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A long and first trip in our Nexon

 Dear Readers               Hope you all are doing well and celebrated the Diwali!                              3 years back, when we bought the Nexon petrol, it took 3 months to go for a long trip which is around 550-kilometer one way.               Usually, for long trips I prefer to have a halt after 300 kilometers, and I never travelled 500+ kilometer in one go with family. So, we had a halt in between and went to Tiruchendur.               And, we reach Tiruchendur by evening and have a darshan as usual. In the next day we sometimes have a darshan once again and start returning home. However, my spouse friend advised us to have a early morning darshan to avoid the crowd.               So, we went to the temple by 230 AM in the morning, ...

My personal experience on Driving License renewal

 Dear Readers     I hope you all are doing good. Let me share my recent experience with RTO on license renewal. It is partially a complement and a complaint.                            A few years back, I think entire processing moved to online mode that includes form submission, proof submission, photo, etc.     Let us get into the story now. It all started with a Driving School near Medavakkam. As I did not want to go through typical government office processing I chose to go with a driving school. On the phone they said the fee for the license renewal is 2000 after I gave the complete details.     Once I reached there, a madam sitting in the front office told me that actual charge is 4000. I was not ok to pay such a huge amount and as usual, I spoke to a few of my friends who were supposed to have finished the processing recently. They said it won't even go up to 1000 rupees. ...