India: Karapakkam
Both the company and hotel are located along OMR at Karapakkam. Karapakkam is a small town in Chennai. A few IT MNC like Accenture, PayPal, eBay, Satyam and the like are situated in this small town. In addition to these companies, there's also a university, Sathyabama University. The driver described it as "very biggest" university in Chennai. So, I'm not sure whether it's very big or biggest. In fact, it's big.
The journey from hotel to office took about 15 minutes. We could have reached the office faster if the road condition was better. I bet you don't want to count how many loopholes are there in the video below.
View at Karapakkam
Besides, the traffic was extremely bad. They drove like there's no traffic rules and regulations. The driver just honked to go through. Everyone did that and it had become their driving habits. Did they pass their driving tests?
During the journey to work, I could take a view on the daily routines of the locals. It's truly an eye opener for me. I had seen guys peeing by the roadside. Cows ate paper trash or even poster on the wall. Perhaps, paper was more delicious than grass over there. Cows were freely roaming everywhere. There's no proper drainage system and water stayed stagnant after the rain. The bus was always full and overcrowded. Sometimes, the passengers in auto rickshaw had to share the seat with the driver. On top of these, some of the locals were walking bare foot. Geng!
These two girls were walking to school. Education would improve the standard of living in this village someday.
No doubt, one serious issue was absolutely pollution. Besides noise pollution produced by almost every single car, the town had gradually become a rubbish dump. People littered like the garbage would dissolve in the air by itself. Even in front of big company, I could see polystyrene floating on the stagnant water. Didn't they know this hazmat is harmful to the environment?
View at Karapakkam
This video shows the urban kampong wooden houses with palm-leaf roofs. No bricks yet. Most of the houses and shops were small in size and they were unreachable unless you wanted to walk in floods or paint your shoes with muds.
View at Karapakkam
High Tea World.
Pathetic.
P/s: Switchfoot!!! Jay Chou!!! Poor!!!
The journey from hotel to office took about 15 minutes. We could have reached the office faster if the road condition was better. I bet you don't want to count how many loopholes are there in the video below.
View at Karapakkam
Besides, the traffic was extremely bad. They drove like there's no traffic rules and regulations. The driver just honked to go through. Everyone did that and it had become their driving habits. Did they pass their driving tests?
During the journey to work, I could take a view on the daily routines of the locals. It's truly an eye opener for me. I had seen guys peeing by the roadside. Cows ate paper trash or even poster on the wall. Perhaps, paper was more delicious than grass over there. Cows were freely roaming everywhere. There's no proper drainage system and water stayed stagnant after the rain. The bus was always full and overcrowded. Sometimes, the passengers in auto rickshaw had to share the seat with the driver. On top of these, some of the locals were walking bare foot. Geng!
These two girls were walking to school. Education would improve the standard of living in this village someday.
No doubt, one serious issue was absolutely pollution. Besides noise pollution produced by almost every single car, the town had gradually become a rubbish dump. People littered like the garbage would dissolve in the air by itself. Even in front of big company, I could see polystyrene floating on the stagnant water. Didn't they know this hazmat is harmful to the environment?
View at Karapakkam
This video shows the urban kampong wooden houses with palm-leaf roofs. No bricks yet. Most of the houses and shops were small in size and they were unreachable unless you wanted to walk in floods or paint your shoes with muds.
View at Karapakkam
High Tea World.
Pathetic.
P/s: Switchfoot!!! Jay Chou!!! Poor!!!
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posted by YeeJen at 3:27:00 AM
2 Comments:
Are you living in Chennai now? I am looking for some information on medical tourism to Chennai.
caine: Hi. I'm not living in Chennai. I'm from Malaysia. Thanks for dropping by and good luck for your science discovery.
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