Bangkok Flight- A guide to Airline's Engineers

Bangkok Flight - A guide to Airline's Engineers

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AI 335 ATA in BKK is usually by 2:40 or 3:00 am IST with a time difference of 1:30 hrs local time.Thus it lands at BKK by 04:30 hrs local and departed by 05:50 am(Local time).

We will be escorted by local GSA staff to the window at level 4(Departure) AIRPORT ENTRY PASS through Arrival (Follow the marking overhead VISA ON ARRIVAL WAY).

Once we are out of immegration,it is near the row P or in front of EXIT Gate 9 or 10.

From here we have to go through travelator to the Departure at Level 5 and move left in front of Row C where we find AIRPORT ENTRY PASS WINDOW.

Escorts will get the pass for us and then we are escorted to LEVEL 2 towards Gate 10 where our pick up will arrive by 06:30 to 06:45 am.

This will take you to Hotel ,"Rambrandt" in Sukhumvit soi 18 area.
First day it takes slightly more time and reaches hotel by 07:30 am.

Do not waste time, collect your allowances(5727.70 Thb), checked in into your room and rush to floor 2 and get your Breakfast. Have a rest for at least 3 to 4 hrs as one has to move to Airport again for attending flight AI 335 which lands earlier by 15 to 20 minutes of it's actual time of landing.Hence you have to leave your hotel by 18:00 hrs.

Get your complementry evening Snacks by 5:30 pm in Hotel at 24 th floor in an Executive lounge before you make a move for Airport for evening departure.

Our check in counters are either  at K or W row.Morning flight check in  are done through W and Evening flight through K but not always.Please check at the display screen while you enter through Gate 9 or 10 which usually remains either of this.

After the departure of evening flight we reaches Hotel by quarter past 10 pm.

One can have dinner either in Hotel as a CREW MEAL which costs 350 Thb or one can walk on the main Road ( From Hotel take right turn 200 steps and on the main road take 50 steps left) where one can have his Indian food in a restaurant "PAKWAN".

On the same road further ahead 200 steps you will get METRO from Station ASOK to CHIT LOM.
CHIT LOM is the 3rd stoppage from ASOK where we will get Shopping Complex "BIG C".

We get only 3 to 4 hrs sleep between Two flights and we have to be careful.

Many Thai Oil massage centre are available in our Hotel lane itself which cost 300 to 500 Thb for 1 to 2 hrs of body massage.
You can relax but there is no time.

You can carry TOOL KIT for which passes will be made at security point daily which will be submitted to security at exit.

One Thai Baht is almost equals 1.955 INR OR
100 rupees =51.14 thb

This is just for your guidance for aviation engineers.


-PRAMODARA

A Guide to Singapore

A Guide to Singapore

Dear friends,

Welcome to Singapore,a gateway to Asia.

Important tips and a guide to our colleagues, being deputed here for 15 days on temporary posting, may be of some help.

After landing at SIA,rest details are known to everyone that when you clear Immigration;move either Left or Right side to be in que to get Taxy for Hotel REGENT where we used to stay at CUSCADEN ROAD near Tanglin Mall.

Taxy fare will be paid by Hotel.

While you reach hotel time will be ticking to local 00:30 hrs.

Early in the morning ,when you wake up and move out,the very first thing is to walk at the Bus stop(right in front of main gate of Hotel) and board BUS No 36 .Get down at Orchard Road MRT and purchase MRT Card of S$12 and Recharge it for additional S$10.Now this card will have a value of S$17/=which is sufficient for your movement in the city for remaining days of your stay.

Once you get the pass ,you may visit TEKKA Center MRT at Little India and get a SIM card of SingTel for S$10/= which has call value of S$10 along with 5GB data for a month.

Though we get Handy but it's performance is very poor.SIM data will help you getting direction,Bus or MRT and its timing.Without data your movement around the city will become really very difficult.

Now the above pass is valid for both MRT and Bus hence you can use this for local sight seeing and don't take package.

For every tourist places,visit the place of your own either by Bus or Metro.

Singapore maps are available at departure and arrival lounge apart from this it is available at every places where ever you go free of cost.Collect them for your guidance.

Always purchase your tickets online through various sites which is cheaper by 15 to 25% compare to tickets at Windows.

AEP

Getting your AEP is just a 15mts job but you must carry your passport alongside as it is submitted against the AEP.
AEP is issued everyday and being submitted while going back.This office is in Basement(Departure, Arrival and Basement).
Our office too is in Basement close to Lift.

How to reach:-

We are operating from Terminal 2.This is just a three story building(Level 2-Departure,L-1 Arrival and B is basement).

There is a lift at L2,RHS in corner towards exit/Entry Gate1 of departure near counter LLAO LLAO (A fruit and ice cream corner).If you exit through Immigration and  see towards exit,This will be in RHS.

From Hotel you get a Taxy to Airport T 2 and Get down at Door No.1.Take left turn you find a "LLAO LLAO" Counter move ahead and find Lift close to Washroom.Get into this lift and select B. Lift door open at basement opposite Air India Office.

Do not forget to collect receipt of Taxy which will be around S$ 25.This will be refunded at Hotel reception by producing receipt of both side.Every day one has to follow this routine.

Get AEP by submitting your passport at SIA Security counter which is adjacent to UOB Bank in the same lane 150 steps forward of our office.Look at your back after collecting AEP,there are three lift take any one and go to Departure by selecting L2.

At departure,move towards immigration and staff gate is just right of immigration between the two Escalators which take you to Restaurants.

City Tour:-

By now you are holding your MRT Card(like our Metro card),Get Bus 36 and get down at "DHOBY GHAT" MRT station)Bus Stand.
This is a bigger junction from where you can go to every corner of Singapore.

Save  the metro line photograph in your mobile and work out where to go.Get that Metro accordingly and back to Hotel in return line the same way.

Eating joints or Food Court:-

Chutney Mary at departure and Mc-Cafe at Arrival are good for our taste at Airport whereas at Little India you can find ANANDA BHAVAN,
KAMLA Restaurant and many other veg and non veg at Tekka Centre at Little India.

Chutney Mary gives us staff discount of 20% or Veg and NVeg Thali of almost half price including Tea/Coffee @S$6.50/=You can take your dinner here before 22:00 hrs as by the time you reaches hotel it will be around 00:30 am.

Our S$25/- per day can be combined and one can go for buffet breakfast alternate day as it cost @$50/-.

Regent hotel is adjacent to Tanglin Mall. Here also you can find a food court and get food of your choice from BANANA LEAF or from many other counters of your choice.

Apart from this you can find  Food court in all the Mall's basement at Orchard Road which is 8 minutes away by walk.

Places to Visit during your stay:-

Orchid park & Botanical Garden,
Gardens by Bay,
Clark Quay riverside,
Sentosa,
Zoo and River safari
And many others endless list.

Every where the entry is through the tickets.It is always better to have your online ticket.

I will send the link where you can get discounted tickets.

Meanwhile,get the Wi-Fi code of our Air India office at SIA & Code for Lounge so that your personal mobile will have seamless WiFi connectivity during office hours at Airport.

"AirNav" can also be easily open and refered at desktop in security hold area whenever the need arises.

Hope this will help during your stay.Have a pleasant stay at Singapore.

Regards,
Pramodara
pramodara@gmail.com
+919999908635

Come Back

Come back friends after a long silence.

SUFFERINGS OF BEING BIHARI-A NON RESIDENT BIAHARI(NRB)

Bihar is very unique in its social,economic & cultural pattern as a result large % of population is still struggling to meet both ends whereas the other remaining pie of people are very rich and Affluent who controls the economy of Bihar.

Of late after Laloo regime in Bihar who aggressively plays the Cast politics and rule the state for two decades where Bihar was struggling for basic needs especially after food it was Health and Education .

No University was sticking to their examination sessions on time causes exodus of Bihari students and settled outside Bihar in all the parts of country to shape up their life and future. 

Over the periods these NRBs(hereafter will be referring them as Non resident Biharis, NRB) excelled in almost every walk of life and earn their livelihoods leaving their parents at native places.

These NRBs also contributed large amount of economy back to Bihar as they keep sending at least one third of their earnings back home.

After Sh Nitish coming back to power with NDA on the issues of development by defeating Laloo government,people of Bihar had lot of hopes from him and he brought significant change in Bihar and Biharis at many parameters but then again fell prey of caste based politics,shakes hand with Laloo and others who he opposed once and ruled Bihar for two decades; a large % age of young voters are not happy and they are not going to buy their idea of cast based politics.

Each of young voters wants development in his own state like rest of India. 

Today Bihar wants to know from these politicians when we are self sufficient in every thing, let it be fertile land,coal,water,mines or talent then why we can not progresses like rest of the states in our country. Where do we lack if we have all the resources?

Answer is very tricky.It can be understood by the policies of Britishers where they ruled India by Divide& Rule policies since more than 200s of years. 

Here politicians never wanted the poor,Dalit & Backwards to get the education. They systematically mar the education system in the state so that only those who are rich and sustain will get education by moving out of state and the poor became the labors of our country. 

Since the state neither seen Green revolution nor Industrialization in long run(since Independence) with no policies for decades on Road and Electricity; there was nothing left in State to stay with and larger portion of youths in 1990s moves out for livelihood and became labour.

Today one can find three different types of migrants Bihari;One who are IAS,IPS,IRS,Engineers and Doctors,

Second have indulgence in small business like selling veggies and fruits, and driving Auto rickshaws and 

Third,a very large percentage of poor who could do nothing but either their parents were bonded labours in Bihar or starving of food moved out as a Labourers and initially engaged in farming in Punjab where these labours were being sent and auctioned for Six months and they too here was working like bonded labour only but there life was a bit better than in Bihar.

Today Bihar's migrants,though due their hard work,achieve a respectable life but the tag of Bihar as a LABOUR is still there.

BIHARI word is a synonymous of a type of abuse for Bihari. 

Everyday on day to day basis NRBs are struggling for their own existence and trying to prove that we are not less in any parameters than people of other state,facing hurdle at every steps but nothing succeed and win such proxy war outside Bihar unless Bihar progress.

Unless Bihar adopt the change of leadership for the cause of Developments in Bihar in terms of Road,Electricity, Farming,Industry and Health etc,the proxy war of NRB will remain as is.

The youth of Bihar must choose the Government who can bring change in Bihar.

We must ask questions to ourselves why Bihari should go out to get education when we own the world's first University in past as Nalanda university?

Sher Shah conceptualise and inaugurated the GT road in Bihar then and today we do not have road,why? We had the genious amongst us like Aryabhat,Chanakya,Chadragupta and Emperor Ashoka and we had the tag of Labours why? 

Two major religions in the world started from Bihar; Buddhism and Jainism; and we are struggling to regain our existence Why? 

Just think Friends,How long we keep fighting among our own brothers in the name of cast and reservation. Let us choose our own live by bringing everything in our state what we deserve for. How long we get abused of a state of Laborers, and we will be known as BIMARU State.

Development and only Development should be our only motto so that we must go back to our state and stay with pride.

Let us dream of a rich,progressive and prosperous BIHAR.

BSES-REQST FOR NAME CHANGE ON ELECTRICITY BILL

Usually this is the requirement whenever one purchase a property,one require to change the the name of owner/name on the Electricity bill of previous owner.
Please go through the following documents before you proceed to BSES offices of your area to avoid inconvenience and to get your job done in one go within 15 Minutes.

Please prepare your documents as under:-

Get The LATEST COPY OF PAID ELECTRICITY BILL

1.Get TWO PASSPORT SIZE PHOTOGRAPHS,

2.Get THE PHOTOCOPY OF YOUR REGISTRY PAPERS OF PROPERTIES.Sign it on each pages of its papers.

3.Get the PHOTOCOPIES OF YOUR TWO IDs eg PAN,ADHAR CARD,VOTER ID,DRIVING LICENCE OR PASSPORT
Carry the originals along with and append your signature on the ID copies.

4.Get an AFFIDAVIT ON NON JUDICIAL STAMP OF Rs.10/=,The Content of the Affidavit is attached here under for reference.

5 Fill up an APPLICATION FORM for NAME CHANGE.(Application form is available at free of cost at the office premises and it takes only 5 minutes to fill up the form where it requires to affix your photographs.Copy of Form 1st page only attach)
6.Once all these documents are ready,call@39999707 and get the Request No.

7.Go to the nearest BSES office,Quote your request Number and submit all your papers.That is it.

8.For Joint Name all the procedures/documents required are same except one require photographs of both the member with signatures of both on each pages of Property papers and their.Of

course it requires ID for both with their respective signature appended on it.

GREECE CRISIS-A BIRDS EYE VIEW

Greece Crisis is an example of over expenditure met by debt borrowings and default in payments schedule with a GDP in downward trend from 7.7% on year to year basis till 2000 goes to -Ve.

Debt payment was done by borrowing from other financial institutions each time till it default more recently.

Greeks enjoyed the lavish life with a living standard ranked 21^st in the world till recently unless the recession crept in by 2008 and the government starts taking austerity measure to meet the repayment schedule very recently by the beginning of 2010.

Athens being the capital of Greece with “Drachma” was its currency till 1999 prior to adopting Euro by 2001.

Shipping and Tourism are the main sectors contributing GDP. Greece is facing Debt crisis since it has accumulated high level debt during the decade before financial crisis when the market was highly liquid.

As the market faces financial crisis there was liquidity crunch in world economy thereby making borrowing difficult as well as expensive and this makes difficult and irregular of repaying the debt.

This was due excessive expenditure, mismanagement, unregulated labor market and obsolete pension system.

US sub-prime crisis by the end of 2008 had a large impact and further deepens the crisis to Greece as volatile capital markets due to liquidity crunch resulted in lower capital flows. Strict norms were made for banks to grant loans and rates were also increased thereby borrowings becomes costlier and difficult for Greece. This had a large affect on shipping and Tourism of Greece which was prime contributor to GDP.

It was forced to borrow heavily from the world market to fund Government Budget and account deficit and accumulated high level of debt before the financial crisis or the recession took place.

During this period Government expenditure increased by 87% whereas economy grew only by 31%.This resulted in Rising unemployment, Tax evasion and corruption.

Greece foreign policy largely focused on neighboring countries (Romania, Bulgaria, turkey)were also under the grip of recession.

The Europian union IMF,and the ECB sets up Tripartite committee(TROIKA) to prepare program whereby in May 2010,3 years package of Euro 110 billion was declared and ECB provided substantial liquidity support to Greek’s private Banks Euro 51 billion(b/W  Jan 2010 to May 2011).

Euro zone provided again a loan of 109 billion in July 2011.ECB purchased bonds valued 78 billion from Greece Govt.

EU also made a proposal to make a single authority responsible for Tax and Govt.spending.

Three consecutive austerity measures were taken in Feb 2010, May 2010 and Jan 2011 whereby salaries, leaves Bonus, pension and various perks were cut (almost Euro 40 billion) which resulted in large scale protest.

G20 leaders come up with plan to protect Banking system against crisis by recapitalizing the banks so that they can absorb the losses without going bankrupt.

France and German trying to save Greece being bankrupt it defaults. Greece FM told to resolve the crisis and US is putting pressure on EU to save Greece otherwise it will lead to double dip recession.

Now due over public expenditure and over borrowed, Greece is on the verge of default. Greece Govt is taking tight austerity measure to bring down budget deficit to 0.9% of GDP by 2015.

Now the EU is in dilemma whether to save Greece or let it go default.

Greeks are going for referendum on Sunday and have to vote in terms of YES or No but people are totally confused about the questionnaire which will decide Greece's relationship with European union. 

  

HIGHLIGHTS OF DIGITAL INDIA

                                       Highlights of Digital India

(1)Digital india is a massive technical push to provide E-governance and Universal phone connectivity across the country,bringing in large investment in technology manufacturing.

 (2)The PM described digital India as a road map to change India’s future as this has to be done as early as possible or the world will pass us by.

(3)E-Governance is going to change into M-Governance... M is not Modi Governance, it is mobile governance,"

 (4)Reliance Industries Ltd plans to invest about 2.5 lakh crore ($39.3 billion) in digital initiatives.

 (5)Push to connect India and drive a national fibre optic network to those outside large towns and cities

(6)Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that during Digital India Week, the government expects "billions of dollars in investment", critical for a government that needs to create more jobs quickly.

(7)The government plan aims to stop net imports of technology and electronics by 2020, while creating over 100 million jobs.

(8)A growing economy and falling handset prices make India one of the fastest growing smartphone markets in the world, and can be harness that to drive  social development in fields like education and health.

(9)Akamai Technology ranked India’s internet speed 115^th globally whereas India has little over 100million broadband subscriber to be overcome by adopting/digitizing india.

(10)At the event today, Cyrus Mistry said the Tata Group would hire 60,000 IT professionals this year, and Kumaramangalam Birla said his Aditya Birla Group will invest Rs. 44,500 crore ($7 billion) in the next five years in the infra and digital space.