Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Chennai btw the least polluted city.

Atleast that ! one might exclaim . Well the roads exist and are in good condition , pollution levels are lower, the girls are looking prettier, the confidence level is rising, 60% of the auto travel in 2 weeks happened with 0 haggling. (its a moot point that the remainder ended up in misery for the rick guy getting the short end of the stick from my rather long and easily excitable mouth. ) but wtf is not raining and wtf is there no water to bathe. !

Yeah folks they forgot that water is an essential resource down there. The water we get is either brackish from the borewell or bad from the corporation. One needs to use the handpump in the old homestead to get a bucket of water to bathe !! and everywhere else the borewell water is so brackish that you can only use it for flushing the loo. !! Well this is a bloody rant at the end of a very long long day ! So whoever be the minimal readers bear with this poor soul.

Lots of good work happening in office. Thankfully will be off to the land of Wodehouse the coming weekend for a week and will get a chance to see Long John Silver and hopefully Big Ben :-)

Nothing much otherwise.

Friday, August 05, 2005

Zirakzigil and an R50E

Across the pale parabola of joy

Wonder about the connection . ? Well thats what I named my cool R50e laptop today. Zirak what you might ask. Well Gondor , Numenor, Lothlorien, Mordor were all taken in office. I also have control over Arnor, Gondor and Numenor , various machines that I have had the right to name.

Zirakzigil is where Gandalf finally killed the Balrog from Lord of the Rings. So Zirakzigil it is. It was the best name in the LOTR that I could find and the most unique one at that .

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Laundry Management , Disaster Management and the great government of Maharashtra

Across the pale parabola of joy


Rain Rain go away, come again another day . We want to dry our clothes.

Ha , the great rains. Half the city is flooded, infrastructure down the drain, driving is good fun equivalent to rally driving and the good chief minister was at the receiving end from an irate public over the weekend.

Yesterday was spent in shifting parts of my house in the middle of incessant rains, an idiotic cable operator who managed to overturn my television trying to disconnect me at my old apartment and give me a new connection at my new apartment.

The good thing about the new apartment is that there is a health club next door, a number of eating joints to take care of a poor famished software engineer and the company of a couple of good friends . Other than that watching the rivers flow at a level that leaves them just below the roads in the streams that we call rivers was good and left me thinking.

Heard on mirchi that they closed a couple of bridges near aundh and that all the rivers we know are flowing to the brim . Wah Wah ! More like this and we should be flooded soon. It isn't any better down at the financial hub of India , the corporation apparently took a couple of days because the CM declared a holiday for government instituitions for precisely the corporation to do some work atleast. Looking at this one thinks about the tsunami down south and the amount of time that was spent in getting the place back up and running. Some more thought needs to go in. Disaster management exists only on paper and the moment something unprecedented occurs most of these guys hide behind this.

The roads in Pune have simply disappeared, they have been replaced with craters, currently the main throughfares need to be avoided, the inner roads are ten times better . I lost count of the number of craters that my poor zen went through today at around 689 at which point I was more worried about getting through a traffic jam .