all clocks exhibit a strange behavior.
irrespective of brand or geography, the following seem to be true:
- when you hit snooze in the morning, they seem to cover 5 minutes in much less time, to wake you up again
- when you switch off the alarm, for that 2 minute extra sleep, they move super fast and move ahead by anything between 10 and 30 [lucky, if it is not 45 or more] minutes
i could not agree any more with whoever said that no two clocks agree - except, i guess the ones that have stopped. they show the right time at least once a day.
most of the time time is approximate. particularly the Indian way. When shall we meet - say 7, 7.30.
- i'll call you around 4.30
etc.
while in mumbai, if we miss the 7.23 local, we can take the 7.27 and still make it to the bus @ ghatkopar!
it is not just while waking up - while getting ready to go to work [particularly on days when i take the company bus] - the clocks move double or triple fast between 7 AM and 7.45 AM.
with the nearly weekly trips to delhi over the last few weeks, this has become a very important time.
while the actual departure times have been delayed, the web check-in would open precisely 24 hours before the scheduled time and this becomes a very significant
so, in all the morning rush, i need to make sure that i get through to the website precisely at 7.25 AM for the choice of my preferred seat.
strangely, these seem to be many others who also seem to be waiting for this time and have the same preference of a seat.
why else would i be seq #7, even if i miss the 7.25 AM slot by a minute or two?
lessening this disappointment or stress is the irctc site at 8 AM in the morning, to book a tatkal ticket.
blood pressure will automatically rise, as you see the available seats go down faster than the clock - with every successive attempt that you would be forced to, as the transactions would fail in various stages..
irrespective of brand or geography, the following seem to be true:
- when you hit snooze in the morning, they seem to cover 5 minutes in much less time, to wake you up again
- when you switch off the alarm, for that 2 minute extra sleep, they move super fast and move ahead by anything between 10 and 30 [lucky, if it is not 45 or more] minutes
i could not agree any more with whoever said that no two clocks agree - except, i guess the ones that have stopped. they show the right time at least once a day.
most of the time time is approximate. particularly the Indian way. When shall we meet - say 7, 7.30.
- i'll call you around 4.30
etc.
while in mumbai, if we miss the 7.23 local, we can take the 7.27 and still make it to the bus @ ghatkopar!
it is not just while waking up - while getting ready to go to work [particularly on days when i take the company bus] - the clocks move double or triple fast between 7 AM and 7.45 AM.
with the nearly weekly trips to delhi over the last few weeks, this has become a very important time.
while the actual departure times have been delayed, the web check-in would open precisely 24 hours before the scheduled time and this becomes a very significant
so, in all the morning rush, i need to make sure that i get through to the website precisely at 7.25 AM for the choice of my preferred seat.
strangely, these seem to be many others who also seem to be waiting for this time and have the same preference of a seat.
why else would i be seq #7, even if i miss the 7.25 AM slot by a minute or two?
lessening this disappointment or stress is the irctc site at 8 AM in the morning, to book a tatkal ticket.
blood pressure will automatically rise, as you see the available seats go down faster than the clock - with every successive attempt that you would be forced to, as the transactions would fail in various stages..
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I reopened my blog after a long time, and I followed the link to ours from it. I realised I missed it, since I end up reading the posts on fb now; and I like commenting here better than commenting there.
@jyotsna - it would be good if FB just links to the blog, so that the discussions are also threaded and shown.
similar to what you do with pictures and comments / likes on that.
at present, even one makes some edits to the original post, they are not picked up by FB.
but, one thing that notice is that commenting seems more natural to FB users than blog readers / followers.
in the recent few instances, i see comments in FB, rather than here.
a recent study has found that the gen Y is getting less and less patient - that a blog is too detailed - and the preference is twitter or shorter, conversational exchanges such as in FB.
this is also possibly impacting the reading habits as everything is expected to be fast, quick and small..
for instance, such a response would not fit in with the FB scheme of things.
but, then, to get some others to share their thoughts, i should make this discussion itself a post :-)
grrr....
had to delete this comment and report it - to make one typo correction - it was kinks instead of links.. ans the chrome spell checker did not catch it either. maybe they should deploy watson to do this - reading all posts, comments and also responding with its own comments.
that way, every blog could have at least one reader.
after all, per another study siem time ago, most blogs have just one reader,,
http://jyotsnasivaguru.blogspot.com/2007/02/shrinking.html
i had blogged briefly about it earlier. :)
Mumbai train timings bring a kind of nostalgic feeling within. My father used to travel for work from Vile Parle to Churchgate. He was very particular about the train he had to catch. Not particularly because of the journey, but because of the countless namesless friends he had made in the train !! :-)
These were during my pre-university days and fortunately (or unfortunately) I never had the need to travel by train. My college was in the same 'station' as that of my residence - Vile Parle.
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