Chennai Centric-01-Adyar Depot Traffic Signal ?!?

Have been wanting to post this for a while now, but at first I did not have a camera phone and then I did not go out for a while.

I am sure a lot many of you who live in an around Adyar, Thiruvanmiyur and Besant Nagar would have noticed this by now.

(photo shot on my phone cam.)

On the way to Thiruvanmiyur from Adyar, the traffic signal that is supposed to point straight, points left instead. So if you want to go to Thiruvanmiyur, you will have to go to Besant Nagar and then come round about. This is how wonderful India is. I was there the first day this was repaired (it used to be alright earlier) and we motorists were still waiting for the forward signal to switch ON. To our agony, it never did. Then a traffic policeman comes and asks us to go explaining how someone screwed it up when repairing it. Ah, how beautiful.

When will these incompetent idiots learn ?

Dhanvanthri Temple Coimbatore-Wikimapia

Someone named new, wanted to know where Dhanvanthri temple was in Coimbatore in the comments section of another post. As a former resident of Coimbatore and top contributors in Wikimapia ;) (though, sadly the descriptions don’t show my name. ) , I thought I’d post a picture from Wikimapia to make things easy for this person. (Who BTW could have used his/her real name.)

Here’s the pic:

(click on the thumbnail to see larger pic. Pic Courtesy Wikimapia)

I have marked out a few landmarks to make the process of locating the temple easy. However, you will have to ask locals for directions once you are close enough. (I am not going to say third left and then second right and all that.)

Ewww-Stinky Odour

This is hard to explain. There has been this absolutely acrid, pungent, and what not smell around my flats for the past two days. First I had to go to college and endure taachar (torture ) and then when I came back home I almost threw up. This is not the first time this is happening. This smell comes on and off from somewhere around my house. What’s weird is I could smell it only near my hall and no smell at all around the other parts of the house.

Man even with a trained sense of smell (which I do not possess. Not that it matters. I have a cold anyway :)), it’s hard to say where exactly the smell is emanating from and what on earth is causing the smell.

Narrowing down to the sources:

I tried to guess what could be the cause of the smell, but nothing adds up.

• Tyre burning:They have these all sorts of weird things near my house. Even some kind of LPG agency. I thought it was the smell of tyre burning, but it smells more like rot then burning.
• A dead rat perhaps:My flats has it’s share of stray cats. So there are chances there is a dead rat somewhere in the premises. But don’t cats eat rats right away ? And what’s with the localised smell ?
• Some drain blockage:Both the kitchen and the washbasin drains did not smell of anything. Plus we washed them with drainex anyway. Still, there was no smell from them anyway. So that’s ruled out too.
• Some dead animal inside the house: This seems improbable too. I didn’t find any. Plus the smell was not really emanating from any local spot in the house. It just seems to be there. Maybe microorganisms at wortk. (Maybe someone left trash somewhere in the compound somewhere.) 

With that I ran out of options. A friend of mine thought it wasust a Skunk inside my house. Maybe. Who really knows ? But the real question is, how the hell does when ascertain what it really is ? Trial and error ?