The title is not self explanatory. The question that I was asked was how to go to Faridabad via The Bristol hotel. Now, for the speed part, I was at 60km/ph while answering the question. (60kmph come around 40 miles per hour). Just so you know, the one who asked was at the same speed but on his bike. Never before have I had such good comfort levels at such high speeds. The place where I was asked is what counts. It was the super duper highway between the capital, New Delhi and Gurgaon. Google maps has old pics where its still in construction. Its the 8 lane highway where you ought to fly on the ground! The second the older highway I recall is the Mumbai Pune Expressway. It’s by far was more challenging to be constructed. Thought the pune xpressway is not a tarmac road but concrete, it can handle high speeds. It is only meant for 4 wheelers. That highway is also a Toll road for the entire distance. The Gurgaon highway that has opened is tarmac road and as of now allows two wheel drivers too (not bicycles but bikes and scooters).

I’m badly looking for a method so I can extend or create my own firmware for the camera of my choice. All camera have their own RTOS and hardware. Therefore I should not expect same SDK for many camera companies. But I can expect same SDK for many models since same companies very much use same environment. More critical than anything is that the manufacturers hate to offer any such feature. I have a Casio EXILIM EX-P505. The camera is very good. I can’t say that more. Its so good that I want to extend it. I use it for Time lapse imaging. If I could automate the clicks for every 60 seconds or so, it would be very easy to do such photography. Yes, web cams can help me on that but web cams are very low of resolutions. Added they will need a whole computer along therefore no portable at all. I have been googling a lot for my cam model and few others but not found any crack to the problem. Some have parsed the firware update and split the files into ROM and JPG and music etc. ROM is assembly compiled written most likely in C. Reading the ROM of my casio i find paths as A:. Means the RTOS is very much like DOS STDLIB. That is good news but again getting a compiler or decrypting the compiled code is going to be hard. Then there are other problems as missign documents and interrupts. What button does what. How to trap events. All will have to be reverse engineered. Pain Big Time. Its sure possible for Pro. And thats not me! So I wrote this blog so anybody of similar interests or with leads on thsi topic can have some thoughts. I will write more on this topic soon.

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Visited the heritage hip-off and the city tour hip off day bus rides. Also visited the Vivicity malls beside the costline and the sontopssa island. Visited the digital mall, sim lim tower mall, rafles city, pensencula mall, vivocity mall.

Saw the dolphin show, the underwater world, the high rotate ride, mono rail, cable car, butterfly and insects park, beach swim and the southern most point of the asi continent.
saw the MRT trains and used stations New Little India, City Hall, China Airport, Northbridge Front.

saw too many indians everywhere. too many south indians and also north indians. also saw other asian people aong with the regular new zealanders, australians and brits. americans were not seen as more often as others. indian faces is far too common.
very very decent and nicely speaking people (unless you are shopping). shopping malls are tired of indian shoppers who just keep asking pricing for every things that they don’t want to buy or to bargain on things that they don’t have money to buy anyway.
A neat city and properly managed tranport and roads. Smile is a universal language.

The MRT is a very easy way to transport to most parts of the city. there are 3 rails of the mrt. south east, north west and nort south tracks. there are intersections of all these tracks in vert correct places. The ticketing of the MRT is common for all rails and hopping to other tracks is very much easy. Tracks are also at multiple levels when aT intersections. Closeby shopping malls always share gate with the MRT stations either from the groud level of even from the basement level with long walks. The crowd has been slowly put on training and following the correct ways to use it. All ticket stations can read upto $10 notes and prime 3 type of coins. They can give change back automaticvally. There is little or no ticketting staff in most stations. What staff exists is for special cases or for just enquiries. At least 4 ticket machines always exist in every station. Recharging a existing prepaid card is one of the options for frequent users. For single visiters, single trip ticket is obtained by the touch sceern. The tickets are not magnetic but RFID which just need to be shown to the machine for gates to open. All tickets carry a fixed deposit of $1 so at the end of the trip are users can obtain their fixed deposit as a $1 coin back.

Electronic malls is the most common thing to be found in a mall. Malls with electronics are in such a heavy concentration as it were a running short exebition. Bargaining skills can bring the price as down as 60%. Respect at the malls is achieved after holding a already done shopping bag. Otherwise treated as a window shopper (75% indians). Shoppers have too many customers and too much bussiness. They don’t want to waste the time in the window shopper explanations and gain nothing from it. That is exactly when they even act very rude. Had 2 instances of such behavior which is never seen even in india. They expect to service you only when you are in real intention of making a purchase today. Window shoppers are often asked what they are looking for while walking close by the shops.te shopkeepers are mostly very well aware of what they are selling. If you have interested to buy they could give you a very good advise and latest gadgets. Signapore is have very small electronic device lifetime. New objects replace old ones very soon. The city is almost a geektown with buds in every third ear on streets.

ISD Telephone calls are expensive. All malls or anything shopping ceter will always have escalaters. Singapore has avery high escalater density. Airports also have walkways and escalators allowing trolleys to be walked with.

Singapore culture is very much of touching. Kissing is not as common as thought but simply touching while having convcersations is very common. Not limit to any particular type of relationships, its much more than just holding hands while walking. Handshaking is not seen that often as well. Humour is not seen that very often.

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the fun we had in jaipur really was the best i can remember in past few years. the whole gang office touched at a resort at morning 7 after a night of drive over NH8 from gurgaon. fun lasted for the following 18 hours. reached back at 1am on monday. it was certainly a never before trip. (flickr)