Last night I was at Tambaram railway station to receive one of our guest. It took nearly 30 minutes for me to take a couple of platform tickets. There were more than 300 people standing on 3 queue to get tickets - platform , local train and the outstationones. There were more than 50% of the counters closed. No Person in the railway department is bothered to open the closed counter to speed up the process. In one of the queue in which I was standing was very slow due to the slowness of the machine.
The lady in the counter uses a separate calculator to find out how much she needs to return to the person who gave a Rs 500 /= for a 270/- + ticket. Can’t we upgrade the software to do this job. This will cut short a lot a time. I believe we have this in every other software used in super market today. The best part is that I gave three two rupee coins to take a couple of platform tickets which costs Rs 3/- each and told her that I need two tickets. She pushed the Coins towards her coin tray and asked , “You want one ticket right?”. It was already 8 PM. I am not sure how long she is working in the counter or she is not interested in the job itself.
There was a machine which can provide local and Platform tickets. But one need to use only railway card to purchase tickets. Can’t we make the machine work with the Credit card and coins? That will reduce a lot of manual work and also reduce the waiting time.
I landed on a document on Scribd for Sanskrit. It required a authenticated session to download the document. I tried the facebook authentication for the purpose. It happens that I got around 10 followers on scribd within an hour. I have never published any document and nor going to do any in future. To my surprise all my followers are having 0 documents published and have a lot of subscription and following a lot of people. I don’t see any value add on this relationship. It added me some work of deleting all mails that got landed on my inbox. Scribd automatically made me follow 243 people who are my friends in facebook. Really a Stupid way to do things.
Mails / Connections which has got zero values to either party.
Traveled in the MTC A/C Volvo for the first time from Ambattur Estate to Velachey distance of around 18 Km at the evening peak hour. It took around one and half hour at the cost of Rs 30 /= per person much more than cost of diesel for the same distance. A row of seats at the center was fold able to accommodate more people during peak hours.
The seats can be made a couple of inches longer for better comfort. I am not sure how these buses are used for the long distance like Trichy [around 300+ Km.].
The A/C vent just above the passenger head on every seat at the window side has a control to change the direction of the flow. It should have added with a stopper.
The bus was maintained in a good condition and the travel was comfortable.
Recently bought a new Fiat Linea which comes with an Microsoft Windows powered Blue&Me system. I used a Samsung GT -S5230 and a Nokia 5310 mobile with the system.
Nokia has a good Usability. After the first time paring of the handset, Nokia never asked me any questions for connecting to the Blue&Me. On the contrary, Samsung asked me [Yes./No] questions for the connection , paring and copying [ linking ] of phone books every time I switch on my car. I need to answer two yes for the mobile to get connected and another yes to synchronize the phone book. Tough to answer these questions while driving.
We do have theories and beliefs that man originated from Monkeys. I did a quick comparison on the confidence level betweeen Man and Monkey. Security of life is a big concern today in human life. Man want himself to stick to something before he jump out from the current state. This is applicable from Job or whatever we do. But monkeys on the contrary, while jumping will release its hands from the current branch / tree to catch the new one.
Even if they miss the intended branch, it will hold the next one.
