Thursday, December 25, 2008

Shaky start and a Shoddy end...

Wow!!! Chennai is waking up!!! The pits/canals dug up during rains are being closed now. And all roads are being mended. So are we going to see a turn around!!!

Hold on a minute - before we get contended with all that is happening, with all my frustration I have to add that consciousness to "finishing up" still seems to be lacking. The picture below shows how one of the canals dug up during the rains have been filled. This is the same pit from one of my earlier posts ("The rains have stopped but..."), but I guess doing it better (rather doing it the right way) was considered charity. The canal has been filled with mud (and of course whatever was available), but why are these people just not worried about finishing it up properly. When will people understand this is a threat too? When there was a canal, people would have been conscious enough to avoid it. But now, thinking there could be some way, people might end up skidding from their motorcycles. And this is also a source for dust.

Now - Please don’t take me for a guy who is so pessimistic took look at the negatives of everything. But honestly, being contended with such shoddy work is the source of most of our problems in the modern world. When countries are racing towards perfectionism, here we are, not only saying that being shoddy is enough, but also justifying it with our "intellectual" arguments. You can easily translate this deficiency of ours to any bloody sector/industry in this country. Go talk to any individual who has to render a service or product (primarily to the domestic market), and you will find that this tendency is just about omnipresent - next only to god that is. No wonder people working for state departments consider themselves next only to gods.

Hmm… Let me stop here, I'm starting to sound too pessimestic and complaining now.

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