Some crazy ways to shoot an Eclipse

It was close 12:30 PM yesterday afternoon and in a moment there was once shade lighter in what ever you started seeing. The Eclipse had just started, some of my friends took an DSLR to mobile phones, to shoot the Eclipse, some even had a nice sheet of paper with just a pin hole and watching.

My friends and yours truly had just finished the lunch, it was our usual joint where we use to take rest with little chat. We noticed some thing strange in the light and the atmosphere, ended up watching the strange shadows from the Neem tree.

Just for fun.
((tag: Eclipse, Sun, Chennai, India, Shadow))

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City Chennai, for some lighter side of life

My Grocery store at villivakkam, funny

The second line should have contained this word “parcel”. This sakthi store is at villivakkam, Annachi is a very friendly guy, but cannot help you with delivery, only parcel.

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Road repair, school children parents in trouble

Chinmaya Vidyalaya, P&T colony junction, traffic jam

Chinmaya Vidyalaya, P&T colony junction, traffic jam

This event is near belly area of AnnaNagar, this morning 8:30 AM, Chinmaya Vidyala school and P&T quarters, One side of the road has been completely dug till the end of the road to facilitate cables. And there is huge traffic Jam happens right at this junction.

The request is to complete a portion of work, at least near this junction ASAP so that children and parents do not have be late to school and work.

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Looks like some one on the Phone

Click on the image for a clear and large version of the photo.
Honk, No reply. Why? he is over the phone and driving.

This guy was the phone, and was on the extreme right side of the road. How do you expect one to overtake?

I am sorry, How else can I take this home

Click on the image for a larger version (this photo is taken well inside the chennai city – Villivakkam)

This is a very common site, with Autoricksaw and trucks carrying long protruding objects in their vehicle. The above two images are an Auto carrying a long iron pole and where it came in contact with the Cable TV wire and finally winded on the pole. Leaving the TV channel viewers at pain.

I questioned my self, Why do they do it, when it might harm themselves and others.

Once I had to carry a tube light from a electrical shop to my home which is a KM away. All I had was my yamaha 135 bike, the shopkeeper took a role and tied one end of tube light to the rear end of my bike while the front portion was in between my right arm and my body. I thought for seconds, Am I doing this right. Then realized, India doesn’t have rules to stop you from carrying a tube light while riding and if at you are caught, you could still get away.

Well, honestly how many of you would have hired a larger vehicle to carry this tube light. Please do comment. Do say whether I did was right or wrong

One more Photo which I took long back , this one is near the Sruthi musicals Signal.

saturday 3:11 PM

A event will happen, coming Saturday 3:11PM November 3rd 2007. If you love Chennai, you can participate and contribute to this event. All it takes is have a camera. It could be digital, film or mobile phone or even laptop vga camera. All you need to do is click the button of your camera at 3:11PM and share with the people at http://www.311pm.com, they have flickr group setup for you to upload all your wonderful photos.

Let the world know about your chennai city and how much you care.

Looking forward to see all your photos. Thanks a ton in advance.

Where to look for meter?

Recently had been to fill up the tank for my car and these people pulled down the filling jack from Air and said “Sir Check the Zero” I said I want petrol and not Diesel looking at the Meter close by.

Then they showed me one more meter right at the left top of the above image

I was shocked. I felt like an idiot.

The next time some one is pulling those pipes, do care ask where you have to look for, before assuming things.

One more thing you can note at the top image the bend in the pipe could hold atleast 50- 100 ml of petrol. So be careful.

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Truck traffic – so no right turn

If you wanted to go to Annanagar from Koyambedu. After 8 PM is a tough one, And the signal is for short duration of time, mostly it takes 3 signals to make the right turns as the truck drivers take the right lane and occupy the ongoing traffic who want to go AnnaNagar. I have been thinking, is there any way to communicate to the truck drivers that they are not supposed to take this lane, atleast who have common sense would avoid this lane.

Well the text need not say “Heavy Vehicles, No right turn” just the Icon representation is more than enough.

Here is my idea.

There is one more option, there are glow signboards on the median which can also say to truck drivers that they cannot take right turn.

What say?
Is this at least feasible, I see lots of private hoardings, will this one be afford ability problem for the chennai traffic police.

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All Purpose Utility Vechile

I have seen lot of funny rides, this one is awesome. Could carry luggage and instead of small baby, You could see a grown up babe right at the front. I guess more or less a comfortable talk and ride…

I found two pairs on two bikes on the chennai 200 feet road near Ashok pillar, but was able to take these shots as my Nokia N-series N70 mobile camera was slow and couldn’t make multiple clicks

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