Time Pass

Time Pass
Originally uploaded by prathima.holla

My time pass will usually differ from one art variety to another. There was 1 whole week which I did not knew what art to pick.

hallola mom gave this idea and I completed in 4 days. It has come out good, compare to the last time I did. I should say i have learnt from my old artistic ideas.

Some places the thread for a particular color was empty :( , so just used my creative head and came wit this :)

Some places , I hav used woolen threads and some the normal cross-stich Anchor threads.

I got a rating of 6/10 from my bro. Anyways I enjoyed doing. It really took my bored spare time neatly

Prathi

ha!!... this traffic!!!!

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Pong pong, Ping ping, bang bang and the whole lot of sounds, what welcomes you to Bangalore.  Bangalore which is famous for Gardens, software’s is now theoretically has become famous for Traffics.  

When you step to nelamangala, after 7am till 9pm, there can be nothing like that, it’s a perfect example. Buses, Trucks, lorry are the highest of them, charging from one end to another, with a rush as to make the goods / passenger go rolling about.

  
 

 I never compliant that there is no traffic in all around the world, they do exist. Mumbai has something different look on it. Here in Bangalore if you find neat and clean traffic, Mumbai is the opposite, because in Bangalore there have been the lines of neat cars rushing to their home at evening hours where as in Mumbai, cars are a bit rare to find especially if you say neat once, I feel that won’t tag to the Mumbai style: P Any ways no comparisons, I like both of the places, because both has its own uniqueness to be liked and cherished, hence no biases.

Most of the Bangalore traffic is because of the cross over’s where there exist 4 roads and 3 have to wait when 1 runs. So your turn takes time and it’s really a tension when you need to reach your destination in a limited time.

 I can narrate my old stories exp. Involving traffic jams. My usual journey is an hour and half run from my office to majestic without the term “traffic”. Now this is what I thought and usually I used to give just 2 hour due time for it, But such days are hard to find, is what I realised on one rainy, festival day where I landed 1 hour late to majestic from my departure time. This had happened long back on 2008 and I still feel it’s so fresh in my mind. I had caught a bus at 6 and I reached at 9 30 at Mysore bank and bus halted there saying, “madam, you start walking or else you will miss your 9 45 bus”. Then I took an auto, where a “very kind auto rickshaw” ( in quotes because kind and auto are two contradicting words lol ), tried to reach me to my bus stand in 10 20pm. I had to jump  brass separation , and cross a muddy road and finally reached  my bus stand 10 30 pm to find out , not by miracle, that my 9 45 bus  is still standing and waiting to departure because of traffic  :P. That’s one thing I like about Bangalore traffic, if you are stuck, everyone are stuck, so no need to worry on that

But what about movie plans, Na it won’t wait for you, and m very bad at it. I can’t blame it on traffic, but it surely makes other people convincing. Even when you need to go to your relatives wedding and you had started at 11 30 am, it’s bound to make you reach at 2 30pm and make you just in time for the last round of suffer of the celebration :). Ha ha ha, any ways don’t blame me if you end up going late and find no food and no people in the hall because I always believe that I have a lucky factor with traffic. Somehow with great difficultly, I usually reach

And never waste money on seeing the Bangalore city through those travel agencies, Money gone and hardly will you get to see anything, try BMTC or Volvo passes. You just see the insight of Bangalore more core by sitting and experiencing.

Crossing roads in these traffics are also risky. I would like to confess in this blog, that I was a victim too. In K.gate, that’s where I stay; there is this “X” road situated. We need to cross 2 roads; each one way. When one road has vehicles from right the other has vehicles from left and I feel we need some hawk eye and patience stamina: P. I lack in the second one sometime, especially when m hurrying to office. M really attempting to be patience that’s the other issue, any ways once when I was crossing it was such that a cycle came from the opposite side on one way; I hit me and made him fall: P Meanwhile there were series of 2 wheeler who were attempting to move ahead as if they can  hurry up even when the signal is red. God’s grace on my head and m saved somehow.

Not to mention about those fights when there is some clashes and some bang between the vehicles or just a slit unnoticed touches which leads to thundering impact.

Traffic also has advantage to some; people can just give a lame reason of traffic jam for the reasons of not being there or coming late: P

And just like that movie, Traffic Jam, most people’s daily wages starts and ends with traffic. Corporation, Silk board, Sarjapur road, Hebbal Junction and many places, we can find many people selling stuffs like newspapers, car accessories, toys, flowers etc. I recently saw Rajasthan people selling Mickey Mouse balloon, felt sad because there crafts and hand made products are very rare to find and because of the upcoming generation next these are just vanishing. There are many kids; teenager’s working out for their livelihood from these traffics. Even I have seen hijras seen in traffic jams especially near corporation and silk board junctions spread around, which sometimes gives me Goosebumps. Any way it’s their living and I would have another blog to be written on if I go about.Also even Radio’s have high business because of traffics; especially during evening and morning. They even announce the places where it is jammed with traffic so people can avoid it. But it’s really a difficult task to avoid it. People travelling in bus, cabs usually have head set and I-pods plugged into their ears  

Cons and Proms are always a way 2 make a conversation better, and I have tried to record my view points on it. Acknowledging what is good and bad and make it aware is what a writer’s job is all about and to be frank Traffic jam always gives me to time to be in a day dreaming world

Sit in reverie and watch the changing colour of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow