Mumbai Musings...

For the one month of my life I shall cherish forever....July of 2007..

My parents away.. yet Chitti chitappa around... Gannu, Sowmi, Purni and the late night banter..

New city Blues.. and electric train terror.. Internship..

Meeting someone after years at the airport.. and the silence in that...

Wimbeldon and Federer's win..and then the call till 4 am.. discussing things absolutely crazy yet so close...:P

Pomegranate and me snatching Gannu's share... our GRE Word tag games..n his PPT and me playing around with Fonts... endless song transfers!!!

Tilak Nagar Harbour Line... Fight at Dadar to get off the train..

Walks to Chembur market on Sundays.. and endless banter with Purni...Chitti's special Paneer..

Idiosyncracies.. Bandra Fort.. and the things that went with it..the Message Marathon..

Mahalaxmi temple.. Siddhi Vinayak' Siddhi..

The high Rise at Worli and the contrasting black sea..Walking on the parapet along Marine drive..

Chittappa accompanying me to the station while on his morning stroll..

Vijaya aunty, uncle and our laughter Riot..

Uchita and Vada Pav...The call and the Result..

My trip to Pune.. watching the most useless movie.. Naqaab at the Adlabs there...the Cookies from Khayani bakery... Ofcourse sir and banter with him..

Sea breeze.. varied aroma.. the rattling of the train.. the simplicity of the people..

Meeting Periappa and losing him...

I must say.. i have countless things on my mind... and perhaps this post seems.. non-sensical.. but its just some lovely things.. i fear i might loose tab off.. caught in the Busy life in my city...It's just a reminder.. for the times when i will forget to remember (perhaps..)that it is the smallest of things that make us really happy People!!!

Well.. Well..

A few things a new found affection for.. for some.. refound them...

a. Coloured Eyepencils.. realised it.. when Flirtatious Farzi told me.. that my eyes lit up his day.. n bingo the idea.. chalo.. some use of useless banter!!!

b. Eddie Vedder's Song.. The Long Road.. OST.. of Dead Man Walking... The lyrics are fantabulous:

"And I wished for so long, cannot stay...
All the precious moments, cannot stay...
It's not like wings have fallen, cannot stay...
But I feel something's missing, cannot say...

Holding hands are daughters and sons
And their faiths just falling down, down, down, down...
I have wished for so long
How I wish for you today

We all walk the long road. Cannot stay...
There's no need to say goodbye...
All the friends and family
All the memories going round, round, round, round
I have wished for so long
How I wish for you today

And the wind keeps roaring
And the sky keeps turning gray
And the sun is set
The sun will rise another day...

We all walk the long road. Cannot stay...
There's no need to say goodbye...
All the friends and family
All the memories going round, round, round, round
I have wished for so long
How I wish for you today
How I've wished for so long
How I wish for you today

We all walk the long road (3x)"

For the uniniitated.. here's the song...

Lovely song aint it??? n Lovelier Movie... Sean Penn.. ahh!!!!

c. Picked up my diary.. to pen in some poetry... after years...touched that book..

d. Richard Bach's Book : A gift of Wings... Awesome read...

e. Laughing away.. as I tackle the humongous volume of the Hitchhiker' Guide to the Galaxy..

Neway thats it... Ciao!!! Yenjai!

Ban on Cigs..

Post the SC decision to ban smoking... delhi truly has become a cleaner neater place... I can feel that in the air.. I find lesser stubs on the road.. And I think for all those who suffer from respiratory problems.. it will surely be a relief..

I noticed the change particularly this sunday.. when i went to a resturant.. where ppl usually come to chit-chat, listen to the music, hav a drink if they please and leave. The music for me is the major attraction to head there.. and ofc the fact that we have haunted the place all through Law!!! The place now seems so clean.. that now the air earlier seems as though it was grey... U can otice the people in the pic now.. behind me.. earlier.. that wd have been.. err.. MI-4?

As there are old endings, and new beginnings.. life has to move on.. for a couple of smoker friends of mine.. who complain.. I'd only say smile.. you're getting rid of a bane!!!

Honest, the idea that i dont see ppl with cigs in their hands all that often is new, different.. and perhaps a little uneasy.. but I guess we better get used to it!!!

Nahi to.. Jane kya Hoga Rama Re??? (I hope you remember the song!!!)

Mississippi Mud Pie....

Mississippi reminds me of my mum making me write the spelling 10 times... also of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.. two charecters i enjoyed reading as a teenager!!! But the third thing... and perhaps the most pleasant of these is that am transported back to the Heavenly flavour of Big Chill.. where almost always I gorge on this High Calorie Calling...so much so for my much gorged papaya mid-morn treat!!!

Big Chill is this Resturant at Delhi' upmarket.. Khan.. they have 2 resturants there and one more at GK.. I think they serve some of the best italian I have ever let my lips taste.. the pasta is always impeccable.. and the one hour in the waiting,, seems justified..

So who introduced me to MMP? my sis... a connoiseur of the place.. I remember the first time we went was when I was in grad.. after my ah-so-revelating experience..(read haircut/trim)... Now its almost a ritual that i head out for an MMP after a snip.. trust me.. Heaven Is what I feel!!!

Well.. that is Gloria Estefan's song.. except that she finds Heaven without someone.. but yeh.. may i borrow and alter it at this one!!! Well if you see me.. you might not believe me if i said.. food and sleep interest me the least.. but ask my mum.. and she'll tell you what a tyrant "Kuch Bhi" ans i Give when she wants an opinion on the menu...but MMP is one thing I think rarely twice about.. but today.. I did.. twice.. wondering if i nee another helping!!!

P.S... I think I deserve a free vouchur to Big Chill now.. What Say????

Vijaya Dashami...

It is Dashami today.. the last day of Navaratri celebrations... I have wat we call a Golupadi(steps of dolls) arranged for the nine days... and today..the last.. we will put them rest for the year..

Navratri has always been special.. its quite an enthusiastic affair putting up golu n all.. and all friends trickling in... many north indians intgrigued by our idea of celebrating navratri.. Guests are expected to sing.. and my mum ah-so-ecstatically narrates the socializing theme behind the set up!!!

Navmi is officil holiday from work and studies.. except in corporates ofcourse.. We keep all our books covered in new cloth.. forth a pic/idol of saraswati.. and next morn .. old or young.. everyone has to study.. but Navmi.. is Chutti..

I remember my days frm music class.. When we used to have a class on Dashami.. and learn a new song without fail.. to symbolize "Vidya arambham" (the beginning of New learning) We met our friends from all other classes.. and had a gala time dressed in traditional Pattu Pavadai (Lehenga!)!!! Even though its years that I've left music class.. i still fondly remember Lakshmi aunty on every other day!!

Also.. this was the first year.. i din't HAVE TO begin preperations for any exams!!! My work though still ensures I STUDY.. and yesterday I did a dissection of the Innovation Act.. I must say.. I feel like studying.. I read my fav chapter on Freedom of Speech and Expression, My fav Jurist.. and am thinking if its a good day to go back to my much loved calculus and algebra... Watsay? Vidya (Re)Arambham True style!!!!

Happy Vijaya Dashami.. May the Winner in Each one of us.. Shine!!!!

The Day the music Dies...

I come back, I write.. after almost 8 months.. and am particularly low right now.. I am listening to American Pie by Don Mclean.. feel morose.. dont want to talk to anybody and feel extremely alone and insecure...

I have been lucky thrice over the last two weeks.. I escaped the blast of 14th Sept by 10 mins.. sitting in my fav Central Park with a dear friend.. who tells me later he wanted to spend another hour over there.. then saved my neck and back.. thanks to some glass from a horrendous RTV crashing down upon me.. and then 27th when.. i again.. was in CP.. at a safer (i think!!) CCD meeting an online pal.

I have been silent for no particular reason.. may be the only reason has been Life.. As i feel somewhat weird in a place i claimed to know like the back of my hand... I wonder wat is in store next.. And everytime something shakes up this much loved city of mine.. I fear.. it will be the day the Music shall Die...

This is a mixed post... I wonder if you think i've lost it,,, but as American Pie transcends into its low-note end.. I hope the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost will be back.. to restore and let us know..That it is not the Day the Music Dies!!!

If I had to dedicate one song to you,
I am sure I'd sing my heart out..
And when I would let you know, how much i care..
My lungs would scrape and shout..
For you my friend is all I feel
that love does bitterness never yield..
and u sing forever that happy song
at your altar may sound a pleasant gong..

And then in time when its rough tide to sail,
May courage dignity and honour prevail..
May in the end when the war is done,
Sing away to happiness one..
A song for me.. and a song for you,
Hoping it stays forever true.....