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How to become an Author for Metroblogging

hyd_mallik — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:13:03 +0000

Looks like many people come and watch this site, go having no idea of how to become an author for their favourite city. This happens because, people have no clue where to look for to apply to become an author because our “contact” link is not displayed expanded neither highlighted specially, whatever may be the reason it is like that for now. So I though I could post this post. Hope it will help grab some guys in to writing for metblogs.

Thanks for your interest to write for Metblogs. There is a list of links (…Metroblogging cities, Mobile, Blogroll and Contact) on the right side of this page. Click on the contact->Come blog with us. You will be given an online application to become a blogger for metblogs, of course, any city you choose in the application. You have rest of the details there. Please go ahead, and rock.

Or Go here to metblog

Cheers.

Blog Statistics in Inda

hyd_mallik — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:01:30 +0000

I happened to see these Blog Statistics of Indian Cities accidentally, I thought, only hyderabad metroblogging was struggling to get authors and posts, but the fact that entire city is suffering a dearth of active bloggers disappoints me a bit. I personally love reading books, both english and telugu literature. Though I am software side guy, some people ascribe us with the term ‘Nerd’, I dont want to miss out the beauty of the languages, strength and poignancy of human expression. Unfortunately, I could never see a friend or coleague, who at least read some much talked about books or so. They just read academic books and all. I dont know what to say. But I can clearly say, youth in hyderabad are not much expressive about their ideas or ideals. Or they want to pen it down if and only if that is an excellent one ? Give me a break, stupidity is also a form of joy :) . Did you happen to watch that ad, “Fair and Handsome”, the lame ad, you would have felt crumbling in disgust. How could you have known that if they didnt show you? :)) Common guys, become bloggers, unite and some day we will become a useful community to serve, may be a greater cause, or at least to cheer up people that visit, and let them feel proud being Hyderabadis for having such nice bloggers to quote.

Leftist traffic in hyderabad

hyd_mallik — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:13:08 +0000

Its not a new thing to say it again. God knows when people in these Indian cities (particularly Hyderabad) know, actually follow and implement, the traffic rules and traffic sense. Everywhere, from gallies(streets) to main roads, they cant help themself forming parallel lines on. Its so disgusting. Did you notice, wherever, you have to take a left side road, at a junction, you will have to rely on the mercy of main line’s green signal, because, everybody move left-wards until they block that side of the traffic. So annoying. It includes, city buses, four wheelers and two wheelers. Nobody is good at keeping this thing right.
And finally, if one reaches the destination doing all that bad-driving, he/she has nothing so important that demands them to be like that on the road, at least I can say 90% of them have no so important things that might affect if they were a little late say, 30 minutes or so.
Nobody cares about this thing. Fortunately Hyderabad have wide roads if you compare with the rest of the cities, and we still muddle with the traffic problems, because of this attitude problem. I want to see a nice people queued up for the signal rather than messing it up on the road, and getting everybody including himself frustrated.

Cool drinks

hyd_mallik — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:42:00 +0000

Yesterday night when I was watching TV9, 9pm with Ravi Prakash, the topic of SMS was, “do we have to ban cool drinks in schools and colleges?” I kept watching the sms scroll line at the bottom of the screen. Amazingly, almost 95% of the people say “yes to ban, not only in schools, even in the state and in the country as well”. And, they say our health minister Rosaiah is trying to impose the ban in state.
But I believe, all these are emotional, argumentative Indians. And are general folks. And kind of people who simply go and vote. But, I believe banning is not correct. If you have to ban, you will have to ban everything, cigarettes, liquor, drugs and so many, including foreign investments in IT industries, coz it is monopolizing the entire life-style, and creating great economic divide in the whole country.
But, in this regard, government should create a market and let the market prevail for these drinks, market for comodities and services is where we get revenue. What government should do is, regulate these guys, conduct tests frequently in govt labs, and should see the drinks are what they really are to be. In case, govt finds illegal mixing of pesticides or whatever that put public health in risk, it should sue these companies heavily such that they should be afraid to do anything of this kind in future. It should stand as a lesson not only to these drinks companies, but to everybody connected to the public, providing goods and services.
If they (charge) collect 50/- for violating traffic rule, I can pay 50/- every day and keep on violating it. But if they punish me with 20000/- not only me, everybody who knows me will never do that wrong. I think, in US they do that, charging like $250 to $300, am I wrong? but whatever it should be like what said, I believe.
I know govt. has its own complications, but a good govt will never have complications in enforcing the law and exercising the righteous methods of rule.

Got you some pictures

hyd_mallik — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:57:14 +0000

Recently I happend to visit necklace road. As it rained heavily in the city, hussain sagar looks gorgeously dangerous. I took some pictures around this place. Though I have some intererior pictures of eat street, there are so many strangers, close up faces, I am scared anybody may come and complain that because of me they were caught by their parents :P. We anyway I have included some non-detailed picture which are more focused on showing the beauty around the lake. If you happend to find yourself in, please let me know for any editing :) Over all, I really enjoyed this evening. Lot of people, lot of greenery, and water.

This one is to cover the kids play ground beside eat street.

A lonely bird, bathing ?

You can see, eat street, birla temple, prasdaz…

I found some enthusiastic people, surfing in the lake, regatta time…

Rocks at far end of the lake, as the end comes closer, they may end one day.

Under the wood…

You can see the temple, as the Lord sees everything under.

Bulge of water.

Direction changed…

The lawn…

The green…

The road…

Eat streat from out side.

This is shameless tree or a lucky tree ?

Boating this time would be more fun coz there is more water, and most of it got freshed up in the rains.

Titanic…

Eat street looked from far across the spaces and distances…

Kids like it a lot…

Patterns…

A little big view…

My buddy, Devis.

They are chosen…

Journey to Kukatpally

hyd_mallik — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:45:01 +0000

That was the evening of the day when the three day long rain started. I gave my bike in the morning in a servicing center thinking I could collect it in the evening. I thought I could go by auto to the bike servicing center and wrrroooom out to my home. My plight started when I started tryng to stop autos. They come near to me, stop by my side, when I tell the destination they just says no and goes way. I stopped more than 25 autos if they can take me from panjagutta to erragadda but in vain. Helplessly I walked all the way to ameerpet, I couldnt get any auto there either. It was raining badly, though I like it to get wet in the rain, my problem was as I mentioned I had to get my bike out of that place for next day. I finally I resorted to try city bus. Hmmmm…. you know it. They are hell on the wheels. Or they are hells on the wheels. :P. I mean not to blame anything or anybody for I know how the things in hyderabad works. Finally at my rescue, there came a bus, the district service one, which goes to zaheerabad, Fortunately he stopped and called if anybody interested to get in. Yes I was. so I got in. It was 7.30pm. You want to know? I was in all this heck of the things since 6pm. I got a doubt, if those guys were there or not. So, being I am clever, clever or experiences of this kind ? whatever, I gave a call to the service guys, and they said they were closed and I would have to wait until next morning. But mean time, I took the ticket to erragadda which is 5/- now I have to go to Kukatpally, and ticket for that is 9/-. This bus also a little crowdy, and I would have to upgrade my ticket from 5/- to 9/-. What do you think? did I or I didnt ? ……. you right, I didnt. LIght teesukunna ( i took it light ). Though something is pointing right on me and telling “you stupid you are not this”. I just subdued it. And finally, I got down in KKP, with 5/- which I thought was 70/- to reach back home. :P. It was funny to me. I enjoyed the journey, though a little time was wasted. But I reached home in time, as “chakravakam chakravakam chakravakam… enduko naaku ee asalu….” hahahaha… I cant help, I have to watch this serial, coz every body else will kill if I try to switch to something else.

Hyderabad Help Line

hyd_mallik — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:23:53 +0000

Hyderabad HelpLIne

Who are terrorists?

hyd_mallik — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:42:00 +0000

Let us hunt them, kill them like insects, blow them to the bits. who are terrorists? who ever that terrorize the public ? what terrorizes common public. If you forget about certain metrics of about terror, not having a own vehicle terrorizes a low-earning common, not having a own house in the city terrorizes a little better common, how many of us marrying in time? how many of us are enjoying peaceful relations? car, bank balance, medical covers, kind of loans, relatives and friends, needy around, everything that breaks peace terrorizes the individual. who instilled this kind of fears into the people’s lives? if the definition of the real terrorists is applied in common daily life it happily fits in here too. then whom do we marginalize as terrorists ? governments are going and killing bunch of nomads, who never eat their food to satisfy their senses of taste and its delight. what is done to the people who killed innocents, in the name of elections, factions, curruption, money, greed, caste and creed, didnt they terrorize very means of amicable fraternity in the country. how many of us really feel comfortable with others, other castes, religions and social backgrounds, one always terrorises the other in one or the other form. we do we really do. we break the certainty and peace of others in one way or the other. Everything has its socia-economic angle, we only laud superior, we thrive to be superior, we feel consoled and confident of being superior, to make it prevail to prolong it we let all evil to prevail, thats meanest of means of human nature. Nobody is trying to eradicate this evil out of brains. Nobody is considerate about the fact that the imperfection is the part of the master plan. MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth (devil’s dictionary). Terrorists are every where in every form, within us. Curruptious politicians, contractors, real estate guys, people playing with economies, who ever doesnt think about the common good including governments are terrorists. Governments which cant control accumulation of wealth of nations at some corners of societies are always failed governments. Democracy being dictated by the market economies is never a democracy, it is a market dictatorship, a neo-dictatorship our generations to come are heading to.

Its road or you?

hyd_mallik — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:33:08 +0000

Where the roads lead thee?
Where thou lead the road to?

Greek classroom

hyd_mallik — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:18:37 +0000

Watch it carefully, you will figer out a guy deeply thinking, about the evolution of universe, humankind, internet and blogs ;) Thinking always, doesnt notice even if the clothes fall off place. Is that you ?

A wonderful painting, isnt it?