Thursday, April 21, 2011

How to identify a Mumbaikar... (stolen :P)


1. You say "town " and expect everyone to know that this means south of Churchgate.

2 You speak in a dialect of Hindi called 'Bambaiya Hindi', which only Bombayites can understand.

3. Your door has more than three locks.

4. Rs 500 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.

5. Train timings (9.27, 10.49 etc) are really important events of life.

6. You spend more time each month traveling than you spend at home.

7. You call an 8' x 10' clustered room a Hall.

8. You're paying Rs 10,000 for a 1 room flat, the size of walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal."

9. You have the following sets of friend: school friends, college friends, neighborhood friends, office friends and yes, train friends, a species unique only in Bombay.

10. Cabbies and bus conductors think you are from Mars if you call the roads by their Indian name, they are more familiar with Warden Road, Peddar � Road, Altamount Road.

11. Stock market quotes are the only other thing besides cricket which you follow passionately.

12. The first thing that you read in the Times of India is the "Bombay Times" supplement.

13. You compare Bombay to New York's Manhattan instead of any other cities of India.

14. The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.

15. You insist on calling CST as VT, and Sahar and Santacruz airports instead of Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport.

16. Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.

17. Being truly alone makes you nervous.

18. You love wading through knee deep mucky water in the monsoons, and actually call it ''romantic'.

19. Only in Bombay , you would get Chinese Dosa and Jain Chicken.

20. You always argue with Delhites that Mumbai is way better than Delhi

21. You still refer to the city as Bombay not Mumbai. 

22. When you love bragging about the filmstars and cricketers you've seen

23. When most of your freinds have underworld connections

24. Every three months you look at your street and say "Why're the digging the road again?"

25. "Change" is "Chillar", "Ditching" is a "Kalti" and "Trouble" is "Jhol".

26. "Gheun Tak" is your life ideology.

27. You have been shoo'd away from Marine Drive at 3am by the cops because of an "Unlawful gathering of persons"

28. You actually pay for your rickshaws by the meter.

29. You actually think 30Rs for a Sada Dosa is pretty reasonable.

30. when you spent 6 hours of your day in school and another 3 hours in tuitions. 

31. if you ever went to fashion street, got a pair of cheap jeans and had them tagged as a name brand.

32. if you played cricket matches against another building for 5 rupee bets.

33. if you lost tons of MRF rubber balls.

34. when u call cops ;kaka' and they let u go if u show of ur marathi speaking skills 

35. amitabh bachans house is a landmark

36. You have been to matheran or mahabaleshwar during the summer vacations

37. The note to coin changing machine at Churchgate station is idolized.

38. During cricket season all the roads are blocked because people in the streets are looking at television screens in display windows.

39. Automatic vending machines have a sales person sitting next to it just to help you.

40. There are more movie tickets being sold in black than at the ticket office.

41. It takes longer to get off from your house to the station than from one end of Mumbai to another by train.

42. Every cab and rickshaw driver makes small talk with you

43. You see Herd of people walking at four in the morning to Siddhi Vinayak temple.

44. 'Bun Maska' and 'vada pav' is the staple diet of most collegians.

45. You cant drive for more than 10 mins without abusing someone 

Friday, January 28, 2011

Sitting by the window sill, here's reminiscing...the craziest 4 years of my life...of staying in a madhouse called 'The girls hostel'. A perfectly boring day at college suddenly turns into a carnival the moment u step into the hostel gate. Come study hour and its time for all the important unfinished jobs in the world. 


Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Subtle nuances i wish guys knew...

* Please give attention to detail,every single thing I say and do.Things which seem silly to you may be of utmost importance to me.
* Show concern but not interference.
* Call up suddenly in the middle of the night just to say 'I love you'
* Be my 4 am friend.
* When i do something wrong, don't immediately snap at me, hug me tight and tell me how stupid I've been.
* Dear sophisticated(read:boring) boyfriend,I liked the playful, crazy, naughty one much better.
* So you love the guitar more than me huh?? I would look for every opportunity to smash the damn thing[evil grin]
* Don't share the same hobby I'm passionate about (worse still: don't be better at it than me!!)

Attempt to self-motivation...

It's only human to crave incessantly,that's how we are created. Crave to be happy; to be successful,to be rich, to live life our way. But most of us want it all to happen on its own, Or rather, expect it to happen on its own. Thinking...we are led by our destiny. Destiny, which controls us, our living, which already has a planned motive for our existence. Why then are we sent on earth with a heart and a brain, if we are mere puppets in the hands of destiny? why do we have feelings of our own? Why do we have desires? On the stage called life, we all have different roles to play. And we have the right to mould our own character and take the plot towards our desires, our dreams. DESTINY, is a mere excuse to carry on, to toil till the end, to finish the race...!

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Gearing up for the battle...or not..

Just four more days to go, for my own 'funeral'- the CAT (don't be surprised..ask any CAT aspirant). And i'm doing everything else except studyin hard,have never known what studying 'hard' meant. Five months of  boggling my delicate mind with numbers and alien words out of the dictionary, I'm now so fed up that i won't be surprised if i see myself running out of my exam hall, screaming. So I've decided to do everything else other than looking into another mock test paper. Anything, even if it means watching back to back episodes of CID on Sony tv or clicking on 'Home' every 5 seconds on my facebook profile page. Hmmm...if it takes away the jitters for a while why not.. :)

Monday, October 25, 2010

My amateur photography :)

God's miracle called SUNRISE










                                                                    

Misty allure....


Canvas of the heavens

Nature's hide and seek


Perfect place to get lost in thoughts ...

Sheer warmth