பல்லவனில் ஒரு நாள்...[a day in pallavan]

1980 s..

I just love to travel in pallavan bus...ஏதோ ஒரு இணை பிரியாத..ஒரு பந்தம்...My bro and I used to travel to Saidapet from AU campus daily evening for our tuition when we were young around 10 yrs old....the bus number 18B...oh man!! how can i forget those wonderful travels...we had lotta things to share with us...and gotta end in small fights..most times I leave it to him....

then the other most traveled bus is 23 C...u know the best route ...coz it starts from besant nagar and covers all the important theatres..before it reaches aynavaram...

albert, shanti, anand, devi, alankar, safire, satyam,abirami,Casino...so u can c lotta of clg bunkers in the bus..

thers been a long relation with the pallavan from my young age….may be I missed those wonderful travel during my post grad days… [may be I was a bit studious those days...and had the wonderful sorimuthu as my companion..look for him in future...]

March 14 Friday 2008…( happened Real)

My bike did not start the earlier night[ it was a rainy day that night ]...n the next day.. I had to catch up a 21 H from SRP tools to reach my office in Karapakkam, Chennai.

This route has mixed bag of passengers..small children old people ..laborers from ground zero...to the top floor..on the new OMR road... all have equality among diversity ...all cheap labors who work for the weekly wages...(40 hrs for an IT engineers..and more than 60 hrs for others..) awaiting on the increase of dollar rate ..pity for them in future...many more OMRs in Zambia or Kenya or any other third world country are gonna come...as the business cost becomes more in India…

The bus has crossed perungudi…and I was gazing @ the toll plaza that was under construction ..

People start staring @ those..young men who have lost their identities...with their ID tags of those companies which have grown towards sky roof as our inflation rates. I got a seat near behind the driver....I was SMS ing my friend…that I would be reaching office by 3, during the course overheard a conversation between two gentle men who were clad in lungi and a shirt..i cud notice from the stains on their shirt that they were painters...

Their conversation was so interesting that I started listening to them…

They were talking about the bad times they had with their previous companies …the talk switched over to their Kids education…

One of them said ..

' எங்கபா...நமக்குதான் படிப்பு வரல...

என் ரெண்டு புல்லைங்களும் நல்லா படிக்குது...

நாமதான் ஒயுங்கா படிக்கலை...
அதுங்கலாச்சும் ..கைல paint brush புடிக்காம பேனாவ புடிக்கட்டுமே...இன்னா சொல்ற… '

[it was our fate that we are forced to come to this profession...lets c our kids are educated well...and are holding pens instead of paint brushes..in future....]

I was happy though for those kids ….and for the hopes of the dad.....

January 8th Sunday 2023(happening..)

I had a bad accident last night, January 7^th with my brand new Honda ZRV[ I had to abandon my Honda CRV which was 10 yrs old to its grave yard where all the vehicles which were older than 10 yrs were dismantled and Government would give a depreciation amount for the car..]......

That day was a Saturday …it was a special day though … with some memories going back to 15 years lingering my mind….reason for the accident...not a drunk n drive…( well it’s been 15 yrs on the same day…I had the last social sip of spirit..)..instead it was the truck driver who hit me back ...was in high spirits*..

Next day I was in the dealer outlet….[U hardly c a service centre on a Sunday…]for service and spares...and there was service engineer... who accompanied me to evaluate the damage done to the SUV...with the whole rear door crushed against the main body with no remains of the proper shape and color…of the car…

he introduced me two engineers and said they were the high def color officials for their center....

my mind was fully occupied with calculations .... what the repair estimates would sum up to and so worried about color matching of the door with the color of the main body …mean while I noticed those two gentlemen I met, having a device in their hands and I was curious to know what it was ..I went up to one of them...and asked him what it was... He said it was a virtual paint brush and he started explaining about them…

‘ u jus park ur car on the bridge and the sensors on the wall evaluate the damage area and jus take a snap shot of the whole car, does the color mapping . Once that is done our job is just to use this virtual brush to paint the car seeing the big screen in front of us and the rest is done by the painting unit'.

@ the backdrop the other guy srood before the big screen showing the 3D visual of a car and he started painting a small glitch on the front bumper…with his magic wand.. i cud see the color change in the area where the paint has has been wiped off...on the car..

i was surprised by this scene and asked him, 'Did u design this software?', the answer was 'yes it was us '.

I smiled @ those two men and said..'Its great..n what made u to design such a SW …' he replied with a smile of his own style…a sign of achievement…

'It was my dad who inspired ...who used to sit under sun for hours using his spray.. to paint those cars which are out of the tinkering assembly...n we thought in future we should make his job easier .It all started with the final year project during my under grad Mech. Engg.. @ CEG where I demonstrated with a small prototype , n my bro who is 2 yrs younger than me , he did his part with his image processing as his final year project in ECE…thats a small inspirational story ....now we are into the same job of our dad.....but in a way hi tech ... much easier without dirtying our hands..or shirts...’

I was not sad for their dad for he believed their kids never had the paint brushes in their hand, instead I felt happy.. they stood proud holding the brush….

The title paint brush wud been a better title for this post…but still I had a special love for pallavan and all the dreams start @ little travels..and small talks… thought this wud suit.....wat say...;-)...