Ranjith’s Castle

I learnt all science and maths and some more stuffs starting from my school to college. But I was never taught how and why should I obey traffic rules. Even my Driving school masters did not teach it properly.

Today morning, as I drove down to office,

• A man on a cycle moved from the right end of the road to his left [and my left] without even bothering that a car is coming from his back,
• A biker entered the main road from a smaller road with the same speed he used to drive @ the highway. He never bothers about who is coming on the highway.
• A Couple of days back I saw a gal who does not even land her one leg on floor when the bike stops is driving @ 40 Kmph on a road that has good traffic.

people start driving when they are around 10 years old and we don’t need a license.  I think the rules should be taught from the schools, so that people will follow them when they start.

Cheers - Ranjith

Gone were the days when my father used vessels to buy fresh meet and my mother use to have bags to buy vegetables. People use to carry some bags either made of plastic wires or cloths which is re used many times. But today the world is different and we are getting poly bags everywhere even if we buy for Rs 5/-.

Polythene bags are one of the non decomposable material which pollutes the environment. For the past one month, I am not taking any poly bag when I can carry things on my hand.

People have become used to this model. It is tough today to completely bring it to a stand still on the bag usage. But we can atleast avoid taking poly bags when it is not really needed.

Let us make the world better place to live for the next generation.

Cheers - Ranjith

Last week, I got my wisdom tooth extracted. I consulted three doctors before I went for it. I am little worried about getting a tooth out from my body.

But the interesting part is that I got a quote from a Doctor in Velachery which says “It may cost arround Rs.1000 to 1500/- for the extraction. The max of 1500 will come when it gets complicated and a necessity of Suture.”  The Doctor also asked for a X-ray from one of the local X-ray lab.

Finally I got it extracted for Rs. 150/= including the X-ray from another guy in Velachery.

Beware of Dentist. Both your Tooth and Packet will extracted !!!

Cheers - Ranjith

It is one more incident @ the Mundandurai forest. It is told that the vehicles should switch off the audio system inside the Forest Area. I am not sure why they insists on this. We had similar restriction when we visited Manjolai and Top Slip. While talking about this to the Driver of our van, he told that if the audio is played, then the sound of the up coming vehicle will not be heard.

But the tourist vehicle we travelled produced much more noise than the audio system.

We want to preserve wild life and it was told that we should not make much noise inside the forest. But you know the beauty, we use all diesel powered vehicles which are the source of the maximum possible noise.

Cheers - Ranjith

Last Saturday night, I traveled in the MRTS for the first time. I took the train from Velachery to Park town. It was a nice travel which took just 30 minutes to land at the Park Town station. Everything was nice except that the train is little bit noisy than the Beach-TBM line. The person at the MRTS Ticket counter at velachery is pushing himself to speak only in English to me. On the contrary, I responded only in Tamil. I hate a Customer response person who talks in an alternative language than what Customer speaks.

I mostly saw only polluted water bodies, a lot of government housing boards and huts on the way to the Park Town. I feel I need to go in the train one more time during the day to have a good look at more of Chennai.

The best (worst) part came when I landed on the Park town station. The way out of the park town station is on the flyover that connects mount road with Poonamalli High (PH) road. I was guided by a co passenger to take this way. I am not sure whether there is any alternative to this. This way too had a pavement to walk down the flyover and a subway to cross the PH Raod to reach the central station. People on the contrary are walking on the middle of the road on the flyover and trying to cross the PH Road to reach central. It is literally no safety in the way people are crossing the road. It will for sure confuse the drivers coming towards Mount road from Central.

It will be good that the Chennai corporation takes proper action to make sure people take the regular way to reach the Central and vice versa. Proper fencing and lights can be made on the pavement down so that people are forced to use it.

Cheers - Ranjith