WEARING HELMET SAVED ME:

Driving bikes fast is one of my very BAD habits. But fortunately I try to make sure that I know what the safe limits are depending on the road and traffic condition. But according to my friends, I am in the dangerous driving regime according to their standards. I always make sure I wear my helmet when I drive my bike. The actual reason for wearing helmet is actually it helps me to drive fast, much better visibility than fast winds hitting my face, and it also saves me from the dust.

Once on a rainy night I had to come back home from J.P.Nagar (Bangalore). There was a dinner get-together at my friend's house. It was late, raining (actually drizzling) and I really wanted to hurry back before it starts pouring heavily. Once I hit the main road I put my bike under full throttle. Its late night and the road were empty. So speed was not a criterion for me. The road was not properly illuminated (my headlight also didn't seemed too bright). I was cruising at full speed and suddenly I saw a gigantic speed breaker. I was at a speed at which I could not really respond. I could hardly remember what happened next, all I remember was I was off the bike skidding through the tar road and my bike following me. People gathered on the place and took me to a nearby hospital.

When I finally reached home, I was in a state of shock. But after I saw my helmet I really knew how lucky I was. The scratch marks in the helmet was too scary. I imagined those scares in my head, man I was lucky. If I wasn't wearing my helmet that night, I wouldn't have been alive talking to you in my blog today.

All said and done, little advice I want to give you friends (it's your personal decision if you want to take it :-)
- ALWAYS WEAR HELMET
- Don't drive fast on the roads you are not familiar with
- Overconfidence kills, know your limits
- Empty roads are more dangerous then with traffic, you get more careless

Company Transport

I take my company bus to go office in place of my bike. Its actually the best thing to do in the Bangalore traffic. Well I am not so good at waking up early, so I miss my bus quite a time. Then I have to beat the traffic with my bike.

When I take the bus in the morning, there are many other peoples taking their respective company busses. One thing I observe is to try to benchmark the company facilities (bus service), to see if my company gives me bus-servive that is good :-)

Honestly, its just make me pass my time waiting for the bus. I really can't differentiate between all the company bus services, all looks equally good (or I say bad, ha ha). But one thing that really surprised me was looking into one of the company bus (I won't name the company). The bus looks like as if they are involved in human trafficking. By the time it reaches our stop, it is packed with peoples until the door. Few peoples get in the bus from our stop even under such condition, and it feels as if the last guy is hanging from the bus. Man it's surprising.

It takes hell lot of time reaching office; I even get tired sitting in the bus. It gives me time to sleep or think over something I want to do in office. But I just wonder about the peoples (those being human trafficked), they go standing to office, THEN WORK. How can you expect someone to work after such an tiring journey?

ITS MY SINCERE REQUEST TO ALL THE COMPANIES OPERATING IN BANGALORE, EMPLOYEES ARE ALREADY SUFFERING IN THE TRAFFIC JAMS, DON'T MAKE THEIR LIFE MORE MISERABLE BY PROVIDING SUCH A WORSE TRANSPORT TILL OFFICE.