'Yes' Parking

This is definition of "No Parking" in our country!




I have seen in many places (in Chennai), where the vehicles are parked right in front of "No Parking" zones. The pictures shown above are private displays, but even the public "No Parking" zones are no exceptions, except at some high profile places. This gives good idea how space crunch our country getting into, especially in cities. The number of vehicles increasing exponentially but the space (for parking) decreasing at even greater pace. I think, at some point of time in the future, the roads will be laid exquisitely for parking only, unless something is done about it.

The last day at my first company!

The last day at my company, started with hectic schedule of clearing all the reliving processes. At the same time it was last time to bid goodbye to my friends. I expected the day would be an emotional one. I thought it would be a day, where I spent almost 2 years of my life, full of memories coming back and hit me like a boomerang with the moments cherished in happiness of making new friends, excitement of meeting challenges in projects, bitterness of making mistakes, senses of achievements, sharing of jokes with friends and colleagues, hectic pace with which many projects completed, hundreds of hours of office-gossips, lamenting on things which happen once in a year like appraisal, pouring all our vaitherichaels (stomach burnings) about our bosses, discussing about new babes joining in the team and many more.

But to my surprise, nothing struck me as described above. When I finished all my formalities, while I was leaving for the last time, some of my colleagues gave me a small farewell. It overwhelmed me. It is always good to feel when people respect you and give a send off. I have seen people who never got a even single good bye on their last day. But for me, it was different. It made me acknowledge myself that I have done something to these people. Something special without my knowledge. :-)

When I got down the company bus in my stop for the last time, I felt heavy. Burdened to leave all my friends. Something felt, that was tearing me apart. Tomorrow morning, there was no more job I was doing, no more canteen meets with friends, no more gossip coffee breaks and many no mores.......

I understood how Life works. :-)

Plush seats!

This is the pathetic condition of our MTC buses!!!

Bus route no. M116 (TN02 N 0376)

How do you expect use this seat for sitting purposes - The seat is at an angle of 120 deg, with its cushion, half buried and hanging with a rope, which in turn along with the seat connected to a supporting rod (second foto, not clear though), which has its loose base i.e. base not connected to the floor of the bus at all !!.

The Gr8 Indian Workout

Today morning , I had one of the unforgettable workouts in my life. Usually workout done by individuals, but today I did along with 70 odd people. Imagine, you as a single person doing all those running, jogging, lifting, cycling, biceps, triceps building and all those punny (funny) things as though you are going to become Arnold the next day. You watch the boys working out around you and they try to lift the unthinkable weights, until the previous day, when they see our own traditional girls coming in right fits. You also watch how girls project themselves as extremely self conscious, only after they step in to gym. And all these hoopla things got vanished in today's workout. The entire bunch of people are in right fits and the wonderful thing is that we never tried to do anything ourselves. The machine on which we did our workout did everything for us.

Few people would agree that all those sweat-drenching workouts could be replaced with Yogasanas. People who do asanas know, that only few postures (asanas) will stretch and relax all the 23,000 nadis (some yogic terminlology) in our body. But in today's session, that machine with the help of a trainer, everyone stretched all the possible nadis & vadis in our bodies. Amazingly everyone felt complete relaxation after that numerous stretchings, twistings, pullings and pushings. Few of us got 180 degree twist that ensured life time free of constipation. See, single session, so much effect!!

Usually, while doing workout, the person's entire mass with the speed acts as momentum. If I am not wrong momentum of one person has = mass of that person x velocity with he/she does workout (speed). In today's workout, the complex forces like gravitational, frictional and pseudo forces came into the effect. This scenario is well worth of giving as a question in physics paper of IIT-JEE. Some times, the forces are so complex, they cannot be measured. Some forces repel you away from other person, not because of principle of magnetism, but because of the chemical principle (formula) of the deodorant used by other person around him/her.

So complex the forces are, exerted by the people, but the trainer was at ease as ever. He controlled the machine which produced so many intricate forces, which you can't even name them.

The machine I am talking about is a bus plying in Chennai as route no 21H. The bus was jam packed with humans, animals, agriculture things, radios & faces full of sweat. The main cause for this is, the bus (in that route) was plying irregularly this morning, for the God's sake, I got into it. Ironically, this route number bus (21 H - between parrys corner and kelambakam) has the highest frequency of operation among the city buses!!!

Finally, I got an answer for a long time unanswered question that how do Indians have higher immunity power. This is because due to the gr8 Indian workout like this.