School Bus

After the unfortunate event that took the life of a small kid everyone in chennai is in overdrive. They will be like this for a week and go back to their original life style. The problem doesnt lie with that specific school bus or that specific inspector who gave FC for that bus.

The immediate order that came out from government is all school buses should be reinspected. One can only laugh at such amatuerish statements. What about the safety of people travelling in vehicles other than school buses? What about the safety of people travelling in unevenly constructed roads?

Sometime back a kid died after skidding on top of construction material which was put out in the road. They issued an order saying whoever puts construction material in road will be fined or arrested. But it will be difficult to find a road in chennai without construction materials occupying almost half the road.

I have written many times in this blog that human life has very little value in India. The government always washes its hands saying it cannot do anything or does certain things without commitment just to appease the people at that moment.

We have to take care of ourselves in this country where the roads are filled with idiots and the governing authority and the controlling authority (police) are the biggest idiots of them all.

Cocktail

Posting after a very looong time. Lot of things happening which keeps me occupied. Even through this difficult times I managed to watch some movies.

Om Shanti Om - I expected the movie to be entertaining but it just goes on and on and I was unable to feel for any of the characters in this movie. I felt it was a bit over the top.

Parichay - A peaceful movie. Its like a Vikraman movie where all the characters are good and there are no villains. The song Musafir hoon yaaron is high point of this movie.

We need to talk about Kevin - A movie with an ending which is left to the viewer to understand. This movie is a gloomy one and you will feel like you want to slap that kid Kevin. That too just the day after I watched this movie heard about the incident happened in US where they were screening Dark Knight Rises.

Crazy Stupid Love - This movie was awesome. Whenever you feel this movie is going to take the cliched path it will prove you wrong. Ryan Gosling looks awesome as usual. I have become a fan of Steve Carell been watching many of his movies and he always delivers.

Date Night : Another Steve Carell movie and Tina Fey looks good in this movie. Another laugh a minute movie.

Kalakalapu Masala Cafe - This was an ok movie from Sundar C. Siva was hilarious.

Oru Kal Oru Kannadi

I enjoyed the previous two outings of Rajesh. I was infact pleasently surprised when I saw Boss Engira Baskaran when it didnt have any boring part. So naturally expectation was high for his new outing. Especially the media was going ga ga over OK OK.

But I was disappointed with the movie. It didnt have anything going for it except for occasional Santhanam laughter. Most of the scenes were unnecassary and appear out of nowhere. There was absolutely no continuity. It was like watching Memento sometimes.

City of woes

Chennai should be called as city of woes. The problems in this city just keeps getting worse. Both nature and man play havoc in this city.

Power cut still continues ..
Temparatures hovers above 40 deg celsius for days .. one of the worst summer I have seen .. not a single drop of rain ..
Water scarcity ..
Petrol scarcity .. in a city where buying petrol during normal days itself is a challenge the past one week has been nightmare. It looks like doomsday where people are running around killing each other for water and petrol.
Petrol price hike ..
Cheating petrol pump guys ..
Bus fare hike ..
Electricity tariff hike ..

This city is just destined for disaster.

You Can Leave Your Hat On

A sensous song from the movie 9 1/2 weeks. Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger are awesome.

Kudos

Petrol price increase, cost cutting measures by corporates etc are certain things which we cannot expect to be reversed once implemented. If a company stops providing free coffee due to bad financials it wont start to provide free coffee even after its finance improves. Because once people are used to extremes its always safer to maintain them in that zone. There are double benefits to it. When the situation becomes alright that extra amount goes into your pocket and if the situation again worsens you might have to stop it again irking employees.

The same was what I exected in TN power cuts. I expected the power cuts to be there for atleast next 1 or 2 yrs but as a pleasent surprise the power cuts has been stopped.

Good job by TNEB.

Laugh out loud

Today I read an article in The Hindu and had a hearty laugh. The point is the article was written with such serious committment. The article says that they are going to introduce ITMS in Chennai. Wow thats really wonderful to start with. The proposed cost for implementation is 150 crores. I can see your imagination running wild and you will be merging the photopraghs of Chennai and London hoping for the better.

But hold on, the moment you expand ITMS you will erase all those imagination and go back to your work. ITMS means Integrated traffic management system. Excellent whoever coined this term deserves a pat in their arse. The article has very high ambition and goes like there will be green channels for ambulances within Chennai so that they wont get struck in traffic. The moment I read that I assumed that they might talking about something like dedicated bus line, which in itself was a non starter. But no its just not about dedicated lane for ambulance you have an Italian Job in your hand. Yes, it seems there will be cameras in all signals and it will find out if an ambulance is stuck in traffic and will immediately change the signal to green. Yes sir this system is being proposed in Chennai not in some futuristic city. When you read such an article you can only laugh through your ass and move on.

But at the end of this project there will be some filthy rich people.