Chennai's Kewl !!

This's my first post from Chennai.

Many people've asked me about the difference between Bangalore & Chennai.....and why anyone in his right mind would shift from bangalore to Chennai - that too when that guy's parents/girlfriends r not in chennai. I've tried to analyze in what ways Chennai is different from bangalore. (apart from the chicks perspective , that is default!! )

* Chennai has awesome FM radio channels - Mirchi,Suriyan,Radio City and Rainbow. I'm tuned in to radio almost all of the time - my fone's earfones are in my ears all the time.

I've even formed a 'FM Radio Law' which states that

 

" Whenever there're more than 3 Radio Stations in any City, its very probable that at any point of time between 7:00 AM and 10:00 PM atleast one of the stations is playing a song that u like ".

 

So, u only need the Radio to be happy. Suriyan FM's bland Radio Jockeying is made up by its nice songs while sometimes, its a relief from the 24/7 hyper nature of Radio Mirchi's jockeys. The radio jockeying of the new kid on the block - radio City (105.8 FM) is unbearably tacky - especially when all jockeys start all their sentences with 'friend' or 'nanba'....ugh!! And the jockeys also have such wierd names - Chooo chweet sharmili,smiley sulabha etc...oow!!

Maybe they're trying to catch listeners using the concept that once enough people start talking about how aweful radiocity is, more people will tune in to see why exactly its aweful!! But i've gotta say - their station song is cool!! Its only thing worth listening to on that channel!!

And wonder of wonders, Rainbow FM plays some great english music in the afternoon and in the evenings....something that i've not noticed any radio station do in bangalore.

 

FM maybe cool, but that doesn't make up for the very serious lack of pubs in chennai. While I was in college, drinking was considered cool in tamil Nadu. There were flambuoyant bars,with bright lights and innovative marketing techniques...(Kushboo wines in madurai offered a half-boil free with every quarter). And then,I read somewhere that Amma got worried about the fact that APPA and his men owned most of the wineshops and bars in tamil Nadu and so, she decided to nationalise(stateise would be more accurate i guess) the liquour Industry in TN.

And she started TASMAC. And this has continued even after APPA came to power, 'coz the TASMAC revenues are going to the state govt anyway....so, why disturb a well runnning process oriented looting?

Now, drinking has become somewhat of a dirty thing in TN. The TASMAC shops are situated in seedy corners of the city and are strictly maintained in a very dirty state all the time. Any sober man would think twice/thrice before entering a TASMAC joint.

I agree that drinking is an evil - but it mostly affects the poor people where, the husband gets drunk and beats his wife and kids. This is not so much prevalent among educated (not just literate)  people. So, drinking is more of a problem for the BPL (Below Poverty Line) people who waste all their money on liquour than for the educated middle class people who just want a chilled beer to wind down after a stressful day.

The sad fact is that nationalising the wine shops hasn't changed the situation in anyway  - the BPL people don't mind dirty environs and non-existant service, and the educated middle class people have shifted to bars in the city's hotels. So, basically, what it has done is to make the people spend more for the same.

 

Bangalore has such awesome pubs....each one with an ambience and genre of music of its own!! I used to visit STYX on MG road atleast once a month (any more, and it would be injurious to my purse). It played ROCK - and HARD METAL at that. Myself and my friends who like Metal - Rajesh,Vinod,Arun barathi etc used to visit it religiously!! I still believe that any visit to Bangalore is incomplete without a visit to STYX.

 

I visited Chennai's ONLY hard rock pub - STAR ROCK in hotel Arunachala......they played nice hard metal - but they had a limited repetoire of songs.....once they've played all the famous songs of Metallica on one saturday night, what will they play the next weekend?

Its OK...but Chennai needs more!! If anyone of u who reads this blog is a guy with loads of money and thinking of where to invest it, please do consider this business opportunity.

OK...this post is long enough...... I'll continue with my next one!!

 

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Bangalore to Chennai Mail !!

After a long and nice innings in Infy Bangalore, I'm shifting to another company in Chennai. So, its bye bye to jackets,nice parks,chock-a-block traffic,hosur road,cute chicks (wearing cuter dresses) in Forum & brigade road and Hi...Hi to sweltering heat,sweating,besant nagar and aunty figures in looooong & baggy salwars in T.Nagar.
There's always been one important part of my life that i've really missed in Bangalore - those roadside tea kadai's where u get super fresh hot-hot tea and 50 paise vadais....due to some reason, there are very few tea kadai's in Bangalore and even those don't stay open after 10 pm at night - the only tea available at any bakery is from flasks - yaarukku theriyum ennikku pottaangannu!!
There's nothing like a fresh and hot cup of tea on the way back home from a night show. I really miss those Pandian Tea kadai in 2nd stop Thiru Nagar - madurai.
As a part of this shifting, I've decided to sell my beloved CneMobile.I posted an ad in our Bullettin Board and this started off a discussion with soo many people mailing me not to sell her. The ad and the related mails I've attached below. And of course, read from Bottom.
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From: Srinivasan Venkatachalam
Posted At: Thursday, June 22, 2006 5:03 PM
Posted To: KEC Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: My First Love [Bajaj Pulsar] for Sale!!Subject: My First Love [Bajaj Pulsar] for Sale!!
Oops......soo many digs at my beloved!! See, even though I maybe leaving her for another, I still have strong feelings for her!

Well Yeah, Pulsar is defenitely MALE, but I had him modified into a she - 'Coz I feel females are much more fun to be with for guyz - I do feel some pity for those macho guys who riding Definitely MALE bikes!!

And based on popular opinion, I guess I may have to take her along with me to Chennai - and keep her, as I already have a bike with TN registration!!

OOH!! Life's sooo Complex!!

From: Ashfaq Khan
Posted At: Thursday, June 22, 2006 4:03 PM
Posted To: bazaar
Conversation: My First Love [Bajaj Pulsar] for Sale!!Subject: RE: My First Love [Bajaj Pulsar] for Sale!!
Pulsar is definately a male & we understand ur feelings with ur darling...........................

Cheers
Ashfaq Khan

From: Abhishek Kumar, Progeon
Posted At: Thu 6/22/2006 3:24 PM
Posted To: KEC Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: My First Love [Bajaj Pulsar] for Sale!!Subject: RE: My First Love [Bajaj Pulsar] for Sale!!
hey buddy i think you should not sell your beloved...you can easily drive it to chennai and it will take only 6 hrs to reach.......i dont think now you can not share 6 hrs with your first love...


Cheers
Abhishek
From: Ritesh Suresh Bindal
Posted At: Thu 6/22/2006 3:01 PM
Posted To: KEC Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: My First Love [Bajaj Pulsar] for Sale!!Subject: My First Love [Bajaj Pulsar] for Sale!!
I thought love cannot be bought or sold

With Regards, Ritesh Bindal HTDM Extn-50964 ,Mobile : 9886660121Bldg 17, 1st Floor, Infosys Technologies, Electronic City, Bangalore When the going gets tough , the tough gets going................
From: Sudhir T
Posted At: Thursday, June 22, 2006 2:34 PM
Posted To: KEC Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: My First Love [Bajaj Pulsar] for Sale!!Subject: My First Love [Bajaj Pulsar] for Sale!!
I think Pulsar carried the tag line ‘Definitely male’

From: Rajan Kumar Jha
Posted At: Thursday, June 22, 2006 2:31 PM
Posted To: KEC Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: My First Love [Bajaj Pulsar] for Sale!!Subject: My First Love [Bajaj Pulsar] for Sale!!
Srinivasan –

I really appreciate the way you have described your beloved one. By reading through all over the content, I strongly feel that you should not break this great relationship and carry your beloved one with you to Chennai.

From: Srinivasan Venkatachalam
Posted At: Thursday, June 22, 2006 2:20 PM
Posted To: KEC Real Estate, Buy & Sell
Conversation: My First Love [Bajaj Pulsar] for Sale!!Subject: My First Love [Bajaj Pulsar] for Sale!!
Hi,
I'm shifting to Chennai and so, am having to sell my beloved Black Mobile.

Her Vital Statistics are as below:

Family Background : Bajaj Pulsar - 150 CC DTSi - First hand - Married her in Jun 2004.
Color : Shiny Black
Education : Karnataka Registration,All papers in order,All taxes paid.
Plus Points : Button Start,Double Helmet Lock,saree guard and loud horn.
Antecedents : No Accidents Till Date.

More importantly, I've spent a lot of love and money on her.The modifications that I've made to her are:

TVS JUMBO 120/18 Tyres [Eliminator size] for better traction.
The Silencer has been modified to fit an Expansion Chamber to increase the BHP. The silencer is still the stock company silencer, but the innards have changed.
She looks like any normal Pulsar when sleeping. Its only when u start up and give some throttle that the Beast wiothin awakes with a deep throated growl.
I did a speed test today and she gave me these stats.

0 - 40 kmph - 2.5 seconds
0 - 60 kmph - 4 seconds
0 - 80 kmph - 8 seconds.

My darling can beat the pants off any sub-180 CC bike on Bangalore roads.
But at the same time, she gives me a mileage of around 50 kmpl. I have got arnd 60 kmpl when I rode her at an average speed of 60 kmph.

She's a biking lover's bike......and I'ld hand her over to another biking lover.
U can view her outside the Gate 6.

If ur interested, Mail me.

Thanks,
Srinivasan.

Back 2 Blogging - With a vengeance!!

I'm back into blogging after a long sojourn into Orkutting. Its due to the phenomenon called populism....we usually tend to do whats the most popular at that time.....and since I was introduced (though initially a little reluctantly) into Orkut by my friend 'Jo',I got hooked on to it and have been an avid Orkutter for the last coupla months......in fact, this phenomenon had spread so widely that in my company [the great I-to-the-N-to-the-F-to-the-Y], almost most of the people were on orkut most of the time - to the extent that the management took it as a threat to efficient working and banned it. But to maintain the image of a employee friendly company, they couldn't just say 'people are orkutting and logging it as project effort' and so,they have banned Orkut.com saying its virus infested!
Well, who am I to question managament's decisions....
Long live Employee Satisfaction!!

A Nice Poem!!

I was suddenly reminded of a poem by William Wordsworth that I had read in my 10th/12th and had impressed me a lot by its simplicity and beauty!!

I never thought that so much emotion could be expressed in so few words!!

This poem maybe a forgotten gem just like the girl he has written about!!

 

The poem is:

 

 "She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways"
  
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:

 

A violet by a mosy tone
Half hidden from the eye!
---Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.

 

She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!

 

-William Wordsworth 

 

7Cne -The Coolest Dude8

 

Mail Forwards : Isn't this wrong?

This post is about the indiscriminate forwarding that we software engineers do.Its an accepted fact that on any normal day, more than 30% of mail traffic among the corporate mail ids are forwards....But there's nothing wrong about Mail Forwards as such!!

I am a sucker for forwards-I read ALL the forwards that i receive and selectively forward the best ones to my friends in my forwarding list.And many of the forwards are pretty informative and are of some value.

 

But, there's one type of forwards that i absolutely HATE and am constantly urging all my friends to abstain from.That is - forwarding of images of other non-celebrity people.Forwarding pictures of Aishwarya rai is fine-in fact she would be happy to hear abt it.The forwards i'm talking abt are those which have pictures taken of normal people having fun/in embarassing situations.They are people like u or me.....who have been caught on camera without their knowledge.U can say , these types of photographs are a little voyeuristic.

 

The people having corporate mail accounts can remember that there was a document recently making rounds in the mail Fowards circuit which had pictures of girls who were having fun in Saraang (IIT chennai sultural fest). Those people didn't seem to have been aware of the fact that their pictures would become a forward. Just think of how embarassing this would be for them.

In fact, this is illegal!!

 

Today, I got a picture of a completely drenched girl playing holi - as a forward.

I don't know this gal...but I'm sure she wouldn't appreciate the fact that thousands of guys are drooling over her ahem.....well......ample voluptuous assets.

With her picture come as a forward, pretty soon, it'll be circulating all over the globe......and will be seen by thousands and thousands of people.

 

Did the person who took the photograph take her permission before he took this foto?

Did he/she inform her that he'ld be posting her picture on the net/forwarding it to everybody ?

IF not, What are the chances that the gal would get a chance to ask these questions to this guy?

What wrong did she do to deserve this?

What will her parents undergo when they hear of / see this?

 

OK...she was having some fun!! But is that a crime? Isn't she entitled to some privacy?

 

We cannot stop perverted guys from doing this...but can't we atleast stop forwarding it to our friends whenever such a forward comes into our mailbox?

We can just delete it!! Atleast we'll be doing our bit to stop the chain.

 

I strongly URGE u to act in a responsible and matured way.This 'mail forwards' is a powerful weapon which can either make or break a person. The onus is on us to use it carefully and in a positive manner!!

 

These are my thoughts......maybe I'm misguided and in need of a different view of the situation....but do post ur thoughts on the subject as comments!!

-Cne

7Cne -The Coolest Dude8

Blogging after a looong time.

There's this wierd thing about creative, perfectionist and lazy people........and since I'm all the above, in my case, this is manifested in myraid forms.A lot of creative thoughts come to my mind, and prompt me to take action on them - like some idea that would make a nice blog.And they all come during convenient situations like when I'm in the loo or riding my bike - when its almost impossible to immediately pen them down.

But, since I am LAZY, I use my creativity to think of all sorts of plausible sounding excuses to put off the actual writing - after all thinking is effortless, and so i am willing to do quite a lot of that.

Once the creative juices start flowing, its not hard to manufacture a rock-solid excuse. My longest serving one being that I imagine myself as a great perfectionist and so, i will either do something perfectly, or not do it at all!!

This argument sounds pompous enough and has enough quirky logic in it for me to be able to convince my conscience that I'll do it later when I have enough time to do it perfectly.......which in a perfect world would have meant as soon as i got out of the loo, but in the real world, more often than not means 'NEVER'.

 

This phenomenon is not a new one and i have its manifestations in many mutant forms......the front end may be different, but the basic logic in the backend almost always remains the same.

I have a very close friend of mine who revels in dreaming BIG - and he doesn't consider day dreams as being counted. The ideas in his dreams are as BIG as the quantity of time he dreams. And since the only way to dream is by sleeping, he unfortunately has to do a LOT of this important ativity. In fact soo much that he's 'earned' the epithet of 'dead body' among our class junta.

Those of u who had the mis-fortune to 'study'....sorry, come to 'college with me' in my class would have recognised the guy I'm talking about.

And in order to reduce my liability for libel action against me, I'll refrain from using his real name.

 

Alas, I'm digressing.Coming to the point, this guy would register for and write all sorts of competitive exams.The number of exams that he writes would be almost 70-80 % of the ones he registers for. And most importantly, he would follow the following interesting logic.

 

1. He would assiduously and compulsorily refrain from studying on the exam subject till the night before it.Then, he would spend spend like 3-4 hours dreaming about why he had wasted all the time before.By this time, it would be 10 PM and since its nearing his dreaming time, would promptly eat his mandatory 2 idlys and go to sleep. hen, he would get up at 5 in the morning and spend another 2-3 hours trying to find out which questions would come in the exam.

2. But since he is such an innate genius, he would get good enough marks.

3. When he gets these marks, he would immediately work out that IF he's got this much marks by not studying, how many marks would he have got IF he had really studied.

4. This will really motivate him.

5. But when the next exam nears, he will start from step 1, instead of from step 3 and so, keep on doing the same thing again and again......with the same results.

 

But i don't feel sad about the wasted talent , as getting marks in college exams requires more of skill in creative writing than in actual knowledge -  a point which i sadly realised only in my 5th semester.Thats why my 6th,7th and 8th sem marks show a quantum leap compared to my earlier marks. (Even though u could argue that it maybe be due to the theory of relativity).

 

Its a paradigm shift I hope every college student makes as soon as he/she reads this post!!

 

May GOD save India from its budding Engineers!!

 

-Cne

7Cne -The Coolest Dude8

Live ur life NOW,there will be plenty of time to sleep later, when you're dead.

 

Giving up?? HUH!!

Some Anonymous guy asked me in his comment...

"I'm sure you rock, Cne, but why no more posts? Gave up? "

 

Give up? ha......to paraphrase 'Puratchi Kalaignar' and the only Tamil Mega Star who acts in serious Comedies Mr. Vijaya Kanth,

 

'English dictionary in myself don't like one word,give up!!" 

-Cne

7Cne -The Coolest Dude8

Cne's Musings....

I've always thought of this anology of Fishes very apt to describe people. We are all fishes in this river called Life (or u can even think of it as time) flowing towards the sea called death.Irrespective of all happenings, the river keeps on moving inexorably towards the sea. We fishes have only the time till we reach the sea. We are usually born in a small pond. We are sheltered from the river by our parents,relatives & friends.Life's mostly predictable and nothing much of earth shattering consequence happens to us.The pond gives us the time and space to grow strong enough to face the river some time in the future. There's competition, but its not life threatening. Then, when once we finish college, we are let out into the fast flowing river called life. The first few days /months of freedom are exhilerating. We are free to roam around and explore.We meet more and more fishes - each one different. We make new friends, new enemies.

But, sometime or the other we suddenly realise the true nature of the RIVER.There are predator fishes which eat the smaller fishes.There's cut-throat competition to just survive.There are fishermen who catch and eat u.Some of the food that we eat turn out to be poisonous.There's a brutal current which is taking us all towards the sea. Thats when we realise that the time we have is LIMITED,very limited.

We have two choices, We can either flow downstream along WITH the current or swim upstream AGAINST it. The default is WITH the current.So, some fishes live their entire without making a choice just because they didn't even know that they had a CHOICE.In the end, they realise that they've lived a life of little consequence.

Some fishes realise this fact. Out of these many don't choose to excercise their power to decide and end up in almost the same position as the former.

A few fishes make the choice and take ACTION. These fishes swim upstream AGAINST the current and discover that there's a whole new world out there. And logically thinking, these fishes end up in the sea much later than the others and consequently, live longer. Their's is a life really LIVED. They are the ones who build for the future. They are the ones who are of some use to others. These are the fishes which live a life of CONSEQUENCE.

For all fishes, there comes a time when they have to peel off from their peer group, from their friends group, come out of their comfort zone, and make this decision.Because, this is a decision no one else can make for u. U cannot copy others - That wouldn't be deciding. U have to make ur own decision.And since all of us are different, each of us makes a decision unique to him/her self.

Thats when we realise that GOD created all of us diferently, because all of us were created in this world to a specific purpose - each of us has a unique job that ONLY we can do. But GOD didn't pre-program us with our purpose. Thats what we'll have to discover for ourself.Thats a puzzle that we'll have to solve before we die.Thats our DESTINY.

I guess that the best way to go about solving this puzzle is to ponder upon what is it in our life that we LOVE to DO the most.There in lies the path to the fulfilment of our destiny.Its hard to let go of the shackles of habit and mediocre thinking that we've grown up with.Its hard to take a risk. But ONLY when u take the risk do u know what lies beyond.

So, its all a matter of choice.If U don't choose, then LIFE chooses for u.Either way a choice is MADE!!

 

Wouldn't it be better if the person who makes the CHOICE is U?

7Cne -The Coolest Dude8

 

 

 

 

The Accidental Trip :: Bangalore-Chennai [13-16 Aug 2005]

              I had decided to go to chennai during the Independence day long weekend on my bike.....I definitely wanted to do something interesting-something adventurous.But, my bad back was deterrent enough and spoiled the fun for me. But, I was determined to go as Aug 13 was my mother's birthday.But, as
I was planning to go by bike, I hadn't bothered to buy tickets to chennai.I tried for tickets on friday(12th) but as expected, I couldn't get any.I was  wondering what to do when i saw this post in my Company's Bullettin Board. A guy was goin to chennai by car for the long weekend......and was looking for companions.We complemented each other other perfectly - He had a car but didn't know the route.I knew the route, but didn't have a car. So, i mailed him and we decided to start saturday (13th) morning at 5:30.As usual in any trip, someone was late and we ended up starting only at 7:00 AM.The car was a black Maruti Wagon R.Very very new.....just 1.5 months old - so was the guy's driving experience which i found out later -to my horror. We decided to take the scenic route to chennai Bangalore -> Kolar -> Chittoor -> Ranipet -> Chennai. The road meanders through lush forests with lots of nice curves - in fact perfect biking road.But not the best road for a car drive as i learnt.We bikers like to ride at a nice and easy 80-100 with the wind on our face and nice green scenery all around us.The road should be having lots of nice curves.....banked ones if possible.Taking the curves at a constant 90 KMPH gives u a kick like none other.U gotta bend along with the bike with only ur momentum holding u on the seat.Its a rush that i can't fully explain...but what other kindred spirits will surely
recognize.Thats why bikers just love mountain roads.If the road has traffic, then nothing better...traffic is the tangy avakkai oorga (pickle) with food....we can manage without it - but the food is much more tastier with it.  We tend to go to sleep when faced with a long plain road which is  arrow straight and with no traffic.Its as boring as doing documentation for a program someone else has written. But as i evidently saw, car drivers don't conform to this idea.They
need a straight road.....with as less number of sharp curves as possible and with no traffic.They just want to go fast...and i do mean FAST!!  Imagine this small car with a measly 64 BHP (or should i say PS) engine and a tall body prone to turning turtle if not driven properly hurtling over the highway at 140 KMPH.Thats exactly what we did.We didn't just touch 140 KMPH.We actually cruised at 120-140 KMPH - with the A/C on the  whole time.And ended up reaching chennai from bangalore in 5 hours with a 40 minute breakfast break.Thats a trip of 360 KM in 4.2 hours......which is really really damn fast.I was happy.

At chennai, I wished my mom happy birthday and took my family to Delhi Dhaba on Cenotaph road for a treat and overall, we had a nice time in chennai.Except for the heat which as a bangalorean still find irritating. Then, on monday (15th August) our esteemed country's independence day,  i contacted this guy and we started back to bangalore arnd 3 PM.It was the same high speed this time too.....but with an element of passion added.

We were racing with another Wagon R of Karnataka regn, that guy was goin really fast - with his wife & children inside. This was maddening to us. We were 4 kewl youngsters racing our car and there's this middle aged 'OLD' man coolly overtaking us.So, we put up a stiff fight. And then,it started raining too.....all in all, this scene had all the elements of a Mani Ratnam Film.

We were two cars goin at 120 kmph + on the road from Chennai to Bangalore. It was a nailbiting race.That guy would be in front of us, then we'ld suddenly overtake him by catching a small gap he left - either to the left or to teh right , didn't matter. I remember that we once simultaneously overtook an amblying amby (Ambassador) which was goin at a 'slow' 100 kmph - he overtook from the right, and we from the left. It was nice fun. And sometimes, we'ld be in front and sometimes he'ld be.....he never let go of the race.He would always be lurking behind us waiting for a small chance to overtake us.

In the stream of events, we overtook him at 100 kmph and just as we finished the manouver, we saw a petrol bunk on the left side of the road.Seeing it, the dude who was driving our car decided that he wanted to fuel up only at that bunk. The bunk was arnd 100 mts from the highway with a pebble stewn area between. Our driver made a sudden turn into the way leading to the bunk.All this travelling at 80 kmph.

 

Our car skidded on the pebbles and lost control.Neither the brakes nor the steering worked. We were travelling uncontrollably at a scary 60 kmph towards the bunk which was just 50 metres away. Thank GOD, there were some trucks parked in front of the bunk and we slammed into the front of a truck -just 5 metres from the bunk. If that truck hadn't been parked there, we'ld have hit the bunk directly and exploded in a spectacular fireball - and I wouldn't be here writing this !!

Coming back o the accident scene.I saw that we were goin to hit the truck and as there wasn't anything that i could do, snuggled more into the seat belt that i was wearing.We hit the truck and the front half of the car totally went under the truck. The bumper of the truck ended up just 3-4 inches in front of the driver's face. JUST because the driver was wearing a seatbelt, his face didn't hit that and so, he escaped with his life.

Amazingly, none of us were hurt seriously.The driver just had some cuts due to the shattered windscreen. The front part of the car was destroyed beyond recognition.

Then, with the climax being over,we did the cleanup.We stayed there for a day negotiating with the truck driver for the damages to his truck. From his initial estimate of 15K, we negotiated it down to 2K that we paid happily and took the car to the nearest Maruti dealership. The engine was fine, so the next day, we removed the windscreen and all of us bought a pair of cheap goggles each and drove to bangalore with the car like that. It was really nice. We were again travelling at 100 kmph and as there was no windscreen , wind filled the car along with all sorts of debris flying in the wind.

 

All in all , it was a nice 'near - to -death ' experience that I had.But it had a happy ending.As the car was new, the guy ended up paying just 20-30 K of the total 1.8 lakhs spent on repairing the car.And we were all ALIVE.

The only take-away message that I have for u is : NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE IMPORTANCE OF A SEATBELT. ALWAYS WEAR THE SEATBELT WHILE TRAVELLING ON HIGHWAYS.

-Cne

7Cne -The Coolest Dude8