The spirit of the city took no time to get in the pace again…defying their intentions.

On the lighter note… I tried watching few desi  flicks like  “Tum Mile”  and “Chance pe Dace” etc  and while in process of watching them the heroes seemed inspired by hollywood actors… So resemblance i figured out is …

Emraan Hashmi — Acting or rather copying Collin Farrell (Alexander,Recruit,Miami Vice Fame ) – I like his acting

Shahid Kapoor –  Acting i would not say copying TOM Cruise of 90 ‘s — I am fan of his acting too.

John Abrahm –  Rememblance to Matthew Mconaughey (of Sahara fame ) – I am not a big fan of his acting.

San Franscisco

Well!! Well!! Well!!

Just writing this blog to post my thoughts as i made to US.. Well no big deal now a days.. u be into software..and u get a chance…to make an escapade into a foreign country for which more than u ur family is proud while relatives get a topic to discuss…not everybody’s .

But it is lil special… for 2 reasons.

First simply..cos me being the first guy in family to go abroad except one of my Farthest Aunty from whom we had been hearing her farthest travel (she came to mumbai to meet Rajesh Khanna in 70′s) which ws the achievement till date and we all cousins sisters and brothers had heard it numerously whenever our families used to  meet in social-family gatherings.

Secondly .. cos the luck not ended there only …I happened to meet a girl on Dubai Air Port and luckily got a seat just beside her and rest is wonderful story .

Wait for the updates!

The occasion is deepu getting married  in a week actually 5 days after…. After 2 long years of hustle to find a right match he’s found a girl of his like. We kept pestering him for all these times wen you will do the altar.. and he kept on making short term plans saying in nxt 6 mnths… which eventually turned out to be 2 years.

Well deepu is ma CB — Chuddy Buddy. We  studied together upto high school and then parted ways in different college , but got again together , Many thanks to IT and also the world is round with india seems merry go round.  Still remember we saw RNBDJ with shahrukh being in Punjab Power yearning for his lovelife. And the story here is not ,much different except the tragic part of the heroine. I remember with so many difficulties coming his way(some due to me) they are gonna be life partners..grt.

To start with… being an Arranged marriage after the boys visit to the prospect house the parents of the girl came to visit our house. With they reaching city on wee hours deepu had lost his cell –the only contact btw them and him as We lost our prized possessions earlier yesterday..(Me sleeping in the room and somebody happily theft . But inventions of modern world keeps you alive in fighting at the time of despair.

The second was they came the saw and they were content. I woke up to see them in the house as guests and for the bachelors like us .. we had made plans to impress them. But.. Maid hadnt came from last 2 days and the flat was dirty like hell. . Kudos right time to test. I mn they were seeing us in our worse. I guess they were expecting these from us and wer quite ready.

In morning deepu asked them what they want in Breakfast as if we are good in cooking (i guess we are) and the asked abt the options …. i was cursing him from nxt room as i was the one who has to cook… My culinary abilites are otherwise grt and ppl (mostly my roomies) are fond of myy cooking. May be cos they think atleast i make things edible.  They asked for POHA… and i was ready. I fought to make the dish so good that they will be impressed but …. i dont know may performance anxiety or what  the it became watery … I said hell  . After a while deepu came and saw that.. yeeled abe tu meri shaadi tudwa ke rahega.. maine kaha unko jaakar khila … ho sakta hai wo hamare dard ko dekhkar khud bahud samajh jaaye… aur atujhe apna damaad bana lein  .He coolly went away and asked them to get ready to eat BF outside. And finally i saved my soul.

Funny memories…. which added twist…. in an otherwise dull meeting……. and i guess was the reason they agreed.

Grt going He is all set for getting married or ME-RRIED ..Many best wishes.

But somethings are out of control and they happen unexpectedly leaving a state of happiness or sorrow for which you are not at all prepared. You get out of mind but due some experience you manage to sail through. It happened one bad morning few days ago that i woke up due to screaming of my friend only to know that somebody entered early morning and theft away wallet and cellphone of both of us.The thing happned wen i was sleeping and our door as usual was just stuck up.I dont know how it happened but it took away all the peace for few days cos ur wallet consisted of debit/credit cards some other important stuffs like licence,voters id card,Health insurance card all gone which has to be reapplied and follow ups to get the things again leaving you lil disturbed. But thats a experience . And you need to start again .

Of all the things i lost i am missing by Blackberry the most .

wuuuuuuuuuuunnn….. It was Navy ship horn blowing last weekend.

We along my freinds..went to a visit Navy docyard.. Let me tell u first the place is in colaba located south of mumbai. As on the way to it initail excitement building up , the time we reached  the lions gate(it is named so),the entrance it almost doubled on seeing the navy officers in their cool white and trademark navy blue uniform.

We had been invited by one of my college time classmate. He is sub lieutenant there. On seeing him on the gate in uniform.. i began wondering abt him , as in college he used to be guy nn his own with few freinds mostly a left out.. with only frieds in our group.. no one of us ever tht that he wuld make to defence, due to his unconventional ways… not focussed either on studies or anything related to career though we were awre of his potential..we were lil comprehend.. basically a  shy guy with interests in chess.. computers.. and little in gyming [:D],ppl make fun of him. But here he was standing tall,confident and with his own car Gr8 i said.

We all occupied the little maruti 800 and  slowly moved into the traffic less roads to the ship named viraat (A big ship used to carry aircrafts and torpedos before it was decommissioned bought by india from britishers) now converted to a standstill musuem. For those who have not seen it actually, just to give its stastics it is about 150 m in length and 60-70 m broad. As we went inside we saw the ppl saluting each other. I asked abt the way they salute and he showed the way a different one than army or aircraft as all have different ways.. the navy’s is shortest one. We went inside to find tht there were a lots of photos. all very old some dates back before our independence.. with all yesteryears prime minister and president. Models of other ships of indian fleet were there. Now whats a fleet– IT IS combination distinct war ships typically a carrier,destroyer, the navy have .

We moved on to come across a series of war Hathiyaars.. the arms like bullet, rifles,missiles,torpedos, sea diving suits armoury  of copters.. the honour medals for bravery in defence , the models of indian navy operations was glorious. As afternoon.. the inside was hot and humid we went on to see the inside hospital with engine room . Lastly we moved on to see the top.. which was huge space for aircrafts landing . A clean runaway with a space u can definetly play.. basketball,volleyball,etc. We staeted to click a pic but stopped by an official who adanced terrificly frigtening one of our female freind. We then saw a diff kind of flag which was like a white rectangle flag with red strips crossing each other perpendicularly from center.  and our indian flag at the top rectangle out of 4 rec. We were statnding at the edge just imagining the sailing speed in livecondition as we had seen in the titanic .

As it was afternoon we tht to move on and have lunch only to satisfy the  hunger we had developed then forgot due to excitement. The officer offered us a snack break as a  quick  option to escape hunger..and then we drove back to the ultimate machine i always had dreamt of being inside… IT was none other than the fascinating , impressive sight of a ::SUBMARINE:: . The state of art equipment that we saw made us amazed to go into the secretive missions we have seen in movies of james bond, world war etc. now we were there .. on the board. Wow… the slender but a long ad big as we had not thought it earlier it was floating on the surface. As india has 2 kinds of subamrine one is british, another is german. We were on the surface of british submarine the battrey were on the charge. i thought i shuld go inside see the secret palce on how ppl reside and work i asked my freind and he said that w’ll go we all excited went inside from a big ladder and then found that upper orifice of the sandwiched made of submarine. we moved into the the dining room cool it ws having TV and a cool hindi movie was playing we dined on chips,mad angles etc with cool sip of orange squash . We got a pungent smell of hydrogen, unable to resist it, an office r told us that if only the % of H2 will increase beyond 2%  the  ship will explode .. we were really scared. We quickly finished the chips.. and began exploring the interiors to see the every facility of sleeping, playing, toilets etc… was exquisite.  Moving on we saw the torpedo room from where they launch missiles once the target is in range, there were 8 torpedos fully loaded.

The guy then started telling about their mission they are generally out for weeks.. for war patrol,practising the rounds inside the sea. They secretly monitor the ships of neighbouring countries, their fleet or ships movements so to keep eye on them and take their position at the time of holocast. This was amazing just imagine a guy inside a submarine.. travelling inside the sea monitoring targets trough periscope.. aquatic life is gr8. But how esy it seems its s tough job… and u need to be extreme fit to execute ur duty.

Well we then saw a lot of tecnology related to navigation and monitoring which i cant reveal. We then came up and were sweating .. just breathe of fresh air brought us back to life. We took some memorable..pics with the officer. We then moved to 2nd submarine.. initially we were reluctant to go inside as it is very conjusted , where you have  hardly place to move arounfd freely. But tht to give it a try only t found the much better architecture inside.. german as we know are pioneers.. in U-boats.. as they call the submarine. Taking a quick walk we cam outside … and finally out of the gate we thank him for the lovely visit of us. GR& experience…

“Yeh mumbai hai yahaan waqt ka matlab hai paisa”… “Mumbai aur maut se koi bach nahi sakaa”…”Sholaa hai ya hai bijuriya.. dil ki bazariyaa Mumbai nagariyaa “

Those were the lines in my mind when i came to mumbai  two years earlier as i my first posting to operate from here  ..with lots of hope , excitement, fascination to see the city of cosmopolitan ppl… and of course  to fulfill the  dreams in the  “City of Dreams”.

Now after 2 years.. it seems the life in  metro is as new and  fresh to me .. as it would be to any new comer. Being a Small Towner as one of my colleague call me, I had explored the city like a  curious lonely planet show’s tourist (the one which aired on discovery  channel ) every weekend .

Be it my freinds cum roommates, occassional hook ups with friends in different company living in distant places once in month has helped me adapt the pace of the city ,  Mini India as it is called the colour of mumbai is varied… The city never sleeps is so true that i  am counting my own experiences as awaken through whole night like a barn owl during my third shift work. My office is on the famous Traffic Jammed Andheri-Kurla(AK) road at daytime.  At night the distant sight of national & international flights arriving and taking off through a window of top floor office keeps me awaken checking my eyesight with identifying the Airways logo is good exercise. Lots of flavours ;Shopping in city is my favourite past time .

Not to forget the Salesmanship in mumbai which is actually sees the widest variety of Salesmen from all parts of country for  lots of things .. Some of  these arts , i had recounted in a period of time..

It was between Mumbai Indians Vs Chennai Superkings. Before i start ,for those who don’t know , I am sure  there will be less ppl in it, I wanted to make it clear that T20 is a fast paced cricket contest of a max 20 overs each team has to play.

I managed to pull out time from the very busy work schedule in a IT company i work. My boss came to know that i need to go early.. so he made sure  that i ‘ll be completing the long day work in half a day. I slogged and managed. I along with 2 other colleagues hurriedly took the local train from Andheri to Churchgate braving the crowds first through bus then in train during office hours.

So the match was slotted at 8pm at wankhede. We reached there half an hour earlier and met other 2 freinds waiting. Feeling hungry we gulped wada paav and cutlets with lots of water to make sure that we are charged up to support our favourite Mumbai indians team. The climate was humid and we were sweating hard . Anyhow we reached  the entry for our stand which was Sunil Gavaskar stand(always filled up with twice its capacity).

Here we got checked up by the securities . One of my friend has got a camera and was immediately sent out , i also came out with him. So now we 2 were in utter dilemma of whether to see the match or return  to put it back at home  coz  there was no facility to submit the costly camera anywhere near and also the match was gonna start in next 10 mins. He thought and told me to hide it inside the pocket and brave the securities like a spy. With initial reservations i got out and started thinking that how i shuld go inside.

Suddenly i remembered my boss comments on me 2 days earlier that you have been good at your work last year but you have to be more aggressive in your approach towards things.

I decided to give it a try.. and with lots of ppl i queue followed them and was finally able to ditch the mediocre security for whom i have heard that they have charged 10lacs rs for a single match.

The moment i entered the ground the enviroment was exhilarating. With lovely white (flood light )lit up the ground was shining like water. The public presence made it a more pronounced show. I reached the stands and the music was on.. the lovely cheerleaders were dancing to mumbai’s theme song. I was fully charged with crowd making a lot of hullaballoo.

We came to know that chennai was going to bat. The game started and it was lovelty to see the mix of players from differnt country in each side. It was like a blend of flavours in your dish …a sort of intercontinental on your platter. The game was on the guys really put a good show at the end despite of initial failings. I was enchanted by the power show from my personal favourite skippper MS dhoni in batting side. They made a decent total.

A break… and the public was cheering the home side for the batting to come…. gr8 music along with drums in our statnd made ppl dance and shout… unfortunate to those who were passing by….ppl used to throw bits of muggled up paper… but they took that in good spirit.

So finally the second innnings started and we were going to watch 2 legends of modern cricket Sachin tendulkar (making a come back after a month) and immaculate Jayasuriya opening the innings. We were expecting a lovely show..and they didnt let us down ..off to a thunderous start there was lot of sixes and fours by Jayasuriya.. hitting everywhere around the ground easily to evry bowler.. on the stands, top of the roofs… we were acclerated dint got a chance to sit back…as music didnt  stopped and dance and celebration shook the stadium  through the 13th over which the home side won comfortably with the 48 ball hundred from the Jyasuriya.

I had gone to childhood  memories in tournament where you go to play in sunday morning and the match is over till  noon  with result and ur back to home upto lunch with all enjoyments.. So you feel you had utilized the day.. The T20 is already a hit with its concept.

You can share the Same kind of exp. For any suggestions mail me at jk07_sscet@rediffmail.com