I don’t want any more fly-overs

If Airbus A380-800 can carry 853 passengers in its double-deck built, whose parts are sourced from various European countries via Air using Belugas aircrafts, via Sea using custom build barges and ships and specially reconstructed roads to allow the road transport of huge engines, wings, tail and nose parts and belly parts. Despite the complexity of an aircraft manufacturing, its assembly, testing and various international certifications, an A380-800 can be built in just about 2months. It comprises of 15,000 sqft inside area and fly non-stop between East to West 15,000KMs at a 0.85Mach (900KMph).

Yeah, that’s awesome when you watch Extreme Engineering on Discovery channel. And immediately, your attention then shifts to your day-to-day Indian governance issues. Why in the hell, we cannot construct a fly-over in under a month.

1. Are we technically so impotent?
2. Are we so crunched on budget but have world of time?
3. Do we (citizens) comfort ourselves and dream about the future of the road once the fly-over gets ready?
4. Aren’t there any NGOs to help these causes and spread awareness?

I just could not stop wondering the purpose of the elevated fly-over from Bommanhalli to Electronic City. About a 2 or 3 under-passes would have saved crores of Rupees and served equally for both Electronic City commuters and general public. The only advantage I see of the elevated fly-over is that the general public using 2-wheelers can get good shade during the rain and be able ride along and under that fly-over.

If such huge projects cannot be completed in short time, the unpredictable future economy and the bandicoot politicians could change the face and entire shape of the city in couple of years. This results in either under-use of the fly-over or might cause fly-over a bottleneck in the traffic. The silk-board fly-over is a good example of this. There is hardly any traffic above the fly-over. This fly-over is one among the longest and widest fly-overs of Bangalore. It was designed to take heavy lorry and trucks traffic until the Outer-Ring road was formed. Today, I do not spot even a single truck using silk board fly-over. How shame?

The fly-over and road expansion projects only meet the traffic conditions of 3years in the past. And by the time, the construction work completes, it could hardly support the present traffic conditions.

I feel exhausted of making such noise in wrong places. I hope someday, some one, somewhere hears this noise and makes it a perfect chore. Till then I mutter: “I don’t want any more fly-overs”

Happy Snailing India!!!!

Bangalore Carlton Inferno

Bangalore Carlton Inferno (Feb 23, 2010 3.30pm): It is high time that state governments employ 'Security Officers' for each city (at least tier 1 cities) to review and control the security aspects of buildings and other constructions and who can work with police, fire department and hospitals for paramedical and other relief activities. The security officer should review emergency rescue measures of commercial and public facilities and be justly to cancel operations of such places if they aren't deemed fit for life safety. This is only personal thought and step towards right measures for public safety.

I hated when BSY mentioned compensation to the deceased and injured, medical expenditure for the hospitalized and an inquiry of this mishap. I found that's a serious sh***.

Can't politicians think better than an average citizen like me?

What do you do when you get bored?

My friend asked me what do I do when I feel bored. It really took me way a long time to think an answer. After thinking a lot, I thought over again to find an answer. But I could only think but could not give him an answer and my friend didn't mind for an answer to his question. May be he got bored waiting for my answer. :-D

That question took enough brain bash and got stuck somewhere waiting for a resource to fulfill its task. So, one night after lying down on bed, this waiting task got some resource and here's my elaborated answer to you my friend:

- Boring is only a state of mind when you really do not like/think of doing anything. It is not that you performed all your jobs and didn't pend anything for you to feel bored. You could do many things like grooming your house/closet, try you fallen-out hobby(ies), take a walk, read something, browse internet for music or jokes, talk to your old-timers (friends) and many more. You can do a thousand other things than say (or complain) that I am bored. If someone complains that I am bored, I would rather regard it as "I AM SO LAZY TO MOVE MY A**".

So, my friend, I do not know what is boring and really could not have given thought about lest you questioned it.

I prefer LEISURE than being BORED.

I wanna become

I Wanna Become...

This blog comes from the inspiration derived from the blogs of winnedepoohi (the twitter) and is dedicated to her.

Everyone must have felt one or more times to become someone or something when they grow up or when they finish college or when they get a job or whatever. You know what that’s just I am gonna write it about and ain’t just that but why wanna become so….

Here’s goes the top 5 list:

1. At about the age of 10yrs, when I loved cricket. I wanted to become a cricketer. Not because India won the world cup a few years back then nor because the entire nation sees and hears my cricketing talent. It’s just because, I get privileged access to unlimited cool-drinks. Remember that there weren’t so many ads in TV. We get to see cricketers having drinks break….

2. I wanted to become a soldier. Not that I wanna die for the country, well, rather I didn’t mind dying for the country as a soldier. The only wish was to get access to artillery. Do you remember those movies Commando, Rambo, Predator? I was told that only a soldier or a police are allowed to have the gun.

3. I wanted to become a movie hero. You may say, “c’mon, look at yourself” J But yes, it was one of those big wishes of my life. Not because, I get to dance with gorgeous heroines nor for the money. Just because, I could travel and see all those beautiful places around the world.

4. I wanted to become a painter. A Painter? Yeah, painter. I dunno what kinda painter I wanna be – a caricature artist or a cartoonist or just a white wash painter. I felt that so because I was marked best in drawing in my science books. Funny right?

5. I wanted to become a scientist and invent something. So that the generations to come would read about me just like we read about Robert Rutherford, Einstein, Graham Bell, Archimedes, Arya Bhatta so on… That’s silly!

But one wish that I would surely realize some time in my life: To become an Entrepreneur.

SiliconIndia 2009 Event - Jun 05@Nimhans-Bangalore

Hey,

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There will be 100 most promising technology startups showcasing their products. You can meet these entrepreneurs and also over 40 investors.

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Nickelback - Animals - The lyrics edition

"Animals"

I, I'm driving black on black
Just got my license back
I got this feeling in my veins this train is coming off the track
I'll ask polite if the devil needs a ride
Because the angel on my right ain't hanging out with me tonight
I'm driving past your house while you were sneaking out
I got the car door opened up so you can jump in on the run
Your mom don't know that you were missing
She'd be pissed if she could see the parts of you that I've been kissing
Screamin'

[CHORUS]
No, we're never gonna quit
Ain't nothing wrong with it
Just acting like we're animals
No, no matter where we go
'Cause everybody knows
We're just a couple of animals

So come on baby, get in
Get in, just get in
Check out the trouble we're in

You're beside me on the seat
Got your hand between my knees
And you control how fast we go by just how hard you wanna squeeze
It's hard to steer when you're breathing in my ear
But I got both hands on the wheel while you got both hands on my gears
By now, no doubt that we were heading south
I guess nobody ever taught her not to speak with a full mouth
'Cause this was it, like flicking on a switch
It felt so good I almost drove into the ditch
I'm screamin'

[CHORUS]

So come on baby, get in
Get in, just get in
Look at the trouble we're in

We were parked out by the tracks
We're sitting in the back
And we just started getting busy
When she whispered "what was that?"
The wind, I think 'cause no one else knows where we are
And that was when she started screamin'
"That's my dad outside the car!"
Oh please, the keys, they're not in the ignition
Must have wound up on the floor while
we were switching our positions
I guess they knew that she was missing
As I tried to tell her dad it was her mouth that I was kissing
Screamin'

[CHORUS]

So come on baby, get in
We're just a couple of animals
Get in, just get in
Ain't nothing wrong with it
Check out the trouble we're in
Get in, just get in

Taken from : http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nickelback/animals.html

Devil engineer starving a bangalore night

Assume you are a bachelor and a non-bangalorean (or a non-Kannadiga). You are mostly home grown for all your education till you find your first ever job in Bangalore. So, you started living in a rented house or a PG. The new job enthusiasm gets you going beyond your dining time. You are hungry but you sufficed yourself with a couple of goodday biscuits and a softdrink or a cup of coffee and started working to impress your manager. But the hungry strikes back and by the time you realize it is already 10:30pm.

You rush to a nearby Adigas. But what you find is a shutter half shut, the sign board lights switched off, the floor sprinkled with soap water to clean. A few diners there look at you surprised and see what you are going to get. You quickly devise that you rushed in and tried best to reach in time and reach the cash counter with a big jerk (just as you are ;)). But you find the cashier counted up 11,000/- (lots of INR notes) and still going on. He knows that you are at the counter but he does not pay attention. Ahem! you make your throat sound and say 1 Jeera rice but you inner knows that you are late. While you are in this commotion, the cashier after-a-while rising his head, without any hesitation and clearly says 'we are closed' and does not even wait to hear back to you and starts counting. You ask for a juice or at least a fruit salad, after a long pause, the cashier says everything's closed. While other diners and cleaner staring at you miss your dinner, with your taken down heart think for a momentthat - 'What the...., Police Commissioner doing a good job and the kept business timings under control????'.

You head back to office where you left your work that's gonna take at least 2more hours to complete. Then you reach home in that cold night and lay on the bed. You keep cursing that you were lazy and should have gone for dinner in time. You dont cook at home, you dont keep snacks at home because already had sleepless nights with ant bully on your mattress and ironed clothes. You wish you had taken a bigger home for rent, taken a gas connection and possessed all you need for cooking. But now the empty stomach screaming a lot. The coffee you had in office before leaving home and the glass of water just does not help feel you filled. It is with more despair, you start that you wished a tea stall nearby, or 24hr hotel or road side noodles vendor.

Now you think what a city, what a police commissioner. People work round the clock, roads are still occupied by transport cabs. There is still lot of life on the road at 1am in the morning but that does not bring food business. Now you turn you hungry and angry on to the police commissioner. You feel that police just want to fend off their duties to burn midnight oil and present to public as that of security concern for food and similar businesses if made available late in the night. You heard cases of snatching chains, mobile phone thefts, threaten with knife and flee with your wallet, all this in pretty much in working hours. You decide to bring this to public, talk to news-paper or even present in any public online forum but then you decide for the night that:
1. Never be late for dinner
2. As a backup, you stay in office to eat biscuits and consume coffe/softdrinks
3. You maintain snacks in air tight boxes at home.
4. As a last resort, you also plan to get a bigger house rented, get a gas connection and of course - a wife :-)
5. And after four years of that painful night out, you write this blog.

Hope you enjoyed my first ever blog.