Rendevous with Mumbai- The Gals Day Out

#Shopping , Eating and Gossiping – this is the recipe for an ideal gals day out.


After the exam, me , alli and chachi met at hill road. When a street like linking road or hill road is around, gals waste lil time. So, there was like telepathy amongst us and we headed right for our street shopping. The next one hour was spent checking out clothes, bags ,accessories, chappals and more.
#Gals also do a lot of speculative shopping. Like ,we checked out a few summer dresses at a store which we would wear on our trip to goa. LOL… that trip is on the list since last 2 years! You see, while guys embark on trips quite spontaneously, the plans of gals are controlled by variables more than that involved in Bernoulli’s equation and are more complex that the derivation of euler’s formula.

N no I don’t remember either of them and so I should not be contacted for any reference on the same! Simply put, when it comes to gals, plans are complicated.

we managed to procure a few things after substantial bargaining, and the next thing on the list was food.

# gals like to eat in installments .Our first one was at this food joint where we called for a pav bhaji, a masala dosa, and a veg cheese toast. Variety , we believe, is the spice of life. Food was finished almost instantly , but what’s an eve without yakking !

So we headed for Bandstand, n I was happy at this idea. The place was jostling with people, couples to be precise. We gals went to explore the dim lit beach, with love birds all around indulging in each other– well it was 14th feb ,so I guess they had the license today !

and here we were , colg time friends , sitting on the beach, eating sweet corn (don’t pay 5 bucks extra for the butter, it tastes good without it too) … talking about stuff and having a gala time.

On our way back to the bandra station, we asked our auto wala to show us the places of shahrukh and salman. There is a strange fascination we all have with celebs, even when we all know they are just people like us. Mannat , we missed but we did catch salman’s building. There was a huge crowd of people waiting to catch a glimpse of the actor. As our auto passed, a car emerged from salman’s society which was followed by a huge roar from the crowd. We thought we got lucky and would get to see salman, but our misconception broke soon and we realized it was someone else who got to enjoy the attention, cause he resided in the same block.

The evening ended with reminisces of our hostel life and the fun we had in college. Later we headed towards our places, and a resolution to work towards our goa trip. But , like I said before , when it comes to gals, plans are complicated.

Epilogue – Morning 7.50 I took a train back to pune. My very first train journey all alone J . My experiences from past have taught me not to talk to strangers and avoid oily food in train. I had idlis for breakfast …fermented food is preferable over anything oily, specially if you fall in the ‘Watch your weight’ zone.

I put my headphones on to avoid any irrelevant conversation with people around and gazed out of the window –the sayadris is a beautiful range, I plan to embark on a rappelling camp sometime soon. This is another thing that has been on my list for long, besides a trip to goa.

Like I said before, when it comes to gals, plans are complicated.:)

Thanks Mate ;)

Its surprising how some people can just haul you out of a bad mood.

My entrance exam results didn’t turn out well yet another year, and I had pretty much lost interest in everybody and everything around me. I had cocooned, trying to escape the ignominy of my failures. I hadn’t flashed a real smile for a great while. A guy whom I confide into did his bit to intensify my miserable state- he managed it by keeping aloof of the events in my life and playing his usual reticent self.

I longed for a soulful conversation, the one which was able to suck out the negativity from me , give me some hope , revive me, perk me up, restore my lost confidence and just tell me – It happens dear ,keep going !
I scrolled through my phonebook, stopped at few names, but ceased to call them thinking, they had their own problems.

Later that night , I had a chat wid my close bud, we discussed old times –times we had fooled around -shared good laughs , shared our sorrows and shared our joys ….. and for the first time in weeks I flashed a real smile. I actually chuckled a few times, at reminiscence of a legend ;) Its surprising how some people can just haul you out of a bad mood.

so can u read between de lines ??

Impact of people around us ,on our lives is more that what it seems ! At times they can make or break a situation ! Now depending on the state of affairs & its importance to us , these people impact our lives in a significant way !
now I am not some philosopher or psychiatrist but since I got no work at the moment ,Here s an attempt to broadly classify people up (& de basis wud be -how well they can comprehend situations )

People who can read between the lines –nice , intelligent , N trouble-free ppl ! dey get wat you want to say, even when things are not put explicitly
If such ppl r friends or colleagues den congrats !
You will have one of the most comfortable time wid them, as the reception of wat is said, is widout any distortion & so no hassles at all !

Next come -
People who cannot read between the lines !-Awww …..dese people are the ones who deserve a lil sympathy ! poor fellows dey just cant comprehend a situation !

So shud you be ever caught up in a situation where you are desperately trying to avoid someone by giving a one of those fake excuses , like
Err…I wish I could join you , but we got a really imp work to finish !
Err…she is not feeling well…so I gotta drop her home…mayb some other time :P

And if de person whose suppose to give you dat extra cover , falls in “Can t Read Between The lines” Slot, u r in a hitch !
dis fellow gives u a totally bedazzled look or wears such a huge question mark on his face, that it all starts to look fabricated & ofcos your plan is flaked !
so you need a lil more effort to get across wat you want !
N they are like useless in situations , but den they do no Harm !

N here comes the ones that are de cause of some major grievances !
De deadliest of the species –

People who read wats NOT between the lines- well god help you if u got any from dis set to deal wid !
Yeah not only they fail miserably to grasp the situation, but oh! they use their fantastic power of imagination to screw things up more !
These people can never be anybody ‘s cover ofcos , again attributed to their tremendous power of understanding !

N dats not all … de misery doesn end here !
everything you say or do around them will be scrutinized !
They will be as inquisitive as our CSI Miami guys , they will stretch matters lik de mozzarella cheese on your pizza !
Den they will collect the facts & process it with their stupid pervert ideas !
& in the end they will blow things out of proportion too…which ofcos will be a publicity stunt ,yet another affirmation to the Attention Seeking syndrome or de MPD (Multiple Personality disorder ), they suffer from !

So ofcos having to deal wid dem you wud need immense amount of perseverance !
Your efforts to get across your points will be fruitless , so don even try !
N if u r lik majorly involved wid them in any way den there mit be times wen you wud contemplate suicide !(LOl)…

Understanding this taxonomy was a rather simple affair I , but implementing the logic that is drawn here ,is difficult !
Cos we dont choose the people we come across, dont pick our friends dont pick our foes !
Things just happen ,
But when the time comes , I guess we all learn how to deal wid it ! J

Grumpy Grouchy yet Grateful Me !

Music ! yeah everybody likes music I guess, but to me it means a lot more !
It isn’t jus to pass time, it isn’t jus wat I pursue at leisure , but dese days its something I strive on !

Work or No work –I have my headphones on almost all the time in office ,so that’s lik 10 hours ~well 5-6 to be realistic !
Den On net I spend a significant time downloading songs & luking for lyrics !
N every nite also ,I listen to music n den eventually fall asleep !

So wen some crook managed to rob me of my only happiness in life ,by stealing my headphones ,I was more dan sad !
I made some efforts in hope to procure my headphones lik –asked my friends around if dis was one of their stupid pranks,
Mailed the corporate services female & also spoke to her in person about it ,which wasn’t any good except for it restated the fact as to how totally useless, hopeless & ineffective dese corporate services people are ..
(N yeah I ended de sentence in preposition but m grouchy at the moment N i aint at harvard! )

I went to a mobile store yesterde only to find out dat the original nokia headphones are gonna cost me a fortune …1000bucks (****** **** some more swearing at the fellow who stole my headphones !)
De mobile store guy was also out of the local ones (which cost much less), so now I wud have to go to MG road N get dem !
Hatt !!!! another day widout music !

But dis post is actually to express my gratitude towards ????
Well…
Thanx to De guy who sits nex to me !
well he isn’t actually into the same kinda music dat I am, but we do share de same taste in many bollywood songs …N
he is de one who got me the title track of ROCK ON , which is absolutely awesome !

Thanx to my friend , who let me borrow his head phones, using which I am listening to dis number !(More on dis song in the next post :P)

Thanx to my leads who haven’t given me any new tasks to be completed by the EOD !

N Thanx to all de people around me , who are able to mind their own business & are providing me the right ambience !

Kuch Kuch hota hai ....???

Well
Not much to occupy me today,so m just whiling my time away sitting in my cubicle here…listening to de song kya karu hai …kuch kuch hota hai….which is on repeat by the way…so its playin for de 5th or 6th time !

Well people who know me shud be quite amused by the choice of this song,N shud they find out its on repeat den LOL ..dunno wat !
So I usually listen to western music,dat too de loud type…I mean...i am not listenin to dido N bryan adams for quite sometime now.
N abhi its majorly LP…3dd…matchbox 20 …N yeah oasis n snow patrol.

so y a yashraj movie number today?
I dunno myself…actually not like I detest bollywood music or something…infact some of the songs are so peppy
But hold on,i was talking abt kkhh..


Well dis movie released sometime in de late 90’s I guess,when we were teens,
Loved de movie den…I guess the teenagers are de yashraj movies ka target audience,
Since dey r loony enuf to take de ultra hypothetical,N highly exaggerated romantic CRAP !

I mean wat a movie na…

Kajol is best friends wid a guy N is so hopelessly in love wid him dat she actually ditched our salman khan,for de single dad huh!

Shahruk, His character is so selfish n mean in de movie,best frnds wid one gal,flirted with every other chick he could lay his hands on N ultimately got married to rani-his new found love N onc she died ,he realized hes in love wid kajol.
Maybe his hyperactive crazy kid( de jr anjali) gave him a hard time,so he had to settle down for a summer camp teacher

De kid (miss Jr Anjali ) a sheer genius,was able to comprehend his dad ki love story so well dat she actually played cupid for the pair !
Not to forget her mystical supernatural powers wid which she could interact wid her mom
(who took de pains to appear in a WHITE suit,instead of the micro minis,she was onc so comfortabl in)

The movie is ofcos ,was a series of coincidences or should we call it a cosmic conspiracy.. to get de protagonists here together .

Well I guess I have upset de shahruk kajol N yashraj fans enuf by now,to de extent dat it mit prove fatal..suicidal !
(sry for the exaggeration ,but u c de movie rubbed of its charm on me)

But frankly inspite of all the exaggeration N a story which doesn’t seem even remotely practical, the movie happens to be one of my favorite timepass amongst the bollywood movies.

N de title song is really nice.One which you can listen to wen u r feeling a high,feeling all romantic,delving into delusions & taking flights of fantasy wid that some special someone in your heart !

Err……..does dat mean m feeling all romantic tode,hehe
Well dats for me to explore!
Will get my coffee in sometime N de song continues to play for de N th time-kya karu hayee Kuch kuch hota hai :)

Back to back lengths...Extraordinary huh??

Yeah so pretty fond I have become of swimming !
Our pool is like 50 mts long N each morning we would do like 10 lengths
(actually 3/4th of de length cos of de partition meant for ppl still who r learning to swim !)
N after dis we do 10mins of fooling around in the water !

So during dese 10mins My frnd usually tries back stroke & while I practice holding my breath inside water
…N deres a good reason to do dis holding my breath activity!
Well should I ever be singled out for a reality tv show like Fear factor whr I get Big cash for some water stunt which mit need dis skill !!
Or
should I someday be in a situation similar to Dr. Miranda Gray(Halle berry in gothika) desperately tryin to escape from an asylum & has to hide under de pool holding her breath for quite a long time
…..hehe
So till a few days back I had all the time to think & do all such weird N creepy stuff until my dear friend decided to increase the number of rounds from 10 to 15.
Wattttttttttttt???? De dialogue in my mind "yeah y not,since we r representing India in the next Olympics,we shud definitely do dis !"

Well despite this initial freakin out we did manage to move from 10 to 15 rounds.
But as if dis wasn enuf,de nex day we came across a female who was lik definitely a swimming Champ or smthin,pretty clear was dis from the way she effortlessly went to N fro in the water,dat too the full lengths N yeah back to back i.e without any breaks !

My frnd was pretty impressed wid the female,the light in her eyes didn’t remotely suggest the impending danger !
i didn know that this admiration N appreciation would soon metamorphosis into an inspiration to try the same !
yeah ,my frnd now wanted to do de lengths back to back too !

Aww,phleaseee ,I didn hav the stamina of dat degree.
in the 15 rounds itself I barely managed to kick legs to make it to the next end !
I run out f breath N I fear dat someday mit drown due to a muscular fatigue or maybe due to Incapacitation through shallow water blackout(hehe ,read dese terms while reading abt the risks involved in swimming in WIKI didn knw dey will becum handy so soon !)

But since all this was one of my another Mental Conversations N in the end of it I blurted out an Ok,as I usually do !
Let s go on the count of 3 den -said my frnd N I nodded in yes !
N after our first round itself I was out of breath,but thanks to the affirmative response to the apparently suicidal idea of swimming lengths back to back that I had given ,I had to stick by wat I committed .
Den suddenly dunno y ,I looked at my palm n saw how big my lifeline was,dis wont kill me I said !
Thanks to the cosmic signal ,i was game for dis now !
Off we went again .For our second length back to back,Which was completed quite smoothly!

Well so it does sound like normal swimming regime exaggerated to a great extent !...haha….does rite? but hey making big deal out of the ordinary things that happen to us ,makes life Extraordinary ....doesn t it !

swimmin ...worth it !

Yeah so I did put on a few extra pounds, & thnx to my friends who brought dis forth ,I had ample time to plan a fitness regime that I would embark on to come bac in shape !

Dese friends of mine didn’t themselves quite have the physique of john abrahim ! nowhere even close…lol(they r working on it though)
but yeah when it comes to gals they are always on lookout for hot chicks with lik wash-board abs and whose vital stats would match that of a model !

so I wasn much surprised when they threw some light on the fact that I had put on weight ! and would grow out of shape if didn’t do something abt it soon !

One of my friends used to go for joggin & I decided to join her in that but the lazy bum I am ….it takes more than an alarm to get me out of bed…
So ofcos the joggin thing didn last much the initial enthusiasm died down soon !

My mom proposed to take up yoga at home !
The idea was quite appealing cos neither did I have to forfeit my sleep nor go out early morning !
I could exercise at my own pace in my own bed !...so yeah I did try a few postures of yoga for a few days but later I realized that I spent much of my time in de ShavAsan( dose who dunno—its simply lying down n eventually people fall asleep )

So joggin n yoga were no good !
Den came the idea to go for dance classes !
I love dancing N dis way I could workout N have fun too,but to my despair dey had the classes on weekends only
So dancing wud mean giving up on the lazing around on weekends ! so de idea was dropped instantly !

Now Dere is dis friend of mine who had recently joined swimming & so happy was he with it that he time & again would ask me to join too !
N I always threw cold water on his enthusiasm,until one day one of my female friend got interested & asked me to accompany her to the pool jus to check out the place !

N yeah so swimming appealed to me too ! the water baby that I am !It took quite an effort to actually get started ,procuring a decent swimming gear ,enrolling for the batch n all !
But ultimately I did take up swimming. much to the surprise of my friends & folks !
Dat too the morning batch , 6 in the morning !

Early morning ,around 5.40 ..I crawl out of my bed & drive like 4 miles to go to the place !
N den de sluggish ,heavy eyed me looks at the water -

1…2….& 3…. (I actually make my frnd say dat before we dive )

Splash N into the pool…….slashing the lucid blue water !
..ummm ! Worth It !