Payanakkal Mudivathu illai....

One of my friend, Joby, got married last Sunday (12/11) in Alanthur, Kerala. I along with my few friends (Karthik, Vijesh and Sadiq) have planned to attend the marriage in person. They have planned to start from Chennai on Saturday and reach Alanthur directly. I have planned to go home and start on Sunday morning.

I got the bus to coimbatore at around 7:45 AM from Nadupalayam. From Ukkadam (Kovai), I boarded KSRTC bus to Palakkadu and then from Palakkadu to Thirssur. I got down at Alanthur. From there I took an Auto to reach the Chruch. It was 12:30 PM when I reach the chruch, a total travel time of around 5 hours. One thing that I enjoyed during travelling is the greenish environment everywhere. Thatz Kerala.

After lunch, we all four started our return journey together. We reached Thirssur at around 4 PM and visited a Museum to pass time as our train starts at 6:40 PM.

I have booked my return ticket from Tiruppur in Cheran Express. It was gampling that I took to travel on Gowhati Express from Thirssur to Tiruppur. To my luck, both the trains were running late. I got down at Tiruppur at 11:30 PM and Cheran reaches Tiruppur at 12:00 AM. Finally I am on my way to Chennai. Reached home at around 9:00 AM.

This is my first ever travel outside Tamilnadu that I was travelling alone, the long journey though.

Level of tolerance/patience...

Today is Friday and I have planned to travel tonight to my hometown. So, I left my bike at home and decided to take a bus to my office. It is difficult to get on a bus during peak hours. So, I decided to go a little late.

Incident 1.
I wantedly ignored few buses to avoid the crowd and finally boarded in a bus. Unfortunately, the bus was moving with snail's speed. I learnt that there were some problem with engine. It took 5 mins to travel 1 km. So I got down at next stop.

Incident 2.
Again I waited for about 20 minutes to get another buses. I was surprised to see a bus with literally no passengers. I thought itz my fortune this time. But the conductor told the waiting passengers that he can accomodate only limited load because one of the back left side wheels got punctured. I got into the bus and reached my office.

In both the incidents, the condition of bus are not good enough to complete the trip.

1) The driver & conductor are not ready to cancel the trip.
2) The government is not ready to redefine the condition of buses running on road.
3) Neither public nor the opposition leaders are not ready to avoid/ignore/protest against these incidents.

Government and the public service sectors are testing the level of tolerance of the public and public is not ready to fight for their own rights.

Everybody including me expect someone to initiate the fire and they are ready to back them up...who is that somebody?

Being Lazy ...

I have to send some documents to my mom last week. I booked a courier service to do it on 02/11/2006 (Thursday) evening. Eventhough, I haven't heard of that couriers before, I went to them because it is very close to my office. May be I was lazy to search for other familier courier offices near by.

As like others, I expected them to be delivered the next day. It didn't happen on Friday. Not on Saturday. Obviously, not on Sunday. Surprisingly, Not on Monday too.

I got scared. I was tring to reach them on all possible ways from Saturday. The response I got was very unsatisfactory. My dad started yelling at me on choosing this courier.

What surprising me most is that, since they don't have an office at Avinashi, they used to dispatch the post only once in week from Tiruppur.

Finally it reached my mom on Tuesday Evening, 5 days after booking. I have learnt the lesson, but in a hard way.

Buying a house..

Few weeks back when I decided to book an individual house in my home-town (Avanashi), I didn't realize that there are so-many complecations involved in it. When I went with my friends (Selva & Venz) accompanyed by our Senior Sangetha's hubee (Siva), I learnt a lot.

He asked several questions to the promotors about the house before making his final decision. I didn't even realize that I should ask these question to them. To list a few questions

1) Who owns the Road & Park that are part of the township?

I was under the impression that they belong to the association but infact they all belong to local panchayat. This means no-one can control the traffic inside the township.

2) What would happen if all the club facilities or even the house are not completed on-time?

I thought that is not going to impact us much. But the truth is that we are paying a sum towards it.

3) He also made sure that what are all part of the agreement, and what would happen if the agreement are not met.

I have learnt lot of new things on what are things that I should be looking for. I learnt that it was not the first property that Siva was buying.

Experience makes us perfect.

Being Doctor, A Profession or A Service...

Disclaimer : In this blog, I am not talking about all the doctors in general. I am only talking about Doctors who don't understand and practise their duty.

By know you might have guessed what I am going to talk about.

Recent rain in chennai and the sudden weather change caused lot of health issues to all. I am not an exception. I had a head-ache, one-sided though. So I visited the near-by hospital. I dont have a good opinion about that hospital, I have no choice because of lack of good doctors around Velacherry.

I am surprised to see 7 tablets and 2 tonics in the prescribtion that too for just a head-ache. When I checked with my friends in office, they told that there are tablets for acidity and alergy in the list.

I can understand we should not underestimate anything, but is it not the duty of the doctor to explain what the tablets are? and what for?. This would help the patient to understand their health condition. On seeing the prescribtion, it looks like a I am having a life long illness. I am scared.

Another incident that happened to my friend, Mummy (Prakash). He went to a hospital for getting treated for a "Katti" on his back. The Doctor asked him to get admitted for an operation. Mummy ran away from the scene.

Only Doctors can safe life. All others can do is help them in whatever way we can like donating blood. But ultimately, it is in the doctor's hand. Their profession is just more than what it meant. People see him as god. Do they deserve it?.

Let them charge whatever they want but they must also do their duty in a more professional way.