Surynarayanana

Heights of extremism..

The Indian telecom engineer K Suryanarayana was kidnapped and brutally killed in Afghanistan...

My sincere condolences and prayers to the bereaved family members.. may his soul rest in peace..

Time Management - possible?

Time Management - possible?

B U S Y

now a days I am learning the word BUSY... new job at new organization has made me really BUSY.. time is very short and yet lot of work need to be done.. its exciting as well as challenging..

JK's Birthday

Folks..



Today April 24 is Jayakanthan's birthday..

Lets wish him a Very Happy Birthday...

Photo Courtesy: FrontLine

Super Sunday!

Today has been a great day..

I tried my hands in understanding to work with Author-IT, a tool for producing documentation.

Also wonderful lunch watching Lagaan on DVD... good nap.. then saw the Great Indian Railway at National Geographic..

baaah.. tomorrow back to hectic work..

Ajai's Business Card

Folks

Ajai Banerjee, one of the founding members of IRFCA (http://www.irfca.org) was in Chennai today. Myself, Poochi and Sridhar met him at Murugan Idly Shop Triplicane.

He holds graduation from IIT Kanpur, PDGBM from IIM Ahmedabad and MS from Standford University.. plus he is the BBC Mastermind India winner..

Terrific experience to have met this genius.. we had lots of discussion on trains, gauge conversions, renamed trains etc..

Work

Succesfully joined the new organization today..

Work seems to be very much... whoever I met said they have some work in store for me from them..

quite challenging..

New Job

Today, Thursday, the 20th of April 2006, I am taking up a new assignment with a great organization.

Happy Birthday IR

This day 16th April 1853, at 3:35 pm, a train with 14 carriages and 400 guests left Bombay's Bori Bunder for Thane hauled by three locomotives - Sindh, Sultan and Sahib.. this was a beginning of a great journey... the journey of Indian Railways...

Today Indian Railways is celebrating its 153rd Birthday..... Happy Birthday IR...

Infomation Credit - The Indian Railways Fan Club (IRFCA) - http://www.irfca.org

Long Drive

Folks.. today, I went on a long drive (i think its long for me)... from my home in Villivakkam to Melmaruvathur..

precisely 106 kms... phenomenal ride in my Indigo.. one way driving time 1 hr 40 mins.. Fuel efficiency - Around 15 kmpl... (diesel).. very good road and driving conditions...

Puthandu Nalvazhthukal!

Wish you all a Very Happy Tamil New Year...

Graphic credits: www.geocities.com/thiaguwin/

Farewell Pics

Photos taken during my farewell yesterday at my company...

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In Johnson's Cabin...
Group photo (from L to R)
Sangeetha, Menaka, Shrilekha, Kala, Santhosh Padmanabhan, Our Expert Dabbler - Prabu Karthik, Anand, Sushil, Venkatramana Jayaprakash, Johnson Sasikumar, Myself, Krishnaprasad, Giri (sitting in SofA!) and Sunitha

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Kala Working in office.. please dont believe this shot.. its for a pose!

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Documentation Team @ SDC
Shrilekha, Giridhar, Menaka, Sunitha, Sushil, Kala (sleeping in office) and Gowri Sankar...

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Please dont't think Kala is doing Bharatanatyam... the truth is that she is pushing Menaka out of the frame... myself and Sushil...

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In Johnson's cabin.. Posing with Johnson..

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Sushil's desk No. 410, IV Floor, Left Wing SDC2
Myself with Sushil

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With PK, the expert dabbler!

Holidays

Yesterday, 12th April, I have resigned from my current organization and soon to join another organization.. had a great farewell... gifts included a watch, my favourite Shirdi Sai Baba idol and believe me.. a trainset... thanks to each one of them..

I wanted to utilize these holidays on trainspotting/railfanning.. Wanted to travel to Bangalore.. but my friend there advised me to stay out of Bangalore for this weekend.. you all know that Bangalore is now turbulent because of Dr. Rajkumar's demise..

I think I wud have to spend the time here in Chennai only..

Extreme Photography

Folks

I have a passion for Trains, Photography and I am an ardent devotee of Shirdi Sai Baba. I am also a member of the Chennai Chapter of IRFCA - the Indian Railways Fan Club (http://www.irfca.org).

This week we had lots of photos added newly to Photo Gallery (Uploads Section)... the newbies included the Heritage Steam run in Mumbai and in Delhi... but the most impressive of them are the ones taken in Bhor Ghats (Pune - Mumbai route) by IRFCA Pune member Ashish Kulvelkar.

He went on a solo trek to the Bhor Ghats this week and captured extreme photos of Indian Railways.. Here are a couple of them - courtesy Ashish.


This is a view of the Behran Plateau. You can see three locos on the viaduct... The locos are about to enter the Tunnel 22.







Here is the 1007 Mumbai Pune Deccan Express..








Check out the full album at http://www.irfca.org/gallery/Uploads/mhc_apr_06/

Ashish Kulvelkar can be reached by email on ashish_kuvelkar@yahoo.com

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Reckless Cyclists!

Folks

This morning while driving by car to office, I was stunned with the reckless driving of a cyclist..

At a signal, before me was a Tata tempo, who was waiting to take a right turn and I was waiting to take the left .. the signal changed to green.. so the tempo took the right.. i just put the first gear and was accelerating, this idiotic hero on a bicycle charged towards me from the opposite direction and turned to to his right without even looking left or right..

He thought if there is road, he can drive along.... for a second I thought I am going to run over him as I was accelerating.. somehow I managed to stop the car.. had I not applied the brake, my car would make him a road pizza..

I shedded out a few words at him.. its going to be of no use.. they wont change.. may god help them incase they land up in similar situations...

Amazing Tattuvams!

Today I happened to grab two amazing Tattuvams while listening to the Radio Mirchi Total Udaans..

"Kovil mani'ai namba adicha sattam varum,
Kovil mani nambalai adicha ratham varum"

"Switch ai potta Fan odum,
Fanai potta Switch oduma?"

Cool ones..

Drive on the GST Road

Today, I took a ride on the GST road in my Indigo.. the intention was to visit my friend in Chrompet.. inturn I visited the Sai Baba Temple at Gowrivakkam.. and catched the glimpse of the evening Arathi..

While returning back.. I was stunned with the lighting on the GST road near the Chrompet MIT Gate.. the newly constructed flyover is worth a praise!!!!

man.. the lighting made me think that I am not in Chennai..

New light poles are said from the Airport towards Kathipara junction.. a section of the lighting is lit.. would encourage you to check it out!

Back with a Bang!

I am back to blogging.. I recently subscribed to BSNL broadband and hope to write something everyday!