Major power cuts, and sweat shower is quite common for the people in TamilNadu, I’ll not be exaggerating if I say that people are having sweat dreams rather sweet dreams, even in the dreams they don’t see light due to power failure, I swear I’m not joking.
Last weekend there was 16 hours power cut in the place where I live I went crazy usually the power cut will be for two hours from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM, daily, at around 10:30 AM I called the TNEB enquiring about the issue, they said they have some problem to fix, I got pissed off, I questioned why didn’t they do it, in those two hours, which was a schedule (actually this is not scheduled either) power shutdown, the response was terrific thou, “ we haven’t scheduled this job at that time thou” was the response from the other end, he is really getting into my nervous, I politely asked him again, when is the power restoration expected, again a terrific response “will restore once the job is completed”, and banged the phone without giving any stipulated period.
I decided to chew the fat with some books and all, however unable to chew much, I going reckless called them again and again at one hour intervals, and was getting a monotonous reply “will restore once the maintenance task is completed”. Around 4:00 PM or so, I become so reckless and bullets in my guts started firing, I called them again and fired them with unparliamentarily (may be parliamentary) words, to my fate, this time the phone was answered by a woman, I was embarrassed she sounded to be the age of my mother, and she probably never would have expected such words when she was about to answer the phone, some how she managed to responded to my call, with shivering voice (may be because of shock) she said, “Sir, we are not responsible for the maintenance job, please wait I’ll give you the number where you can reach them directly” and she gave me the number and she apologized for the inconvenience caused and simply banged the phone, without knowing how to respond.
I called the other number, feeling sorry for her, for using such an abuse words, and the conversation went like this:
Me: EB department.
EB: Yes
Me: Sir, there was a power cut in my house for the past 10 hours or so, I’m residing at Perrianna Ngr.
EB: Yes sir, the maintenance job is going on, once it is completed the power will resume.
Me: Cut that crap, for the past 10 hrs, what the hell are you doing? Are you not paid? Is there any one in your department who is willing to work at least for the 50% of the amount they are getting paid for? Don’t you people feel guilty for not doing any work and getting paid?
EB: Sir, we strain a lot, don’t you understand that we are working and not playing, it will take time. You have to wait. (He was dominating rather dictating that I’ve to wait)
Me: Hey, stop yelling at me, I’m the customer, and you have to give me the estimated time period for this task, I can’t shower myself with sweat, I’m stinking myself, even if they construct a bridge they will give an estimation, why cant you give me the time, when the power will be restored? Are you such novice workers?
EB: I don’t have to give you all that info?
(He was about to hang up, I interrupted)
Me: I’m recording the call, and I’ll file a case against you for your irresponsibility, give me your section engineer number I’ll speak to him
(He gave me the section Engineer number, and he was shivering like Hell, I could feel, I called the section Engineer)
Me: Hello, Am I speaking with Balaji?
Balaji: yes
Me: Are you the section Engineer, in TNEB? (Just to confirm)
Balaji: Yes, who is this?
Me: This is Krishna, from Perianna Ngr, and there is a power shut down for the past 10 hours or so? May I know whatz going on?
Balaji: Yes sir, there is a maintenance job going on, will resume once it is completed.
Me: Balaji, this is insane, there was an unscheduled, scheduled power shutdown daily from 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM, even after a State Electricity minister has requested to stop such shut downs, do you have any sensible answers?
Balaji: Sir, first you need to understand, that if I have enough electricity, I don’t need to shut it down, there is a huge scarcity for the power across the sate, you sound to be sensible, and I believe you know, that state government is approving licenses huge factories, who consume lion share of the state power, because of that there is huge scarcity for the same, it is partially true, that the power shut down has been taken out only in the major cities of the state, and people in the outskirts of the city are forced to suffer minimum of 2 hours power shutdown, and in the cities there is still power shutdown in the name of unforeseen issues. I can feel the heat in your shoes, give me 30 mins time, I’ll make arrangement to resume power for you.
Me: Thank you, Sir.
And in 10 mins, the power was resumed, and the words of the Balaji, are lingering in my ears, the state government knowing that we cant afford electricity to those big industries, they still welcome them, for huge bribe scandal, and they are projected as the employment opportunities to the public, even yesterday state government has provided licenses to two major industries at the estimated price of 1500 Cr, lightning 3000 job seekers but pushing 300,000 people to dark.
Blaming the previous government for not providing enough sources of energy management is bull shit, state government is just horsing around, obviously they will, when people are sheep’s, its high time for them to stuff their bank accounts
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
More Challenges for the Physically Challenged
As I was travelling on the Old Mahabalipuram Road, oh no its not OMR anymore, it is IT- Corridor Road, horseshit I’m wrong again, it is IT Highway, may be I’m wrong again it is Rajiv Gandhi road, Jesus Christ, I believe I’m right this time. It is not only this road got many names in Chennai, Mount Road alias Anna salai, kamaraj salai or Beach road and many more, at this rate a single road will have multiple post codes in the future. I’m not kidding. Anyways I would like to call this road conventionally as OMR which makes lot sense.
During the construction of this OMR, goddamm, I thought its going to be 4 liners each side, as it has come to completion now, it stood to 21/2 liner at most places and 3 liner at other places, as median takes rest of space, as wide as a liner, worlds widest median, with no foot path for the pedestrians and no separate sideway for cyclers to encourage cyclers as provided in any international standard roads, even after witnessing the fuel shortage, TNRDC has taken no steps to encourage neither pedestrians nor cyclers. Worst part is cyclers has to travel along with other motorized vehicles risking there life, in most of the place of OMR, and don’t forget OMR is called as a highway built with international standards.
Median has literally forced all the vehicles to travel, at least a couple of kilometers before they take a U turn, I don’t read any sensible note on this, but still, cant expect more from these morons. For pedestrians there are couple of over bridges at some calculated distance, at deserted areas, I don’t understand what the purpose of this over bridge is?, is this for the pedestrians convenient? TNDRC over bridges at deserted areas will be deserted too, and don’t blame the poor pedestrians for not utilizing your functionality, as it is of more strain to them. Make some sensible decisions morons, use your brains and not kidneys, probably that’s the reason why your ideas stinks.
The more sarcastic part is how a physically challenged person is gonna cross the road, it is challenging question to TNRDC, lets not ridicule this (TNRDC) handicappers any more, I’m not kidding, I have seen many physically challenged people literally crawling to cross the roads, as they are unable to crawl that long to reach the over bridge or even to climb the over bridge, so they dare to challenge their lives in front of speeding vehicle. And we know for our IT professionals, they are humans in Onsite and beasts while on offshore. They care about Lane disciple onsite, offshore they give a shit to it. They don’t have time to worry for this crawlers, what if even if they are hit dead, India has more than a billion population, we can still manage. Goodos to TNRDC and ministry of Highways for joining their hands with Ministry of Health for drawing a smart way to bring down the population by challenging the lives of Physically challenged and Pedestrians.
This writing is not for making fun, or just for ridiculing someone, please think it over, you may have one person from your knows who may be pedestrian or Physically challenged on this OMR. I definitely believe that you don’t want to risk their life, unless you are a moron.
During the construction of this OMR, goddamm, I thought its going to be 4 liners each side, as it has come to completion now, it stood to 21/2 liner at most places and 3 liner at other places, as median takes rest of space, as wide as a liner, worlds widest median, with no foot path for the pedestrians and no separate sideway for cyclers to encourage cyclers as provided in any international standard roads, even after witnessing the fuel shortage, TNRDC has taken no steps to encourage neither pedestrians nor cyclers. Worst part is cyclers has to travel along with other motorized vehicles risking there life, in most of the place of OMR, and don’t forget OMR is called as a highway built with international standards.
Median has literally forced all the vehicles to travel, at least a couple of kilometers before they take a U turn, I don’t read any sensible note on this, but still, cant expect more from these morons. For pedestrians there are couple of over bridges at some calculated distance, at deserted areas, I don’t understand what the purpose of this over bridge is?, is this for the pedestrians convenient? TNDRC over bridges at deserted areas will be deserted too, and don’t blame the poor pedestrians for not utilizing your functionality, as it is of more strain to them. Make some sensible decisions morons, use your brains and not kidneys, probably that’s the reason why your ideas stinks.
The more sarcastic part is how a physically challenged person is gonna cross the road, it is challenging question to TNRDC, lets not ridicule this (TNRDC) handicappers any more, I’m not kidding, I have seen many physically challenged people literally crawling to cross the roads, as they are unable to crawl that long to reach the over bridge or even to climb the over bridge, so they dare to challenge their lives in front of speeding vehicle. And we know for our IT professionals, they are humans in Onsite and beasts while on offshore. They care about Lane disciple onsite, offshore they give a shit to it. They don’t have time to worry for this crawlers, what if even if they are hit dead, India has more than a billion population, we can still manage. Goodos to TNRDC and ministry of Highways for joining their hands with Ministry of Health for drawing a smart way to bring down the population by challenging the lives of Physically challenged and Pedestrians.
This writing is not for making fun, or just for ridiculing someone, please think it over, you may have one person from your knows who may be pedestrian or Physically challenged on this OMR. I definitely believe that you don’t want to risk their life, unless you are a moron.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Purachikalanazhar in Boston
I’m little bit scared to open a conversation with Ganapathi (Guppy), I know it’s not my fault for his bad mood and frustration, how do I confirm that he knows that as well? Its a million dollar question isn’t it? On this lovely weekend, Karthick, Guppy and I decided to go to “Lakshmi Temple” in Framingham located in the outskirts of Boston. As thisi s my first visit to USA, I take enough time to explore things around me and take photos both on camera and my eyes.
We three are in south station to board to Framingham, few more mintues for the train to departure, suddenly Karthick ran towards ATM, to withdraw cash, and said something to us which I failed to catch, I believe Guppy too, he followed him and he decided to withdraw some cash too, I don’t know what to do I bluntly followed Guppy, towards ATM, and I stopped at a distance to ATM, it is not to give privacy to Guppy, but to watch, rather explore a bull made of wood, by some school children in Boston and presented to south station on some occasion, I just had a Glimpse to confirm is Guppy still there at ATM, and started reading the importance of the BULL, after reading the history of the bull I decided to take a picture of the same and was about to open my camera pouch, in the very moment I felt the hand on my shoulder, its none other than Guppy, asking me where is karthick? I replied to him how do I know? I was following you and not him, it was a total miscommunication as Guppy was in a conclusion that I will be with karthick since he is withdrawing cash, I was fully loaded with the bull and just keeping half eye on Guppy for my security, and Karthick was seen no were, we searched for him for some time, and gave up, assuming that he would have boarded the train to Framingham, Karthick was in Boston for almost an year, so he knows better than us.
Guppy some how handled the situation and said to me that we will find when is the next train to Framingham and will go to the temple as planned, and that sounded good to me, we bought the tickets for the next train and pizza for breakfast, and we are sitting in the waiting area, Guppy was sipping coffee after the breakfast all of sudden I could see a brightness in his eyes, as if he saw something really surprising and he said “Hey, look there, its Vijaykanth”. I asked him where, Guppy pointed his finger behind me, I could see no VijayKanth there, I asked him again where, he said “there, in that man’s vests, printed VijayKanth photo” pointing to the gentleman to my left. I said “come on Guppy no way, its Boston”, Guppy with little command in voice “I swear, he has Vijaykanth’s photo printed in his Vest, if you don’t trust me you go and have a look” I could feel a confidence in his voice. Not that I don’t trust Guppy, but I really want to see that person who is advertising for Vijaykanth, I got up from my seat and started walking towards the Gentleman who is waking towards the Enquiry counter, to my surprise he is wearing a vest with Vijaykanth photo and his new political party name printed.
I introduced myself to him and he said his name his Dave (I’m sorry I didn’t catch his last name) and asked him did he know who is that person in the photo?, to my astonishment he said his name is “Vijaya kaanth” pronounced almost correctly, and I interviewed him for few mins:
ME: How do you know him?
Dave: I was in Pondicherry for few months, where I learned about him.
ME: May I know what you learned about him?
Dave: I learned that he has started a new party and I happened to hear his political party’s manifesto, and was really surprised to see down to earth and practical vows for the welfare of the people, I wish he wins and keeps up his promise. I also watched couple of movies which are really good, is he an Indian James bond?
ME: (Tittering) a kind of? He is more like action hero.
Dave: Oh I see, he should win.
ME: what makes you to say so? I mean may I ask you why?
Dave: Well, I been to few places in south India, and I was really unhappy to see the pathetic living conditions of the people, I could also see the carelessness of the Government on this, all that India requires at this time is a leader like him, who has an urge to server people, I wish we have one Vijaykanth in America as well.
ME: Good to hear that Dave, Nice talking to you, Can I have your photograph?
Dave: Sure, why not?
He poses and I photographed him, and went back to my seat where Guppy is waiting for me, Guppy asked me what was all about the conversation? I narrated him what went on with us, and I thought probably we missed the train to interview him, Guppy remained that we got few more minutes to catch the train.
We boarded the train to Framingham and Dave words are still lingering in my mind.
We three are in south station to board to Framingham, few more mintues for the train to departure, suddenly Karthick ran towards ATM, to withdraw cash, and said something to us which I failed to catch, I believe Guppy too, he followed him and he decided to withdraw some cash too, I don’t know what to do I bluntly followed Guppy, towards ATM, and I stopped at a distance to ATM, it is not to give privacy to Guppy, but to watch, rather explore a bull made of wood, by some school children in Boston and presented to south station on some occasion, I just had a Glimpse to confirm is Guppy still there at ATM, and started reading the importance of the BULL, after reading the history of the bull I decided to take a picture of the same and was about to open my camera pouch, in the very moment I felt the hand on my shoulder, its none other than Guppy, asking me where is karthick? I replied to him how do I know? I was following you and not him, it was a total miscommunication as Guppy was in a conclusion that I will be with karthick since he is withdrawing cash, I was fully loaded with the bull and just keeping half eye on Guppy for my security, and Karthick was seen no were, we searched for him for some time, and gave up, assuming that he would have boarded the train to Framingham, Karthick was in Boston for almost an year, so he knows better than us.
Guppy some how handled the situation and said to me that we will find when is the next train to Framingham and will go to the temple as planned, and that sounded good to me, we bought the tickets for the next train and pizza for breakfast, and we are sitting in the waiting area, Guppy was sipping coffee after the breakfast all of sudden I could see a brightness in his eyes, as if he saw something really surprising and he said “Hey, look there, its Vijaykanth”. I asked him where, Guppy pointed his finger behind me, I could see no VijayKanth there, I asked him again where, he said “there, in that man’s vests, printed VijayKanth photo” pointing to the gentleman to my left. I said “come on Guppy no way, its Boston”, Guppy with little command in voice “I swear, he has Vijaykanth’s photo printed in his Vest, if you don’t trust me you go and have a look” I could feel a confidence in his voice. Not that I don’t trust Guppy, but I really want to see that person who is advertising for Vijaykanth, I got up from my seat and started walking towards the Gentleman who is waking towards the Enquiry counter, to my surprise he is wearing a vest with Vijaykanth photo and his new political party name printed.
I introduced myself to him and he said his name his Dave (I’m sorry I didn’t catch his last name) and asked him did he know who is that person in the photo?, to my astonishment he said his name is “Vijaya kaanth” pronounced almost correctly, and I interviewed him for few mins:
ME: How do you know him?
Dave: I was in Pondicherry for few months, where I learned about him.
ME: May I know what you learned about him?
Dave: I learned that he has started a new party and I happened to hear his political party’s manifesto, and was really surprised to see down to earth and practical vows for the welfare of the people, I wish he wins and keeps up his promise. I also watched couple of movies which are really good, is he an Indian James bond?
ME: (Tittering) a kind of? He is more like action hero.
Dave: Oh I see, he should win.
ME: what makes you to say so? I mean may I ask you why?
Dave: Well, I been to few places in south India, and I was really unhappy to see the pathetic living conditions of the people, I could also see the carelessness of the Government on this, all that India requires at this time is a leader like him, who has an urge to server people, I wish we have one Vijaykanth in America as well.
ME: Good to hear that Dave, Nice talking to you, Can I have your photograph?
Dave: Sure, why not?
He poses and I photographed him, and went back to my seat where Guppy is waiting for me, Guppy asked me what was all about the conversation? I narrated him what went on with us, and I thought probably we missed the train to interview him, Guppy remained that we got few more minutes to catch the train.
We boarded the train to Framingham and Dave words are still lingering in my mind.
Peace talks Vs Inability
India with a population of 100 crores, standing second in the world, forecasted to be the first in next couple of years, I’m not here to discuss, is India becoming first in the population is good or not, I’m here to discuss will India become first in population or at least retains its current position.
Human life are taken for a toss here, uncontrollable inflation, corrupted government officials, irresponsible leaders, ritual riots, religious riots and adding fuel to the fire are insensible and unhealthy citizens, are available slow poison to India, and to add to the list is the terrorism an unanswerable question across the world, who funds them what is there goal? Why are they doing this? What is there aim? All these are unanswerable.
There were serious of bomb blasts over the past few years in India, 1993’s Bomb blast in Bombay, is still a partially closed case and verdicts are not strong enough to hold Terrorism in India, worlds biggest Democratic parliament was attacked by terrorists and we were holding peace talks with them, while they talk to us using AK 47 and gelatin sticks. I know that India has singed for the Non Aligned Movement (NAM), and I appreciate that they still stick to this on the glue of Indian citizens.
The recent Jaipur blast, Bangalore blasts, Ahmadabad and the Delhi blasts has taken dozens of Indians lives, and India is on peace talks, if strict and strong actions were been taken on Bombay blasts, the story wouldn’t have continued, I don’t know how many more lives they require to take serious actions on terrorism, It is not only the inability of the Government it is the inability of the citizens as well, the tendency to compromise on almost everything. It’s a shame on our intelligence department and on us for not governing them well.
The world has reacted on terrorism very badly Twin towers blast in USA has left the debris in Afghanistan, Militants in Israel, given Israeli military a noisy entry to Palestine and so on, back in India, rather invading we surrender our lands to them, known is Pakistan occupied Land, unknown is China occupied India, which is a silent killer to India.
I wonder how People have healthy sex, to bring their offspring’s in this unhealthy situation, proving manhood but living a eunuch’s life. The citizens of India are not vasudev, to produce as much as possible searching for Lord krishna, to kill Kamsa. We are living a slave’s life, let come out of our slavery for the freedom of our offspring’s.
I’m not giving solution, for this situation, as we are used to spoon feeding, we failed to use our Right to Vote, sensibly so as the sixth sense. There are only two groups who use sixth sense effectively, Politicians on how to goof people and Terrorist’s on how to destroy people?
Human life are taken for a toss here, uncontrollable inflation, corrupted government officials, irresponsible leaders, ritual riots, religious riots and adding fuel to the fire are insensible and unhealthy citizens, are available slow poison to India, and to add to the list is the terrorism an unanswerable question across the world, who funds them what is there goal? Why are they doing this? What is there aim? All these are unanswerable.
There were serious of bomb blasts over the past few years in India, 1993’s Bomb blast in Bombay, is still a partially closed case and verdicts are not strong enough to hold Terrorism in India, worlds biggest Democratic parliament was attacked by terrorists and we were holding peace talks with them, while they talk to us using AK 47 and gelatin sticks. I know that India has singed for the Non Aligned Movement (NAM), and I appreciate that they still stick to this on the glue of Indian citizens.
The recent Jaipur blast, Bangalore blasts, Ahmadabad and the Delhi blasts has taken dozens of Indians lives, and India is on peace talks, if strict and strong actions were been taken on Bombay blasts, the story wouldn’t have continued, I don’t know how many more lives they require to take serious actions on terrorism, It is not only the inability of the Government it is the inability of the citizens as well, the tendency to compromise on almost everything. It’s a shame on our intelligence department and on us for not governing them well.
The world has reacted on terrorism very badly Twin towers blast in USA has left the debris in Afghanistan, Militants in Israel, given Israeli military a noisy entry to Palestine and so on, back in India, rather invading we surrender our lands to them, known is Pakistan occupied Land, unknown is China occupied India, which is a silent killer to India.
I wonder how People have healthy sex, to bring their offspring’s in this unhealthy situation, proving manhood but living a eunuch’s life. The citizens of India are not vasudev, to produce as much as possible searching for Lord krishna, to kill Kamsa. We are living a slave’s life, let come out of our slavery for the freedom of our offspring’s.
I’m not giving solution, for this situation, as we are used to spoon feeding, we failed to use our Right to Vote, sensibly so as the sixth sense. There are only two groups who use sixth sense effectively, Politicians on how to goof people and Terrorist’s on how to destroy people?
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