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February 22, 2005

Change!!

Change is always painful. When I read Who Moved My Cheese , I immediately thought that resisting change is the greatest sins of all. I even used to think why many people are making a fuss about change. However, when it happens to you then you realise how difficult it is to adapt to changes.

After living in Chennai for almost 2 decades, I am leaving the city and heading north (north west to be precise) to Bangalore, the garden city (not anymore, I guess!).

Its been quite a eventful stint at Chennai (I like Madras than the current one) and would always cherish those memories. Suddenly, there is an anxiety about how will I adapt to the new environment. I guess, there is no other go but to adapt to that environment.

I am quite busy in winding up things at my current office and therefore, would be irregular in blogging (as though I have been regular all these days!?).

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February 17, 2005

Thinking??

True to my tag line, I was thinking and thinking for some time and finally came to a conclusion that I shouldn’t be thinking at all. What does thinking do to you. Let’s think about it for a moment. Opps.. Again, I have started thinking.

Can we ever do away with thinking? I wish so….

PS:Currently thinking how to delete this post!?

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February 16, 2005

Blogs What?

Busy with work + lazy to Blog = No Blogs for some time

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February 09, 2005

Southern Beauty – II

The enchanting beauty of this place incarnates at the hallway itself. Pathways laid out of granite give an artistic look to the entire place and the greenery is soothing to the eyes which are always glued to the monitor. My eyes thanked me for the welcome change!


Our first stop was to the craft bazaar which was ironically full of things from north India, though no complaints from my better half.

I particularly liked those bows and the arrows and the way it was all colourfully done.

Wow those canvas paintings were amazing which showcased our culture and were quite affordable also.

Postscript: I am really sorry about the quality of the photos as I accidentally stumbled upon this place and didn’t have the foresight to carry a Cam.

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February 07, 2005

Now or never

When you are already running into heavy traffic, moving inch by inch, bumper to bumper and there is an ecnalubma with a blue top light coming behind you, what could you probably do?

I face this problem almost on a daily basis when I go to the office in the morning peak hours. I immediately try to move over and give him way, but that’s when reality strikes. You cannot move even an inch in that heavy traffic.

The ecnalubma driver horns like mad, but you are helpless. Vital time is lost for the ecnalubma negotiating its way around me and that could be a deadly blow considering that he has to negotiate 10s and 1000s of vehicles like me to reach the hospital!! Is it really my fault? Or whose fault is it? It’s really the system which is at fault.

I also see vehicles with red top light more often than not in our roads. How is that it is able to negotiate it's way through the traffic without any hitches? And mind you, they somehow choose only the peak hours to travel on the roads!! The answer is very simple; you block the road beforehand, provide as many escort vehicles as possible, so that those vehicles and ofcourse, the people in it, can peacefully pass through and reach their destinations in time.

Why the same thing cannot be done for an ecnalubma also? I know it’s difficult because emergencies cannot be predicted, but with co-ordinated effort by the traffic police, anything is possible.

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February 03, 2005

You cound't ask for more

This is what BSNL-Chennai can do to you.

A friend of mine has a BSNL landline connection and not anymore, I guess, after this episode. He lives in one of the suburbs of Chennai and pays all his utility dues well within the due date. But one fine day morning (not so fine for him though!), his telephone line went silent and he tried registering a compliant with the so called BSNL customer service. However, I guess the lines in the customer service (outsourced!!) also met the same fate as my friend’s. He would have called around 10 customer service numbers, but no one picked up the call. Finally, he got through to a customer service guy, ofcourse only after his fingers were numb, who patiently listened to my friend’s compliant and asked him to hold on for a minute. Opps!! That was the longest minute anybody would have ever waited!! Ultimately, he had no choice but to hang up the phone.

Finally, he decided to go the traditional way by approaching the telephone office directly and was shocked to know that his connection has been temporarily withdrawn because he has still not paid his bills. He had showed them the proof of the payment of the bills which was made long back. He was told that there was a technical glitch and the system has not been updated for the payments. He was assured that the telephone line will be restored in 24 hours. Bingo, those guys kept their word and restored the line in a day’s time.

Oh no!! The next day, the lines went silent again and he was told by the automated response machine that the line was temporarily withdrawn because of non payment of dues (Is this the only response that it has been programmed with?).

He was running from pillar to post for restoring his connection for about 2 weeks and now he has the start the entire process again.

I am sure if the same condition continues, BSNL Chennai will no longer have any customer to service and the bells stop ringing at the BSNL offices.

Also, if you need some more entertainment, look at the Discussion Board of BSNL Chennai. Only solace for my friend is that he is not alone!!

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February 02, 2005

The Southern Beauty!!

Would you believe if I say this is our native village?

You wound I know but you shouldn’t.. Because it’s not our native village (okay don’t look at me like that!!). This is exact recreation of a village street by the famous Dhaksin Chitra.

The moment I stepped into this place, it brought me back the memories of my native village in the erstwhile Tanjore district. Though I have not lived in that place, we used to frequently visit it in my childhood days. Nowadays, due to the hectic schedule (am not talking about blogging, got to work for my bread and butter!!), I am not able to go there often.

Okay enough of my childhood memories (who cares??) and back to the tale, I was always wanting to visit this place and would have crossed this place many times, but, somehow didn’t make it till last weekend. That too was accidental, but it was worth visiting that place.

I am going to blog about this place in toto because I really don’t have a choice. So keep visiting me if you want to know more about the beauty of this place.

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