Random Bakwas chapter 3

This one would be a random rambling of thought process going through my mind in last 24 hours. Guess it would be aggregate of few Facebook status messages or tweets.

1. Food lag: I am desperately suffering from this. Starting the day, I have a voracious appetite for breakfast, eating in half dozen’s. It slowly transitions to a reduced need of a moderately salubrious lunch. Finally, I am kind of struggling to finish just 2 servings of rice for dinner. Is appetite change included in jet lag or have i coined a new jargon :D? Haven’t wikied it yet. Waiting for feedback from readers, if any :P

2. Mobile internet in India: Using it for the first time, I am surprised with the connectivity in remote towns in Tamil Nadu. Though my dad's data plan is based on GPRS and not 3G, I feel that delay is tolerable for mails and not annoying slow. Though I was a reluctant adopter of smart phone, i am slowly changing my opinion. QWERTY keyboard and continuous access to mails during travel are the big positives.

3. Indian summer: Hot is an understatement, I was in Trichy for a day as i was visiting temples in my dad's native place. With 40 degrees and 40 percent humidity, my first day outing was miserable in dry heat. I had take two baths in 8 hours time. If I had to summarize it in one line, I was feeling like a chicken burnt alive in Tandoor.

Ps: I am in love with this series of writing. With a play list of AR Rahman, I am thinking of career in writing. I think I can give Chetan Bhagat some competition.CMU is a bigger brand to flaunt and writer/home maker would be a lovely career path :D. Any broad minded gals out here?

Dated: 12th may, 11 pm

Random Bakwas chapter 2

Today's topic is regarding Indian marriage and specially, the food associated with the ceremony. Ya, food play a major role in these functions, which attracts crowd, who are totally irrelevant in the context. Last weekend, i was lured into such a trap as i couldn't resist an offer of salubrious meal, which could placate the dead taste cells of mine.

Analogous to grad school events, there is lot of similarities. High variability in incoming rate, dining time and appetite of people makes it one of the toughest service operations to be modeled. I am not kidding. Adding another dimension of forecasting the crowd increases the complexity in logarithmic scale. Ps: author is an engineer by heart :-p

Digging deeper into this issue, this is challenge from supply chain perspective. Integrating Indra nooyi's Aquafina, Nellore farmer's rice and Mumbai's chat walla's pani puri for a single reception meal, an averagely flamboyant marriage would cost you a million Indian rupees. Statistically, fifteen percent of entire marriages happening in India would fall under this category. Investing this money in a fully diversified high performing mutual fund for four years would yield you 2 million rupees.

From service provider’s perspective, it is a billion rupee industry spread across various sector. This is an economy on its own. So, if you are interested in reviving an economy from recession, get married soon :-p. Rest, invest your money and laugh at the former :-D

PS: Dated May 12, 9:45 am

Random Bakwas chapter 1

Yes. I am back to blogging. Now that i have literally nothing to do for next 18 days, I have decided to start this series.

Not with the most comfortable tool. Typing from my dad's Nokia N 81, i am trying to combat jet lag as i am travelling on my way to Trichy. Excuse me for grammar mistakes and typos.

Topic of today's bakwas is about suburban metro. Next to Mumbai, Chennai can proudly boast of second best suburban train connectivity in India.

Thanks to my cousin. I liked his idea to use public transport to reduce traffic and carbon emissions, despite having our own vehicles.

Being a champion of public transport after buying in his idea, i thought i would write a blog for the same. Starting from 04, I had great experience of using these electric trains. Today, at 0.1 dollar, i could travel comfortably a distance of 10 km or 6.25 miles in 12 minutes. Sounds amazing right? That’s the reality.

Be it the 18 minute travel for my 15 km commute to college or 65 minutes marathon journey for my 47 km journey to my workplace, i could predict my exact arrival time with 98 percent accuracy. For the executives, you have the option of hassle free travel in first class, which is five times the ordinary fare. That was one transition I made from college to corporate in my mode of commute.

For the luxurious folks, unfortunately, there is no air conditioned version of these locals. Volvo's are good alternate, in terms of comfort and travel time. If you aren't buying any of these options, then you aren't intended recipient.

Thanks for reading through Random Bakwas. In the name of climate, the auto Anna's of Chennai shall rightly exploit the consumer for extra carbon emissions and road congestion :-p

PS: Dated 11^th may, 11 pm. Apologies for re-editing and publishing delay :)