Puzzle

A friend of mine sent me this puzzle . It was fun trying to find the answers and navigate to the next page. The craziest clue was "ojofuffo", which turned out to be a very simple one after I spent quite some time trying to crack it.

Anyway, I managed to solve it. If you solve all the clues and finally get to the 23rd page, you would see this message:

CONGRATULATIONS!

GREAT JOB!!

You have completely solved the FreeStuffHotDeals Hacker Puzzle! Be sure to to send a personal message to BinkelBop and tell him "Woody" to prove that you did it.

Weekend trip to Vijayawada

My ex-colleague Chakravarthi aka Chax got married in Vijayawada on Saturday (23rd). Jayashree and myself had planned to attend the function long back. But due to reasons unknown to both of us, we didn't buy tickets early. We wanted to leave Friday night but we got tickets only in "Jan Shatapdi" express on Saturday morning, which was ok because the reception was only in the evening.

Now, I did not expect "Jan Shatapdi" to be of the same standards as other Shatapdi express trains which are completely air-conditioned. To my surprise, "Jan Shatapdi" was just like other Shatapdi trains without A/C. It was clean, with good lighting, comfortable seats and a food tray at the rear of the seat. We did enjoy the journey.

I had a presumption that Andhra in general was unclean. I don't know why I had this feeling. But I stand corrected now. And how? As the train entered Andhra, we could see that all stations were clean and the platforms were covered with tiles. The tracks were also clean. Have you ever seen that at Chennai Central? I haven't. The city of Vijayawada was also clean in general albeit you can attribute part of it to the heavy rains.

Oh yeah, how did I forget this?. The Vijayawada railway station has an escalator (functioning). I was impressed.

The best part was that I saw people taking the pain to walk up to the bin to throw the paper cups, instead of just using the railway track as the perennial waste-bin as it happens in Chennai. If only people realise. Hmmm.

Rain rain all day :-)

It has been raining continuously for the past 4-5 days in Chennai. Cloudy, gloomy weather with slight drizzle with occasional pour-downs in between. Its a bit difficult to commute to work and back. I am not able to go out for the 15 minute walk that I do daily in the mornings. Hmmm... but do I mind? NOOO. Its the kind of weather that makes me feel lazy (like it happens in Bangalore). I want to sleep in a nice, warm, cozy bed with soft blanket all day with doses of hot coffee and crispy pakodas from time to time. To my limited memory, I have not seen this kind of weather in Chennai during mid-June.

On the downside, if there is water-logging all over the city for this rain, I wonder what the situation will be in October-November!? No, lets not jump into blaming the municipality workers, the CWSSB, Chennai Corporation, TN government et al. It is WE the citizens who are to be blamed. As long as we keep throwing plastic waste on the roads, in drainages, in the next empty plot in the street and all other places which fancy us, there cannot be any solution to this problem. This plastic waste blocks the drainage and there is no place for the water to go except the roads. We can keep blogging away to glory about all these. But unless we educate the masses about recycling, nothing is going to change.