Month: May 2011
Koodalmanikyam Manikyan – My Creatives – Malayala Manorama Dt. 26.04.2010
My Creatives – Koodalmanikyam Manikyan – Malayala Manorama Dt. 26.04.2010
Turn it off
Turn it off
If everyone in the UAE turned off just one light for one hour a day, we’d stop 700 tonnes of CO2 from going into the atmosphere every year. That’s the same as taking 400 cars off the road.
A public awareness campaign conducted by Environment Agency Abu Dhabi – display at Abu Dhabi Mall.
Moments of life – Short Take – Gulf Today – Dt. 07.05.2011
Moments of life – Short Take – Gulf Today – Dt. 07.05.2011
It is very interesting to interact with different people as we get to observe and learn many new things from them.
The journey towards my office consists of a long time in a lift and it is a good opportunity to say “hello” and exchange short words between regular faces from different floors.
The other day, I was in a lift with a colleague of mine, who had returned from holiday.
A good athlete, he took a short course in Para Jumping. The coaching and trial went well and the day came for real time performance to jump from an aircraft towards a picturesque valley.
The instructor explained to him all the basics to be followed and also rechecked the equipment and he was signaled to jump. He was telling me the moment after was one of the most memorable ones ever in his life so far.
The beauty of the valley was unimaginable as he looked and enjoyed while he lowered. However, suddenly he realised, his equipment was not opening up and then the joy turned out to be a panic situation. For moments, he said, he recapped his whole life, all the while trying to correct the equipment, and felt absolute helplessness towards the wind, the nature and the situation he was in. He thought, it was going to be the end.
Somehow, at the right time, before any danger could happen, the equipment opened and he managed to do a heavy landing, with minor bruises.
All the while he was narrating this, there was another passenger in the lift, who was blaring a music through his ipod and completely out of this world. People around were looking at him as the noise level was unbearable in that small and packed area. All kept quiet and left him on his own as he destroyed his own ear drum with that blistering volume.
Yes, life is full of controllable and uncontrollable situations and it is all how we act and react to it.
Ramesh Menon
To read it in original, please visit GULF TODAY online.
Suggestion for Abu Dhabi buses – My Letters – THE NATIONAL Dt 06.05.2011
Suggestion for Abu Dhabi buses – THE NATIONAL Dt 06.05.2011
The Abu Dhabi bus system is becoming more popular among commuters each day and each route that is added. This can be seen and experienced by the heavy rush for buses during morning and evening hours. Commuters find the buses extremely useful and economical.
However, in the city buses, when there is a large crowd, the front to middle half is full of lady passengers. Thus, it makes entry for male passengers inconvenient as they have to get inside through the main door, drop the coin in the box next to the driver and then get down and get inside through the door at the middle.
Could the Abu Dhabi bus authorities come out with a convenient system for passengers to drop their coins at a suitable place near the middle door?
It would make the Abu Dhabi buses more passenger friendly.
Ramesh Menon, Abu Dhabi
To read it in original, please visit THE NATIONAL online.
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