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According to BBC news, coins thrown into Rome's Trevi Fountain by tourists are to be used to finance a free food project for the city's poor. The money, which amounts to $4,000 a day, will be collected and passed on to provide basic food.

Friday picture

how mean

As you get ready to leave home, after a long day at work, you enter the lift at the 3rd level and press the under ground level and wait. The lift stops at 2nd level and your phone rings, as you pick up the call, a guy enters and presses the ground level button. The lift arrives at the ground level and then it doesn’t go to the under ground but starts to ascend non-stop to the 6th floor. With shock you express this news to the other person on the phone, pat comes the question who else’s is there in the lift? Oh no this is the last thing to expect.

Serendipity of life

At one instance I want the clock to move fast – especially if you are waiting to meet the loved ones.

At another instance I want more time – for preparing for my examination

Fresh looks

Dial a ticket

This is a very novel idea, might u can ask me what's new with this, this experience was a different one. My cousin and self wanted to go for a movie but then the counter a big queue but then we were late for advance booking and then early to stand in the queue forget it, not knowing should be wait of go ahead with the next plan standing there, my cousin picks up the mobile and checks if the tickets can be got for the next show. Kewl we go and pickup the tickets for the show and go ahead our plan and then return to the movie right on time. Tele ticket can help us at time in this manner ;-) Untimately technology is to be blamed for it

What's in a name

I presume you all know the joke of how Chinese name their new born, no offence meant,
this is a little extension to that. It’s pretty nice when you travel in a cab & the kind of conversations you pickup with the drivers, and today happens to be one such day. I got into the car and wanted to him to drive me to the temple near my office on the same road. He had a wired look on his face. Are you not going to office kinds, since it was around 8 in the morning? What ever I was thinking what’s your problem and suddenly some thing caught my attention in his car. The dashboard had a lot of badges that belong to various marathons that are held in South East Asia and Pacific regions. Then slowly the chat drifted and we started talking about lot of people and then slowly the conversation slipped into how the Chinese names are spelt.
It seems the people in Singapore were asked to register themselves after the independence, to accept their registration there were British people in the registers who were on job,
the Britsh people wrote spelling in their own way. Since those people were illiterate at that point of time accepted that this is their spelling and continued to use them in the same manner. So as a result now all these variants for just one family name: tham, than, chan, chen, ton, tan.
I was told there were close to 10 family names now there are so much. Not sure how far this is true but its acceptable when u hear them saying their names.

Can any one tell me what has gone wrong in this picture?

no more foot board travel in chennai

With the recent news from MTC(Metropolitan Transport Corporation) on the introduction of Luxury buses in Chennai aka Madras, foot board traveling comes to an end. Gone are the days when we take pride in getting in & out of the bus at our will. If you have gone to college or school, of course not for studying, in the PTC bus you would appreciate this. For some 8 years I had used this mode of transport, so much of joy you would derive. Pneumatic doors operated by the driver, oh God can’t imagine that the passengers are under the mercy of the driver. Let me see how many days this mechanism would work. Many a times during my onsite trip I used to share this story with friends of mine how convenient for us we use the public transport. The best thing is you life is in u r hands, any time u feel like getting out of bus u can always do that, not any more I think so.

The funniest/adventurous part of PTC bus travel are:

# to move from rear to front – not inside the bus, using the windows, can you?
# Try getting out of the bus while the drive tries to negotiate a left turn while slanting the bus to 20 to 30 degrees, so that the ground clearance is so high that u can’t think of getting of the bus in the turn
# Accelerate at breakneck speed during the turning so that u can’t get off the bus
# deriving lot of pleasure as being an icon, by getting in last at every stop by chasing the bus and then hanging in there
# hanging in the bus with minimum possible clutch
# identify the bus by not looking at the name board rather use the coding convention that is written on the side of the bus ...and the list goes on.

Can others think of any thing else which can be added. I’m sure there is a lot more.

How greedy can people get?

Couldn’t control laughter when I heard some one saying this “what is mine is mine and ur's is also mine”

Kids are kids

Just sharing from sites i visit

From Route79 aka Jag
Boy to Father: “Dad, What’s your favourite element?”
Father: “Oxygen.”
Boy: “Why?”
Father: “It’s what I need to breathe and stay alive.”
Daughter: “My favourite is Calcium, ‘cos I like Yoghurt”
Boy to Mother: “What’s your favourite Mum?”
Mother: “Diamond. And Gold.”(Father tuts and raises eyebrows.)
Father to Son: “So what’s your favourite?”
Boy: “Xenon”
Father: “Why?”
Boy: “Because it sounds cool.”

Anumitha
The 10 year old daughter's class is being taught to use the dictionary.
And the daughter with a friend, after some self education, is going around school, asking eighth standard seniors if they were 'virgins'.
A teacher complained that the kids called her a 'whore' too.
After complaints were made and heard out the two girls were rusticated for a day and sent home with the mothers.
The 10 year old daughter was last heard telling her friend, "if we learn bigger and dirtier words, we'll get a 2 day holiday, you know."

Stress Relieving

I went to the national library here in Singapore with my school friend - Thiru, whom I meet him after close to 8 years and go to an exhibition which is held there.
In one corner of the library there are close to 5 racks of book which were all bound in white ..just white. There were some tables and chairs were no one sat, So got little curious and went to read the catalog which was saying this collection is for stress relieving and some stuff like that. Got very curious how come so a huge collection can convey the same message took one book and opened – surprised all pages white with no imprint – got the message … was little jealous – kept the first book in its place and then open another one ..same blank pages – so much for stress relieving it cause more stress on me.

How is it, want to swim when it’s raining?

an evening @ dusk

Yes we need to mend time

Visit to Nagarjuna Sagar

A visit to Hyderabad and then to Nagarjunasagar was a memorable. A major change in life and then a lot of things.

A trip to Nagarjunasagar can be done in a day if you travel from Hyderabad. This place is of immense archaeological significance & excavations. This dam was completed in 1966 and is 1 km long. This has 26 gates and this is the third man made lake in the world. Our visit to this place was primarily to capture the sight of water flowing from all the 26 crest gates.

Ethipothala is a mountain stream with 3 water falls. There is a light show in the night which I was told worth watching. A treck to this place and then a visit to the fall is worth the trip.

Do u think this can happen only in India?

NEWS period, Indians have woken up long ago and have installed cement slabs for the same. Now its time for other countries to learn lesson from us or is it an outcome of the hostile take over of Arcelor by Mittal?

Photo which i like a lot taken @ Chamonix

Blackdog

I’m not talking about the Black dog security service here… people from Chennai know more about this. It’s really strange how government can control such actions. Malaysia outlaws unsuitable names .. of which names likes of Karrupusamy (black god) is discouraged from using. Read more here… What makes it more strange is common names like animals, insects, fruit, vegetables or colours are not to be used it seems. Then I think people will be called as

Mr. X and Mrs. Y only

thinking comes to an end

Finally one of the key decisions is made. Not so happy having made the decision but in the general interest ..