Thursday, September 15, 2005
TheRum Chronicles
TheRum, the overlord of a city which claims to be 'Mahanagara', comes up with unique and innovative ideas to solve the infrastructure problems that plague the city. Here are some of the pearls of wisdom uttered by him over the week:
Before anyone could bring up the topic of infrastructure(or the lack of it), he diverted the topic, taking off on a different tangent altogether by making this profound statement - IT sector should hire more locals. Profound indeed, politically. Don't know how its going to solve anybodys problem though.
When questioned about his governments supposed 'lack of infrastructure focus', he brushed the topic aside. Claimed that top IT heads have actually thanked him for starting work on the Devanahalli airport. uhmm..Wouldn't it be great if your client/customer calls you after each line of code you type in and thanks you for it. They bloody hell don't, 'cause you are expected to do it, that's your goddamn job. The gratitude would be heartfelt and more meaningful if the Devanahalli airport turns out to be even remotely like a Changi terminal.
Before anyone could bring up the topic of infrastructure(or the lack of it), he diverted the topic, taking off on a different tangent altogether by making this profound statement - IT sector should hire more locals. Profound indeed, politically. Don't know how its going to solve anybodys problem though.
When questioned about his governments supposed 'lack of infrastructure focus', he brushed the topic aside. Claimed that top IT heads have actually thanked him for starting work on the Devanahalli airport. uhmm..Wouldn't it be great if your client/customer calls you after each line of code you type in and thanks you for it. They bloody hell don't, 'cause you are expected to do it, that's your goddamn job. The gratitude would be heartfelt and more meaningful if the Devanahalli airport turns out to be even remotely like a Changi terminal.
Apparently he is finalizing a 'Rs 491 crore Hi Tech City'. Probably he is establishing a new city itself !!
Showering the BCC commissioner with praises he remarked - 'I wish he continues working like this day and night'. Duh? I think most of us would be relieved if BCC works in the first place, let alone working all day and night.
Ah, but the remark of the week came from the Governor. Remarking on the infrastructure of the city he stated 'I am worried'. But I guess I would be more worried if the Governor takes out a cavalcade to inspect the city's problems and ends up causing a mamoth traffic jam in the process.
# posted by Akshai @ 8:35 AM 
