Rain Rain Go Away… Mumbaities Need Some Relief to Stay

Since Sunday morning it’s pouring and it’s pouring heavily… I know I’ve got some long postings on Mumbai rains… but that’s what is going in my mind since last Tuesday…

Earlier during rains, I used to get so thrilled and used to enjoy it watching pouring all over and even getting wet in rain used to be of great fun but today I’m worried about a lot of things… those people those lives… who are yet trying to recover from the tragic Tuesday, who might have just taken a breath of comfort or not even that, have yet another downpour to confront.

I can nicely enjoy rains standing in my balcony or sitting in my bedroom but somehow I’m not happy to see the rains… Anything, which takes life away or the necessities of life can never bring happiness.

First the downpour, then the blast at Mumbai High, the deadly rumours, the landslide, the airport mishap… what’s more… enough now.
What God is up to he only knows?

The rains have not stopped yet and the city is yet again in Red Alert. Yesterday my sister and some of my friends got SMS from Mumbai Police to not to move out from houses. I didn’t receive any :-(

On Saturday eve, I saw “7 ½ Phere” starring Irfaan Khan and Juhi Chawla, nice TP comedy… looses its track in the second half and things get dragging…lot’s drama.
Good to see India defeating West Indies in Cricket on Sunday. Some consolation for sitting at home ;-)

3-4 Kms away from my office there is a Tabela of buffaloes (Buffaloes Shed) and a lot of them died coz of the rains… there is a fear of epidemics so unless I get a green signal I wont be resuming office.
I already had a very long break… didn’t went to office since Wednesday…
It’s Monday and no Monday blues… only Monday rains are here… our office has declared an off today :-) so my mini vacation continues… don’t know how they will make us compensate for this.

Lets hope the city gets some breathing space…

THANK U BMC (Local Municipal Corp)
THANK U CM (Chief Minister)
So what you did not convert
Mumbai into Shanghai.
U did one step ahead by converting
Mumbai into Venice

Monsoon, Mumbai & Me and My Journey Back Home

Here I continue my second part of story…

Wednesday – 27th July 2005

@ My friend’s home:
In the morning we could see some movement on the highway, vehicle were plying and water clogging was also cleared. This was the scene at Goregaon – Western Express Highway. GSG left for his home early and after some time RD and I came to office.

While walking towards office we couldn’t believe that it was the same road, which was flooded with water. Still a lot of vehicles were parked on the road while, a lot of them were struck in gutters or big pot holes, people were in search for food and milk, a lot of compound walls had collapsed, water had entered a lot of shops and houses. A few busses were running over crowded, no auto rickshaw or taxi… we walked the whole way to office.

@ Office
Hardly anyone was there, not even power, electricity, Internet or telephone. Mobile network continued to be F**K*D

After some discussions in office and considering reconsidering whether I should carry my laptop back home, I left office at around 11AM along with my laptop. (I was approx 24 Kms away from home) The highway was quite clear but hardly any buses, no rickshaw or taxi were ready to go to Bandra or Sion (These are half way stop towards my home)

@ Matador
Finally a Matador (Mini truck) stopped and a lot of people got into that. I thought the journey has well begun. It reaches one of the fly over and the traffic was screwed up, it took a U turn to the road below the fly over… after travelling some distance even that was f**k*d … another route was taken which after some distance was again F…. then another… then another and another… either due to traffic or water clogging… after this lengthy journey we reached Santacruz East. (Approx 16 Kms away from home) However it was not possible for the vehicle to go ahead. So we came down… walked in knee depth water and reached the highway.

@ Double-Decker
A Double-Decker bus was moving towards Kurla (This place is approx 6-7Kms away from home) and I boarded the bus. It started slowly and in no time water entered into the bus, we all moved to the upper deck, but the scene around was horrible and scary. Water had actually covered the entire cars, which were parked there, it was till neck level, One Maruti Esteem was actually floating, localites were there holding ropes for help… but in no case it was possible for the bus to move ahead, it took a reverse and I thought of getting out but were to go, so I just kept my fingers crossed and stayed in the bus along with other passengers. It took a different route… it was slightly better, the water was marginally below chest level. On my way I could see shops, houses, roads completely filled with water… and one can just see only water around…I wasn’t sure whether I was in a bus or a ship… it was dead scary… thanks to the driver’s amazing driving… but he couldn’t help us reach the destination and left us mid way coz the road ahead was again jammed.

I consulted bus drivers and police as to which road is better, but their guess was as good as mine… they told all the roads are filled with water, you will have to walk down… I was in a no man’s land and left with no options than to walk… and may be that was a blessing in disguise… coz life main problem tab hoti hain jab options hote hain ;-)… when there are no options we exactly know what we have to do… no confusion u see.

# Walking all the way…
So the march started… the localites had tied ropes and were standing there and instructing all the commuters… what a spirit that was… water was above thigh level and hundreds of people were walking… I was holding my laptop on my shoulder to avoid it from water… bare foot again… must have walked around 1 KM like that… then another 2 Kms on road without water to reach Kurla Station.

I had to cross from west to east so I took the flyover and the scene I saw was horrible. Water was upto platform level, no one can even guess there are railway tracks over there… it was looking like a sea… just water and water every where…

# Kept Walking…
Water level at the Eastern side was the same… again consulted the police and some localites… again the same advice just keep walking calmly …
There were hundreds of people walking… exchanging smiles… keeping the momentum going…
I must have walked for approx 2-3 Kms at knee to thigh-level water to reach the highway… all shops around were closed and filled with water… The scene on the highway was no better… it was clogged by the vehicles…

# Localites extending the helping hand…
Certain things differentiate Mumbai from all other cities and one of them is the attitude of people… I was simply amazed to see their enthusiasm… there were people on roads distributing free Kheechdi, free vada pav, free bananas to all the commuters, they were holding ropes… guiding people… managing traffic to their best… when you see such things your belief on mankind just rises…

One of those angels gave me 2 bananas… told me please take it… its free…
In the morning, I just had a cup of tea and some biscuits (that was around 8AM)… and it was 3:30PM…

# And Walking….
I kept moving as I still had a very long way to go… actually the route, which took me to the highway was a longer route… but I guess that was the only possible route… my shoulders and hand were paining… Stomach said pls take care of me too… Legs were shouting for help… Due to the wound in my leg I was not wearing shoes and the Chappal I was wearing had also given up…

@ Home…
After another walk of around 3 kms I could find a rickshaw, which dropped me near my home. I reached home at 4:30 PM…my Sis reached couple of mins before me… walking almost the same distance as mine but on a different route… on Tuesday night she stayed at her office only… fortunately she had her friend’s company.

Our parents were so content and happy to see us at home. All the efforts and pains were worth it.

I’m sure lakhs of people must have travelled like this… I was just one of them.

Adversity either weakens you or strengths you, this incidence has lifted my self-confidence like anything… travelling 9-10Kms, of which 4-5 in water, bare foot, having a recovering wound on left foot… gosh… its all a mind game…physical attributes doesn’t matter that match.

I’m planning to buy Nokia 3230 (with camera and video recording)… I’m regretting that I didn’t bought it last weekend… I could have taken some of the most memorable snaps…

Now I’m happily lying on my bed and relaxing… but there are so many still struggling to get their routine back to normal…Today I got a chance to look into so many lives so closely… it makes me realise that I shouldn’t actually worry for petty things coz HE has blessed me with a lot I can be proud off.

Long live Mumbai and Mumbaities… your attitude just rocks…out of the world, unfortunately in this country unity only comes during adversity…else real democracy will rule :-)

Monsoon Messes Mumbai

Front View from my Office

It started raining from Tuesday afternoon and no one would have thought that the rains would create such a major havoc. By 4PM the traffic had got jammed and then the things just went worse.

We thought rains will stop by late evening but rains had a different POA. It was raining cats and dogs and it kept raining continuously.

It was difficult to get out of the office complex as the water had clogged like hell and the flow of water was scary. I gave up all my thoughts of going home and decided to hangout at my friend’s place, which is hardly 3 kms from my office, but by the time I started moving out even that didn’t seemed possible. My colleague (GSG) and me opted to stay at another colleague’s (RD) place. We left office by 7.30PM and by walking we covered a distance of 1.5Kms in 45min to reach his home.

Pic taken at 4:00PM

Cell phones, wallet, belt, watch and footwear, all were wrapped in plastic. Water was up to the knee level and we were walking bare foot. Soon we were on the highway and the scene over there was horrible. All buses, trucks, cars, bikes and other private vehicles had no scope of movement; huge crowd was on roads walking towards their destination. The flow of water on roads really took my breath away. One side of the highway was completely filled with water and even the divider was not visible. In sometime we realised that there is no point keeping the umbrella open so we just closed it and started enjoying ourselves in the rains and traffic.

There were a lot of volunteers on road helping people to guide the way. Gosh that was amazing. Then we reached a point were the water was above thigh level and it was flowing with a great speed. For a moment it scared all of us, and then we held each other tightly and marched towards our destination. It was worth an experience.

There was a complete black out… no electricity.

We reached his home and fortunately he had clothes that could fit us ;-). After settling down, calls were made to the family and close friends… network was completely f**k*d.

His wife made tea for us, which was the best thing to have at that time. After that we had dinner and kept discussing about a hell lot of things. We were fortunate to have a shelter (& food) at his place. A lot of my colleagues and seniors stayed in office till 5AM.

Thanks a million to RD and his wife…as it’s rightly said: A friend in need is friend indeed.

A lot of people walked 5 – 10 Kms in the night to reach home or friend’s place. Some stayed in buses and cars, some in near by hotels, some in office and some in tension and botheration.

At some places, people left their vehicles on highway, buses were parked were they got struck. It was only after 4 - 5 AM things slowly started moving on. The whole of Mumbai went stand still on Tuesday Evening/Night. Look at coincidence the date was again 26, (26 Jan – Gujarat Earth quake, 26 Dec – Tsunami)

God bless all the people who are struck by the gruesome rains… these kinds of incident brings one closer to life… don’t ever take it for granted.

This was a lifetime experience, but this is just the happy and first part of my story, the scary part will hit the Blog soon.

My weekend date with Movies

With a track record of watching atleast one movie a week, viewing new released movie on the same week and ever crazy to watch movies… here I present before you my weekend’s date with movies.


Virudh (**1/2)
Friday: 7PM @ Movie Time, Goregaon –
*ing Amitabh, Sharmila Tagore, Sanjay Dutt and John Ibrahim.

At first we planned for this movie for the 5.45 show then cancelled the plan, however again at 6.30 we decided to go for the movie… after a break of one month I saw a movie on the very first day of its release…

The movie is ok for watching once; the first half has been presented nicely. Second half gets a bit filmi and so is the climax, which is the typical Bollywood type. Big B is as usual at his best, and keeps the interest going. Story line can be guessed by watching the trailer, nothing new, a family kind movie.

Dus (***)
Sat: 3:45PM @ Cine Planet, Sion
*ing Sanjay Dutt, Abhishek Bachhan, Suniel Shetty, Zayed Khan, Pankaj Kapur & Misc Actresses

I tried first week, it was houseful, 2nd week I again tried but it was still houseful, 3rd week I tried and I got first row tickets…
I took it smilingly ;-))

The movie is definitely worth a watch, for the awesome background score and title track. Abhishek Bachhan once again rocks… man what an attitude… also Pankaj Kapur lives to his reputation of being one of the finest actor.

Nothing new on story front, a typical bollywood action dhamaka, where 4 leading stars fight the whole gang of bad boys … don’t even try to look for logic, just watch and enjoy… I loved the stunts and acting of all the handsome hunks… I had a good time…


Maine Pyar Kyon Kiya (***)
Saturday: 3:15PM @ Ashish, Chembur –
*ing Salman Khan, Sushmita Sen, Sohail Khan, Arshad Varsi and Katrina Kaif


The recent controversy over Salman Khan made this movie all the more popular, I tried last week but it was running houseful. I got some horrible reviews about this movie from my friends but still I had enough enthusiasm to watch it and I’m happy I did it.

Leave your brains, worries, tensions, and common sense all at home to enjoy this movie… a complete timepass, full to non-sense comedy… bole to ek dum paisa vasul ;-)

Katrina looks wow but the show stealer is Sushmita Sen she looks hot… especially in that orange Sari.
I was continuously laughing and enjoyed a lot… a typical David Dhawan Movie.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday… 1 movie each, completing my Hat trick… I’m loving it. What a Capacity ;-) … my parents are wondering what I’m upto… actually just catching up with my backlog of watching movies… good to be back on track ;-))
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I’ve not finished yet…
I saw couple more on CDs… (and I’m still in my senses)

CON AIR (**1/2)
*ing Nicolas Cage, John Cusack & John Malkovich
Complete action pack Hollywood movie… a typically guys kind. The bad guys have all there plans ready and do everything right till the hero screws up things for them… and with lots of crashes, blasts and shouts… the bad guy looses… he he he
Nicolas Cage is as cool as ever… watch out for him.


The SIEGE (***)
*ing Denzel Washington, Annette Bening & Bruce Willis
Another action packed thriller… I had seen this movie long back; it was good fun watching it again.
Denzel Washington is terrific, Bruce Willis has a small part but impressive… plays a negative role… overall a nice package.


I know my coming week is going to be very busy with late night workings, so compensating for it.
But still my dream is to watch 4 movies a day (all shows)… and I believe that dreams do come true.

Freaking on Movies – Historical Track

A House Party

Since last month I have been regularly partying with my office gang… I’m not a typical party party animal… my star sign Virgo says it all… but life seems to be somewhat different these days…

Infact a lot of things are not happening by my way but to cover it up these parties are keeping my momentum going…

One of my office colleagues/friends is leaving to US for his new venture. So it was his farewell party and at his place… a bachelor’s house and 8 of us… young, enthusiastic, ever lively and full TP people.

The guy is Goanite and loves Rock Music and Beer next to his life… I leave the rest to your imagination of how his house would have been yesterday eve…

The only missing part was the Dance… with my leg still under recovering stage, I couldn’t have thought about dancing and my other friends too thought of some change…. It was like, lets just chill down… get cozy in couches, crib about office and relax :-)>

Pizzas is what we had for dinner …it was ordered from Smokin Joes, it didn’t tasted that good… I feel Pizza Hut is better than Smokin Joes and Dominos … again being a Vegetarian and Non Alcoholic my options are reduced to a great extent… but no issues happy with what I’m :-)

Party time is just at it's peak, I guess there are atleast 2 more in queue for this month… not sure.

Hoping to watch 2 movies… “DUS” and “Maine Pyar Kyon Kiya” in theatre and CONAIR & The SIEGE on VCD… I guess my weekend is all set to chill out.

Friendz Have a Great Weekend… Enjoy
Cheers

PS: My weekend already took off in a great way... Saw "Virudh" on Friday Eve ;-))) he he he he

Life is an experiment

The photos have come of AF’s B’day Party


View Album … Enjoy

Last weekend me and my friends were wandering in the streets of South Mumbai… 3 of us were just walking without any destination and chatting along… one of my friend stops near a restaurant and thinks of experimenting with new food… it was a “Lebanese and Iranian” restaurant…

A pretty decent looking restaurant… as soon as the menu booklet came in, I and the other friend of mine… started commenting in a low voice… as if we are ordering the waiter

My Friend: Ek Kanda Bhajiya La
Me: Sath main cutting chai

(Menu page is turned…)

My friend: Ek Veg Chicken Kabab
Me: One omelette with no Egg

My friend: Pura Menu dekh liya sirf Paani acha hain…
Me: Ye Starter end kab hota hain

The friend who got us in was wondering what are we upto…

After a long struggle I ordered “Homos Garlic Roll”… now don’t ask me what is that.
I still couldn’t figure out…

Roll was of Maida… some French fries inside… homos and garlic sauce (the combination is yaks)… no salt… no pepper… I only know how I had it… same was the scene with my other friends… I can’t remember what they had ordered… but their body language said what were they into…

Thanks to Lemon Ice Tea… which helped me to improve the taste of my mouth…

I could recall the quote, "Eat at this restaurant and you'll never eat anywhere else again"

We then walked down from Regal to Churchgate Sea face… it was required to digest ;-)))

After reaching home I had Maggie for dinner as I had told mom that I would be eating out… he he he

“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life”

So True... Have a great day :-)>

My Stars are not good right now…

Do you believe in astrology… palmistry… horoscopes…etc etc etc…
I don’t…
When things goes bad with us, most of the time we blame it on destiny or luck… or ease away by saying my stars are not good…

“To err is Human and not to accept it is Humanity”

Sunday morning started off at 11:00am (thanx to late night movies on VCD). The day picked up speed as some relatives were expected for lunch, I had to get ready fast not giving any more opportunity to Mom to scold me… she knows how lazy I’m… he he he
A movie was planned with my friends and my cousins in the evening… we ended up checking 4 theatres and only finding the “HouseFull” board…that was truly disappointing.
The evening went away while chatting around and some shopping etc.

Am not saying that my stars are not favourable just because I didn’t get movie tickets. I was in my room at 11:00PM, all set to relax, work for couple of hours and then go off to sleep… I never had a clue that anything will go wrong by that time. My colony friend called me and said that I’ve forgotten my driving license with him, since he leaves for office pretty early I went to collect it from his place… his house is hardly 5 mins drive from mine…I collected the license and was only 20-25 mtrs away from the parking slot in my building when things went wrong… I couldn’t figure out the loose dry mud and took a nice sleek steep turn… ended up into loosing control of my bike as my bike skidded…I went right down on ground… bang (@#$%^%$@).

I got couple of cuts on my left palm; couple on left foot, one on my right ankle, plus 3-4 very small wounds on my hand, legs and lower lips… that was horrible…My sis was shocked… my parents were asleep so we didn’t disturbed them. She got me the first aid kit. I cleaned the wounds with water and then applied medicine. I thought it would be alright by next day… but my hand and leg had got swollen, I went to the doctor, did the bandage on my hand, took anti-tetanus injection, some medicines and back home.

Fortunately no major wounds or cuts… it should take a week to get my bike back on roads… Since this year I’m having a lot of encounters with my bikes… I accept that I’m a fast rider but I don’t drive rash… my bike driving has always fished me compliments.

Earlier this week too when I was going with my sis, I dashed into a tempo, but that was surely not my mistake, the tempo took a quick turn and then applied a sudden brake… fortunately the bike didn’t fall and I could control it but the bike had some damage due to the clash… Infact Sunday evening I was just remembering my bike accidents and thanked god that whether it was a small or a big one I was lucky enough to get away without a scratch… may be my gratification got rejected by him :-((
May be I’m getting a bit over confident and careless… this time I surely was… I was very casual and careless… I could have avoided it.

I drive 20-25 kms a side daily and a lot of people keep telling me drive safely, isn’t it risky to drive that long… and all those elderly concerns… but for an accident to happen you don’t need a 25 kms long journey… it can happen 25mtrs from your home…

I may blame it on my stars to satisfy my conscious but deep down inside I know it was my fault and my carelessness… cant take the risk to afford it again… the cost is too high.

This post is written with a bandage on one hand… I love to blog and drive too… Cheers

"My Bike Encounters"

Married OR Happy ???

A common question we ask people…
What if, we replace OR with AUR of Hindi (Aur = and)… he he he he
Ya that’s how couples are in the initial years of their marriage, no experience in this area so far… just spreading the word of mouth.


One of my very good friend got married yesterday, and that’s what made me blog this. It’s always so fun to attend the weddings of your closed ones… and I love the way marriages are conducted over here… all the customs and traditions… they are just wow… all those small small things carry so much of meaning.

Couple of months back, they met for the first time and now they will together for the lifetime…
A typical “Arranged Marriage”– “CHAI LAO” types ;-). All good and nicely done, guy liked the girl and the girl liked the guy, both are from the same caste, both professionals and all correct ticks as there should be in an arranged marriage questionnaire.

Formal engagement was done a month back and marriage was earlier scheduled in the later part of the year, but god had some different plans… I think he has passed a reconciliation entry, must of have thought that since he took almost 25yrs for their first meet… why waste more days…

She had so less time to prepare for the wedding. Also due to shortage of time they went for “Arya Samaj” marriage, will get court’s marriage certificate in couple of days so that she can apply for the passport as she will moving to London… sounds great isn’t it.
By so less time I meant so less time to spend with her family, friends and closed ones… so less time to accept the fact that she will be in a altogether new world… new relations… new dreams… new expectations… new hopes… but the irony is how much ever time a girl will get it will be always less.

It’s so tough for a girl to leave her home, family, her own life and to be a part of new home, family and to live a new life… hats off…

I wish them a very happy married life… (Setting aside the fact that happy and married are antonym… he he he ;-)>… kidding)

Many many Congratulations…

“I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”

This one is on you friendz

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Thanks to Keshi for the quiz link :-)>

A straw that broke the camel’s back

After excessive workload, driving and exertion my body had to break off… and it happened on last Saturday. When I got up I was not feeling perfectly fine, some back pains, cold and cough, but I thought it would pass away.

In the morning I finished my pending bank transactions and other overdue works. In the evening I went to see Sarkar along with my colony friends. Then freaking out with friends the whole evening and the resistance in my body finally said “That’s it” “can’t handle anymore” My friends could trace out from my face that I need some rest and I really needed some. I went home and was straight down on bed. After sometime, took some medicines and went off to sleep…

Sunday morning I was slightly better but my back pain continued to trouble me… I guess I had an overdose of driving and working… In the evening our old housemaid aunty came and gave me a back massage, actually it was a must. Aunty has been working @ our home since I was 15yrs and now her daughter in law works… I mean in a city like Mumbai where it’s difficult to trust a person we had such a wonderful and trust worthy people. I still remember, she used to have one bunch of duplicate keys of our house so that she can come at her convenience to do the work. She has now got into massaging work. After that 20 mins massage I got some relief. When mumma was offering her dues, she initially refused and said “Apne ladke ki maalish karungi to paise thode lungi”, but then finally after so much insisting of mom she accepted the money. (I can actually write a separate post for her, she is always kind to us…)

In the evening I was alive enough to meet my friends downstairs and do some TP. My friends knew that my back has gone for a toss, so NV had got some ayurvedic oil for me, so sweet of her. After having my dinner, my sis massaged my back with that oil and heating bag. It was of great relief.

I know I’ve to get into the regular exercise mode, but that’s just not happening… hope to join some gym or swimming atleast some body exercise will happen… I’ve to start with basic brisk walking and warn up exercises, my muscles should realise that they have to perform some other actions than just staying there and growing ;-)

Sarkar: Hats off

Not many people like Ram Gopal Verma or his underworld oriented movies or his kind of experimental movies… I don’t fall in that category coz I love his style of movie making… no latka jhatka, no dialogue baazi… n0 running around bushes…. no abroad sight seeing… direct bang on target… his movies don’t fare good at box office but who cares…

Be it Rangeela, Satya, Junglee, Kaun, Company or Sarkar… I’ve enjoyed them…



His latest release Sarkar is an amazing movie… just 2 hours and complete fun. The movie actually has so less dialogue and the actors have done complete justice to their role. Big B excels -he is just superb. KK another classy actor is not less than perfect, Katrina looks wow and is treat whenever she is onscreen, rest all have done a fantastic job but the show stealer is Abhishek Bachhan. In the second half he out performs his dad… and this is not an overstatement… girls do watch out for him, he will drive you crazy and he is gonna give every actor run for their money now… the black horse has picked up his gear right.

The dialogue I loved the most was when Abhi goes to Swami’s place to seek his revenge…
Swami: “Beta, Bhagwat Geeta main likha hain…” before he could complete, Abhi interrupts and says “Main bhagwan main nahin manta”… oooh in what a style and attitude… his eyes said it all.
I’m eagerly waiting to see him in “DUS”.

The only thing I’ve not liked about RGV’s movie is the climax, but this time he has got everything right in place.

Sarkar is rulling the city.

Happy Birthday Dad: 10th July

Very rightly said by someone
“A father is more than a hundred schoolmasters”.


He has always been a great motivator, whenever I was in dilemma or went through rough phases, one of the few hands, which were always tapping my back, and some of those advices, which kept me moving on, were his…
Today I wish him a very Happy Birthday… ;-)

He always believed in me and gave me strength, knowledge and space to make my own decisions. And above all he always stood by me… I may love him for thousands of reasons but I would always love him for being such a wonderful dad…

"Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad."
~ Unknown

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years

I had a tiring working week and then travelling during the last weekend… I was back to Mumbai and office on Monday … then working late nights to make submissions on Wednesday… I was told about the deadlines only on Monday… a regular phenomenon.

Last Tuesday was one of my friends’ birthday and a dinner party was planned in the evening…can’t miss the party and can’t miss the deadlines… I was feeling heaven ;-)… so many things to do and so less time… I wished a day could have more than 24 hours… after working late on Monday night and slogging whole of Tuesday I could make it for the party with some smiles… leaving away the rest of the work to be done after the party night… pain isn’t it….

As we always say… kaam to chalte rehta hain (zindagi bhar karma hain)… can’t miss on such occasions… ne ways if I’ve to work late nights then why not chip in a party, enjoy for some time and then slog…

The party was good… thanx to the b’dy girl and host AF. Unlike our last eve out which was a complete blast, this was not a dance party… this time we did TP on the dinner table …

I was late (along with my colleague) to join the rest of the gang…(did we missed anything great… I don’t think so).

Pulling legs in the style of “Kya kool hain hum” was the best stuff…NK started it off and then there was no stopping…
I mean “bahut li hum logo ne ek dusre ki”……………..
“maza re….”

After having dinner… we had our typical photo session… courtesy big boss.
Hopefully the photos should get developed by next week.

“One to-day is worth two to-morrows.”

Back to square one

Hi friendz… I’m back to Mumbai and back to the blogging world. My workload has not reduced but still could sneak out some time for blogging.




I want to share an incident that happened on last Friday eve. I was out @ Food Bazar (FB) to pick up snacks for my weekend travel. FB is a fantastic food mall that makes one purchase more stuff than planned. I was standing in the queue to pay the bill and ahead of me were 3-4 ladies with 2 trolleys full of foodstuff…(as far as I could see most of the stuffs were of free schemes and discounted ones)… I mean it’s their wish to buy whatever they want but not at the time and inconvenience of others. 2 separate bills were prepared (I guess 1 for each trolley), one was paid in full and when it came to the second bill, they fell short of cash.

Then the TP began… they searched all their purses and possible sources for money but were still short by some 40-50 rupees. Then they decided to drop one item… a revised bill was prepared by the cashier… then after some discussion they changed the item to be dropped… for which again the sealed carry bag was unsealed… the item was sorted out and replaced… (I was totally bugged standing there and watching the drama… as if what the F**K going on)… my expression said it all… the cashier was equally bugged but was bound by his duty norms… at times their job gets so painstaking…

It took me more time standing in the queue for paying cash than selecting the items… how can people be so careless that they don’t know how much to buy… it’s so embarrassing at times

I was just imagining had this incidence happened in the street market of CST-Churchgate or Fashion Street… the vendor would have directly said “paise nahin hain to aate kyon ho lene… khali fukat ka time barbaad karne”.

I really feel sorry for those ladies who were so un calculative about their spending… some times getting carried away by the discounts scheme is not worth the embarrassment.