Sathya's Views..

  I was recalling with fondness our memorable Italian vacation last year and I think our anniversary day at Vienna was one of the best we had on the trip. It was such a serene, relaxed time that just looking at the photos provides a soothing effect. The Tuscan country is indeed a glorious sight !! I was just touching up this photo on Picasa today. I usually use iPhoto or Lightroom for all my photo editing but Picasa is easily one of the better softwares on Windoze. The photo looks pretty nice I think.. eh?

We are now closing in on an year of moving to Bangalore and I have reached the conclusion that this is no longer a city for an average IT person like me. What meaning does life have when you find you dont have time to do the things you love to do, you find that even the time with your loved ones is running short - and its not the work thats the problem. I would be happy if it were so. It is the horrible traffic jams which drain you of energy and any remaining freshness at the end of a long day at work. I start from office at around 6.30 and the 6-odd kms to my home at Pai Layout takes a little more than an hour every day. Driving a car during the time is as stressful as it can get. The bottleneck at the Benniganahalli flyover has remained for over three years now and not an iota of work appears to have done to alleviate this problem. There are two solutions I can think of: a) widening the road - this is too much to expect. So lets not talk about this. b) have traffic signals and contro...