Mumbai Diaries!!!

Creative me is having its another orgasm!!
Yup, though sleepy I feel like writing something fantabulous!! But the irony of life is that it needs effort which i can't put in in my sleepy state :)

Mumbai is crazy & this craziness has been induced into me too! I am addicted to the locals, the mad rush of people & the beaches (though li'l dirty). I have been away from bloggy for past 49 days & thats the time I have spent looking babes...kidding....the new year has brought some significant opportunities coated with challenges in professional life.

Not being over complicated, jotting in simple terms... I have been working hard n have been buisy. I have been liking some one & want to love her. I have been loving the place & I have been loving myself. life's been Good. I must do my touch wood tricks so that these goods sustain for long may be forever!

Everyday I come across Lovely morning faces at platforms, the lady with blond hair who catches 10:22 Local from kings circle, the other one with sexy black shades on the opposite platform, the one with best dressing at Vile Parle & the one with unusually hot eye shadow at Jogeshwari. Than why the hell I describe men...ha ha. The enthu continues till the time I reach back home & we have been running out for a late night stroll at sea face!! My words fall desperately short of explaining my real feeling! But I don't wanna fall short of letting this one flow out, I really like her!!!

I am enjoying my singlehood but at times its sarcastic!

God keep me Crazy, it feels good when people call me crazy, freek, wierd.... It feels as if yes, there's still that kiddish passion alive inside me!!!

Love ya!!
A few more smiles.....

Masti mein jhoom le, khul ke muskura le zara!!!

A New Year began few hours back.... and I welcomed it silently with some hidden enthusiasm!!

It felt peaceful to avoid disc parties, daaru n dance! Instead I chose to buy a nice cake from Theobrama, Colaba (Mumbai's one of the best Bakery). And I shared my chocolate opium cake with mama-mami, nana-nani, masi & cousins! Took nani & masi out for dinner. It felt good to make them feel happy, to gift them rare outing!! Feelings were not intense but their was some definite satisfaction.

I din't call many people to wish 'New Year' as it looked stupid to wish countless, instead I chose very few. After all, in this buisy life you got to make choices. Choices that are necessary when you have ever shrinking time/ person.

I also had a word with my ex girlfriend! It went good only till she revealed that she'll be getting married by this November. It pinched but the pinch was nearly painless as the pain had happened long back. I asked her a long pending question 'What went wrong between us' ? She replied 'You were not letting me being myself'! Not arguing much, I accepted my fault & said may be I was immature & I really was but more than that I guess fate was not on my side! I revealed her, that your movement out of my life did brought unanticipated troubles to me but it feels better now, that was past. We hung up & I murmured 'though you will be remembered & thoughts will be cherished till long but....... 'Fuck you'! Can't help.... care only for those 'who care' not the ones who have reasons to turn away!!

In last 30 hours I bought myself a weird T shirt, a chocolate cake, a nice book, a big chocolate ice cream, few chocolates & lots of smiles :) ! For mom I bought a 'Kiah diamond Jwellery', It's a gold nose pin, studded with seven lovely stones! I just loved it, I loved it coz it is for the lady who's truly committed to me unlike the one who was bored so soon!! My mum’s a world to me.

I also bought a Vada Pao for myself & masi... It was lovely & it tasted sweet despite no sugar in it. Coz, there are few things money just can't buy!!!

I had a lovely chat with my ol friend Neha n I enjoyed chatting to her; we discussed issues of life li'l more openly this time.

2008 was a turbulent year for so many reasons including financial tsunami, terror attacks! Despite facing a bad phase & becoming a prey of poor job market, it wasn't that bad year! 6 months of this I spent in Mumbai, the liveliest city in the country. I have no big reactions for 2008 but I definitely wan't 2009 to be a year of lesser multi tasking. A focused year, to be lived light hearted. A year that will be based on simplicity & the sounds that my heart will make!!

Before getting down dreaming all what I want to, I am cherishing the Diamonds I bought for my mum!! And I am proud that I bought it for ‘the right person’!! Love you ma!!

Happy New Year!!!
Khul ke jee le zindagi :) muskura le tu zara.... naya saal to bahana hai, bin bahane khush hoja yara!!

Love You

Power of office Rumours

Few days back in our office, all the mugs & cups were replaced by funny looking. All people had their eyebrows raised, accept few most felt embarrassing even to get their coffee, soup or tea in those cheap looking most basic glasses on their tables. Buzz came up that its cost cutting, though it was most absurd reason still it was readily accepted, coz 'cost cutting' is topping everybody's mind in these times of recession.

While we all were making fun, murmuring this issue of glass & stuff, a mail from 'Mr. Kishore Biyani' (first generation enterprenuer & CEO of future group), came & it went like this.......

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From: Kishore Biyani

To: Kishore Biyani

Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 6:21 PM

Subject: Monday Musing

Dear Colleagues

In the last couple of weeks all our offices have started serving coffee or tea in glasses. Some have enthusiastically taken to the idea. And some are indifferent to it.

The most common question is, is this a cost-cutting measure? It isn’t. All of us know that we have much bigger battles to fight to keep costs down. Moving over from cups and saucers to glasses wouldn’t really make any substantial savings. Therefore, introducing glasses is not a cost cutting measure.

So what made us introduce this custom of serving tea or coffee in glasses? Let me share my personal experience. At my office, all guests and that includes visiting CEOs, foreign partners, business associates, financial partners, everyone is being served their drink in these glasses. And to them, it is an immediate way for me to communicate what our company stands for – our basic values of simplicity and humility and being in touch with our roots, being in touch with the common man.

Drinking coffee or tea from a glass vessel is one of the most enduring and common practices across our country. Irrespective of class or background, everyone has had coffee or tea from a glass – either regularly or every once in a while. It is how the majority of Indians prefer to have their favorite beverage. And by introducing it in our offices, we follow this simple and common practice that is so popular in our country.

So what benefit does it bring to us as an organization? By using a glass to drink our tea or coffee, it builds within us a sense of humility and simplicity. It reconnects us with the vast majority of our countrymen and strengthens us with our roots, our customers. By doing so, with our guests and visitors in our office, it reiterates our values, assures them of our touch with the reality and encourages them to follow this custom.

This is a symbolic gesture. Symbols help convey ideas, emotions and values far more comprehensively than words ever can. Introducing a culture or symbol may not have tangible or logical benefits. Gandhiji’s charkha didn’t result in the closure of British textile mills. Nor did everyone in India start wearing khadi. But the charkha conveyed humility, honesty and simplicity. It established an immediate connect with the life of a vast majority of Indians. And in the process it united an extremely diverse nation, behind a symbol and ahead of a common goal.

For each of us, this new custom of drinking our tea or coffee from a glass is a change. Unless we change, we cannot grow. Unless we grow, we can never fulfill our potential. But as we grow it is important to stay anchored to our roots. And one simple way of doing that is by drinking from the glass that that does not distinguish between the haves and the have-nots in India .

Rewrite Rules, Retain Values

Kishore Biyani

Karta – Future Group

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Now what can anyone say???? Some laughed on themselves, some laughed on others, few were spellbound. But I personaly was amazed by the thought that someone attached 'cost cutting' with this trivial issue & the word spread like epidemic!! Tahts power of office Rumours :) for you

Welll...... !!!

Jolly mood turned sour....!!!

I so desperately wanted to write a post today that since 6:20 PM rather even before I have been thinking of the time m gonna sit with my comp to share my day, past days, feelings & emotions with my dearest bloggy!!! All these days I have so irregular with postings that I myself feel bad about it but may be it's the Mumbai's effect on me.

After jolly mood the whole day , few minutes back something happened which made me upset & so dam confused that I wrote blog & deleted it. I wrote it again & again deleted it to write once more. And finally saved in 'drafts' & put up this one instead of the original.

It was a good feeling all the while which eventually turned into a confused state!!!

Anyhow, life's been eventful & same is expected tomorrow!!!

I am upto the challenges!!!
& now there is always a jogging time to relax, yeahhhh!! I am back to my running routine & loving it, specially the feelings you have when you stop after complete exhaustion, it's a top class feeling, Amazing!!

Bloggy though I wanted to share so much with you but the confused-tired soul of mine needs a good sleep!! Sorry dost!!

Thanks for bearing my boring post!
Sometimes this also happens.
Take Care
Muuuuah Muuuuah!!
Luv U & catch u again :)

'Sir Jee, How is my Drivering?'

After Mum-Papa's 26th Marriage Aniversary celebrations till late last night, today we visited one of the most strictly secured places in Mumbai. Surveillance at Navy near/ around Nagar was virtually unmatched. Not always security people frisk while you are in a public transport. Brigadiers', Colonels' Beach facing houses were aaawweeeee.... (precisely explain my reaction, when I saw that). We saw Navy area & visited navy canteen, mumbai's biggest defence canteen, courtsey papa's navy connections!!

After 6 months, I am again spoiled by mum's helping hand. My room gets duely cleaned & arranged; my things are always ready; I get anything to everything on demand; my clothes are stacked in bathroom racks even before I get in for shower, coz she knows I am late. In 4 words 'it is royal treatment'. After nealy 20 day's stay Mum Papa are leaving day after, I feel that m gonna miss them when they'll leave. And so.... I treated them at one of my all time favourite restaurant 'Pizzeria, Marine Drive' & shopped for everyone in Colaba!!

While traveling back home from office on friday night the Autowala after chatting senseless, showing most ridiculous & stupid stunts, asked me 'Sir Jee, How is my Drivering?' I replied 'Badhiya'! From rash driving to verbal fights, from physical fights to auto driving, from police-jain & the different types of peple in mumbai, he gave me every possible gyaan all throughout the journey & though irritated I did picked one learning of 'Being Confident'!!!

Mumbai life's been fantabulous. But Life, till yesterday was on a different course for last 4-5 days, cold-cough-fever, low confidence, buisy-erratic, totaly unplanned schedule waters your smalles frustation. And than you get porous to be attacked by all negativities. Something similar had happened to me. Thank God that 'auto wala', & my self made resolutions brought back some of lost positivity & I plan to live better in coming week....


"The reason why folks are always wishing for what they don't have is that there's nothing else to wish" Houghton Line

Whatever the philosophy is.... keep wishing, keep dreaming, thinking, striving & enjoying!!!

In search of a big win!!!

Pacey life, lethargic me, clouds of procrastination, career thoughts & bank balance plus etc. have created li'l dull patch among awesome jovial times.

Yesterday elder relative said, 'now get married, you are losing hairs, don't wait till baldness. It will get difficult to find a girl'... For me it was funny but definitely with some serious ironies.

Someone rightly said 'Winning is a habit'. When you win, you feel hungry for more. But when you don't, you feel no uneasiness because of a loss. For winners losing is the most uneasy thing to accept. For others loss is just another event.

I want to forget the days when I started accepting loss. Desperately wan't to win Big Time. Just finding how to make things happen for that big win. A 'Big Win' is what I need for now. Its been long since I had last time.

HOLD ON to it!!!!

I saw her, she was walking slowly... in few minutes she picked up speed & now she was walking faster. She was a bit too fair. In sneakers, she was squinting through her burqa clad face. She ran, yeah suddenly she ran, she ran in a burqa. Among all other joggers, she couldn't resist n neither her burqa was able to stop her from jogging. An early morning hilarious scene of a burqa clad women jogging finaly made me to write something today n here I am.

A tinge of unsettled feeling are back after a long time. I am hating myself for 'NOT HOLDING ON', not holding on to so many decisions, challenges. I am hating myself to not carve out way for success, I am hating myself for accepting whatever I am offered. I keep leaving, keep quitting only to return & hold it again. My jogging schedule, my weightl loss programme, my 'no' to junk food (though it only happened in thoughts), my firm decision to win everyday challenges at job. My promises made to myself die a slow death, they succumb to 'chalta hai' attitude. Books I have to read are piling on shelves n I am not able to take out even 15 minutes a day. I owe all this to my laziness, procastination & other similar vocabulary.

Still the triple shot late' last night, near beach, at Shivaji Park, in Barista gave birth to a new hope. A hope to survive a li'l longer, a hope to keep holding on, a hope to atleast give a li'l fight. I immediately succeeded, I held my mug till the time I finished my coffee. I decide to replicate such move in my life. I decide to 'HOLD ON'.

Passion!!!