Congested roads and congested airwaves

Are we justified in allocating a big piece of spectrum to the police force? Today as I was riding to office I passed through 3 signals with cops manning all junctions and fully equipped with wireless handsets and the works. An ambulance gets stuck in the first junction and with some difficulty it manages to get through. I would have expected the police man to call ahead and keep the traffic moving. No sir, I was mistaken, the guy just stood there least bit bothered. The same repeated at the next 2 junctions and the ambulance was stuck at the signal multiple times! It's appalling to know that our taxes are going into buying such expensive equipment and precious spectrum wasted, for this? To make matters worse, key roads in the city center are in a terrible state for years! Agreed they can't keep up all the roads but the city center needs to be maintained! Roads here cant be left unusable! More than half the road is full of potholes! Repairing these would make traffic so much more smoother and reduce the need for one ways! When are we going to wake up and realise the world is going by and we are going to be left behind if continue to be lazy and carefree! Can people imagine how painful it would be for a injured person to be taken on these horrible roads! Disgusting!

flowering trees in Bangalore

It's that time of the year when Bangalore plays Holi and turns colorful, the greenery gives way for a riot of colorful flowers as a number of trees start blooming. Karthik has put up a list of the commonly seen flowering trees around http://www.wildwanderer.com/journal/flowering-trees/

So next time you take a stroll don't forget to look up at the trees! :-)

unidentified

Everytime I read the paper, I come across this "wish to be unidentified" sources. I can imagine only 2 things then, gossipy people who just can't keep confidential stuff to themselves or selfish people who are ready to sell some small tidbit to a newpaper for some money. Unfortunately I dont like either breed of people. Anyone has a different opinion?

The world gets clearer

and I can see the murkiness better...
Finally after months of procrastination I went and got myself a pair of spectacles. It is simply startling, the difference in clarity with the glasses on. Everything is crip and sharp and ohhh I am lost for words :-)
Every once a while I am so tempted to look out of the range of glasses, see the hazy picture in front of me and then look at the clear pic through these and smile at the change in perspective of the vision before me! :-)
Not to forget I am more in love with my intellectual looking self.