overall the trip was satisfactory. Learnt some lessons in life too :-)
After a long time, everyone in my house didn’t work. It happens that most of the time on any day, except Sunday not all of them will be at home.But this weekend was an exception. We decided to go on pilgrimage by our car itself for a change and after some discussion it was decided that we will go to Pillayarpatti near Karaikudi and cover some of the temples en route.
May 1 – @ morning 8.25 amAll of us got ready and we kick started our journey from Nungambakkam. I put my hand up first since it’s my favorite hobby – driving the car. After having our breakfast at around 9.30 am, the journey began in full flow.
@ 2.30pmWe reached Sri Rangam amidst a long and wonderful journey in my car. The journey was to say the least ‘simply superb’. The roads were good to travel except in some places where they were still constructing 2 way roads and fly overs.
About the temple:
Sri Rangam temple was awesome. Though I have been some 2 or 3 times before I was very young and I only liked to play running and catching there. This time though my mind set was a bit different, only a bit different :-) .This was Iyengar’s one of most important temple. It's called Divya Desam and its 3rd on the list of the vaishnavites. Very very important for all of us. I last visited this temple when I was in 6th or 7th standard (pretty long time ago) At that time, it was a village, with population not more than 20 persons per sq km. Now it has come under trichy corporation and its resembles a city. Flats promoters are seeing big money there.
Good change but for a bad cause – NO more agriculture or dense trees.
We went to the temple in the evening. Since it was a holiday, there was one hell lot of crowd. Point to be noted is there was no air since they have renovated the temple in such a way that there is no entry of outside air in the premises. We were all sweating because of that wonderful innovative ventilation. Since the temple is not used to such a large crowd, the queue management was bad. Still ppl were gentle to adjust to those things.
Slowly queue started to move. As we were nearing the sannathi, we noticed that the Bhattar(the priest) and queue regulator were allowing people in the wrong way.
I was thinking, What the hell are you doing Sir? Being in a respectable post, You shouldn't be doing this. Whats the use??As long as lazy goose ppl are there, these set of people will thrive. When I enquired, he said for going in that line You need to get some reco letters. Another story from that idiot.
In pre independence era, it was the caste system that determined which people should enter the temples. In 21st century, it’s the money and power that’s determining the same. 'Good change', as I thought to myself.
To be frank, there was a 100 rupees ticket even. But these people will still go in the wrong way bribing others. Excepting a few, most of the Priests are really very good.
After a wait of 3.5 hrs we were back to our room.
May 2
@10.00 am
Morning we got up late and started to another Divya Desam called Anbil. I was already trembling thinking of the bhattacharrys there :-P. Mudiyala
But to my surprise, those ppl were very sincere. I was heartened to see such ppl. Also, there was no crowd at all.
Reason: Its situated outside Trichy. All divya desams are equally important and this one is being ignored just because its 15-18 kms outside the city.I can’t stop thinking about the ignorant people who doesn’t know that all temples are equally important.
Some of them might contradict even my statement telling that ‘Only divya desam are not temples, all the local temples are also temples. Yes I agree to this fact, but then why are you people coming to Divya desams. There is something special there and we have to accept it.
Now coming back to the topic,Anbil temple was damn good. It was quite opposite to Srirangam, the area was very small but very very divinely. The place was damn quiet. Good place for meditation and retired ppl to lead their life. At around 1.00pm we reached Srirangam, packed off and started our journey to Pillayarpatti. Journey was kool.
@4.45pm
Reached Pillayarpatti. Had a good darshan. Signed off at 5.45pm and started journey to Cuddalore.
@10.00pm
Reached Kumbakonam and we decided to take rest and start the next day. May 3 @9 am Started the long journey. On the way, we went to a temple which is located near Seergazhi called Kozhikuthi.
Strange named place. But the actual Sanskrit name was Kodihaththi which means even if one commits a crime which is equivalent to a crore murder and one visits this place, he/she will be freed from its effects.
Had a good darshan and started back to Cuddalore and reached there around 1pm. Went to my granny’s house and had a good lunch and started back to Chennai @5pm and reached my home at 10pm. The whole journey came to around 944.5 km and it was a good experience of car driving.
Overall the trip was satisfactory. Learnt some lessons in life too :-)
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Death Race at signals
Hi,
Finally back to India and writing my first post for this sweet year.
Didnt have time to browse :-( I am not a good time manager.
After coming back, I thought I can never change to this atmosphere. But after a couple of months, Yes I have again become a typical Chennaite.
Typical Chennaite doesn't necessarily mean breaking the rules, it also means adjusting to the people who breaks the rules.
Here is one such daily event that happens in my city.
Each time DMK comes to power, we see vast changes happening. Especially the number of bridges being built.
Now this time the notable improvement is that, the number of signals in the city have also increased.
This gives a thought that there might be discipline but it contradicts since the time of travel has increased, People ride with extra aggression.
Before the flash of green, bikers will be in top gear, cars will start honking.
Now, these are set of people who will never change.
My point is about the other set of unruly people. They are none other than the pedestrians waiting to cross the signals.
Most of the time, the pedestrians will be sluggish to cross the road. For most of the pedestrians, signals ends when they cross one part of the road.
Read my previous lines, U can understand that the vehicle traffic would have started even before green has flashed.
Now the REMOS and REMIS (female of REMO) will start to cross the road in Anniyan style (enna nambala ila) without caring for the vehicle traffic with some of them talking over mobiles with their spouse as if that call is worth 1 crore.
Who is getting affected? Only people who strictly follow rules. They either fall down or hit them.
The other unruly vehicle traffic is nowhere in sight. They would have already gone to the next signal
Dont know when these sort of behavior will change.
Finally back to India and writing my first post for this sweet year.
Didnt have time to browse :-( I am not a good time manager.
After coming back, I thought I can never change to this atmosphere. But after a couple of months, Yes I have again become a typical Chennaite.
Typical Chennaite doesn't necessarily mean breaking the rules, it also means adjusting to the people who breaks the rules.
Here is one such daily event that happens in my city.
Each time DMK comes to power, we see vast changes happening. Especially the number of bridges being built.
Now this time the notable improvement is that, the number of signals in the city have also increased.
This gives a thought that there might be discipline but it contradicts since the time of travel has increased, People ride with extra aggression.
Before the flash of green, bikers will be in top gear, cars will start honking.
Now, these are set of people who will never change.
My point is about the other set of unruly people. They are none other than the pedestrians waiting to cross the signals.
Most of the time, the pedestrians will be sluggish to cross the road. For most of the pedestrians, signals ends when they cross one part of the road.
Read my previous lines, U can understand that the vehicle traffic would have started even before green has flashed.
Now the REMOS and REMIS (female of REMO) will start to cross the road in Anniyan style (enna nambala ila) without caring for the vehicle traffic with some of them talking over mobiles with their spouse as if that call is worth 1 crore.
Who is getting affected? Only people who strictly follow rules. They either fall down or hit them.
The other unruly vehicle traffic is nowhere in sight. They would have already gone to the next signal
Dont know when these sort of behavior will change.
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