Yesterday was by far, the best day ever, to travel on a bus in Chennai. With all the schools, colleges, ad other educational institutions closed for the floods, the busses were all between empty and an agreeable crowd. No getting stamped, No having to make excuses in Tamil, No sweating with someone else's sweat. Oh boy, the list goes on! Even more interestingly, a ride that would normally take me an hour on a Monday evening took just 25 minutes yesterday.
Which led me to a really catchy idea. Why not completely do away with school's and colleges. The busses will return to being the preferred mode of commutation. And we can solve the problem of overcrowding on the roads too!
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Sunday in Chennai was beyond what anyone could actually imagine sitting in their sitting rooms and watching the afternoon movie. It was raining mad all day (Lets say for 22 out of the maximum 24 hours) and whats more it was flooding like it floods in my home village in Kerala after it rains for 3 weeks on the trot and they open dams. Yes, one day of rains, and I was wading home in knee deep water.
Now dont say that's fun. Of course, it was fun. But that's only if you dont look at the water. Filled with all the dirt on the dirtiest city in India! (okay, you may come with stats to disprove that, but Chennai is dirty. dirty. dirty. period!
Well, that's why they gave an off for th schools and colleges. But would you believe it, in the morning, there was absolutely no indication that it was raining huge cats and mighty dogs just the day before, or that I waded back home in knee deep water! Neat (and maybe a trifle cleaner) roads, and a dry, if not clear sky.
Which again led me to think. Occasionally it should rain this bad. So a lot of people will get holidays and can sit at home and see movies and eat and talk and no, i didn't forget, sleep! The rest of the city can go about their jobs in peace, especially travelling in empty busses.
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Yesterday the Sensex touched 20000 (finally!, for people like me who grow impatient when it takes so long to move on). CNBC had a rather bleak celebration, which clearly indicated that theyd rather it stayed at 20, if not 18, till it dies, for want of interesting ideas. Even the newspapers were muted in celebration. Okay, I said muted. That's muted in write ups, not in volume. The Economic Times was a 30 page edition. But that pales compared to the Business Standard (70 pages) and The Financial Express (hold your breath, a whopping 96 pages).
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PS. Actually even today the busses werent very crowded. Infact I didn't actually see any student on the bus today. Either they took to the holiday mood a little too much, or well, a sudden idea, maybe someone from the Govt also noticed what I did and, oh if only was true, actually ordered the closure of the schools and colleges.
Which led me to a really catchy idea. Why not completely do away with school's and colleges. The busses will return to being the preferred mode of commutation. And we can solve the problem of overcrowding on the roads too!
**
Sunday in Chennai was beyond what anyone could actually imagine sitting in their sitting rooms and watching the afternoon movie. It was raining mad all day (Lets say for 22 out of the maximum 24 hours) and whats more it was flooding like it floods in my home village in Kerala after it rains for 3 weeks on the trot and they open dams. Yes, one day of rains, and I was wading home in knee deep water.
Now dont say that's fun. Of course, it was fun. But that's only if you dont look at the water. Filled with all the dirt on the dirtiest city in India! (okay, you may come with stats to disprove that, but Chennai is dirty. dirty. dirty. period!
Well, that's why they gave an off for th schools and colleges. But would you believe it, in the morning, there was absolutely no indication that it was raining huge cats and mighty dogs just the day before, or that I waded back home in knee deep water! Neat (and maybe a trifle cleaner) roads, and a dry, if not clear sky.
Which again led me to think. Occasionally it should rain this bad. So a lot of people will get holidays and can sit at home and see movies and eat and talk and no, i didn't forget, sleep! The rest of the city can go about their jobs in peace, especially travelling in empty busses.
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Yesterday the Sensex touched 20000 (finally!, for people like me who grow impatient when it takes so long to move on). CNBC had a rather bleak celebration, which clearly indicated that theyd rather it stayed at 20, if not 18, till it dies, for want of interesting ideas. Even the newspapers were muted in celebration. Okay, I said muted. That's muted in write ups, not in volume. The Economic Times was a 30 page edition. But that pales compared to the Business Standard (70 pages) and The Financial Express (hold your breath, a whopping 96 pages).
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PS. Actually even today the busses werent very crowded. Infact I didn't actually see any student on the bus today. Either they took to the holiday mood a little too much, or well, a sudden idea, maybe someone from the Govt also noticed what I did and, oh if only was true, actually ordered the closure of the schools and colleges.
8 comments:
close schools so that u can have smooth journey! hehe...no no not now...if they were gonna do it...they should have done it when we were in school...doing it now wud be unfair to us! lol
anyway ur idea reminded me of my mom...who was and still is averse to the idea of going to beaches or waterfall for an excursion coz of the accident she reads in the newspapers.....and my argument was that if someone died in a freak accident while taking bath...wud u ban bathing??!! ;)
hey Ab, u shud write an article on what does this sensex mean to a common man..other than these brokers and stock holders...i dont know whether its worth an article even...but everyday i check whether the sensex gone up or down and feel happy when its on a bull run...but i have no idea wot it means to me!
lol .....
that was funny. ya, most mom's are scared... even mine.. :)
regarding what the sensex means to the common man, well, to be frank, NOTHING!
of cors theres pride. you feel proud when yr cricket team wins, dont you? just like that!
in fact i remember when Kim Clijsters finally won th US Open.. I was like one big fan who had followed her all along, and sat up all night to watch that match..
But after she won, and was celebrating, I had this queer question, did it make a difference to me? No way!!! In fact, I was just a fool to have wasted my time (that I dont intend to learn from that is another issue)
Simillarly th sensex has no tangible effect on the people of the country.. Nevertheless, sensex gazing seems to have taken on th role of primary hobby of th population, after India got thrashed by th Aussies, and put in their right place :)
Crowds are so hard to deal with aren't they. I think I understand why people become agoraphobic. Isn't India very crowded? But surely you don't want all the kids not to be able to be educated? Sorry I never answered your comments on my last post. I was sort of distracted.
Sensex has been so volatile the past fortnight. It was indeed v. exciting! I could just imagine stock brokers being madly busy over there...
where has this kid gone?
#anon
reveal yrself, knave....!
i bet this is Rama... come on out... hey after all, you were the most faithfull (and of course, jobless) reader Iv ever had
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