Crude Oil at $50 a barrel now!

Come on Indians, crude oil has gone to $50 a barrel and you want to sell petrol at the same high price?

And moreover not even selling the normal petrol. The dealers selling only Super Petrol for 3-4 rupees more for the same normal petrol. This is absolute cheating! I could not find any extra mileage with super petrol.

Free "Music" on Public transport

Have you ever traveled by Public Transport. Now a days i do, to handle recession ;-) kidding!

I use trains to travel between Bangalore and Chennai on normal class (reserved or unreserved). And these are the days of music edition mobiles, which people buy and flaunt by showing how powerful their mobile is sounding. The way they increase the sound appears that it shows their masculinity. Rather irritating it is!!

I don't enjoy 10 people sounding with their favorite songs. It is just a noise. Horrible, you will not believe. One playing "Manmadha raasa ... " and another "Mungaru male ...". Clash of the titans ? Huf...

There should be law to prevent these noise at public places like train and buses too. It really changes the mood and you really cant fight with these nasty bugs also being a Thayir sadham (Curd rice eater) and skinny guy. Something should be done my dear. And in between the beggars and vendors who keep crossing and making noise. Vendors selling can be accepted since its their job which feeds them. But not this begging... you know actually these beggars are earning more than most middle class 'janatha'. Do a survey you will find how much. I read in places like Bangalore's MG road, a beggar earns close to 10000 per day. Unbelievable? Believe it! No tax, nothing. Causing lot of inconvenience to public, sanitary issues and theft.

When people like Kalam are no where in a country like India, where will I fit in !!!

Rich can buy more than one car, but Nano should be stopped ?!

This post should have been typed 2 months ago... but rather could not find the time to blog.

I read in papers and viewed news in TV about protests to stop Tata's Nano project. Few of the people argued that the already crowded roads in Bangalore/Chennai and other metros will become more crowded and worse. I agree on that. But ... wait on ...

The same day I read in a newspaper, the automobile section of it, a rich (why you will know 1) person has asked which of the cars he should buy. His question more or less was...

"I need to buy 3 cars, one for my daughter and other two for me. Would prefer to buy two cars with a budget of 15-18 lacs. I would use one for commuting to office and the other on vacations and weekends, where I would be travelling a long distance. Advice me for the options to choose".

The answer was to buy Maruti 800 for his daughter. Buy a Hyundai i10 Petrol for him for office and a Chevy Optra Diesel for long drives.

(1 I assume only rich people can go for such a budget and 3 cars and relatively the fuel for 3 cars too) When rich can go for such a comfort and enjoy plesure why should you rather stop the project which is going to help poor people own cars and go atleast have a way to travel with family if not luxury. Definitely, drive on Nano will be equal to driving a Piaggio Ape.

When a family can buy 3 cars and crowd the roads why should you and me not buy a Nano?

A day to office

I should agree most of them who drive in Bangalore ... "if you reach home that day, it means you have been blessed".

Yea ... everyday mostly the same kind of chaos and inorder while commuting. And getting really pissed off by the careless drivers.

I start at 9 to office, usually the problem starts close to my home itself ... careless people walking on the roads spit to their right (why the hell they don't do it to their left when they walk on the left side of the road!!). Oh someone spits on my foot (i wear slipper), what to say about these idiots, I have to get back home and wash my foot and get back to office, this time bit more tensed and careful.

It once happened, in Chennai a lady spit her chewed up pan on me and my father from the metropolitan bus, while we were on the bike and the worst part is, the lady fisherman community said "what bothers shut and go!" very cheap people. It had happened to me in Bangalore too, but a different version. I wish people stop fighting that they are Kannadigas and Tamilians rather than educating ourselves to be human. Cheap people are there in Bangalore and in Chennai as much as there are Good people.

Then I ply to the "main" road to my office, fortunately we cant drive fast, we dont even know where the pot holes are, new ones made every now and then...

Oooof ... an autowala drives on the wrong side of the road, to avoid extra trip he has to make to take a right turn at the median.

The lorries and cars parked on both sides of the road, usually the cement lorries that are parked on by the side of the road, which occupies around 50% of the road. Luckily, the chaos theory will work perfect, and we can find an auto, bike, tracktor or anything coming on the wrong side trying to move to the other 50% of the road to avoid collision with the vehicle parked on the road.

Oh, oh, oh ... my God luckily escaped this time and it was a turning and i could not even see this vehicle coming...

Sometimes more fortunate i am, the same situation as above, a call centre Sumo or Tavera would speed up and tring to overtake me ... what do I do now? Should I brake or move right or move left! There is a pot hole too ... the cement lorry which just went before has left lot of cement dust and has raised the dirt from the road...

Oh lucky that I escaped today also and reached to office. Thank God! But not always and not for all. Every day I could see atleast 1-2 accidents, 20% of it is fatal. And also I have to go through the same process way back home.

Remember Indian movie, where the sick unable to stand driver manages to get license renewed by bribing the RTO... and Kamal saying, "If you got the license how many of them need to be put rice to their mouth" (typical Desi style)

Will this situation change our India is the big '?'

Please feel free to share your views and experiences by commenting ... atleast I would feel that others also have such bad experiences, rather to find if am paranoid.