Gaddi Chaldi hai Chhalaanga Mardi hai!!!

This Govinda one liner definitely suits my car when I'm driving on the Pune roads...The amount of potholes and the condition of the roads test my poor WagonR to its hilt!!! I have to be so careful when I'm driving because I never know where the next pothole is gonna come at me...And most of the time it's usually out of the blue...I'll be cruising along at a comfortable speed of 50 kmph on a good road and suddenly BANG!!! my car goes through a great pothole which appeared out of nowhere! I'm left cursing the road building authorities and at the same time saying sorry to my beloved car!!! She's a good girl, doesn't hold it against me anytime...Thank God for that!!! :-)
Pune roads are one thing...I guess roads everywhere in India are unpredictable and virtual death traps (looking as in the potholes are more like ditches!!!)...But the way people drive in Pune cannot be beaten by people anywhere in India I'm sure! It's pure madness on the roads here...I'll cite some examples...
You're driving happily on Aundh road just after the University circle...It's one of the best roads in Pune, six lane, well maintained and one of the few roads on which you can actually reach the top gear...But before you can even think of doing that, there will be some idiot driving in the right most lane (which is incidentally reserved for faster vehicles) at the speed of a bullock cart!!! No amount of honking or blinking your headlights can make s/he move to the left to give you space to overtake from the right which is the law...So, in frustration you have to break the law and overtake that vehicle from the left after making sure that no one else is doing the same thing with you!!!
Another thing that is popular with anyone who uses the road is that no one will stop to let another vehicle through...So what if they are blocking the entire traffic?! No one will go past them...They have to be the first ones everywhere...This holds true at unregulated U turns too...I once came across this incident where a Swift was trying to execute a U turn just off Parihar Chowk in Aundh...There were vehicles parked on the opposite side and this car couldn't take the turn in one go...So naturally he had to reverse back once so that he could turn successfully...But he should be given some space to do that right?! No way!!! Not if you're in Pune! Cars, bikes, bicycles crowded in behind and beside him so that he had no space left to move his car anywhere!!! And this stupidity resulted in a huge traffic jam that must have lasted for quite some time...I didn't stick around to find out...
I can give a whole lot of more situations where motorists have acted so stupidly that there's just no logic to it!!! But I'll stop here now..I have to go and tackle the Pune traffic again...I'll update my blog again if I manage to survive it all!!! So till that time Ciao!

Of Training Woes & Spooky Colleagues!!!

I actually wrote this post while I was sitting in a training session...so you can imagine how bored I was!!! Trainings are such a pain in the you-know-what...I just don't understand why I have to attend these sessions when I really don't grasp whatever is going on...Being in the IT industry, I guess it's imperative to learn new technologies...But for me, I need to work on something new before I even start understanding it!!! Demos are fine and fun, but when a person goes on and on, my eyes tend to glaze over and I block out everything that the instructor is saying...I'm physically present in class but I'm busy daydreaming about one thing or another!!! Hmmmm...More on the daydreams later...Maybe in another post :-)
To top it all, there was a very weird and spooky guy who was also attending this training (when I was busy writing all this stuff!!!)...Now this chap was downright creepy and those pakau types...It's quite tough for me to describe him as such...He, first of all thought no end of himself...Just because we needed information about the systems he was familiar with, he thought he was God or something!!! Plus he wanted to know everything that was going on in the training room...Now I know that is not such a bad thing, but when a person starts trying to listen in on a private conversation I'm having with a friend or another colleague, it does tend to get on your nerves quite a bit...Take for instance, an incident that happened during a break in the training...I was showing some themes on my phone to my colleague and friend, Shravan...And Mr Spooky Guy, who is sitting and conversing with someone else at the other end of the room, comes and sits next to us and asks, "Nivedita, what are you showing Shravan on your phone?" I'll bloody well show him anything I want on my phone, what's your problem?! I, of course couldn't say that to him on his face since we needed information from him, so I diverted the question somehow...I've never come across someone like him...But I guess I will in the future considering I'm working in such an industry!!!
Anyway, that's all from my side for the time being...Will try and be more regular from now on...Hope you enjoy reading my experience...Although I didn't enjoy going through it at all!!!
Till the next time..Ciao guys!!!