Chetpet Office !!??

Yes, it was a business center named Niche Business Centre located in 2nd Avenue, Harrington Road, Chetpet, Chennai. We rented it last December and we were working(a little, to be frank) from there till yesterday.

We??

Me and Rangachary Krishan, my best friend from college, constitutes that WE.

We were working together from early June 2009. I was working in PHP/MySQL, rather WordPress projects to be precise, mostly via elance.com and he worked in logo design and assisted me in little design stuffs that comes with the coding work I do.
He is actively participating in the design contents in 99designs.com.

Its really hard to work from home due to the abundance of disturbances, so we decided to look for an Office space and Ranga found this Business Center. Its located near the Lady Andal School in Harrington Road, a nice and calm place with lots of trees. We took a nice little two seater cabin and it cost us Rs.6500/Month and additional Rs.500/PC or Laptop. So we paid Rs.7500/month, little costly!. They also have a small pantry and support staffs for assistance and to give it an office feel. There were about 10 such cabins.

Its a good choice if you were looking for a work place for short duration. Not many were aware the existence such entity and we found it by chance while searching for a fully rented office and the advantage such place is zero investment and planning. If you like the cabin, just pay and occupy. When you are done, just leave. There were many such Business Centers and I saw one in Flowers Road, near Sangam Theater and another one in Haddows Road(ApeeJee Business Center).

Our cubicle was very similar to this but not this.
Here is the full address.
Niche Business Centre
No.10, first floor, Second Avenue,
Harrington Road,
Chetput, Chennai – 600 032.
www.nichechennai.com

(Don’t look in google maps its shows the location about a KM away from actual place )

Last week Ranga got an offer from his previous company and he(we) decided to accept it. So, we decided to vacate the office and did so yesterday. It was so simple, all that was needed was a letter and no prior notice, nothing.

So, wat’s next….!!??

I’m looking for another office space near my home!!!

Why office space!!?? Why not home!!??

Guess what! I just found the topic for next post

To start with I’m upgrading this WordPress installation to latest version – WordPress 2.9.2

Also, for long time I’m planning to design a WordPress Theme for myself and I keep procrastinating. My personal deadline to design a new theme is April 1st, I’m not fooling…! believe me…!!! Let’s see how it goes…!!!

Finally, I want to let you all know that I’m back!!!

Monsters vs Aliens - 3D Animation Movie Poster

Monsters Vs Aliens is a 3D Animated movie and you get to wear 3D glass to view it. The movie was slightly boring in the first half. Susan (the tall girl in the poster in the right) is hit by a meteor and turns into a monster. She’s then taken to secret government prison or lab(strangely quite big to keep it secret ) headed by General Monger, where she meets 4 other monsters Dr. Cockroach – scientist with cockroach head, BOB – brainless jelly with only one eye, Missing Link – crocodile like creature and Insectosarus – a huge insect(hence not in this poster), that becomes a butterfly in the climax. Susan turned huge absorbing a substance called quantonium and Gallaxhar, an alien is in search of it and sends a giant robot to extract the substance from susan.

The giant robot lands in US. US president(comedian of this movie) comes to talk with the robot and plays the Crazy frog tune . The robot gets annoyed and destroys everything and the huge US military couldn’t do anything. The General suggests to use Monsters to fight against the Aliens. The monsters fight sucessfully against the robot and Gallaxhar decides to come to earth to complete the misson.

Gallaxhar comes to earth in his huge space ship. Susan and other monsters fight with Gallaxhar and destroys his space ship in the end.

The funny part was the meeting often held in a secure US office. The office has 2 huge red button, 1 to make coffee and the other to launch nuclear attack. The US President in the movie often goes to hit button to lauch nuclear attack trying to prepare coffee and every time he’s stopped by the alarming members of the office.

Monsters vs Aliens - Larger Image

Plus:

• Realistic animation.
• Kids will enjoy the movie.

Minus:

• Though the movie is a 3-D movie there isn’t much noticable 3-D effects.
• Not upto Hollywood standards.
• You have to pay extra for the 3-D glass. (Rs.20 extra for the glass and has to be returned back!!!).

Overall, a below par Hollywood movie, worth watching once. Have a look at the clips in the Monsters Vs Aliens Official website.

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