Chapter 3..
Salaam Mumbai! first stint at staying on your own, paying rent, cooking and all this after struggling to work from 9 am to god knows when, usually 11pm and sometimes even 2 am. I was pretty sure i wanted to stay alone, didn't want to share with strangers and obviously a girl friend in my life also demanded a little bit of privacy! (blush blush.. soon turned to flush flush though! :p) anyways after a 6 month stint living alone i guess the rent was overburdening me and to my luck my close friend from coimbatore chapter... Tushar Chhapia came in from nowhere (actually not nowhere from another part of town only) to put some life in my abode. With him and other friends from Coimbatore mumbai was a different place altogether. Bike ride (to start with) to marine drive, meeting and dinning in crystal for their famous 'aam rass' and 'phulka roti' and trips to Regal Cinema, Sterling Cinema, Eros Cinema, Metro Adlabs, and to Mohd. Ali road during ramzan! Mahalaksmi race course during India's only derby! Mixed fruit cream at Haji Ali Juice center! Siddhi Vinayak Temple and Mahalakshmi Temple on Sunday Morning post which some awesome non-veg brunch at monde cafe or leopold cafe! then desert at theobroma! oh god! mouth waters even now!!
Clicking pictures from the Mahalakshmi bridge of the white white Dhobi Ghat! panorama clicks of the queeen's necklace, getting really great deals for electronic stuff from lamington road! Going to crawford market to bargain your heart out (never could but was interesting to see nevertheless).
"Govinda aala re aala zara matki sambhaal bichua"!! festive season the best enjoyed by the marathi manoos! i guess i should say mumbaikar!! with the rains in the air and competitive spirits in getting the tallest man pyramid! (i couldn't remember the colloquial term) and procession and dance, life which sees the maximum tension and pressure like no other city but somehow during the festive times they just seem to forget everything and enjoy! Then comes Ganapathi!! lalbaugcha raja!! various ganesh pandhaals and then comes visarjan after 21 days! a day when mumbai is inaccessible and proudly so!
A very few know the 'sort of private' beach at worli which is quite deserted and is so calming to spent a few minutes or if lucky may be an hour or so.. very soothing to hear the sea and then see the worli sea link all lit up, a beautiful sight.. sometimes to top it off i usually take family helping of Baskin & Robins and while away some time.. Sometimes did have company and sometimes wooed some company! and sometimes me and my tanhaai!
Work wise life was awesome.. great boss who mentored me and set my professional life to a trajectory that was upwards!
Life is most complicated in bombay, hours spent on the road traveling or a faster and more adventurous means called the locals to reach office and back home, living in a pigeon hole, busting your stress on friday and saturday nights and finding time for family and friends after all this! that was life in Bombay! and yes spot some celebrity at bandra carter road or if not slurrp on really hot chicks in short dresses!
Life ki choti choti khushiyaan powerpacked in a small congested city rather metro called Mumbai!
Aamchi mumbai really solid mumbai!...
to be continued...
Salaam Mumbai! first stint at staying on your own, paying rent, cooking and all this after struggling to work from 9 am to god knows when, usually 11pm and sometimes even 2 am. I was pretty sure i wanted to stay alone, didn't want to share with strangers and obviously a girl friend in my life also demanded a little bit of privacy! (blush blush.. soon turned to flush flush though! :p) anyways after a 6 month stint living alone i guess the rent was overburdening me and to my luck my close friend from coimbatore chapter... Tushar Chhapia came in from nowhere (actually not nowhere from another part of town only) to put some life in my abode. With him and other friends from Coimbatore mumbai was a different place altogether. Bike ride (to start with) to marine drive, meeting and dinning in crystal for their famous 'aam rass' and 'phulka roti' and trips to Regal Cinema, Sterling Cinema, Eros Cinema, Metro Adlabs, and to Mohd. Ali road during ramzan! Mahalaksmi race course during India's only derby! Mixed fruit cream at Haji Ali Juice center! Siddhi Vinayak Temple and Mahalakshmi Temple on Sunday Morning post which some awesome non-veg brunch at monde cafe or leopold cafe! then desert at theobroma! oh god! mouth waters even now!!
Clicking pictures from the Mahalakshmi bridge of the white white Dhobi Ghat! panorama clicks of the queeen's necklace, getting really great deals for electronic stuff from lamington road! Going to crawford market to bargain your heart out (never could but was interesting to see nevertheless).
"Govinda aala re aala zara matki sambhaal bichua"!! festive season the best enjoyed by the marathi manoos! i guess i should say mumbaikar!! with the rains in the air and competitive spirits in getting the tallest man pyramid! (i couldn't remember the colloquial term) and procession and dance, life which sees the maximum tension and pressure like no other city but somehow during the festive times they just seem to forget everything and enjoy! Then comes Ganapathi!! lalbaugcha raja!! various ganesh pandhaals and then comes visarjan after 21 days! a day when mumbai is inaccessible and proudly so!
A very few know the 'sort of private' beach at worli which is quite deserted and is so calming to spent a few minutes or if lucky may be an hour or so.. very soothing to hear the sea and then see the worli sea link all lit up, a beautiful sight.. sometimes to top it off i usually take family helping of Baskin & Robins and while away some time.. Sometimes did have company and sometimes wooed some company! and sometimes me and my tanhaai!
Work wise life was awesome.. great boss who mentored me and set my professional life to a trajectory that was upwards!
Life is most complicated in bombay, hours spent on the road traveling or a faster and more adventurous means called the locals to reach office and back home, living in a pigeon hole, busting your stress on friday and saturday nights and finding time for family and friends after all this! that was life in Bombay! and yes spot some celebrity at bandra carter road or if not slurrp on really hot chicks in short dresses!
Life ki choti choti khushiyaan powerpacked in a small congested city rather metro called Mumbai!
Aamchi mumbai really solid mumbai!...
to be continued...
i like this post... but Ganapati is for 11 days and not 21 :-)and yes Mumbai is exactly the way you said it... fast paced life but we somehow manage to recuperate during the weekends ;-)
ReplyDelete@ taa... glad you liked it! :) and oops! didn't do the research properly i guess!
ReplyDeletehahahaa.. no issues :-) avehi bol diya..
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