Just wanted to try some thing like "rough look".
Category Archives: Addiction
Kabul experience @ chennai
Kabul is posh restaurant, and I happen to there with my family this afternoon. The ambiance is really good, and I loved the chandler over there. Oh about the pricing it should be close to 300+ per person. It is been long time since I visited this place, trust me the place has changed, 2 years before the Biryani they offered were of really less quantity but the quality was excellent, The new change what I found today with Biryani was that it was pretty oily I couldn't even finish the meal, was little disappointed. Any way if you love little privacy and little crowd and descent food Kabul is an excellent choice. Well be prepared for a thick wallet for the ambiance, less crowded, and descent food.
McDonald now @ AnnaNagar Chennai, Launch today
McDonalds Congrats, and thanks for bringing it to AnnaNagar Chennai. Ascendas Chennai outlet was a real pain.
McDonalds covered the entire roundtana AnnaNagar for its promotion, check out the photos.
OK the outlet is next to Shah's.
The Art & Science of Seductive Interactions
Why only few interactions are successful?
It is not just usability, there are few more things beyond to make users to stick on with your product or service.
Thopukaranam – Increase you memory power
I remember when I was young, my mother use to punish me for not finishing of with my homework, it is same squat which was considered as offerings to lord Ganesa in the Hindu religion. Seems like there is link between memory and the thopukaranam – more of a blessing in disguise
Know you customers – need & usage
A disappointed salesman of Coca Cola returns from his Middle East assignment.
A friend asked, “Why weren’t you successful with the Arabs?”
The salesman explained, “When I got posted in the Middle East , I was very confident that I would make a good sales pitch as Cola is virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem I didn’t know to speak Arabic. So, I planned to convey the message through three posters…
click on the image for a large view
First poster- Aman lying in the hot desert sand…totally exhausted and fainting.
Second poster – man is drinking our Cola.
Third poster – Our man is now totally refreshed.
Then these posters were pasted all over the place
“That should have worked,” said the friend.
The salesman replied “I also didn’t realize that Arabs go from right to left”
Kindly note: this was a forward mail, I liked it, so I am sharing with you all.
Her Morning Elegance – Amazing Video
It is been a long time since I have seen a nice video, by using simple technique, like the stop motion photography. I wouldn’t say making this video is simple, it takes hours to create the video, the main thing is the lighting which needs to be considered.
Hats off guys
End of crib
It is been a long time since I wrote a blog post, The reason being that I have been trying to find some inner peace. At least to change myself rather than the outside world.
Some of my posts would have been just rants, raging about the quality of service which I expected. Things have changed now with the bad economics
I happened to read a few lines of Andrew Matthews, “Happiness in a nutshell” it is an eye opener.
One such lines are these which made me think
“Your mission in life is not to change the world.
Your mission is to change yourself.
There are no “outside” solutions
only “inside” solutions
So is the change in myself. End of crib, could be my last blog post.
Technorati Tags: self realization, life, happy, chennai, India
What if KingFisher, Indian Railways? – offer price cuts & haircuts
What if personal grooming become part of air travel?
It is just a wild thought, why should some one have to waste a minimum of 1/2 ~ 6 hrs of quality time?
If Airlines could think of premium services like facial massage, hair cut and what not. There could even think of providing a spa, I was just kidding on the spa. 
some thing interesting could be offered at a reasonable rate so that Air travel becomes more luxury.
Well I can think of a major competitor for the Airlines. It is none other than the Indian Railways. Imagine Shatapadi having a seperate coach as saloon with all the amenities.
I guess that would be interesting to see them in future.
Making of an unproductive Indian
These days I have been traveling by local train, the MRTS in chennai, While I was returning home the other day, it was 7:30 PM. I saw a juvenile girl singing some weird language song, While her younger brother been collecting money in the compartment where my friend and myself being present. I was so pissed of with this activity of sending this girl to do the beggar job. I started scolding their parents and was telling my friend. So my friend asked me on an average day how much money will they be making. My friend has been traveling for years, I just started accompanying him for the last few months.
Can any one guess? The train had 9 compartments running time 45 Minutes. And frequency of this train on an average would be 10-15 Minutes during peak hours.
So I replied my friend saying a 100 Rupees a day. He just laughed at me and explained that they would have already obtained 100 or more Rupees on this trip alone. He went on explaining that an average Indian would give a 1 Rupee to these beggars. The regular travelers know these beggars. So they don’t give them money. It is floating population which falls for these people. Take a single compartment at least 10 to 15 people flick a one Rupee coin and by that 9 compartment of this train they make an average of over 100 Rupees. Imagine if they make around 8 or more trips a day.
I said to my friend, that I was not making that much money being a software professional after all the bloody useless taxes which I have been paying for the Indian Government.
He went on and said, that he had no clues on what happens to that money. But he said, that is one reason we see the parents encouraging their children to beg for money. So for generation they are in the Beggar Business. So now you known why Indians are being considered as Beggars by foreign nationals.
So what is the solution for an unproductive Indian?
While the middle class has been loaded with more and more taxes and the top class has been evading from tax and while the poor has no idea about What taxes were meant to be.
One possible thing which stuck my mind was that these beggars have to be in prison and asked to work on different trades, some thing like the co-operative societies do and be paid really less. It is some thing like saying if you beg you will make 10 Rupees a day. While you work outside you could earn more, So the choice is theirs. Well some one could make Indian roads to every place clean.
Next time you see any one begging on public places please don’t serve that Rupee you are in the process of making an unproductive Indian. Think twice please.
If you have any more ways to make them work do comment.
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