Few learnings from the windshield incident and additional points are discussed here.
On Monday May 25, 2009, I had told an office colleague as to how good the office in Electronics City is and that there is so much parking there.
What happened in earlier Castle Street we used to park cars in front of the Sacred Heart Church and inside the church compound and two wheelers we could park elsewhere near that building of my company which was Samrudhi Bhavan.
Later the Church authorities stopped parking facility to cars as they were to 'tile their land' i.e. cover it with tiles. But they threw open a basement parking in a building which was work-in-progress behind the church.
But in that basement parking even lesser number of cars could be parked. And that was one of the reason (lack of adequate parking) my company had decided to shift the entire office to its own premises in Electronics City.
Thus I had praised the Electronics City office in the very first day itself and told that I will come by car because if I do not come by car then what will happen to my car. "We have to do puja" I had said it means 'we have to worship the car if we do not use the car'. That probably became a "Nazar" or 'Evil eye'.
We have to guard ourselves against the 'evil eye' always else our lives may get devastated in the process.
In earlier office I used to park in Garuda mall and they used to take 100 rupees for vehicles crossing 6 hours parking. It was better for me as the 'new basement' provided by the Church was dark and small. The Garuda mall basement was spacious by comparison.
In Electronics City, the basement was comparable to the Garuda mall and we did not have to pay anything as being employees we could use it for free. Thus in haste I had spoken thus to my office colleague and look what happened.
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Subsequently in the months of 2009, I took BMTC Volvo bus pass which allows a person to travel in any AC Volvo buses of BMTC, the public transport operator in Bengaluru.
I also took our company bus pass. This company bus pass was chargeable and company deducted funds from our salaries. I found that if we go by BMTC bus we could 'leave for office' at anytime (let us say at 8 AM) but if we wanted to go by company bus we needed to leave house by 7:15 AM because the bus came at 7:30 or 7:35 AM max. Also, my life was such that daily I could never go to office by bike. It was also combination. Sometimes car. Sometimes by bus/auto. Especially when the work pressure was too much it was my nature to proceed by 'public transport'.
Because during work pressure my mind used to get 'unsettled' and it was better for me if someone else 'did the driving'.
Also, earlier in Castle Street office there was no company bus but Electronics City office there were company buses and I was inclined to use that. Also public transport was there but when I left my company (July 2011) there were no BMTC bus which used the 'Elevated Expressway'. To use the 'elevated expressway' one had to use the company bus. These days there are special buses which go all the way to Electronics City by Elevated Expressway alone.
Company bus or BMTC bus is safer in the sense that there cannot be a 'windshield incident' in that case. Also, since 'our liabilty' is limited to the bus pass amount we do not need to suffer risk and 'no madman will damage a BMTC bus' because then he will face 'the full force of the law'. But he can attack our private vehicle and get away with it.
On Monday May 25, 2009, I had told an office colleague as to how good the office in Electronics City is and that there is so much parking there.
What happened in earlier Castle Street we used to park cars in front of the Sacred Heart Church and inside the church compound and two wheelers we could park elsewhere near that building of my company which was Samrudhi Bhavan.
Later the Church authorities stopped parking facility to cars as they were to 'tile their land' i.e. cover it with tiles. But they threw open a basement parking in a building which was work-in-progress behind the church.
But in that basement parking even lesser number of cars could be parked. And that was one of the reason (lack of adequate parking) my company had decided to shift the entire office to its own premises in Electronics City.
Thus I had praised the Electronics City office in the very first day itself and told that I will come by car because if I do not come by car then what will happen to my car. "We have to do puja" I had said it means 'we have to worship the car if we do not use the car'. That probably became a "Nazar" or 'Evil eye'.
We have to guard ourselves against the 'evil eye' always else our lives may get devastated in the process.
In earlier office I used to park in Garuda mall and they used to take 100 rupees for vehicles crossing 6 hours parking. It was better for me as the 'new basement' provided by the Church was dark and small. The Garuda mall basement was spacious by comparison.
In Electronics City, the basement was comparable to the Garuda mall and we did not have to pay anything as being employees we could use it for free. Thus in haste I had spoken thus to my office colleague and look what happened.
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Subsequently in the months of 2009, I took BMTC Volvo bus pass which allows a person to travel in any AC Volvo buses of BMTC, the public transport operator in Bengaluru.
I also took our company bus pass. This company bus pass was chargeable and company deducted funds from our salaries. I found that if we go by BMTC bus we could 'leave for office' at anytime (let us say at 8 AM) but if we wanted to go by company bus we needed to leave house by 7:15 AM because the bus came at 7:30 or 7:35 AM max. Also, my life was such that daily I could never go to office by bike. It was also combination. Sometimes car. Sometimes by bus/auto. Especially when the work pressure was too much it was my nature to proceed by 'public transport'.
Because during work pressure my mind used to get 'unsettled' and it was better for me if someone else 'did the driving'.
Also, earlier in Castle Street office there was no company bus but Electronics City office there were company buses and I was inclined to use that. Also public transport was there but when I left my company (July 2011) there were no BMTC bus which used the 'Elevated Expressway'. To use the 'elevated expressway' one had to use the company bus. These days there are special buses which go all the way to Electronics City by Elevated Expressway alone.
Company bus or BMTC bus is safer in the sense that there cannot be a 'windshield incident' in that case. Also, since 'our liabilty' is limited to the bus pass amount we do not need to suffer risk and 'no madman will damage a BMTC bus' because then he will face 'the full force of the law'. But he can attack our private vehicle and get away with it.
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