Saturday in the Park

well, Sunday actually, but who am I to spoil a song title?

With today being devoted to getting the website "right", I took the opportunity this morning to get another walk in the park down at Shubash Bose Park. Between obeying doctors orders and travelling to Phoenix last week, I hadn't been to the park for about a fortnight (Sulemain was sufficiently concerned to ring the School last week while I was away to find out what had happened to me, which was nice of him). I took the camera just in case and came away with some shots that are worth sharing, both of themselves, and for comparison with the early shots when I arrived.

In the snaps above, dear reader, you see the work in the park first when they were digging for the pipeline from the harbour to the oil distribution centre and today when they've (pretty much) filled in the hole. The three photos below give a sense of where the work in Yyattil Junction (cnr Hospital Road and Chittoor Road, where I live) has developed to. It's been 12 months since the work began, so I suppose there would come a point when the work would be done - that point seems to be being reached, but Jayaraj the auto man reckons another 12 months to go.

So things do happen in Kochi and development does take place, but just not at the pace that might be expected in other places.

In that regard, I had something of a bizarre conversation with Ajith and Raju over some employment conditions I was trying to come to terms with - "in station" and "out of station" refer to whether you're in the office/city or not, while "bata" allowance is our (the Australian) per diem. I found this like something out of a 19th century British East India company listing (which it probably was). It's right up there with the idea that "manager" is the senior term and "executive" is the title you give to a junior member of staff - well there you go.