Begging Profession

Hi,

I always liked to share the details of my day's happenings, if its really a worthy one...

Today,

I met a Lady
Her profession is Begging
Her placement is Guindy (don't know if its railway station or bus stand)
Her residence is near Chengalpet

I learnt all these after talking to her. She actually helped me board the train. Then we started talking to each other. One thing I admired of her was her neat dressing, though not with the office goers' kind of stuff. She was not wearing any ornaments, or face make ups nor a bright saree. She was wearing an old saree that suited her profession.

She has two kids -  a daughter and a son. The daughter is married and has a kid. The daughter and her husband does "Paper Picking". Her son is studying in a school. Her dream is to make him an Engineer. The kid is working hard to make his mom's dream come true.

I was really amazed of her positive attitude towards the life... She had such a smiling face, though I've not seen her during her working hours.

Phone Numbers needed during emergency

On each Tuesday newspaper, I used to notice a tabular column with all the emergency numbers. I used to wonder why every week they post it. Wont it be enough if they publish every month and use the space for some commercials to get them more money or for some hype creating news events. But today (10.11.11), it actually made me think of the benefit the column gave me.

I travel by EMU local train from Tambaram to Guindy to reach my office. Today, I noticed a guy hit by a fast train and blooding heavily on his face. Though his face is still haunting me, I recollected the emergency helpline number and informed the same to them. They said, they'll do the needful asap.

I then realised, this is how the numbers are useful for commuters like any one of us. I wanted to share this event not to boast myself, but to share the emergency numbers with you.

I would also like to share that, last week I attended Social Media Summit 2011 happened in MOP Vaishnav College for Women. There, during the last session, they asked each one of us to create blog and share the moments with the online viewers.

Both these events made me create this blog today. And finally, now goes the numbers...

EMU Local/Fast Train Help Line - 9962500500
Local Bus Help Line - 9445030516 / 9383337639

Police - 100

Fire - 101

Ambulance - 102

Traffic Complaints and Accidents -103