Lost Cause

My blog is now like a lost cause...cos I have'nt been writting anything here for the last several mths...although it has never really been out of my mind cos everytime I see or hear of something interesting, my first reaction is always to make a note of it for my blog! And hence, many a topics have been lost and found in this busy city and often cluttered mind.

It's almost the end of the day now and as they say, every day is a new day, let's wait and see if I can jot a new blog tomorrow..ofcourse i'm aware that they also say that tomorrow never comes....hehe! :)

Yeh hai mumbai....

The mega polis of Mumbai holds many a challenge for the 'rookie' who lands here unaware of the hurdles and challenges that he or she might have to face. A recent incident saw one such hapless victim falling prey to the overenthusiastic nature of Bombay 's local train commuters. Our hero, a man from Pune, wanted to go to Matunga, but as luck and trains would have it, boarded a fast train not halting at his destination. He panicked on realising his mistake but by then the local had started moving. On seeing his plight, a sympathetic co-passenger decided to come to his rescue. It seemed that he had been commuting by that particular train (6:03 pm Kasara Fast) for the past 6 years and had noticed that the train always slowed down just before Matunga station and crawled at a snail's pace while passing through it. He told the man to jump out of the running train as it slowed down and that with a little bit of fleet-footedness, he would make it safely on terra firma. However, knowing the man's inexperience, he added some words of caution: "Keep running the moment you jump or you'll fall. Just keep running." He stressed the word "running" lest the man not know the laws of motion. The train did slow down just before Matunga station and at the prompting of his mentor, our hero jumped out of the train and started running as if all hell had broken loose. What he didn't realise, of course, was that he was running parallel to the train instead of running away from it. Meanwhile, the train slowed down further, so that the man was running faster than the train. In the process, he reached the door of the next compartment and the footboard commuters there pulled him in thinking he was trying to board the train! To ! his agony, the train picked up speed and sped past Matunga and his new co-passengers started to congratulate him on how lucky he had been, until he told them that they had actually undone what he had done with great difficulty. Those standing at the door of his "ex-compartment" had witnessed the whole drama and just couldn't stop laughing at the poor man's situation, while he grinned sheepishly.

The mega polis of Mumbai holds many a challenge for the 'rookie' who lands here unaware of the hurdles and challenges that he or she might have to face. A recent incident saw one such hapless victim falling prey to the overenthusiastic nature of Bombay 's local train commuters. Our hero, a man from Pune, wanted to go to Matunga, but as luck and trains would have it, boarded a fast train not halting at his destination. He panicked on realising his mistake but by then the local had started moving. On seeing his plight, a sympathetic co-passenger decided to come to his rescue. It seemed that he had been commuting by that particular train (6:03 pm Kasara Fast) for the past 6 years and had noticed that the train always slowed down just before Matunga station and crawled at a snail's pace while passing through it. He told the man to jump out of the running train as it slowed down and that with a little bit of fleet-footedness, he would make it safely on terra firma. However, knowing the man's inexperience, he added some words of caution: "Keep running the moment you jump or you'll fall. Just keep running." He stressed the word "running" lest the man not know the laws of motion. The train did slow down just before Matunga station and at the prompting of his mentor, our hero jumped out of the train and started running as if all hell had broken loose. What he didn't realise, of course, was that he was running parallel to the train instead of running away from it. Meanwhile, the train slowed down further, so that the man was running faster than the train. In the process, he reached the door of the next compartment and the footboard commuters there pulled him in thinking he was trying to board the train! To ! his agony, the train picked up speed and sped past Matunga and his new co-passengers started to congratulate him on how lucky he had been, until he told them that they had actually undone what he had done with great difficulty. Those standing at the door of his "ex-compartment" had witnessed the whole drama and just couldn't stop laughing at the poor man's situation, while he grinned sheepishly.

just me..

Hey all you out there reading my blog ocassionally or simply stumbling across it by chance...I have'nt been here for a long time but someone recently reminded me of my blogs and ive once again been inspired to write..or scribble, whichever..lol! So watch this space...hehe!

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TGIF!!

It's friday afternoon and I'm in tussle trying to concentrate at work and not to think of food...and still have weekend planning going on at the back of my mind..and have taken a few mins. off in the middle of it all to scribble smthg here...! U know what's worse than terrible winter days? It's the winter afternoon...the fog I can live with...but the afternoons which I have to spend inside a building without getting to sit outside in the sun eating groundnut or oranges are such an oppurtunity missed! Ofcourse it gets consistently harder to get out of bed in the mornings from monday to friday....on sat n sun..I will only be alive around afternoon! Yea, I almost die in the winters...I'd hibernate the whole season if I could!

Enough cribbing...I've finally decided to eat first and then work later on...so chao for now!!

Long time no blog!

Long time since ive written any decent blogs! Well here I am now, back in the new year...hopefully with a bang! 1st day of the office in 2007 and I'm writing a blog..lol..not bad, eh? sets the mood for the rest of the year...what say? Last new year was spent at Agra, visiting the Taj Mahal (dont get any ideas, it was a family & relatives affair..) so suitably, I did get to travel around a bit in 2006..covered Cochin, Calicut, Allepey backwaters, Trivandrum and Kanyakumari on a 10 day trip in Feb..then there was a trip to Mumbai..and more to Ahmedabad, Pune and Jaipur! Goa's on the agenda next..hope that works out in the new year!

I've developed quite a liking for photography as well last year...courtesy the new digicam and my friend Sinu who's a cool photographer himself..U can see the effects on the blog cos it has some random pictures too. Hey I got a new stole in peach last week and I have put some golden sequins on it...picture comming up soon! Looks pretty me thinks! Pretty as a peach...haha.

Had a whole week off in Dec. end which was spent watching movies..Kabul Express, Bhagam Bhag and the insufferable Monster House too! Also managed to sort a few things at home and throw out some clutter..slept a lot and cursed the winters...did'nt do any shopping!! Am waiting for the "off season" discound sales to start you see....:) It's probably the only advantage of having extreme climates in this city...u can keep buying a new wardrobe every season and have a very good reason for doing so.

Oh and I did buy some books in discount..Shobha De's 'Spouse', 'One Night at a Call Centre' by Chetan Bhagat...and ex-IIT guy and another called 'Anything for you ma'am'. Been reading One night...and it's a nice light read...interesting observations have been made by the writer about his fellow workers in the novel...like where he remarks that when girls laugh a lot...they are trying to flirt...lol! Loooooolll.... ;)

Orkut is boring now and feels passe with the new year...but m thinking of spending some time on Y! Ans again as I was clearing off the 450 odd emails in my inbox today out of which a 100 or so were unread...I realised a lot of people had emailed me from my contact there..and some mails were actually funny! FYI, i'm down to 200 emails in the inbox now and only bout 30 unread ones!! This can actually be a new yr's resolve u know...to clear my inbox more frequently! And I wanna be in touch with my friends more frequently too..and I might as well save some money...and lose some weight (this one's like talking of world peace!)....groan..the list of promises to break is growing...I better scram before it becomes too long to break 'em all in this year...chao!

space age...

"I don't have enough clothes" and "I don't have enough space in my cupboard" are such conflicting statements and though I might have used both of them so often, I did'nt realise the irony until today morning when I used them both one after the other...! Well it just happened that first I could'nt "find" anything to wear to work today morning and after I finally setteled on something, I could'nt manage to put back in the ones I did'nt need cos everything seemed squeezed already!! So after announcing for the nth time to Dad that I did'nt have enough nice things to wear...I proclaimed I did'nt have enough storage space either. This was invariably followed by a foxed looked on Dad's face and the query "How can you not have clothes or space? U must have one of the two....I think you have too many clothes!"...."But Dad, u see, I can't wear just anything u know..half of this pile is just t-shirts..too shabby now to wear outside, and the shirts don't work well with sweaters ...and it's too cold to wear salwar suits with which anyway I have to match a different sweater all the time...and a lot of these clothes are just old fashioned and not to mention the ones which are only good for parties..!" ...Dad's eyes were narrow by now...uh oh.."Ok, and the rest?" "Oh the rest don't match my sandles...so now I have only a handful of them which I can actually wear..!!"

And so on and so forth...I'm sure this could have taken up a lot more time but at 8am there just was'nt enough time to prove my point and get to work by 9! From now on, I will only use one of these phrases at one time I think.....and ofcourse I have to shop for the winters now! Maybe if I get a nice sweater for Dad too then he'll not be so upset at all the bags in the evening??

Whatever..

Hiee!! I would write the remaining part of the story now but my nail polish is still a bit wet u know...and the stupid light brown thing is not even looking so pretty on my hand .. :( See ya..