IT's Bangalore Shining!!!

Rs. 37,600 crore of software exports, International airport that can handle 11.5 million passengers, Metrorail that cuts across the city, Express way where you can rip at 120 kmph, Monorail that zips at 200 kmph, 2 pheripherial ring road, 5 town ships, residential layout with 20,000 sites, plans for 50,000 more residential sites, city roads laid at a cost of 1.2 crore per kilometer, 15 new flyovers..yes, its all happenning in namma Bengaluru, the IT capital of India. Finally we should be thankful to the current government for making it all happen inspite of its conservative leaders who were once the main obstacle for all this to happen...kudos to Kumarswamy!!

The much cry about Bangalore infrastructure problems looks to have come to an end. The new government is looking 10 yrs ahead in time...it made me proud to say that i am a bangalorean when i saw an article on rediff.com which said "Kerala should try to concentrate on development to get to the stage where Bangalore, Singapore, HongKong are today"...if you still dont believe my words then go out and see Raheja Arcade Road, Bannerghatta (Mico) Road, Kormangala Indoor stadium road...the quality and thickness of newly laid tar road says it all....and i bet after that you will surly say "IT's Bangalore Shining!!!" :-)

Its all about Money, Honey!!

Friday, 28th April 2006...it was the last working day of the month and my HDFC bank website was still showing Rs.200 in my account...i was clicking the refresh button every 5 min, but to no use...6:30pm and suddenly the five digit number appears on screen and my eyes light up... and there was a big smile on my face showing all the happiness in this world, i started to feel like the king of this whole world...started to dream about hiring a Merc, sit in a beach and sip a drink with chicks playing around with me with grapes in their hand...

...Beep Beep!! and there comes a SMS from ICICI bank saying "your credit card due date is 30th April, if you havnt made the payment please make it immediately"...all my dreams are shattered and i came back to the real world...i now have to pay my ICICI on 30th, HSBC on 2nd, SCB on 4th, car loan on 7th and remaining to my home...i immediately took a pen and paper and started to do the Math of only subtraction to realise that at the end of everything i will again be left with Rs.200 :-)...

Whatever may be our income, we are still not satisfied with what we get...with increasing salaries our expenses are increasing exponentially as well...plastic money are adding to it...they are forcing us to spend more without realising how much we are spending...it really takes the month end to realise it :-)...

Sush always used to tell me that "its all about Money, Honey!!"...i think its so true...we work for whole month only for that moment of month end where our salary account shows five digit number...finally i went back home thinking "another 31 days more to go for next salary day" :-)