Showing posts with label rain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rain. Show all posts

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.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

The rains have stopped but...

The rains have stopped. The sky is clear and the day is bright. What cheer it brings waking up every morning to cool breeze and bright sunlight!!! But hey, is it all over? Nope! Are all perils of monsoon to be rested for another few months? Nope again. Chennai chooses to live in the glory of the past - both near and far. When it rains, it pours. And you dont want to forget the monssons before a month right? So, the municipality (or who ever) decided to dig up a cannal for the free flow of water (I would think), but the only technical problem is, it has not been closed for more than a week now. And wow, it can also double up as a garbage dumping yard. And did you know how many entomologists (would have been safer to say scientists - but this sounded better) were dying for mosquitoe samples for their research? This can well be the paradise for mosquitoes. With multiple advantages, why dont you wait for the next monsoons? The roads anyway have to be dug up and what is the point closing them now. And if anyone can defy such a simple logic - I'm open to learning.

A scene near our office in guindy: