We were walking around when I came across this man sitting on a concrete structure. He was well dressed for the occasion and seemed to be happy passing his time looking at others walking past him (Note – all photos were taken with the 12MP Nokia N8 smartphone).

Prior to trip to square at Nanjing Road, we stopped a couple stations away for shopping of clothes – this particular road was famed for vendors and shopping complexes selling latest fashion in clothes. But what struck me as I stood by the road side where the odd things like this KFC sign-board – there was something strange about seeing Colonel Sanders smiling at the crowd who is busy shopping for clothes.

Pre-war buildings plentiful, bringing us to another era in the past. This kind of reminded me of those old movies that portrayed Shanghai in the 1930s, before the start of the war.

This actually is not an old tram but rather one “cooked up” for tourists. We did not really see an actual tram in the city but a smaller sized replica seemed to be just enough for us. It was too small for us – we opted to walk instead.

We may have seen a replica of an old tram but not all is old – this police buggy that run on electricity is one of the new additions for crowd control and general policing. Seeing a police buggy in the thick of the crowd was reassuring.

To be continued…

After hours “strapped” in to a very uncomfortable seat, the end is near. The captain have just announced that they are dropping down and getting ready to land. We noticed that we are getting closer to the lower clouds. We could not wait for the touch-down.

And as we keep descending towards the runway, the clouds started to clear and we can see the ground now

There is still clouds but we are indeed getting closer to the ground

We are clear from the clouds and now firmly below the clouds with the runway just minutes away

Another far shot – slightly better and sharper shot.

We were not allowed to photograph the interior of the temple (unless certain amount of money was paid – we refused) but the entrance itself looked stunning enough

The box looked very impressive than the usual mobile phone package. From afar, some may confuse Blueberry with Blackberry

My older phone only allows FM radio receiver but this one allows analogue TV as well – will come in handy if one need to follow up on the news but is unable to get the hands on the cable TV

Despite the many models on the market – this one only costs RM599 but comes with an impressive list of programmes and the one that stood up for me at least is the ability to surf the internet via Wi-Fi or GPRS.

Seriously the icons looks too ugly to show off to others but track-ball makes navigations much easier than normal phone but still one level down compared to touch-screen phones.

Other than a motorcycle, this rickshaw auto is the next best thing to cut through heavy traffic jam. They can be found in many streets, so getting them is not that difficult. Rickshaw autos can sit 3 people comfortably (we managed to test it with 5 people)

Most commercial vehicles are painted in bright yellow. Yellow mini trucks often compete with the yellow rickshaw autos

Time of things to come – the Chennai streets are full with modern cars and yet one can find plenty of rickshaw autos. Rickshaw auto have evolved too – now days they run on CNB

Not much change from the ice cream parlours that we often have back in Malaysia but they do have plenty of flavours and colours and it is downright cheap too. The only thing that was missing in the menu – there is no flavour of Durian – a Malaysian favourite.

Surprisingly the crab meat was not red and it did not really taste like crab but was tasty nonetheless

This is actually a mix of 2 types of fried rice – “spicy stage 1″ and “non spicy”. The meat at the top of the rice is actually sweet & sour fish