Jaago India Jaago - Wake Up!!!

Ques: How ridiculously inefficient our government is?
Answer: Farmers in UP who are dying of hunger, receive payments of ridiculous amounts such as 3Rs, 10Rs.

Even if officials had to do a scam and gobble up money sanctioned for the purpose, they should have thought about what are they doing, giving 3Rs, 10Rs, what were they thinking?

What we should do?
Stop giving salary to all bureaucracy in UP, Mulayam Singh and his cabinet. Then make them survive on 3Rs per year. Let us see how well they do?

I was recently reading an article on how citizens in west have so much faith in their governments. In India with such incidents happening everyday, how can we have similar faith in state bodies?

No wonder why, many corporate(s) get roads built on their own. People of a colony employ own security guards and get street lights installed at their own expense.

I write this many times and I write it again, for god sake, next time you go voting only vote for a person who is educated and has performed in the past. Use your brains India!!!
Only once in every 5 years use it for your own use. Do not give it for rent to get outsourced work.
Sheesh!!!

Maruti Alto

I think its time I should review some cars. I am going to start with Maruti Alto Vxi.

This is a good value for money car, well atleast it seems so when you are buying it and saving few bucks in comparison to Wagon R or Indica or Santro. The car is good for city driving, AC is effective but you keep banging your head, elbows etc etc because of lack of space. Especially if your are used to more spacious cars.

This car is for a young professional, and is a good first car. It is fuel efficient and low on maintenance.

Another, problem is 800CC engine. With AC on, on highways you can feel the lack of power. You may come across this even on steep slopes in city driving conditions. At speeds of 100Kmph it starts to start making funny noises.

Well from my experience a CBZ breezed by us on the highway, while we were struggling to keep speeds of 120Kmph. Even braking gives up on high speeds. On the turns especially, you feel the car is skidding. It lacks the necessary grip or weight to be a stable car.

However, even with all these drawbacks - power steering is really great. You can drive and take sharpest of the turn without any efforts (Good for parking in really small spaces). Then it makes up as a good first car, and is good for driving in city conditions where parking is scarce and traffic jams are frequent. This is your everyday use, common man car, so you should not have loads of expectations from this car. This car is placed in between Maruti 800 and the segment which starts from Wagon R onwards. Maruti 800 comes with 4 gears, while Alto is with 5 gears and more effective Air Conditioning.

If you have a budget of Maruti 800 and can stretch a little bit more, but cannot stretch till Santro, Wagon R or Indica. This is a good option. But then if you plan to travel a lot on highway and a speed freak like me, avoid Alto. Because it makes noise as if it is crying, when you push it over 100Kmph.

I will give this car
7/10 overall.
7/10 on value for money
4/10 on looks
8/10 on fuel efficiency

Life

When bad things happen in life, one feels bad. One is left with bitter feelings for the one who caused it. But, now I have started to like all those people who did bad to me. When something goes wrong or bad it leaves you more wiser and you get to learn a lot from it. Which, helps you improve your future.

But this is subjective - some people get bogged down from the bad things happening in life and some people try to gain as much as possible from it.

It is the way you look at things that changes everything. Who said medicine tastes good (except for homeopatheic medicines ;-) ).

When the going is tough, one might feel that he/she is a loser etc. It is easy to give it all up and just sit idle in those moments. But that is the time when you can sit down and prepare yourself for the battles to be WON ahead. Destiny is what you make of yourself, it is not what you let others make out of you. Maybe sometimes things are not in your control - but basically you should always have loads of patience, tolerance and above all you should always be pro active. Yes this all sounds easy, but very difficult to act upon.

This is life!!! - In my short simple way