Dual Roles

Played around with the shutter speed...





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mera Article in the Hindu...

1) ...dated 21/02/2007

check the below link and have a glance.....


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For older articles in the Hindu click here

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Solpaa egXtra egXciting RIDE and finally taken for a RIDE…

Prerequisite (must read): C.K.Meena’s article ‘the velvet touch’ under the section CITY LIGHTS in the Hindu supplement MetroPlus dated 7^th (Wednesday) of February about the guys who drive the auto rickshaws – the life line of namma Bengalooru.

(http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/02/07/stories/2007020700880400.htm )

Having read this article in the morning of Wednesday, I tell my roommate in the evening that these guys in Bengalooru are much better when compared to their compatriots in Chennai, and that having read this article we can anticipate their smart antics and was getting ready to leave to take the night train to Chennai and had to board it in the Majestic railway station.

Got ready and left home at 21:15:00 to board the 22:45:00 train, I wave for a auto rickshaw and for my great luck, the days hero – a young guy turns up without a fight and I ask him if he can come to ‘Majestic railway station’ and he says Yes Sir with such josh that I am left wondering whether a trip to the station is like a annual vacation for him.

I keep my bags inside and he asks me whether he can start, which sort of gave me the feeling of those rally cars waiting for the seconds countdown to end to give the final rush of fuel to tear away, the feeling came true as he very rudely snapped the gear to first and threw the clutch back and trust me the auto was in ‘take-off’ mode with complete acceleration and no deceleration in spite of signals being against him.

My worries against missing the train due to traffic holdups were replaced by the worry of my bags flying out of the spacious dual exits on either side of the auto caused by the artificial gravity pull backwards due to his brilliantly worrisome driving or rather flying, which made me clutch my bags with care.

The Bajaj’s and the Fresco’s aren’t really customer/auto guy friendly, if they were Can they explain the audacious reason why the drivers seat is situated right in the center of the front rather than the left or right of the auto? This poor guy was forced to sit in the left most corner of his seat and was driving with a particular angled view of the road and had to literally stretch out to hit the brakes (maybe that was a reason why he braked so less!).

Having seen the state polices advice in several mediums of information, I search for the license board which is supposed to be displayed behind the driver’s seat I find it to be missing adding to my misery.

As we neared the church on JC road, the signal finally gets the better of him and makes him slow down and stop, but to hurt his ego another auto guy decides to challenge his line position and squeezes his vehicle in front of him which leaves our hero angry and murmuring under his breath rather under the roar of the silencer less vehicle. As the signal countdown starts to end 6..5..4..3..our hero is revving up on the first gear ..2..1..and zoooooom he makes his back right wheel to go over the pavement to overtake the other guy and he has won the 5 meter race which me makes me want to ask him whether his auto alone has “Dual Hydro Jet Engines and Disc Brakes”. I also had this doubt whether the aero show was giving him such motivation and whether he wanted to put the Russians with their new Mirages to shame with his super old yellow autooo.

As we near Majestic, am more than happy as I near my end point, but there’s more to this story. He goes straight to Majestic bus terminus and parks and says that Sir thank you, I tell him ‘boss nammey Majestic railway station challna hai’ (in my broken Kannada – Hindi mix) and he says O…and he starts and explains a long one way route due to the bad traffic police policies in the city and takes me to the railway station.

I notice the meter reading is 59.xx while getting out, so I give him a 100 rupee note and a 10 rupee note so that he can return a 50 rupee note back to me, then immediately he says Sir one and a Half, so I put my head again to check the fare and by the time am done say in 15 seconds he replaces the 100 rupee note with another 10 rupee note and tells me that I have given him only 20 rupees, am Shocked and I say NO, I gave you a 100 & a 10 rupee note for which he holds his neck, similar to taking a oath and says ‘amma promise sirrr’ ….traffic piling, horns blaring, loneliness for company I am forced to shell a new 100 rupee note and he says thanks and leaves maybe to have a drink courtesy me. And as I walk in I count the money left in my purse to obviously notice that I have been cheated as I had taken a fixed amount from the ATM during the day, maybe that’s the egXtra charge for riding in a supersonic craft without seatbelts with a locally trained pilot.

UPDATE : My fate made me meet the same auto guy on 29th November 2007 and he attempted the same trick, his name on the display board is CHETAN D hes thin, dark and speak a bit of tamil too, sits on the left corner of the seat and is a very rash driver...beware of him.

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Graphical inter.....

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Caught the sun

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Nandi Hills

Nandi Hills - a good 2 hour peaceful drive on NH4 takes you there, a good drive, a silent serene place with not too much buzzing activities really promotes the place, good for a early morning drive for photographers overall I would say its worth a visit.

Details:

65 Kms from Bangalore,
1478 meters above sea level.

Attractions:

Rivers Pennar, Palar and Arkavati orginate from this hill,
Tipu Sultans - summer retreat place/palace ,
1175 steps from the base of the hill to the top,
Tipu's drop - 600 meter cliff from where the prisoners were dropped to death,
Yoganandishwara temple at the top ,
Fresh grapes direct from the fields are sold enroute,
birds and wildlife ,
and overall greenery and silence

Temperature:
Summer: Max: 29°C Min: 23°C
Winter: Max: 21°C Min: 11°C


The trip pictures

http://tinyurl.com/2nomxy

Wikipedia Info About The Place

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandi_Hills%2C_India

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humour @ its best

few nice ones from the latest RD issue.....


What with the crowded quarters in economy class, I cant blame the airline passengers for asking flight attendants for free upgrades to first class. On a recent fully booked flight, a passenger stopped me with hat in hand, "is there any way I can get bumped up to first class?" he pleaded.

I shook my head, "not unless we hit turbulence". ------------------------Suzanne R


As a business writing instructor, I read a lots of resumes. Inevitably, I run across some students with skills no employer could pass up, such as:

• The young paramedic who "makes life-threatening decisions on a daily basis".
• A child care worker who can "overlook up to 35 children at one time".

• An enterprising young woman who is "flexible enough to perform in all manner of positions if the situation gets desperate". -----------Autumn C
  

When a car blew past a stop sign at a busy intersection, my uncle, a traffic policeman, gave chase and pulled the driver over.
"Didn't you see the stop sign back there?" my uncle asked ....yeah " I saw it," admitted the driver. The problem is, I didn't see you. ---------- Michael H


Sign seen in a church while leaving a seat to get to the altar "Please don't leave your personal things unattended lest someone assume that these are the answers to their prayers" --- Biebvenido G



The sheriffs race is on and the leading candidates name is ASKEW and his slogan is "A New Direction"

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Acknowledgements:
I have read/taken the following content from

1) Readers Digest

IAN FLEMING - published on 1953

CASINO ROYALE : SYMPHONY - BANGALORE SUNDAY the 26th 19:00pm

Having watched the living daylights,license to kill, diamonds are forever, live and let live, golden eye, tomorrow never dies, the world is not enough and die another day, Casino Royale came as a dampener on the 'TECHIE BOND MOVIE' front. Daniel Craig the first blond on the same list with Timothy Dalton, Sean Connery , Pierce Brosnan and others has done nothing wrong to add to his reputation, muscle fletching, handsome and has acted well. Casino Royale is based upon the first book of Ian Fleming the creator of the James Bond character published in 1953. For those who go to watch the bond movies for the
Aston Martin turn into wonder machines and do miracles this movie has only few scenes, one where it helps Bond recover from a cardiac arrest when he's poisoned and another where the car crashes at a terrifying speed.

The other drastic change is where the earlier Bond always wanted his drink well shaken and not stirred while we have the new Bond saying 'I don't care whether its shaken or stirred' and the new bond recites a quick recipe for the drink, which I heard has boosted the sales of the drink in the real world by several folds.

Overall the movie has a nice sound storyline(I hope I haven't revealed the story any where above) with a few financial technicalities and romance also thrown in and as all Bond movies (except Dr NO) the Bond hasn't married the opposite female lead .

In India Casino Royale collected 149.4 million rupees (3.34 million dollars) in the first three days of its release, beating the previous highest record of 78 million rupees (1.74 million dollars) set by action movie "Spiderman 2" in 2004.

quoted as a quote in quotes

These are few quotes which I thoroughly enjoy

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace prize.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

'Careful with that light at the end of the tunnel, it might be another train coming.'

'don't drink and drive you might spill your beer'

Constipated People Don't Give A crap.

I tried sniffing coke once, but the ice cubes stuck in my nose

If Walking Is So Good For You, Then Why Does My Mailman Look Like Jabba The Hut?

Anger is one letter short of danger.

Treat me like an angel and I will be your little devil.

OUT TO LUNCH: IF NOT BACK BY FIVE, OUT FOR DINNER ALSO

'If you die, I'll kill you!'

A repair shop:
WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING. (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR - THE BELL DOES NoT WORK)

Always behave like a DUCK - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. Jacob M. Braude

Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; and the end of the world is evidently approaching. - on a Sumerian Clay tablet, 3000 B.C

Irish Proverbs
A wild goose never reared a tame gosling.

Italian
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box

INSULTS
'This man is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.'

'He's so clumsy, he could trip over a cordless phone'

He has left his body to science - and science is contesting the will - David Frost

Acknowledgements:
I have read/taken the following quotes from

1) www.goodquotes.com
2) the book from the Readers Digest stable called 'Treasury of WIT & HUMOUR'

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