Archive for August 2013
What Happens When You Board A Shatabdi Without Knowing?
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BOARD A SHATABDI WITHOUT KNOWING?
Actually this incident happened back in summer of 2012 while i was coming back from bangalore to chennai . I was about to board the 12028 , chennai bound bangalore shatabdi express at bangalore city railway station while an old man approached me asking that where he could find the general compartment in this train . i told him that this is a shatabdi and had no general compartments . The old man went back and started to stare at the big blue (Maybe he wanted to know why this train didn't have any general compartments) .
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| Lalaguda WAP7 30271 With Bangalore Shatabdi Express At Chennai Central |
Meanwhile hampi Express crossed us with WDP4B Twins from ubl/kjm sheds . i was busy capturing it while the drama had already got over with the ticket collector asking the old man to leave the train Immediately after the train stops at bangalore Cnt railway station . The old man was in a very bad situation , he had no idea on what to do after getting down at the next station .
I went beside him and told him to wait at the same platform and to Board the "LALBAGH EXPRESS" (asked him to check twice before boarding the train) . The old man looked at me and asked what specialty is there in this train? . i replied that this train is called as the shatabdi and only people who booked in advance are allowed to travel moreover i said him not to board any shatabdi henceforth because of the fact that it doesn't have any general compartments ! .
NOTE : THE FULL CONVERSATION WAS IN TAMIL
As the conversation was going on the train pulled into the PF Of bangalore cnt railway station . The old man got down without any regrets !Knowing that he would reach chennai safely in the next train .
I want to thank that humble Ticket collector who understood the presence of mind of that old man and allowed him to leave the train without paying any fine! . i guess we need such good ticket collectors in our trains so that the innocents and old don't get robbed each time they do something like this without knowing .
I hope you guys know whats meant by ROBBERY :D Hahah.. :D anyways Thanks for reading this with such patience B)
The Epic Bangalore DD Trip With My Friends
THE BANGALORE DOUBLE DECKER TRIP (MAY 20th 2013)
(Note : SORRY FOR MY POOR ENGLISH :P )
Reaching Chennai Central And Meeting My Friends
*Beep* *Beep* Thats How It Started.. ! My Phone Was Ringing in Full Volume With Half Sleep i Said a Hello , It Was Sivakumar on The Other.. He Said That Its 4am And Told me to refresh And Get Ready . Eyes Were Burning As i Slept Only At 2 , Seeing Chennai Super Kings VS Royal Ch Bangalore... 8 Over Game.. . Somehow i Managed To Getup And Went Near My Washroom.. within seconds I Spashed Water all over My face , Felt Like As if i Was Hit by a Speeding Shatabdi or Rajdhani . Refreshed Myself and Was Ready To Leave Home And Then Said Good Bye To My Mom And Dad .. , Dad Told That he would Drop me At Mogapair East Bus Terminus... i Gave a Silent "Yes Please" Knowing That Am Not in a Mood To Walk All The Way Till That bus Terminus .Boarded 7m Bound For Broadway And Got Down At Chennai Central , Checked My Mobile , it was Showing 5:45am Walked Slowly Into The Central Main Building And Was Greeted by A Pakka Reddy Garu , Lalaguda WAP7 #30240 Which Brought The Chennai Mail From Bangalore City . Dialed To Sigo To Know Where He Was , He told That He Would Be There Before 6:30am . I Walked Till PF#1 To Check The Loco Link Of The Mumbai Chennai Mail . It Was 22053 A WAP1 From The Royapuram Electric Loco Shed. Then I Walked Along The Chennai Rajdhani And The Mysore Shatabdi To Check Their Links , Who Were Busy Loading Passengers In 2 And 2A Respectively . The Madras Rajdhani Had #30326 While The Mysore Bound Shatabdi Had #22002 . Heard My Phone Vibrating in My Pocket , It Was Sigo He Said That He Was Waiting Near Ratna Cafe And Told Me to Come There , in Reply i Told That i Would Meet Him Immediately After Checking The Link Of Kovai Express .
Crossed The Tracks And Reached PF#10 And Finally Saw The Speedstar Waiting For Starter it Was an Erode Beauty #22669 Which Was coupled To Kovai Waiting For the Loco Pilot's Signal To Start! . Sigo Called me Again And Told Me To Come to PF #3 And i Was Like "What The Hell Man?" , With a Loud Tone i Said "YES I WILL BE THERE" . slowly I went To Cross The Tracks But Trains Didn't Want me To! The Mangalore- Madras Mail Was Being Shunted Back To Yard , Thought He Would Clear The Path Fast But At Half Way Mark The TNP Thangam Stopped With a "Keeeech" Sound . I Didn't Bother Much , Climbed Into The Sleeper Class of Mangalore Mail And Got Down on The Other Side . A Small Guy About 5ft Tall With a specs Was Waving At Me From The Platform, Yep it Was Mr Sivakumar Felt relieved After Seeing Him As i Got a Company To Roam Around MAS .
Both Were Talking For a Few Mins About The Loco Spottings and About The Exiting DD Run Which Was Just a Few Mins Away ! . Time Passed On and it was 6:50am And We Were Waiting For Antony . Sigo's Phone Rang Aloud It Was antony on The Line Told Us To Buy a News Paper And To Wait Near Hotel Saravana Bhavan . We Went And Met antony !. Antony Wasnt Alone He Was Accompanied By His Friend . His Name Was Praveen Who Was a Good Friend Of antony ! Ok Now back To the Trip Report Errr.. Where did i stop? Yeah Yeah Meeting antony Right?Hmmm Then , we Packed Our Breakfast At Ratna Cafe And Walked Into PF# 7 To Get Into The Double Decker !
Double Decker - The First Look
The Epic Journey Begins..
The Tall Train Snaked Into The Arrakkonam Junction Bang on Time! , Even though it Had started 10mins Late From Chennai . We Got Down And Took Pictures Of The Double Decker Not Only Us But a Few of Them From our Coach ! . We Heard A Whistle Sound And a Loud Honk From The LGD P7! , With The Guard Waving Green Seeing these Things We Came To a Conclusion That the Train is Going to Depart So We hopped in ! .
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| Damaged Coaches of MFP - YPR Express At Chitteri |
It Was Around 9:10am , The Double Decker Pulled Into the PF#1 Of Katpadi Junction 5mins Ahead of The scheduled . We got Down and Everybody Were Staring At The Coaches We Have No Idea On What They Were upto . One of Them Was So Curious To Know Whether Its Brindavan Or Not , He Asked His Co - Passenger Who Gave a Negative Reply To His Question . Sharp 9:20am The Train Departed Katpadi Junction Slowly Picking Up Speed As it Rolled into The Main line .
When The Train Was skipping KPD Outer Sigo Got a Call From Mr Aravind Sethuraman Who Was on Board Hubli - Chennai Express , Told us To Wave Hands (Like The Token Exchange :P) When Both Trains Crossed Each Other . We Said "Yes" . Were Ready As The Hubli Chennai Express Was Nearing KPD . Everything Went as per as plan , We Exchanged Hands (lol :P) .
Speeding Pass Each and Every station The Total Katpadi Jollarpetai Section Was Covered In Flat 55mins in spite of having a Stop At Ambur . It Was Really One of Those Deadly Run's I've Every Experienced In My Life! . Sharp At 10:22 The Train Pulled into The Majestic Jollarpetai Junction With Coimbatore - Chennai Intercity Express Waiting To Welcome Us in The adjacent Platform With an ED WAP4 in The Lead . Our Train Halted And To My Surprise We Say Jyothish KD Coming And Saying "Surprise" Everybody Were Stunned (Excluding Me , As I Got To Know About His Plan Earlier) Emotions All Around , it Was a Moment To Be Captured in My Life! . Jyothish Had Come To Board The DD With his Friend , Liju George ,May Thanks To That Soul Which Accompanied Jyothish All The Way UP And Down Till ERS .
Meanwhile The Chennai Bound Bangalore Chennai Express Came into PF#5 All Of a Sudden while We were Busy Talking ! . It Came With The Royapuram Rocker #30349 , The Newbie Baby Which Arrived Chennai a Few Weeks Back
We Were Clueless , As Our Train Was Stopped For More Than 15mins . It was 10:35am Now and The Started Was'nt Given .
Finally At 10:40 The Starter Was Given And The Train Was Ready To Roll Out of Jollarpetai Junction . Next Was The 180* Jollarpetai Curve ! . Everyone including Praveen and Liju Were Exited To See This . Then It Came ,The Train Started Tilting Towards Right . What A site it was a Visual Treat To Every Railfan ! We Were Enjoying This Moment Like Anything !
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| DD At The Jollarpetai Curve |
After Enjoying The Action At The JTJ Day We Decided To Take Rest As We All Were Damn Tired , Door plating All the Way Till JTJ . Train Made up its lost Time Like Anything Doing 100+ Constantly in Many Places As its next Halt Was Bangarpet Junction Which Was About 60km Away . We Had Some Hot "Cutlets" (Cutlet Was Good) Thanks To Antony For The Treat :P .
1hr Passed away Just Like That Discussing about Trains And Trains and .. Trains . at Sharp 11:40am The Train Entered Bangarpet Junction Bang on Time (thanks To LP/ALP For That osum run btw JTJ And BWT). The Train Departed From BWT At Around 11:45am Taking Us One Step Closer To Bangalore City , The Next Stop Was Krishnarajapuram Followed by Bangalore Cnt And City Respectively.
We Were All Tired so We Started To Doz Off Slowly . The Next 1hr of That Journey Was The Best Part!. (zzzZzz :P ) . I Woke up Around 12:20 , Sigo Was Speaking With Adithya (Think So) about The Railfan's Meet At Bangalore City ,Which Was To Be Held This Afternoon . The Train Entered into KJM Passing Under The Majestic KJM Road Bridge With passengers Who Were Ready To get Down. More than Half of The Train Was Empty , People Were Getting Down And Down .. And Down . I Calledup Mr Rajesh Varadan And Told Him That The Train is On Time And We Would Be There At Bangalore City Before 1:30pm . He Replied That he's On his Way To City Station And Added That He Would Be There Before The Train Arrives .
The Train Departed KJM At 12:37 (On Time) . Krishnarajapuram To Bangalore City , This is The Secret / Key For The Train's Time Table As it has Lot of "Slack Time" In This Particular Section . The Train Slowly Rolled Pass The Green Bangalore , The Weather Was Cold And Perfect For a Doorplating Experience . The Train Passed BYPL , Bangalore East With a Decent Speed and Tilted Towards The Right To Enter The Bangalore Cantonment Railway Station . To My Surprise , Harris Kiran (Railfan) Was Waiting To Greet Us . Thanks To Harris Who Came All The Way Till The Station To See us Off! .
Slowly We Finally Entered PF#7 Of Bangalore City . We Got Down And We Were Greeted By Adithya , Rajesh Varadan Sir And Manish (Jyothish's Friend) . We Headed Towards PF#1 To Have Our Lunch .. As we Saw The Mighty Karnataka Express entering Bangalore City With its Very Own Twin Diesel's From Itarsi!
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| Karnataka Express With ET Twins |
Last But Not The Least.. Mr Srirang Came To Bangalore City Railway Station To Meet Us All (Thank You Sir) Just Before The Departure Of 2640 Brindavan express. Sigo And Antony Hopped In At The Last Moment , The Bangalore DD Trip Finally Ended By Exchanging Good Byes :) .
Thank You For Reading This Full Report With Such Patience :P And Also Again i Repeat Please Forgive me For My Poor usage of English Language.. I Know That You Guys Are Pissed off xD :P
Upgrading Your Motherboard - Few Important Points
Upgrading Your Motherboard
Here's a basic walkthrough of a motherboard upgrade.
1. Set up a workspace, and make sure that it provides you with adequate lighting. Also, be sure to give yourself enough room to lay out tools and parts. Good lighting is especially critical if your case has an all-black interior.
2. Prior to disassembling the system, back up the contents of your hard drive.
3. Collect all CD keys. Deactivate or deauthorize any applications that you activated previously. This includes iTunes and Adobe professional apps (such as Photoshop and Premiere CS5). In addition, be sure to uninstall or deactivate any games that required activation.
4. Determine which parts need to be removed. You may have to take out the power supply unit (PSU) or hard drives to make motherboard removal easier. If you have to remove the PSU, take care to disconnect all power cables first. The ATX12V (a small four- or eight-pin connector) is easy to overlook.
5. Take out all cards, the CPU fan, and all memory. If you're not upgrading the CPU, you can leave it in the socket for the moment.
7. Remove all the screws holding the motherboard in place. Usually, a number 2 Phillips screwdriver will fit the screws. Place the old board in an antistatic bag.
8. Check to confirm that all of the mounting nuts are firmly screwed into the case. Sometimes, these nuts will come out or become loose when you remove the motherboard screws.
9. Remove the ATX I/O shield, and store it with the old motherboard.
11. Are you using an exotic cooler? If so, it may require that a special support plate be attached to the underside of the motherboard.
12. Line up the I/O ports with the holes in the ATX I/O shield. Then align the screw holes with the motherboard mounting nuts on the interior of the case.
13. Carefully screw in the mounting screws. Do not overtighten them. If you have an electric screwdriver equipped with an adjustable clutch, set the clutch to the minimum setting. If your electric screwdriver doesn't have a clutch, use a hand screwdriver instead.
15. Reattach all of the wiring and cables that you disconnected earlier: front panel connectors, USB wiring for the USB case connectors, power cables, wires for the case fan, and so on. If your case allows you to route wiring behind the motherboard, do so now.
16. Attach the power cables, taking care to connect both the main and the ATX12V cables.
18. Plug in the data cables and the power connectors to the storage devices.
19. Reinstall any cards you may have removed. If you're installing a high-performance graphics card, make sure that you attach the PCI Express power connectors.
20. Connect wall power, the video cable, the mouse, and the keyboard, and give the system a test boot. If nothing happens, make sure that the PSU switch is on.
21. When you boot the system (assuming that you're using Windows), you'll need to wait while Windows accounts for all of the new motherboard devices. Your keyboard and mouse may be unusable during this time.
22. Once Windows has logged all of the devices, you will have to reboot.
23. Take the motherboard CD and install the new motherboard drivers, network drivers, video drivers (only if you're using integrated graphics), USB 3.0 drivers, and so on. You may need to reboot several times.
24. Once you've done all of this, check to see whether Windows needs to be reactivated. If so, first try activating over the Internet. If this fails, call the toll-free number listed in the Activation Window. If you do activate over the phone, be sure you tell Microsoft that you're installing this copy of Windows on one system. This is just an upgrade after all.
25. Reinstall and reactivate any needed applications.
26. You should be set to go
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