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CHANGE

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It's been quite sometime since I've roamed Chennai properly, I got that chance this past week, now that my MBA course is over and I'm back, I was doing jus that...
Man!!! I noticed a lot of change and a lot of things that have thankfully remained the same

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Certain things that have changed

When I went to meet some of my college friends this scene was something I didn't expect to see... young kids skating happily on a skating ring at the marina beach with parents looking on and an instructor either encouraging them or admonishing them and to top it all a couple of girls coming in to practice their figure skating skills!!!
I was pleasantly surprised to see this scene, the skating ring at besant nagar beach is another issue, to me it was an aberration, it's not maintained properly and neither do i remember seeing it properly lighted or any instructors there or a good number of skaters, this had all three happening for it, it has become a favorite spot for my gang to meet up

Chennai's very own MTC launched the Yellow and blue line services
Blue line - Yellow Board @ deluxe rates
Yellow Line - Express @ deluxe rates

Two more new services were launched a few days later

Orange Line = L.S.S + Deluxe + Low Floor with automatic doors
White Line = Long distance + Deluxe + Low floor with automatic doors

Wat sets them apart is their rates and the seating and the quality of those seats - good, pretty good, however even with automatic doors "the MTC's answer to all the driver's who got sick and tired of driving at a 45 degree angle to the road" they are not a patch on the Volvo's of Bengaluru reason A/c , and they were pretty empty the one time I happened to travel in them - although I didn't quite figure was it due to the price Nungambakkam to T. Nagar @ Rs. 7/- or was it due to the time, around 22:00 on a weekend.

Next comes the traffic scene at the chinnamalai area, wat the hell happened to the CCTP, how did they get so smart suddenly, if feel these new changes are too good to be true I hope this test phase of 1 month is a success and they make this permanent, no traffic snarls, no long wait at signals - just a pretty smooth flow of traffic man was it a dream run or wat, I was absolutely blown over the way the traffic was flowing and jus couldn't find words to express my state of happiness - nee bliss, divine bliss!!!





Pelita Nasi Kandar
Located on the Pondy Bazaar right opposite to the Holy Angels School, claims to provide authentic Malaysian Cuisine, now I wasn't willing to take the risk especially considering that most of the dishes were Non vegetarian but a couple of friends and I went in and we tried it out, Maybe it's us or the food itself, we weren't really taken away with the place, nice ambience though. However the food is something we weren't quite sure how to judge it was neither here nor there so I'm just reserving my judgment on this particular joint.

Rest will follow later....