~~Cenotaph road flyover~~

Today while returning back in bus I was completely involved in reading another book which I got from flipkart.After 100 minutes of reading I looked through the window shocked to see bus was in saidapet, a route taken only by 23C. Then I remembered that the Cenotaph-turnbulls road flyover is getting opened for people to use.

I remember they have started building this flyover some 10 months ago ,it was supposed to be completed by November but given the rain and some legal issues it got delayed but not long enough ending our misery.Construction of this flyover caused an agonising delay adding salt to wounds of the tiresome trip we endure every day.It was a challenge for drivers to take us through the narrow residential area without hitting gates,walls and their flower pots.



Above is the map of the area, the red line is the route taken by vehicles beacuse of the construction of flyover and the width of the lanes would be no more than 30 feet.From tomorrow we can zoom past via the green line.Since this is a shortest route from IT highway to mount road, this area used to be the bottle neck of the traffic jam.Now with the flyover built we have to wait and see how good it is to easy the traffic flow.Hope it doesn't transfer the bottle neck to the next junction.

Book I read..

Getting books has become an easy affair with the help of flipkart. Last week when I was browsing through the best seller's list I came accross this book titled 'Missed IIT kissed Russia' by Neeraj Chhibba. Atttracted by the title and the deal it gave I ordered the book.Got it two days back and finished it today.





The book gives an overall perspective of the hard life students had to deal when are studying in Russia where language ,climate ,food ,culture etc are new to them and getting adapted to them is a real challenge.Novel has its bit of humor and romance.Since its written by the author has missed IIT(like me-okok cool down) one can feel the pain in not getting through inspite of the efforts put.

A Good time pass.

~~Mobile Problem~~

My mobile started to give problems again :( this time though phone functionality is working but it is not reading from the memory card. Making my life difficult since I use my mobile more to listen songs and take photos rather than to talk.

Given it for service and since the guarantee period is gone dont know how much its gonna cost me!

~~Acupressure seats~~

My bike seat cover got worn out and before it gets torn into pieces I decided to change it.So I went to the shop nearby and asked for seat covers. Since it was a weekday the shop was free and I had ample time to select the covers.And it came in different designs start stripes etc.The shopkeeper asked me to try the acupressure seat cover. Wow that was the only portion of my body I didnt give any proper exercise,so immediately I choose one from them.

When we were about the change the seat cover,we found out the entire foam underneath the cover had got damaged and it needed to be changed.So what started as visit to changing the cover ended up chaining everything.With the new seat which is pretty hard added to acupressure points in the cover its more like riding on a horse.(its worse than the horse ride I had in Marina :) )

~~Back to back visit to Marina~~

Marina beach got reinvented itself,with bright spot lights around,well maintained lawns friendly footpaths on two sides,ample parking space,added to that cleanliness had got its long deserved respect(at least by Chennai standards). When I saw KG's blog last month I never guessed it could be Marina but miracles do happen and this one of the kind.

I was planning to visit Marina,Sunday afternoon KG called and said lets goto beach, from office I directly drove to Triplicane.After having snacks @ his place KG,Suba,Thiyana ,Ganesh and myself left to Marina.We walked in the newly build footpath almost till the lighthouse then walked into the sand.We sat near a chilli bhajji shop and treated ourselves with hot bhajji's in the cool breeze.Since all the four belong to the lucky group who reads my blogs(ok KG's blog also) felt easy for me/them to link up funny conversations.

After coming back I realised that I havent gone inside the water at the beach, maybe the gang with which I went was too old for doing these kinds of experiment :)
.Going to beach not having a go at the waves was like going the hotel and coming back without eating anything or going to a Saloon and read the newspaper and come back.So my visit to Marina was incomplete.

Monday when I was bragging about the beauty of Marina beach my cousin said he needs to see the beach. So I took to beach ,made him walk till he could nt take more,took him to the water then,I was relishing the feel of gentle waves on the legs until my cousin interrupted saying he is hungry.Then went to the usual place this time I tried Bhel puri which they served with a ice cream spoon with great difficulty I tried to finish that.

While we eating those stuff one horse neighed while crossing us which was enough for my cousin to ask me for a horse ride.Fine when we went and enquired the ride was 50bucks for a round.And the horse keeper insisted that I should also take a round since there was another horse nearby.I looked around to check whether any PETA people
are waiting there to catch me when got on to the horse. Then I got few instructions on how to turn the horse, how to stop and start it.Off it went ,since the beach was littered with people here and there it was funny experience to maneuver the horse ,when I tried to turn it would stop ,when I tried to keep it walk again it went to make some circles(hey I m not paying for doing merry go round).Then the keeper pushed it to a straight.Once the round was about to get over they offer me a fast run on the horse for which I said next time.

All in all two days at Marina are still not enough ,there are lots more to experience there!!

~Building experiments~

Last weekend Keerthi called me

Keerthi: lets build a famous building model.
Me: Hey i m workin this weekend .Anyways what building is it?
Keerthi:Berkeley art museum.
Me:WHAT ? how come you choosed that .
Keerti: I first choose empire state building then sears towers all got rejected finally I ended up with this.(!!!)

Sunday night I went to her house ,I had the look at the picture of Berkeley art muesum in net and told her I am not an architect to build a model of it.And even said why cant she choose something simple like LIC building such that we can build it using a cardboard box. She said her building should be complex enough such that her workmanship should be noted by everybody(hey I havent done even a single assignment like that when I was in college).Then she was showing all other kind of building from net to choose from, all complex models were rejected by me and all simple models were rejected by her. No conclusion was reached and I slept.

Monday she asked her teacher for suggestion and came up with a more complex structure to develop.That evening over google chat we were exchanging links of few buildings and she suggested one which kind of workable.

Tuesday we decided to build the model, we got thermocols from the near shop one got broken into pieces while taking it back home.After taking few measurements we cut the thermocols into pieces and then struck them with fevicol. After 3 hours work we got the structure somewhat ready when an accidental swipe from my hand hit the structure... alas the whole structure collapsed in front of our eyes.Then only it struck our dead brains we need to have a foundation for any build to stand strong.
It took another 3 hours to complete the structure.Whew I cant remember any day I worked like this when I was in college.

~~About Friendship~~

Got this from my friend today....


Friendship is not about “I m sorry “ its about “Dei un thappu than ithu..“

Friendship is not about “I m there for u” or “I missed u “ it’s about “Enga poi tholanja “

Friendship is not about “I understand “ its about “Ellam unnala than“

Friendship is not about “I care for u “ its about “Pannada unnai vitutu enga poven naan “

Friendship is not about “I m happy for ur success “its about “Kelambu un treat “

Friendship is not about “I love that girl“ its about “Dei mariyadaiah paru athu un thangachi.. “

Friendship is not about “R u coming for outing tomorrow “ its about “ Dei naalaiku trip porom vera engayum poi tholaikatha “

Friendship is not about “Get well soon “ its about “ Ivlo kudicha ipaadi than agum“

Friendship is not about “All the best for ur career“its about “pannathu varaikum pothum, kelambu vera velaya paru“