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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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?

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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Credible Mobile Retail Store in chennai

A friend of mine is a Store Manager for a reputed Mobile Phone retail store. He is been backed up a big group. Yesterday I had been to one of his store at AnnaNagar, chennai (currently has multiple store across Chennai) and had wanted to buy the Motorola F3 – no hype mobile phone. I wanted to present this to my father in law, I showed him the Motorola F3 Mobile Phone and stated him the less featured, maximum utility phone, Which he liked it instantly. So I en quired the price and called up my friend for an offer. He turned down on me as he had principles of his own and been strictly following up company rules, He stated “no price offer for employees, and he had bought an another mobile from the store at the price quoted“

So I finally made up mind not to buy it from his store and went a head and en quired at Saravana Stores – Brahmandamai, to my bad luck the phones were out of stock. I didn’t give up went a head and landed up at

Saravana Store Thanga maligai.

This phone had an amazing boxing which you already seen at the top. Took some snaps of the Motorola F3 right inside their showroom.

Now to the point
What amazes me is that a Gold Jeweler is offering a rock bottom price where a truly Mobile retail store couldn’t beat the price.

Price war is already caught up, and what in the world are these Mobile retail store doing (The Mobile Store, Vasavi, Universal and all those priority showrooms like Nokia , sony erricsson etc)

Here are some check list before you buy a mobile Phone

1. You primary use (calling, SMS, ringtones etc)
   
2. What extra features you are looking for (Camera, MP3, Wifi [local network amazing feature], Bluetooth etc etc)
3. Compare between different models (Nokia = Nokia or Nokia = Sony ericsson = Motorola = Siemens = samsung =etc)
4. Compare dealers or retailers for the price
5. Check who offers down payment with EMI etc

Most middle class people, discuss a lot on buying mobile phones with friends and check the feature but don’t think about the retail showroom, who offers the best price ( 4th point of the checklist).

Verdict:
There is no Credible Mobile Retail showroom in Chennai as of now which says “I offer the best lowest  price, If you buy one lesser than the stated price, This store will pay the difference”. I am sure people in US know this kind of offer stated in some stores during sale. Believe me, If you buy a article less than the price quoted in that area. The Store pays the difference amount. This is not a failure model.

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