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Now that my 1000+ page texts containing greek alphabets are safely out of sight, i’m going on a little trip down the coromandel to cool off my aching brain. With the current temperatures, not exactly sure if there will be anything remotely close to cooling off happening, but gliding through the serene backwaters of the worlds’ second largest mangrove forest (or so they claim) shall be a welcome change in surroundings.

So while everyone else i know would have passed out after flooding their liver with the post exam alcohol river, i’m going to be catching the 4am bus to Cuddalore with a bunch that takes pleasure in torturing the body with uncomfortable bus rides, trekking in 45degree temperatures and considering 3 peanuts as a wholesome meal. I’m just as mad, so cheers to me and credits to gapp for the sudden unplan .

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where would you find this bus stop?

I’m bored of twiddling my thumbs.

The Chennai metro project seems to be making some progress. Why, they even have a half baked website up and running. Even more interesting is the presence of a logo, and it looks suspicously like the work of a dropout student from Andal Alagar Institute of Contemporary Design.

The only thing useful in the site is the Project Brief Document (Download PDF), which has a good amount of interesting information and is worth a read. The rest of the site is plain shite, right from the poorly edited image of a Deutsche Bahn train to the 2 photos of MuKa Stalin staring into the ceiling all the way in Tokyo.

Atleast with the release of official data, i could finally finish my chennai rail map, which should be quite useful, especially since their version resembles like cat puke.

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but suffering from acute laziness. Im taking a healthy dose of time to mend the situation

but a cruise load of whiny, north americans living their end years blowing away all their leftover stash of green, a dollar at a time. To document the events of the day  might just require a new blog, so i shall just have to leave you with some interesting visuals, mostly from the rain drenched harbour.

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There are a bunch of aussie blokes in town (three truck bus loads to be precise), and by a clever twist of fate, the person in charge of showing them around, knows someone, who knows someone, who knows my friend’s friend. They need ten local chaps to accompany the horde and fascinate them with cock and bull stories to distract them from the growing blotch of sweat around their underarms, and it just so happens that they were one short of ten (9). This is where i become a part of the story.

Details are sketchy, but apparently the itinerary involves  a trip to the harbour, 5star cuisine and AC bus rides. I’m supposed to show up at Xxxxxxx Bus stand at XX:30 in the morning in a black pant, shoes, and a shirt. This would normally invoke strong protests from me, but then a certain sum has been promised, and thats enough for me to even walk their kangaroos and milk them twice if they so wished.

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What would you find at the top of this building?

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20 done, and here’s the standings.

(answers/name/pic#)
4 Ravages 2 6 18 20
3 NavneethC 12 13 14
2 celacaw 3 5
2 Ramanujam 4 7
2 Shivasubramanian 8 10
2 Shyam 9 16
1 Marc 1
1 Slakhs 11
1 Navaneethan Santhanam 15
1 M Chet 17
1 Prasanna V Seshadri 19

What should the final winner get? a title? 1 plate idli?

online. And if the name Thalankuppam happens to rings a bell (normally it shouldnt), check this out. Its some Poetry, a rotting pier, one sunday afternoon and a beautiful sunset.

Yep, they’ve installed a firewall. How do i know? cause i’ve been on their wifi till 10 days ago. now to go to the sucky bsnl office and get myself a wireless router, bleh

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Where would i be standing?

This photo was take during the second chennai photowalk .  And for those of you not in the know, the chennai photowalk is a monthly congregation of small time photo geeks armed with bazooka lenses (and little ones, like me) who have nothing bettter to do than spend a Sunday morning walking around the lanes of madras meeting random people on the road, chatting with the cops, annoying the security guards, jaywalking, drinking filter coffee, laughing loudly, learning a little history and attracting a lot of unneeded attention.

The walk is organised by Chennai’s very own published author, captain Ravages ( ) so keep an eye out on his blog for details of the march edition if you plan to join the mob. Clothes mandatory, camera optional.

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Thanks to an email from ravages and sagaro, i find myself sitting in IIM B attending the FreeMap India workshop over the weekend. The focus is on the OpenStreetMap project and its related tools. OpenStreetMap is a mapping service like Google maps, with a twist, its a map that anyone can edit, just like wikipedia. Although i was already familiar with OSM, having dabbled with it very early on about two years back, what drew me to the event was the possibility of meeting people in the mapping domain and a reason to bunk my college cat which the fools have scheduled on a saturday.

Anyway, a 6 hour chilly train ride later im greeted by the bangalore dawn, inhaling the smoky smell of the city mixed with depressing weather and a runny nose. With a touch of good fortune i get a lift to the IIMB campus on a bike. The workshop had attracted a respectable crowd, mostly guys related to the mapping/gis industry in one way or the other. And funnily enough i wasnt the only nut to come from Chennai for this, i bumped into a 2nd year IITM guy and a final year bloke from coimbatore who was doing a project related to location based services.
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On which road am i standing?

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Where in Chennai? And a little bonus question, guess the occaision?

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well, its been a long wait for many of you guys.  and since im not able to bear the pokes any longer, here it is

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Where am i standing?

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