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Mc Donalds Manesar: I am loving it

There is no better place to than Mc Donald’s in Manesar sit and relax because of the traffic problems in Gurgaon. I am well acquainted with this place from the last 5 – 6 years. My old group of friends used to have parties over there. Now I have it with the new group  . We generally go over there when we have to see some property in IMT Manesar or pace city.

This place in so doubt the best place to have you meal and meeting. Don’t go over there at lunchtime coz its too crowded over there. Most the people at lunch time are Japanese from the companies (most probably from Hero Honda).

I love the Mc Aloo Tikki burger and Mc Swirl and I can have it as many times a Days.

HSBC Bank in JMD Regent square Gurgaon: Fastest Service

Ha ha …. So this was a wooing experience for me. The HSBC Bank in the JMD Reagent Square on the Mehrauli - Gurgaon Road has the fastest service I have ever seen. This may be because of the lack of customers. I had received a self Cheque from a client for a real estate deal. There were actually 3 – 4 customers in the Bank, who were waiting for the bank personnel to attend them. The cash counter, bank manager, personal manager, relationship manager were free doing nothing. I counted the seconds in the watch and I got the payment in 55 seconds after I entered the bank premises. Strange !!

And just go to the ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank sector 14 branches or the ICICI Bank DLF Qutub Plaza Branch in Gurgaon, I swear, you can never get the payments before 20 min.

Idiotic changes in the roads in Gurgaon

This is strange as well as frustrating. The Gurgaon traffic police has the Bristol circle to a Bristol U to avoid traffic jams. Now, people who are coming from Delhi and want to visit the malls will have to go straight from Sikandarpur Cirle to the Golf Course road and take a U turn from the DT Mega Mall. This is bullshit. Earlier they have done this on the Mehrauli road by closing the U turn before the Metropolitan Mall for Sushant Lok and travelers have to travel a long way from Metropolitan to DLF Phase 2 entrance opposite to the Sahara Mall getting back the Vatika Traingle then to the DT City Center and the you can get into Sushant Lok.

Same thing has been done in Old Gurgaon also. I have my companies bank account in Bank on India, and while going over there I have to move from jail road to Basai raod and after taking a U turn from basai road I have to again come back to the Old railway road which takes an extra 15 min.

Is this the only way to solve traffic problems? Gurgaon is one of the best cities and proper planning is required to improve the city.

Being into the Real Estate consultancy in Gurgaon, I have come across many companies in IMT Manesar, Udyog Vihar, Pace City and Infocity who have been supplying spare parts to Hero Honda and Maruti Udyog. What these people say is that Hero Honda is very shy nowadays in production. The reason is that, they are loosing market share. Then who is gaining the market share? No doubt, the answer is Bajaj Auto. With so many new models coming up, Pulsar, DTSi, Discover DTSi, Platina very frequently into the market, I feel that CONSTANTLY INNOVATING is where Hero Honda is loosing. There’s a recent news also that Hero Honda is coming up with a plant in Uttaranchal also, that may be to get the tax benefits and other stuff. But I feel that the company while cutting their cost should concentrate more on new models. Splendor is the only model I think is going good in the market, other models are so so and the company cannot rely on just one model for its survival.

Which is the best brand?

I went through a business magazine today, its about the best brands in India. What they have done is that they have decided the top brands without segregating the industry. Like they have given that Maruti is No 1 brand in INDIA and follows, Lux, Times of India and many more companies. Don’t you think that there has to be a proper way of segregation of each brand?

I personally feel that brands should be ranked in their own Industry. I cannot compete the brand called “SKODA” with “INTEL” but I can compare “SKODA” with “MERCEDES”.

Well, I guess it’s a nice idea to compare the brands lets do it our blog right away.

Commonwealth Games: Just 1500 days to go

So the countdown for the Commonwealth Games 2010 has just begun. Its just 1500 days more and do you think that are we ready for it? Athletes from 71 countries will in the capital and there are many things that need to be done. Delhi is short of hotel rooms, infrastructure, transport facilities, logistics and much much more.

Rajiv Gandhi Chowk Flyover is Gurgaon… awesome!!!

This flyover was delayed to construct but now one of the best flyovers I like. This flyover took about 2 years to finish and is just adjacent to the Jharsa flyover. The six lane flyover was just finished in June 2006 which was proposed to be competed in December 2005. Whether it was politics, bureaucracy or the prices of the steel to elongate the deadline…. Nobody knows. There are 6 flyovers to be completed to bring the traffic to a streamline in Gurgaon starting from Shankar Chowk near Udyog Vihar, Iffco Chowk, Signature Tower Chowk, 32nd Milestone, Jharsa Chowk and Rajiv Chowk. After all these structures are completed, maybe people can get relief for 2 – 3 years but its obvious that a good planning is needed in Gurgaon to synchronies the traffic.

Wet n Wild Resort in Gurgaon

Wet n wild resort is one of the oldest properties in Gurgaon. Me and my family went there for dinner for birthday celebrating birthdays of my mother and wife. The Wet area closes before 8 PM so we could not enjoy that . But the restaurant is fine. They have approximately 20 tables for dining and they serve food as well as wines in that. I have stayed in their hotel rooms too on the first floor. The rooms are also nicely designed and the best things to see are the bathrooms. Well designed banquet halls and gardens.

The dinner was good but I didn’t had non vegetarian this time. Sweet corn soup with paneer tikka and obvious dal makhni with the yummmmy missi roti. The food is costly but well prepared, quantities are also so so. Worth a visit.

Hotel Industry after Commonwealth Games 2010

Our country, especially Delhi is preparing fast for the Commonwealth games in 2101. I was just going through the Newspaper and saw that the DDA is auctioning hotel sites in Delhi in September 2006. These hotel sites are in Jasola, Dwarka, Shalimar Bagh, Wazirpur and many more sites are there. 10 sites will be auctioned in September itself.

The study by these newspapers says that if the Hotel site is auctioned for Rs. 400 Crores and the hotel building of 400 rooms will approximately need 600 Crores that makes the total to be 1000 Crores. In that case the Room Rate would be Rs. 25000/- per room per day just for breaking even!!!!!! Strange to here right!!!!

Now, what I think is that …. OK, people coming to visit the Commonwealth games might pay this amount for a room.

BUT…..

After the commonwealth games are over, what will happen with these hotels? Instead odf staying in a room for 25000/- bucks at Josola or Shalimar Bagh, I would prefer to stay at 10000/- bucks at the TAJ at Dhaula Kuan.

Toyota planning to expand fast in India but what bout the Traffic?

I read I an news today that Toyota has plans to expand in India at a rate of 10 times what it is doing now. Well I’m happy with the Toyota Innova I have but the not at all happy with the increasing traffic in Gurgaon. What will happen if all the automobile companies will grow at this rate. There are flyover and expressways being made at the moment if I think about the traffic being 10 times by now, I will definitely reach my office in 4 hours which I do in 25 min.