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Two interesting Persons, I met

A middle-aged working Mother

Do not remember her name, Videhi or something like that. She was seated next to me while travelling to Kazipet, She is working as PO with PWD (Public Works Department) at Yadagirigutta. She is a very friendly women. She started talking to me by asking me on my where abouts. I was happy to hear from her that she knows the place where I am residing now, Pragathi Nagar, and was double happy to hear that she is sister in law of the visionary Mr.Dayakar Reddy, The man, who is behind formation of Village Pragathi Nagar, (First ISO Certified village in Andhara Pradesh and also well managed and organized gram panchayath in Hyderabad). She is very simple and talkative. We had a talk about few of the most discussed topics now a days, IT Meltdown and it's future and about the real estate Prices. She was little cautious about her daughter's future as they are just undergoing graduation, like any other mother. She expressed her desire to become an entrepreneur, also informed about the voluntary work that she is planning to do going forward.

The direction of education should be to learn the subject, so do not encourage anyone to study for marks, rather encourage them to study to learn the SUBJECT.

Another working professional

He is working with MRF Tires Company, Hyderabad. Middle-aged and a polite person. I met him while getting a MMTS ticket at Secuenderabad Stations, As there was a long queue to get the ticket and there was a little time for train to departure I had requested him (He was already in the queue) to get another ticket for me too to Hitec City. We both were looking to find out the platform to board the train, unluckily we missed the train as it departed from another platform and we were unaware of the platform change, also no announcement we heard. We talked about improper organization of the railway systems. He hails from Karnataka. Again here we talked about the real estate prices and about the US economy. He appreciated my contributions for pandurangapuram.org
So to conclude
1. US Economy's EFFECT on INDIA, how is Software Industry doing
(I make a point here to say that It's OK To see such bubble burst in IT industry, there has been a lot of hype about the incomes and the work that any IT employee do compared to any other sector. To be fair there should not be much difference. Because of the current difference the living of middle-income groups has become tough in many aspects.)
2. Children's Future
(If the direction of the education is to gain knowledge and if you have the courage to think ways for betterment in anything you can survive, and we all are working to make HUMAN life's simpler with the technology or whatever it may be, all the time.)
3. Charity Work
(World is filled with lot of good people, we all on one day or other day think about doing some charity, it's good, it makes us happy, and apart from being selfish for most of our lives we should spare some time to spread the happiness in the world)
4. The experience and Comparison
(We analyse the present by comparing with our experiences, we try to remember the past to judge the present, isn't it?)

Unplanned trip to Kazipet.
Got a call form my dad on Thursday asking me to do some voluntary work for the newly constructed purified water plant tank at pandurangapuram (My Native Place).
The work is to get the account books from Bala Vikasa (An NGO which is having lot of experience in maintaining and volunteering purified drinking water plants across the state),kazipet. Googled for trains to go to Kazipet, got the train number(640, a push-pull train from secuendrabad to Warangal) and distance. But I was not sure about frequency of the trips. As the distance is just 132KM, and as it is one of the major railway junction I thought I thought that I will get some or other train from Secuenderabad.

Here is how my trip went-on
At 9.50 I started from Hitec-City Railway Station, bought the ticket and went to the platform and the train arrived, I was Lucky for the first time, no waiting time.
10.22 got off the train at Sec. and stood in a queue of 10 people and got the ticket to Kazipet, I was Lucky for the second time, as soon as I came back to the platform the train is ready to travel, I jumped in but I was in a doubt whether I am talking the right train or not, checked with co-passengers, they confirmed that i am in the right train. It's almost 10.45 when the train started and a 3hr journey to Kazipet, Stood for some time as there was not space to seat, and finally adjusted to sit with couple of other passengers. Reached kazipet at 13.40, got off the station took couple of snaps of the railway station and got into a shared auto and went to Fathima Nagar, its just 1.5 to 2Km far from Station. As the meeting time was after 2om, Had lunch at a Hotel and went to Bala Vikasa Office, met with Mr. Prathapa Reddy and both went to a press to collect the account books, and luckily the press was just opposite to the railway station and it just took 20-30 mins. to get the books and I am ready to return back. Got in to the station and got the ticket and as soon as I enter in to the platform I a see the train just stopping on the next platforms, rushed to the other platform and ran for some time to get to the general bogie. It was 15.03 on my mobile, and was able to find some palce to sit, again a 3hr journey and reached Sec. RS at 18.02, and my co-passenger checked his MMTS train timing and informed that there is a train at 18.10 to Ligampally, but the queue to get the ticket was very huge, more than 60 people are waiting already by the time i reached there, managed to get the ticket by asking some person who was in the queue. But unluckily this time and the only time this day we missed the train, as it departed from other platform and we were waiting for the train at the same platform on which it is supposed to come. Next train is at 18.40 to Nampally, got in to that and got down at Necklace Road, and took another train which is coming from Nampally and got off at Hitec-City at 19.20.

More than 300km travel, in 9hrs and with an overall waiting time of less than 40mins, and 4 different trains. I am Lucky Today. And today is 20th Dec. 2008

I am back.

It's been a long long time, thought to re-start blogging many times since last couple of years, but did not, it's about my basic laziness and the lack of enough self-motivation. Hopefully I will resume posting some information from this time.