Blogspot blocked or not, me gonna post !
Had a perfect weekend at Chennai..
2 Movies at Satyam complex back to back (Over the hedge and DVC)
Food at "Murugan Idly shop" ...Slurp !!
Drive thru ECR... thats what I call a Highway (BTW, I travel thru Hosur rd daily)
Bowling, pool at Mayajaal..
Attended a celeb(singer Karthik) wedding reception. (courtesy: Ram) and had a chance to brush shoulders with singing gr8s., Chitra, Sujatha, Srinivas, Vijay Yesudas..
That was a perfect combo for a weekend !
Its so funny to see billboards of Yahoo ! and AOL on hosur road.. Y! has a very conspicuous "free mail".. its akin to any soap ad with a BOGOF offer.. I am not sure what segment of ppl they are targeting.. any Tom, Dick and Harry accessing the net will know that there are hoards of free mail sites scattered. With the next gen Web 2.0, wiki and open source peaking on the net, even office tools are online and free. Atleast AOL in this regard was decent enuf to have a "I entertain 100 m people ..". Competing with Y!'s billboard is rediff's TV ads on how fast rediff is. BTW, is anybody using rediff mails? its Gmail for me anyday and for that matter every single Google product rocks !
Is Y! targetting the "hey, this is free" mentality of Indian public..?! cheap ! they already have a strong base in India as they are one of the pioneers on the www. I was introduced to net in my eleventh standard and I thot Y! was a tool to access the web. And when I went for browsing the 1st time, I asked the guy at the counter showing off my internet knowledge, "is Y! available?"...he replied "yeah, every other site is also available".. !!!
After a perfect weekend(as in 1.eating,2.sleeping..repeat steps 1 and 2 n times wher n is generally a 2digit number) at home, took a spl train from Pothanur (dint get tickets in island express) and was supposed to reach blore at arnd 0500 hrs... I woke up at 5 and the train was at a very familiar station.. I asked a guy standing near the door what station that was.. That idiot told me it was Blore CANTT.. sleepy me woke up and alighted there only to realise that it wasnt CANTT .. By the time I realised the train sped away.. okie, fine way to start a day I thot and and started walking in the direction as everybody else, still not knowing what station it was.. man..It was 5 in the morning and u expected me to be..er..myself ?!
Then I learnt that it was KR Puram.. KR puram: Blore is as good as Perumbur:Chn ... Queues of autos were waiting for their preys.. Checked an auto for K'mangala, that bugger asked for 150 bucks..I smirked and proceeded to the next one, "200 saar" was the reply.., the next one asked me 250 bucks.. my face had a pathetic "boss, I paid 181 for cbe to blore..." look.. now the logical step was to ask an auto before the 1st one rite? I did and seems that guy dint know this trend and asked for 150 bucks (silly fellow).. I said this is too much and asked 1.5*meter.. he immediately said ok and reached home after a loooooong journey and the meter read 126 bucks, that means me have to give him 189, thats 39 bucks more than wht he asked and 9 Rs more than what I had spent fo travelling 425km from cbe to blore... Damn !