My Knee Hurts

What does this mean? Do I have a medical condition or what?

None of that. It is all thanks to the roadworks, the railworks (Metro rail), Autos, Taxis are the ones who are causing this.

The roadworks in Bangalore! It is so nice of the powers that be that they get great ideas and the results are just too good. One day, a road is neatly asphalted, we are all happy commuters! Couple of weeks down the line, the other civic authority digs up roads and start laying new drainage pipes. What is left of the road is not even half of what was available before. You never know when they will fix the road again.

I stay in west side of the city and have to travel to the east for work. All the entry points from west to east, we have metro rail work going on now or someone is laying power cables. The traffic is choatic. Everyone is in a hurry, everyone fights for space, everyone wants to get ahead of the other - end result is a bottle neck and a deadlock. And then there are really some great people out there, from extreme left they would want to go to right, from extreme right, they would want to go to left and the guy who wants to go straight does not know where to go hahaha!

Now, this is not just the autos (the 3 wheeler cabs) or Taxis, I am talking about Audis, Mercs, BMWs, Hondas, Toyotas, GMs, Fords, Suzuki, Hyundai........ There is nothing wrong with any of these! What is wrong is the mindset of the people who are driving those!

People used to be calm and cool in this place. Now, we have people fighting with cops, going to the extent of even trying to beat them up!  Oh yes, recent times, there have been instances of drunk women attacking police who were just doing their job. These incidents have brought in some measures and they seem to be working.


I have seen the very same people follow all the traffic rules, signs when they are driving abroad and back home, they are back to the same old devices.

I used to enjoy riding my motorbike and taking my car out for drives. I have really started hating the thought of driving nowadays. Hopefully, all the pain that we are going through will go away soon thanks to Metro rail. At least that is what I think.

We have few good jokes for you.

1. People in the USA drive on the right side of the road, people in UK drive on the left side of the road. We,  drive on what is left of the road!
2. The movie "One Flew over a cuckoo's nest" made Jack Nicholson famous, The roads in Bangalore have made the song from the movie even more famous "One went left, one went right, one went over the payment and another went down the open drain".
now:

Oh, before I sign off, I almost forgot to tell you how cops are using technologies to catch offenders now!
Our cops today have Blackberry's, Speed radars, speed cameras, cameras at major signals..... So, dear Bangalorean, if you think you got away by bending the law, and you thought no cop saw you, beware, you are going to be in for good surprise! You will get a nice warm letter coming home from the law authorities. Well, you can even go see all of it here: http://www.bangaloretrafficpolice.gov.in/

Thanks for reading all my ravings and rantings.

Srinath

Weight loss program for an Elephant? This one is not about making money!

Friends,

Few days ago, there was this news on one of the local TVs. I found it very amusing at first. Read on...


There is a temple of Lord Venkateshwara in a town in west godavari district in Andhra Pradesh (one of the states in India). This temple has an elephant. The elephant has been with the temple from its infancy. She is quite friendly with all the people who visit the temple. She being so friendly and nice, people who visit the temple used to feed her with fruits, nuts and all kinds of food stuff.

The giant (she is not an infant any more) went on eating all the stuff that people used to feed her. She put on lot of weight. This resulted in some complications for her. She used to get tired too fast, she could not even lie down to sleep, moving around was too difficult.....

The doctor came and said to the temple authorities that they should stop feeding her indiscriminately and she needs exercise to get back into shape. Whoever heard of an elephant being overweight!

They started off with a daily walk of 5 km in the morning and 5 km in the evening. The lady is literally enjoying her walks. She has reduced her intake, following a diet and loves her walk.

The result! Within one month, she has shed about 375kg of weight and she has become quite active. She feels the change in herself and is now not tempted to eat all the stuff people are bringing to her.

The question is, if an elephant can do it, why can't we? We keep giving lame excuses saying too much work, no time, it does not work for me and what not.

Just think about it!

An elephant has done it!


Hope you enjoyed reading this!

Regards

Srinath