Parking your car costs you money while parking your domain pays you money. I had a few domains that I registered out of fancy, and I just put them up for sale at sedo.com, and guess what, 2 of them sold for $250 each and another 1 for about 400, and I had never expected to get anything more than $50 for those domains.

This is a cool business, buy domains that you think are cool, and put them up for sale, and interested parties might come forward to buy it.

People having lived long lives in India, or atleast have spent a major part of their youth in India seem to find Singapore fascinating. Flying to the US and UK have become old fashioned. People need to be closer to home, say just a few hours away in a plane, and should find it easy to return if there is something that they need from home. And there shouldn’t be a voice lag when you call over phone, and there shouldn’t be a jet lag when you fly back home with a few days leave.

The place should be clean, tidy, have good regulations, should have good looking tall buildings, and swimming pools where boys and girls swim together with the skimpiest of clothes. And where is such a place that is closest to home? It is Singapore. If you know a bit of computers, and if you speka fairly good english, there is no trouble in findina a job at Singapore. And if you perform well, becoming a Permanant Resident or a PR Holder is no big deal at all. And once you are a PR holder, you get all sorts of eligiblities that you can never imagine to get back at home.

The law and order is perfect, and the police will respect you and take your complaint even if you loose a penny from your pocket and wether they investigate or not, they will give you a good report, and you dont rally have to bribe them to get that report. The public transport is excellent, and you will not need to get your own vehicle any time soon, and you will have to go for one only if your route to office and home doesn’t fit well with the routes of the public transport, which is quite rare.

If you are looking at starting a business at Singapore, it is fairly easy. All you need is a PR there who would take care of your businesses, or atleast remain there as your contact point, and you can do whatever you want from there as long as you pay the government its taxes. And when you have a company in Singapore, you get an Open visa with which you can enter and leave the country just like having to fly in a domestic airliner.

Singapore is a good country, and if you think you can do nothing to improve India, move out and if you think you are not making India better and are making Singapore better, here is a good piece of advise. You alone cannot make India better, and if you dont go to Singapore, some one else will make it better. So, I suggest that you always claim your stake from the good pie and not from a rotting pie.

Yesterday was not a very good day. I wokeup very early, at abour 4 AM, unable to sleep, and the previous night I had gone to bed only ar around 11.30 AM. Thats a very short sleep. Went to the Hall, picked a movie, Schindlers List was what came to my hands, and started watching it. Though Oskar Schindler impressed me a lot as always, the movie basically depressed me when it was daylight.

I got on to my PC to check the mails and find out what all problems clients have got today. I found nothing thankfully, but I had nothing to do and get the depression off me. I naturally moved to wikipedia and started reading about the fate of jews, the 6 million who died, how the sadist army and the other Germans treated them, and when I finished reading the time was 11 AM, and my son had woken up and was causing chaos as usual, throwing this and that here and there.

After Lunch, I decided to leave for Chennai, a trip which I was planning only this weekend. I left on my bike.

On the ECR, 2 partol policemen stopped me and used a breathalizer on me. When they found that I was not drunk they were talking about over speed snd stuff and they somehow managed to get Rs 100 from me.

Past Mahabalipuram, 2 Chennai City policemen stopped me and said that listening to Ipods while biking is illegal and that a fine of Rs 1200 is applicable, and I was not wearing a helmet, so a fine of Rs 100, and for overspeed another fine of Rs 300, totalling to Rs 1500 needs to be paid immediately.

I was completely down. I had no strength to bargain with policemen which was what they would obviously had expected. I dont feel proud of what I did, but this is what I did. I just pulled out my walled, took out 3 x 500 rupee notes and handed it over to the policeman who was standing close to me.

Im sure they had the surprose of their lives. No biker would have handed out the money without bargaining. He asked me where I was working, I told him that I am working in a Call Centre for a salary of Rs 6500. And If i dont reach office in another 1 hour I will loose my job. So this Rs 1500 is not really important for me at the moment, so just let me go.

He got sympathetic and handed me back the money and just asked me to pay Rs 100 fine for not wearing the helmet and gave me a receipt and told me that it was valid for another 24 hours so u  can ride the bike for 24 hours without a helmet.

When I reached my apartment, I found that my internet was not working properly, and just now I discovered that its mylaptop thats not configured properly. I forgot a few keys that I should have brought along with me from Pondicherry. And the Wi-Fi router that I had taken home last weekend.

I went to the Reliance Broadband Browsing Center in T Nagar later that evening, checked the days mail, spent about 1 hour, and they billed me Rs 100 for 3 hours, the remaining 2 hours however, can be used later.

On the way back I met a friend, and we went to a bar, had vodka and some dinner, and came back to the apartment and slept almost immediately.

The morning seems to be fine.

For some time now, airtel has been the top notch player in the mobile phone industry in India. But god knows what the hell, airtel too is loosing touch. Every one else sucks, and though I use vodafone just for the name of it, I am not really happy with it.

What will happen if all mobile companies keep their networks busy and stop providing decent services to the people around? Who would serve the country with a billion people and a trillion mobile phone connections? Maybe there would be a new player who would be soon coming in to take over all these service providers and become a monopoly.

Addiction to mobile phone has affected almost everyone in the world, particularly Indians, and no drug rehabilitation center will be able to help them out, as even in a drug rehab you find people talking on mobile phones.