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A New Year, A New Beginning… The Year 2011

// January 1st, 2011 // 6 Comments » // Collegium, Random Musings

The holidays make for a crazy time of year. You’re spending time with family/friends, traveling, maybe enjoying some winter weather.But its all over, its the 1st jan noon and i am sitting in Mumbai airport waiting for my flight to Bangalore, starting up with my whole new year and another semester, yes, i am in 2nd semester officially, results are not out yet, but still no one fails in BBM, which is the best part of it.

“Be better- Share more – Show up joyful” - This was the main aim i had in 2010, I think I was performing pretty decent whole year except that i made many mistakes in my personal life, as well as some mistakes in the work and college. Which i am totally not willing to repeat again, as life becomes hell when you actually realize that you cant overcome a mistake you have done.

“The Reality is – Change is the only Constant” - This is something which one of my teacher told me, may be she would be reading this post, but at that time when she told be i just overlooked it, but now i feel i need to change, there was a stagnation whole across 2010 in my life but now i need some ups and down, i need some change, change from the normal life, change from the normal work, change from the regular mind-set, now i am looking forward for some totally different things, not computer, not management but something totally random or may be crazy but which is not at all related to me till now, may be some social work, as this is something which i always wanted to do but never got a chance or may be learning dance, i am really bad at it but after attending the Shaimak‘ party i am very much fascinated with it or some sports apart from gym or may be something else, but totally different.

2010, was an upside down in terms of relationships, this was the year when i made most of the contacts, some as a friends, girl-friends( not girlfriends ) and clients, but what all i can say is made many and lost many , so fairly speaking this year no time waste and will try to maintain those relations as long as possible.

Also, as like many people are saying that the world has come to an end, i want to live each and every day as I’ve lived decades, because may be 2012 is the end..

Anyways my leg is paining like hell as while dancing yesterday i broke it. ): but thanks for stopping by and a Very Happy New Year, Njoieee!
Sincerely, Ishan Vyas

A different “change” in a system where change is the most used word!

// December 10th, 2010 // 3 Comments » // Random Musings

“We need Change”

This sentence is most heard in the following three places: In a countdown,

No. 3 ………. Obama’s campaign

No. 2 …………Software employees

No. 1 ………..The Indian public transport bus

I’ve been traveling in public buses when i was in class 8th i believe, and without doubt, the town bus has seen the word “change” used more frequently than any other medium. But this idea suggests a different ‘change’ that the town bus has never seen or heard before.

The bus ticket is one peculiar interesting creations of man that ends up in umpteen ways depending on the user. It may end up in a bin, or with a brilliant haiku written on its back (just the right size! ), or as a collage medium, or in a checker’s bag. Imagine the number of reams of paper that ended up as a bus ticket over the number of years since it came into existence! Imagine how minimization of paper use in offices and administrations is called for with such intensity to conserve trees! All it needed was some one to connect the dots. Here is how we connect.

This idea suggests to use recycled bus tickets to minimize paper use to a greater extent. A simple reusable thick paper (or card) ticket which can accommodate 10 different entries for date and time and can be dropped into a drop box placed near the two exits of the bus shall be the solution instead of the conventional one. Extreme thoughts can build in intelligent chips and RFID into it too!

The bus ticket can be a thick paper or a card where in the conductor fills the date and time of issue (or) trip number for every user (manual or automated). This will enable the same ticket to be used by ten people and allows to differentiate among them. So when we purchase a ticket, we get a card for the ticket’s denomination with the time stamp in it. When we get down from the bus, we simply dump into either of the drop boxes positioned near the two exits. After the trip the conductor collects the dropped tickets from the drop boxes and gets ready to give tickets for the next trip. Each card shall be used for ten times with different timestamps. To differentiate between cards used in different buses, the route number or bus number shall be printed on it. If it is tough to comprehend, just relate this to the library cards kept inside each books in the manual entry libraries!! And you will get the picture.

On an advance level, RFID technology can identify the ticket to its matching bus so that our citizen (! ) does not use the same ticket in multiple buses for his with-out episodes. Intelligent chips can replace these cards, allowing for greater timestamps to be filled in, thereby eliminating paper usage completely. A single ticket chip, which is the property of the bus, can be used for thousands of passengers!

At a basic level, this idea is capable of reducing paper usage upto ten times with minimal discomfort. At an advanced level, it can eliminate the use of papers altogether from public transport and save acres of forests.

This is one change we really need from the bus conductor very soon!!