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If I were a rich girl….I would do something zany like the guy in Hyderabad, who got a house built with a roof made of beer bottles. Looks really neat, and no prizes for guessing what it’s named. Cheers. Guess I wouldn’t even mind if the contractors would keep coming back with extra supply requirements as well ;-D

I read somewhere they’re planning to phase out “killer” Blue line buses in Delhi. If I remember they had removed the “Killer” Red line buses some years ago and introduced the blue ones. Can somebody tell them it’s the idiots behind the wheel that’s the problem and not the colour of the bus??? But then if there is a poll being taken for color preferences of new buses I want the next ones in shades of turquoise, jade green and mauve…in checks. And once those are phased out, shades of a flame – reds, oranges and yellows – in diagonal stripes. Ooh and then we can bring in a whole series in animal prints – camouflage! People wouldn’t know what ‘hit ‘em’! And for a sales pitch we can say they are a memento of many species become extinct. Then we’ll never have to phase THEM out!

So much talk about carbon trading. Somehow we may never get the better of the power struggle. Industry is moving to developing nations and so are the pollution levels. Great- we can talk about the power equation changing and some of the third world countries becoming the powerhouses in the coming decades. How to ensure that doesn’t happen as effectively? Ergo…introduce carbon trading. Since polluting manufacturing facilities are no longer in the developed countries they sit on positive carbon points, while developing nations are on negative. They will then need to buy the carbon credits from the same countries which they thought they were advancing ahead of. Am I too pessimistic? Ok on the positive side maybe some bright Indians will make money out of this trading.