The past 2 weeks

Man, it was tough...
Rules... i hate them...

Well the past 2 weeks saw me becoming a good part of the project that i was alloted with... (actually i was alloted to it and not the other way around...)

it also saw the 60th Independence day, and there was nothing special in me.... I just did not even care. i was working my heart out, trying to make everything work. i came home only at 1 pm...

India won a damn test series again england after some eons i suppose... They are gonna surrender the one day series... sachin cracked a 99 yesterday. it must have been heart breaking, any one who gets out at 99 will be heart broken, but wat to do azhar got out at 199.....

Well, i was asked to learn the entire upto which aravind had done. and i was asked to develop the file management, and billing sections. it was fun.. yes i should say so.. i just worked my heart out, i would say. it was challenging and entertaining....


we flew to Bangalore, with the slightest hope that our demo is gonna work, and i was saying to myself, Murphy's second law ( i would say s0)

smile, tomorrow will be worse....

but still everything went fine..., the project worked, everything about future was planned, selvi left, and i was stranded in the same place, from where i came back running, without the slightest idea how i was gonna proceed......

But still considering everything that happened in the last 15 days or so. it was good, fun, and i don't know what else to say....

going to the church on a sunday morning with selvi, (instead of sleeping), walking the length of MG Road, working on apple i'Mac (wow!!!, i never thought that i would even get a chance to touch it, leave touching i thought i would never see it in flesh and blood other than in pics, and here i was working on it, browsing on it, hacking on it, bug fixing on it, configuring it)

well Chidambaram's and G3's bday passed, i wished them, I tried to meet up with some of my friends, but see i am sitting here in chennai, writing this...

i think i just ran over selvi with certain comments of mine, and that sure would have hurt. if i had, i wish to say sorry.... but i would never have the courage to say that... or if i say so, there won't be any fans for my fun... It is just for fun, i never mean to hurt anyone...

well, i took some pics, some sneaky as usual.... will upload them to picassa, u all can comment on it...

and know what!, most of this blog was composed with my Rokr E6, except those that depicts today's events...., it was edited so as to appear that i typed the whole thing in a single sitting, moving text from here and there and changing the tenses, and stuff.....

I saw, major payne, Blade, and many other films, even munna bhaii.. i should never forget to mention that.. it was really hilarious though i was seeing it,....... i don't know how many times i have seen it...

they say the client place wants everyone in formals, i have been wearing from the beginning of my life, i wish to wear jeans, but one half of me says follow the rules, and the other says

"Rules are made to be Broken"

and i did follow both my halfs......

i wish i could finish of the entire thing soon and run back to chennai... we'll see, how long it will take.... Got to fly back, to banaglore on monday morning again .... I don't why, but i hate that city... Bangalore S U C K S .....

the traffic nightmares, the mess they call food, (i am not talking about the food that we ate), still somewhere down the heart, i like this place, but that doesn't mean bangalore rocx, it still sucks, big time....


I don't know what, even after all these happened in my life, like how Tanaka Yukio, a.k.a Koyuku, the main protagonist of BECK (Mongolian Chop Squad) would say,

"It was a normal life, a very normal boring life"

I wish the second line too comes true in my life...

"Until the day, i met him"

where are you Ryuske?........................................

Most Wanted (ticket less travelling)

 

Have you ever traveled in a public transport without proper tickets.  I did it.  I traveled without tickets in the local trains for the past 2 days, and i did not realize it till today morning when i had to travel to office by train instead of going with my dad in his two wheeler.

This is not the first time that i am traveling without tickets.   Back in college days, me and my friends had traveled so a lot in trains without tickets.  But now it is different, back then we were branded students and we had the college id cards which had more power than one can imagine, if properly used...  But now i do not belong to any educational institution.  Now i am a professional, a software professional, any black marks are sure to play spoil sport some time in future...

But why am i afraid!....... i wasn't caught. right!  But still, i couldn't stop feeling guilty today morning.   I went to the station renewed my train pass and then i traveled to office by train, for the 3rd time.  I only travel back home from office by train...

But back in the days when i was in north, it was different. i have seen people travel without tickets as though it was their birth right.  but will pay and get tickets when using a transport system like auto or manual rickshaws.  though they would cost a lot than the buses and trains where they refuse to buy tickets.

I have even heard of incidents when a guy shot the Ticket Checker with his gun, coz he fined him for traveling without tickets.  I've heard from some of my colleagues, when i was in agra, who was a bihari saying that they don't buy tickets for traveling in a public carrier, like trains and buses. 

Even the parents of Lalu Prasad Yadav, the great railway minister who changed the railway industry which was about to be shut down, into a number one profit producer in less than a year, without making any changes to the system, traveled without tickets to Delhi from Patna( this is the capital of Bihar ) and shamelessly asked why the hell should i buy a ticket to travel in a public transport....

I would not complain against such a behavior of the Indian common man, for it had been in his nature to do such things, but i would blame the government or some other control which could have made this habit disappear, but didn't...  How come everyone traveling in the metro buy a ticket.  It is nearly impossible to travel ticketless in a metro.  But i know how to. (that was the first thing that i found when i landed in delhi in April 2006...)

Well all said, i would not mind traveling ticketless in a bus service in either here or in Delhi.  For if you want me to pay for your service, make sure you do the service in a proper way.  why the hell should i pay u, when the height of the bus is not even higher than me.  so when i stand and travel i have to bend down and have a pain in my neck and shoulders.  even if the bus has empty seats i cannot sit, for there is no enough leg space for me to sit comfortably, leave comfortably, atleast i should be able to sit right!...  And how do the authorities expect me to pay for a ticket with such a service.  But still i pay and travel....

So what is the solution to the problem?...  well, i don't have any idea.  I don't have a damn idea what can be done, coz what ever suggestion i give you with respect to me will not hold good for a guy who is just 5 feet high.    Ask that guy how it is to travel in a train he will start complaining like me for everything is high there...  see the difference.. so someone ought to find a solution.

we the tall people may belong to a minority.  and yes we also have the financial ability and also the skills to own and drive a motor bike or a car, and yes i do have one at home.  yet i don't wanna use them to add one more vehicle to the ever increasing traffic population.  why not use the public transportation, which will save the country a few rupees on the oil purchase cost, which in turn will become energy saved. and also lowering of pollution.  I wish i could drive to office, but i won't.  I wish, atleast i could go to office in a cycle, my parents won't allow.  Now what can i do, other than rely on public transport.  But should i buy a ticket next time?......

office update....

they changed me projects..

and i may have to leave for bangalore anytime on short notice.

Boo hu, Boo hu, Boo hu, Boo hu, Boo hu

I hate it...