Empty Roads
Reports say that the roads in Bangalore (and Pune) are empty this week.
In Pune, I could get parking at Ozone, on a Sunday evening. Something that I didn’t dare attempt in 2 years! No traffic jams on any roads, peak or non-peak hours. It was surreal. Proof that outsiders are infesting these places (I am no insider, BTW).
And in a separate report, there is unbelievable traffic on the Mumbai roads. Now you know whom to catch if your city is bulging at its seams!
Home from the sky
It used to be exciting to look out of the window when you land or take off. I still remember the red tips of the Golden Gate bridge emerging out of the thick white fog like the two horns of a holy cow on the banks of Ganges. That was a special memory, but in recent times, the generic ‘from-sky-views’ arent that exciting. Why bother, when one can check them out, not as a glance, but in detail on Google Earth?
Mother Sitting
Filed under Home
My sister is having a baby, and I am in Kerala. And I am to stay home as my BIL will have to take leave from work later. Now, the rule is that I am not allowed to go farther than 15 minutes away from home. So I am kind of finishing all the small stuff that I never had time for earlier. Such as reading old novels, scripts, catching up on Mallu movies of the last 2-3 years, migrating the tsunami response project to wordpress and eating!! I will write about some, soon. (The wait is still on. The baby is expected today. Fingers crossed. God bless.)
Localized Promotions
I am not sure if any Puneite would agree to the title of this post. This is about some ads that I came across in the local editions/newsletters last week. One, from a lifestyle store called F-cube, said, “This cube has more than 6 dimensions” and the other was for an apartment complex which as one of its USP said, “Gymnasium with equipments”.
Google Earth Update
Google has updated ‘its’ Earth with detailed shots of Pune. Now one can clearly see even my terrrace! No, I am not going to tell you exactly where.
