Sunday night was spent in downtown Colaba. I was just reading through a blog, and it was pretty amusing when i read in that ( Colaba is a tourist place in Mumbai). I dont really know if it is. Maybe selling cheap clothes(of course with a touch of traditional Indian taste) and imported fake jewellery from China makes it of this sort...addd to it s few stores and pork or beef serving shops. Ya...good bars too!.... So, i was there with some of my friends who had come from Pune, they wanted to drink at a good place, so we chose LEOPOLD( See my friend in the picture). Leoplod is good of sorts, especially if you have that thing to be amused by the sight of old and young foreigners sipping on their beers and discussing things which range from Bollywood to the recession in US..to the new great big bang which ppl say will occur in a month or so! I want to write just a bit more about Colaba..its amusing. Perhaps, its the best place to be in Mumbai, because of lot of reasons. Go there any weekend and see the most beautiful girls there. Apart from that, there are a lot of other things to be seen at Colaba some of which i noticed like:
1. Seeing a couple of foreign girls handing a child beggar a 50 rupee note, then clicking a picture of him. (Later on they'll go on to write a book about beggars in India, and talk about the mess they saw here..which eventually will become bestsellers). The picture might fetch them an award as well.
2. A long line of shops selling T-shirts, handbags, cheap perfumes, ethnic indian wear, indian jewellery ( all this indian stuff comes from China actually...so its a chinese thing with an indian look n feel.....!)
3. A guy selling a Dholak( those who dont know..consider it as a single drum which is much rounder and fatter!!)....a guy running to sell it to my friend( who is indian but looks chinese...he just mistook him)..and asking him to buy in a broken english.."Sir, Sir......drum drum..very good sound..party ..party!!!!".
4. A man coming back to the same friend of mine and saying...Sir, sir..indian girl..china girl...very cheap..very cheap...500 only!!!
Well, apart from that, Colaba has a good crowd, good stores..its good to shop there. Perhaps the churchgate area also is the cleanest in Mumbai. It still got good architecture from the britishers.....then theres the Asiatic society( its a national library i heard). Its a very beautiful building, but its pathetic from inside (our government is good at giving names to places...no one cares to maintain it). A school library is lot lot better!!
But Lemme not talk about it and come back to the Leopold...somethinngs cooking in there.. So we were there at leopolds besides a couple( Australian.later i knew that..and an oldie). The aussie girl was good looking and my new friend..he came from pune a day back..he cudnt get his eyes off her. So, he said this to us. "I'll listen to these people talking and i will laugh when they laugh"..pretty awkward..but then its alright to do what u want to do..ppl say tht right!! So in between we were talkinng he'd just turn around and start laughing. He just made friends with the old aussie sitting there..dont know what all he talked about....(he made the old man wait 20 minutes to fill his mug of beer..he ont let go!) .......but whatever it was, the ending was like this, The old man didnt know the girl..they just met over beer..and so...it implied he cidnt help him with the girlie! I dont really followed up on this, but while leaving the old man took a picture of him n others..the girl ws in there too. So well, maybe thats some solace for the poor fellow. So that was sunday...like tht.just saw them off to Pune..came back and dozzzzzed off. Its been abt 24 hours since..and again i am going to sleep...office office again...sucks!!!!
