news paper subscription

We are subscribing to the Times of India for the second consecutive

year now and the paper is value for money, with the subscription amount

way below the printed price of the paper. For the fourth consecutive

now, a game is being played in the front page of the Times of India

newspaper.The name of the numbers game is called "Tambola".It is really

exciting to play it with very little of any particular attention from

the reader. over a period of a week the participant has to keep track

of the numbers published in the front page of Times of India, and

circle the number in the ticket that is attached each sunday. If at the

end of the week all the numbers published in the ticket is encircled,

then the reader can approach the times house in chennai to claim a

prize from the newspaper. Till now i have been unsuccesfull , one week

i even tried to increase my chances of getting a prize by buying nine

copies of the sunday issue, in which the tickets are attached, and  t

hat week i was unable to completely encircle numbers in all the nine of

the tickets.

news item.

A Recent news item surprised me, it was about the launching of the

india's first nuclear submarine "Arihant". A lot of secrecy seems to

have been maintained. This should have been a big project and a lot of

people might have been involved in it, and still only bits of info

seems to have leaked to the mainstream media. This in itself seems to

me , an achievement. Now India also has become one of the countries

that has the capability to manufacture nuclear submarine(this is a

small submarine in comparison to what is possessed by the big developed

nations).I'm Sure this kind of project might have been guessed by the

magazines devoted towards defence and security.But the general public

probably do not access to them, due to their high cost?.

Ambulance

Today as i was driving through the Guindy fly over i came across a

military ambulance vehicle, where the letters "AMBULANCE",were written

in the front side, in such a way as it would be seen if the letters

were seen through a mirror. Only after some time i realised that, it

was very thought ful idea, since any ambulance vehicle has to go fast

and there is a necessity to tell the vehicle that is travelling in

front, that the vehicle that is coming behind is an ambulance

vehicle.so if the driver driving in front sees through his rear view

mirror the letters would appear to him as 'AMBULANCE',THAT IS Printed

in the front side of the ambulance vehicle. A great idea indeed.
(Xanga and yahoo 360 and msn live)
Now that there is incidence of swine flu in chennai too, i always make

it a point to take a bath every day after coming to house from

office,because sometimes i need to travel in bus and train as part of

office work and i want to make sure that iam clean before i interact

with the family members in the house. this kind of precaution is

necessary i feel to make a safe living environment in the house.

recently i came to know that you could browse the net from the local

post office too. a stand alone touch screen cum key board based

computer has been installed in many post offices in chennai like the

St. Thomas mount head post office, airport postoffice, and many

important post offices.the cost of browsing is about Rupees.15/- for

half an hour ,if i remember correctly. it is really fast and the only

hitch is that the keys in the key board is made of steel and it is

really fused within the key board itself. it has been designed for

rough use and dust proof usage.it is a nice and handy way of sending a

fast and urgent message at a fraction of the cost , that would have

been incurred if the same message has been sent through a telegram. the

only necessity i feel is the ability to type to type in the QWERTY key

board.

about the japanese language.

now i'm learning the japanese language both the script and the spoken ,

and i'm learning for appearing for the level III of JLPT exam. it is

really tough when compared to the level IV EXAM. I FEEL I WOULD HAVE TO

PUT IN EXTRA EFFORT TO LEARN THE VOCABULARY AND THE SCRIPT OF KANJI.

from now on wards it appears to me that i have to put in more effort

and the actual classes is only for clarifying the doubts that i might

come across while learning the japanese language.