National Highway 9(NH-9)

NH - 9 connects Hyderabad to Vijayawada.

I happen to live in one of the apartments on this Highway. It's overloaded with traffic all 24 hours of the day. Specially in the night, you get to see a diversity of vehicles on this road - gigantic wagons, lorries, trucks, volvos, cars, bikes and also bicycles. This highway which connects two major cities of Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad to Vijayawada is not wide enough. Not only that, at some point, thats near my house, it narrows down to some x width where just a truck and a bike placed exactly together can fit. Beside this narrow road is a huge and deep nala (drain). More surprisingly, can you imagine a national highway devoid of lights? Oh yeah!! its India right :)
.... and thats pretty much what makes me hear ambulances all the time because bikers at high speed can't envisage this and bam!!

Unfortunately, I went out to buy some groceries this evening and it grew dark by the time I was returning. I was standing at the divider waiting to cross the other side of the NH-9 (which pretty much appears some narrow road to me), a huge truck passed by. Hadn't I rushed towards the other side, I wouldn't have been blogging about this now :P
May be the truck drivers are seated high enough to notice a tiny creature like me. So, either grow up or pray before you attempt to walk on one of the national highways that the drivers are relatively less drunk otherwise who knows when they might end up engulfing you.

VIBGYOR

Hyderabad is seeing rains these days. And, what can you think of on a rainy day - RAINBOW?


As a child, I used to gaze at the sky after rains to see a rainbow. I vaguely recall once seeing a faded one for a fraction of seconds. It was more like a line than an arch and I thought the actual beautiful rainbows occurred only in the books of physics. But, I did see it come out of the book couple of days back. I saw a full fledged beautiful rainbow for minutes(may be 30). It got no fader until I left from there. Now, when I say, I saw 2 rainbows at the same time, you might think I am crazy.

Sometimes when the doctor tweaks my eyes with all kinds of liquids for retina dilations, I tend to see double images. Whoa! this time it was without all those liquids. Actually no, wiki says , very rarely, there occurs a secondary rainbow outside the primary one with colors in opposite order. Oh wow! I don't believe I did see this one too, what a beautiful sight it was.

Did you switch off your lights today?

What occurs to you when you point your browser to the quintessential www.google.com and are greeted with a jet-black page like the one below?



A lot of things lighted in my mind. Did my browser get mad? Did I become blind? Is my tube-light so dim? I gave myself a pinch, switched browsers, switched the ambient light. But that's not what it was.

They've turned the lights out for an hour. Now it's your turn.

Save Energy!

My first workout

ahhh....it pains, it seriously does!
I cannot walk straight as if each part of my body has been tightly screwed.

10 min of treadmill at a speed of 6, 10 min of stepper at resistance of 20, some abs exercises and some other machines which were aliens to me - all conspired against me to curtail my freedom of movement :(

Oh please! what did I do to them? I am not even over weight to hurt them.

May be I should go again today and ask them amicably about what wrong did I do to them..Well, people say they are not so bad and you should always give them a second chance. So, I definitely will!

Citi World $ money card

Unfortunately I hold a credit card of Citibank..no, no, not because I like it but because my company provides it to me when I am on business trips.

I thought only living things had mood swings and they change their normal course of behavior at times but no, this dude also has it. It ceases to work without prior warnings! On a particular hour on Sunday, it stops working - the only reason on the top of my head is all its employees are having a tea break!
I am yet to figure out what does it depend on - the phase of the moon, the length of my hair or the price of tea in china!!!

Once I was wondering if I had exhausted $1500 just on my food in a month when my card suddenly became unresponsive in Safeway. To my surprise, it was not the balance which forbade it from working but seems it was on a break for Christmas celebrations!!

I really appreciate myself for my bad driving skills - the only reason being I would always be accompanied by someone. If you go out alone for some planned dinner feeling relaxed without any $ but just Citibank card, I fear you might end up washing used utensils somewhere. Thanks to my friends who have saved me a couple of times from this.

Hello World

This is my first post in the blogger world.