Well......as they say..Long time..no see!! Now this is quite the same. Its been long since i put up something into my well-talked-about blog. Much has changed like it does everyday..small changes..big changes.....no changes. Yet, it seems all the same. I cant believe i am 8 months into this job..this very first job i had..and yet everyday has seemed to be different yet it seems all the same. This is relative right? The small picture and the big one...this and that...blah n blah...mish n mash....well well..
Ok..in between all these days quite a lot of things happened..like my office changed...and the thing i cherished the most..no travel time...10 minutes is nothing i guess..turned into a mind boggling somewhere around 2 hours which prompted me to THINK about changing my house. I am still thinking on those lines...only thinking ok. Other thing which happened was that i made some new friends..went on a weekend trip to a place called Matheran....a good place to be...but then after travelling for so many years in the ups b downs of our great Himalayas...these small hills..like the ones in matheran dont really made me open my mouth to get that fresh chilled air which was hardly there....But it is a good place...good for a change from the heat and dust aned crowd and traffic and trains and buses and people and people and people eveywhere. The best thing there...no vehicles ..not at all...all i saw in the name of some automobile there was an ambulance and i kept thinking..how could iy have come here..because we had to trek to reach there..a toy train might take u there..but we dint take it..walking was more fun.....
I also came to realize that i would hardly ever be happy doing this job....this job doesnt mean i have any grudges with my job as such..it is a good job..good colleagues.n all..but maybe i dont fit into Mumbai....maybte a smaller place would suit me?..but aaargh..only if wishes could be horses..n i could hop onto one of the dark stallion..and ride my way to somewhere in the cool and peace of the hills...!!
I have seen quite a lot in Mumbai now....lots of places...lots of bars n mueseums...oh yah...some funny things i saw...like last week i was coming back at night from Dadar station...at around 11 ..and there was this bi broad sign.NO HAWKERS....right under it..and for as long as you can see..there were people with round baskets selling virtually everything .....thats not the thing to be noticed..somewhere somehow someone came to know a policeman was coming their way.....i hardly could blink my eye and i saw those hawkers shooing away with their baskets over thier heads....it seemed more of a formality..like as if they went away as a sign of "respect" for that policeman...and yah..there he emerged..from the crowd...a hero...looking on the sides to make sure that nobody is selling anything on the streets......its common police guys getting paid to overlook things,,but i saw it for the first time. I walked a few steps..and there were these lot of young girls standing near the rails..each one trying to look their best and besides them...a fat black woman with flowers all over her hair..guess she had more no. of flowers then the hairs...waiting..for what? I was just trying to think and collate it with all those movies i saw ..but then my friend said..." Item log hai.....u want one?"...it isnt hard to guess.........I like Mumbai for one thing..here everything is possible......and u get to see so many different things......thats there..but apart from that...everyday is a struggle......i am amazed how people have been so for so many years.,..same local train..same office...same run......and yet everyday is a new day for them......i just pray ....n try that let me get out of here very soon....i need to get outta this madness ......guess i am not
