After continuous rains over the past three weeks, the sun was back this morning. One had almost forgotten that such a situation - of a bright sunny day - also exists. As I'd said earlier, the city's roads are thankfully holding at most places but fast deterioration resulting in crater-like potholes can be expected in the not-too-distant future. Such is the quality of the road surfaces that our country boasts of - even a kid going to the kindergarten knows that the business of resurfacing roads is a process where the politician-bureaucrat-contractor nexus embarks on making a fast buck, year after year! The guys are so thick skinned that they bandy their efforts as having provided us with roads of international standards!!
Another industry that's gonna rake in some quick 'moolah' is the tyre fixing/retreading agencies. Increasing number of tyre punctures would become the order of the day when vehicles traverse massive potholes at miserably regular intervals making driving an impossible nightmare. Thanks to the technology driven tubeless tyres on which most of the present day vehicles run, the agony has been reduced considerably but the problem still looms large!
Today has been a quieter Saturday compared to the last few that were really hectic but interesting, nevertheless. We'd friends calling on in the evening to exchange notes and to bring ourselves up with each other!
Tailpiece.
Saw the 'Godfather Part III' of Francis Ford Coppola's 'The Godfather Trilogy' on the AXN channel for the nth time. Al Pacino, as Michael Corleone, is a treat to watch especially in the scene where he holds on to his dead daughter's body and howls depicting his extreme sorrow and helplessness coupled with an impotent rage for not having been able to stave off the disaster!
And the final shot of his when death embraces him through a massive heart attack, he pitches head first on to the ground from his chair to be reduced to a crumpled heap, depicts the inevitability of life - and the only enduring truth!! And the camera pans away till it's a distant shot making the scene go straight, deep within, to tug at the heart strings for a person who'd always lived violently!!!
Another industry that's gonna rake in some quick 'moolah' is the tyre fixing/retreading agencies. Increasing number of tyre punctures would become the order of the day when vehicles traverse massive potholes at miserably regular intervals making driving an impossible nightmare. Thanks to the technology driven tubeless tyres on which most of the present day vehicles run, the agony has been reduced considerably but the problem still looms large!
Today has been a quieter Saturday compared to the last few that were really hectic but interesting, nevertheless. We'd friends calling on in the evening to exchange notes and to bring ourselves up with each other!
Tailpiece.
Saw the 'Godfather Part III' of Francis Ford Coppola's 'The Godfather Trilogy' on the AXN channel for the nth time. Al Pacino, as Michael Corleone, is a treat to watch especially in the scene where he holds on to his dead daughter's body and howls depicting his extreme sorrow and helplessness coupled with an impotent rage for not having been able to stave off the disaster!
And the final shot of his when death embraces him through a massive heart attack, he pitches head first on to the ground from his chair to be reduced to a crumpled heap, depicts the inevitability of life - and the only enduring truth!! And the camera pans away till it's a distant shot making the scene go straight, deep within, to tug at the heart strings for a person who'd always lived violently!!!
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