The latest mobile App I am using is NGPay. The caption of the app is, “India’s Largest Mall on the Mobile”.
I am using it for the ticket reservation on IRCTC. It works cool against using IRCTC on the web. The app is surely the one to check out for Railway booking.
I tried it for paying my Airtel Bills and Recharging my mum’s Airtel Prepaid. But Mchek suits it better than Ngpay.
The Utility bill section seems to miss a lot of options. The Phone bills does not have option to pay BSNL. I tried using some of the financial applications. But little skeptical about using it on the mobile.
Last week end, we went to Talakona, a water fall near Tirumala [Thirupathi]. It was a nice place to spend a week end. It is a 200 Km drive from Chennai. We were a 20 member team from Chennai. We started around 11:30 AM on Saturday. We had Lunch @ Amulu a motel at the TN-AP Border. The food was not that good but OK to live with. The best part of the drive was the Ghats section [NH 205] from Bakrapeta. It was a 20 km stretch on the hills covered with green trees. The roads were wide enough to have a leisurely drive and enjoy the view of hills. Evening timing and the mild drizzles made them look great. We reached Talakona at 6 PM in the evening. The drive was a little slower as we had families and small children.
We reached the AP Tourism Guest House. The rooms looked very good . The Guest house had 6 ordinary rooms and 6 Deluxe ones. We took 6 ordinary room and 1 deluxe room. We got settled and ordered food for dinner. We ordered 5 Kgs of Country Chicken, chappathi, Dosa and Rice. The preparation was very good. The size of chapathi is too big that one can take only three for dinner. We ordered a little excess without knowing the actual sizes. We played Dumb Charades for some time. It took around 9 PM to deliver the food. Do make sure you order the food in advance.The other session started in parallel and it went till 2 AM before we hit the bed.
We got up around 7 AM. Thank God it was not raining till 11 AM in the morning. We went to the falls. It was a 2 km drive and a 1 km trek to reach the water falls. The falls had two steps, obviously one @ the bottom and another in the middle. We went up to the middle one and the fierceness of water was little powerful as water travels 200 fts before hitting the middle step. We returned back to the Guest house around 11 AM and went to the near by small hotel for break fast.
Visited the Siddeshwara temple of Lord Shiva near the guest house. The temple was very good and silent.
We then moved on to the Eco Tourism of Forest Department where we went for a small boating and a Canopy walk. The boating and Canopy walk was just a time killer than any fun or adventure. The Forest Guest house seems to be better than the AP Tourism Guest House. We were not able to go for the Jungle Safari which I feel may be a good one.
We returned back to the Guest house and a nice Lunch killing some more chicken and rice. Few took a short nap to get themselves ready for the downward drive. We started around 3:45 PM and reached chennai @ 8 PM.
Beware of Monkeys :
The only (wild) animal we saw were the monkeys. But we were not able to win over it. We lost a bunch of Bananas and some more fruits to it a couple of times. Keep the Balcony doors closed and Carry snacks in bags when you move to Falls and be informed that Monkeys do know to open your bags.
Good things are :
No Mobile Network, So, No worries.
Food is Very good and at the same time Cheap. It costs us Rs 3000/= for a Lunch and Dinner with 8 Kgs of Chicken included.
Rooms are good and Cheap. The ordinary room costs Rs 350/- and the deluxe costs - Rs 450/-
Easy reach from Chennai.
You need to come down 7 Km if you want any snack or any drink. So make sure you buy whatever you want from Bakrapeta. Once again, it is advised to buy it from Thirupathi or Chennai or somewhere before Bakrapeta, as everything is little costly there.
Text Messaging also called as SMS [Short Messaging Service]one more way of communication using the mobile devices. I mostly try to avoid mobile phones while driving. But the SMS beeps tempts me more than the calls on the mobile. I don’t know why ? Is it me alone in this earth having such a drive towards the SMS or You too ?
But Reading / Writing SMS is more dangerous than attending calls on the Mobile while driving. Check out the attached video I got via my friends lateinthearena
Strengthen your heart before you watch this video. I did not watch it fully.
Good to Switch off your mobile or throw it to the back seat while driving. Indian Roads are not even good to talk to your Passenger Side seated person while driving.
Every one in Chennai know that a bus from Koyambedu can take two routes to get out of the city.
Outer ring road from Maduravoil to Perungulathur
100 Feet road [jawaharlal Nehru road] and come via Guindy, Tambaram and proceed to perungulathur.
It takes an hour or even more if we take the route 2 depending on the Traffic. It takes only 1/2 hour to come down to Perungulathur via route 1. Most private buses take the route 1.
The south bound long distance buses fills up only the seats and they don’t allow any standing passengers as the traveling time will be more than 8 hours. The Government buses even though their seats are filled have to comes down the route 2 and the conductor has to inform / sign the booths located @ Ashok Pillar , Guindy , Pallavaram and Tambaram. This process seems to be a waste of time and enery for every one in the Bus.
With the advent of lots and lots of technology, don’t we have a simple methodology to inform the different booths that so and so bus is filled and is going to move via route 1.
Any one have any idea why such a kind of unproductive process are still followed out in Government buses. We can save a lot of fuel + time by changing this.
Morning news says that a few colleges in the state were raided for the poor infrastructure. [new Times of India ].
Further what needed to be raided :
Standard of the education provided in the colleges.
Interaction of the colleges with the Industry.
Quality of the teachers and teaching.
Other stuffs taught beyond the subject.
and a lot more with respect to the college.
Further more the syllabus taught at this level itself needs a upgrade year on year.
Currently reading a book on what is not taught in B’Schools by Meenakshi Radhakrishnan. B’Schools which is having a lot of interaction with the industry itself is missing a lot of practical lessons for its students.
A Big question “Whether the professional course graduates coming out of college ready to take up the challenges they are thrown from the industry?”
