sights and smells in chennai

Speed breakers or Spine breakers.
Unique feature of chennai roads,especially inside colonies away from main thoroughfares but very near to VIPs houses (they could be politicians,ministers or judges or former celebrities) is their unpredictableness.It is really a spine breaking experience.Right in the middle of a avenue laden quiet colony,last thing you will expect is a near vertical speed breaker;no i did not say there were indications before the speed breaker warning the motorist;no there are no mandatory markings in yellow and white splashed all over for even the faint sighted to spot and beware; no it does not conform to the specifications of a speed breaker;it rises vertically,sharp at the summit and ends ubruptly.All that a road layer could visualise and execute when his boss told him that his boss told him that there should be a speed breaker in front of this celebrity's house.How is it that they are always in the light-shadow region of any road?
Any other city boasts of such unique features?
oh yes, smell of jasmine.You will get it in many places;parking your car at a signal,sweet and heady smell of jasmine will tickle your nostrils;yes you still get the real pink roses here at times and not the very perfectly made bright hued show case variety.The smell of pink roses is so gentle and so soothing when you pass by a florist on your way back from work.Yes rajniganda is another flower which is conspicuous in the city.NO i am not talking about the one florists use.But the ones used by the small time flower vendor while stringing it along with maru kozhundu and dhavanam for the ubiquitous kadambam.That smell surely is heavenly.
The smell of vibhuti and incense and camphor inside kapali temple specially on pradosham;yes in several other temples too.but kapali temple is unique for me.
The different smells and sights the beach welcomes you with;on a monsoon day,the dark almost black colour of the waves,thrashaing on the sand and the smell of sea which can at best be said "primitive"
On a spring eve the gently wafting breeze ,tossing a low tide to reveal frothy milk white fringes
and a soothing blue enveloping your entire being.Feel one with nature and water,wind and sand.