CHENNAI, PADI FIELDS and GEORGE

George, looking dopey like he always does




Here is my all time favourite picture from the Madras trip. I like to call him, George. George is, the world's dopiest looking dinosaur. There is no other dinosaur in the world that looks as dopey as George, which I find so completely endearing. Also, he just stands there all day. I wonder how many pictures is George in, all over the world. He must be so sick of all the over exposure.
























How George fits into the BCG Matrix


























Chennai Museum - Tertutup Untuk Renovasi



This was one of the many buildings of the Chennai Museum. I don't really know how we ended up at a museum. I suppose this is what happens when you give a bunch of engineers free time. They naturally gravitate towards the most boring of places.

Actually, I really liked the museum. It's nothing like our Muzium Negara (which incidentally smells of pee) but rather a series of buildings. Some of which are really so incredibly old and beautiful, and some of which were obviously built in the 60s, an era during which all architects ran away to live in hippy villages so all the engineers took over and designed buildings which is why 60s architecture is a blight on the entire human civilization.

Anyway I digress.

Most of the buildings were closed for renovation. Which prompted me colleagues to start calculating the exact amount of refund we should request for based on the proportion of buildings that were closed.

o_O

We decided the number was about 40% but none of us wanted to get shouted at by fierce security guards so we just left it at that. Engineers are all pansies.





















One of my favourite exhibits - An exercise in complete randomness

The toilet bowl was definitely one of my favourite exhibits. It was an exercise in complete randomness in that it did not fit in with any of the other exhibits, had no explanatory signage (other than a PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH), and was located right smack in the middle of the hall. I LOVED IT!


I wasn't really expecting anything going into Andhra Pradesh's countryside. I guess in a small way, I was expecting a National Geographic in-person special on the poverty and strife of starving farming villages.

Perhaps they are.

But it was just so beautiful seeing the smiling ladies in their saris.







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