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KSRTC BUS JOURNEY

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Mallu's Waste Management

A scene near Edappally level cross, Ernakulam.

I have a chance to capture this picture from Edappally level cross area, while waiting for the gate to open. I got to stop exactly in front of the above sign board. In spite of two sign boards, Edappallian's least bother about not to throw rubbish under this warning boards.
Our Indians, especially we mallus has a very good sense of waste management. Throw it on to the neighbors’ property or on the road side or on to the drainage canal on the strip of the road, to block the free flow of water on it. Then later cry about the water clogging and mosquitoes. It is time to declare that mosquito is the national bird of Cochin. Enjoy Cochin mallus.

Speech by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis

Don't just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life.

I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.

There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.

"Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die. ...................

One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? ................

It's ok, bunk a few classes, scoring low in couple of papers, goof up a few interviews, take leave from work, fall in love, little fights with your spouse. We are people, not programmed devices........." "Don't be serious, be sincere."!!

Printers are like woman…

"Printers are like woman…."


This is not my version. This is my colleague Mr. Pat’s version.

One day our chief mechanic came to control room for some print. He brought his pen drive (USB Memory stick) for getting some print out. After giving print command from the computer, he was waiting for the print out. But the machine still not showing any sign of printing it. So he got up from the seat and looking at the print tray and its display area anxiously. He was in a hurry to attend some important job down in the engine room.

Upon seeing this anxiety in chief mechanics face, Pat said, “hi Prakash, Printers are like woman, it is slow to start and fast to finish”. So let it warm up, once it warm up, you will get the print fast.

The man who keeps me healthy

This is about the man who keeps me healthy. The man who cares me sometimes more than my spouse does at home (regarding food). Mahinder Singh Rana is from Uttaranchal, India. He is working as the chief chef on our installation out at sea. He came here almost five months back. He is a very good cook. Before him, we had some Bengali babu’s as our cook.

We came to know his cooking ability only when we were running the galley without a camp boss. The camp boss on duty left after completing his term and the new camp boss hasn’t reported.

That camp boss was from a village in West Bengal. He never treated the galley boys well. Instead he is a chamcha… cocksucker. He gives special items to client representative and other supervisory people.

Once he left, we don’t have a camp boss for almost two weeks. During this period, this chief cook, he had prepared food with the available grocery on board, even though we were running short of provisions, it was mouthwatering. All enjoyed the food this period.

I noticed him only when we weren’t having the camp boss. He immediately picked up my requirements, as it is a short list like, boiled vegetables and chicken. (any form of chicken preparations) and a piece of chapattis and sometimes I go for some soup too. Chicken is unavoidable for me. Lot of time, I thought of quitting chicken as I did for beef and mutton. But it hardly happened. When ever I see chicken in the counter, I could not resist. I do pick some pieces and eat it.

I was thinking about writing a blog about my cook, but when I started putting in black and white, I could not explain it well. So I am stopping it.