Delhi Shelli...

Its often said and believed that Mumbaikars dont like Delhi and is wisely reciprocated. Never have we met a Delhieite and the conversation of city superiority ever reached its conclusion. This stands true for all topics of conversation right from City Location, Infrastructure, Politics to which place bears the most good looking gals that make you say woooooooow .... :D
Well, the conversation still continues and I still believe Mumbai is best in terms of Gal Quotient.. some of my friends disagree :P... I though admit Delhi has some amazing roads and infrastructure.. but then it has the space for it. We cant do that on our island.

The below list is taken from one of the Mumbai group on Facebook -- The group has 100s of them, I took few out of it.

You know you are from Mumbai (Bombay) when

1. You say "town " and expect everyone to know that*this means south of Churchgate.

2 You speak in a dialect of Hindi called 'Bambaiya Hindi', which only Bombayites can understand.

3. Train timings (9.27, 10.49 etc) are really important events of life.

4. You spend more time each month traveling than you spend at home.

5. You call an 8' x 10' clustered room a Hall.

6. You're paying Rs 10,000 sq ft. for a 1 room flat, the size of walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal."

7. You have the following sets of friend: school friends, college friends, neighborhood friends, office friends and yes, train friends, a species unique only in Bombay.

8. It takes longer to get off from your house to the station than from one end of Mumbai to another by train.

9. You actually pay for your rickshaws by the meter.

10. your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.

11. At 3am in morning you can still get wadapav or butter pav bhaji and when u r stuck in traffic even at 1:30 a.m

12. you call the cabbies n waiters BOSS

13. Every time you speak Hindi in front of a Delhitite they have the WTF expression on their face.

14. you behave like a foreigner in any other part of the country.

15. Chal, paka mat!" is an overused part of your vocabulary

16. You drink 2 sips of tea called 'cutting' more than thrice a day

17. you know that 'khamba' does not only mean pillar

18. When even at 8 in the morning you can see couples sitting and cozying up at Marine Drive and Worli Seaface

19. You get photographed at three parties and you're suddenly a page 3 regular

20. You know what the term "video coach" stands for in the local trains... (My Fav)

:D

My earlier trips there weren't exactly the social types and neither was this one... but on the last day of our training we had some time to make good. Having our drivers waiting to take us to airport, we took them to take us around Delhi. Expecting little dissatisfaction for doing more work than usual, my driver was more than happy to show us places. We could catch up only Kutub Minar and it was awesome. I had seen Lotus Temple last time ... so Qutub Minar was on the top of the list.

Click on the pic for the entire album :

Delhi Outing - Qutub Minar

Next Destination.... thinking!

Weddings in Heaven....Rents in Hell... People on Earth dreaming

Well the concept of arranged marriages is very simple, miraculous, intelligent and also Outright Preposterous !!!

Had been in this game for a while now.. so I can tell. Its played pretty much like cricket. Both sides come to bat and there are fielders who are there to catch a bad ball you hit. The interesting thing worth noting here is.. did you really hit a good ball badly, or did you purposely hit it to the fielder to go back to the dressing room. Well the fielding side will never know since the scorecard will read You Caught... HAHAHHA...It is a funny game.

Hence, gals, you really rock. Katz is convinced she wont marry conventional style.. Rabs no different. F1 (as rabs calls her) never did. Rabs recently told me that she wont attend my wedding if I marry someone I recently met cause that poor girl made an intelligent comment.... hehehhehe. At least now I know she will attend my wedding... Phew!! Had I only known it earlier.. :P

I read today that someone took a property was rented for 1.5 crores a month in Bombay. That makes the whole equation in perspective.. doesnt it? Ambanis are creating a world record by creating the costliest house on Altamount road. Yeah.. its just Rs. 2000 crores worth. If you any graduate, you can figure out how much is 2k crores worth today.. and how many countries have GDP-NDP of that size.
http://www.mumbaimirror.com/net/mmpaper.aspx?Page=article&sectid=15&contentid=20070530022210718d7460de5

My boss on my way back home on Friday asked me about a Job opening in UK to two of us. I was silent but was thinking thats too easy. They had the requirement and we had the niche. Boss's word wouldn't even need an interview. But will that make a difference.
I thought and Money wise, Yes... but as I cant help seeing it as Penny wise Pound foolish.

Lets see how Bombay has evolved. Its nothing to do with my love with the city but am asking you to do this from an historical perspective. Migrants from various villages came here for work and did the laborer's job and were treated as outsiders. They stayed through the humiliation and hard times and their next generations were called residents. They then took better education and job so you could make it big. Now when there is chance to make it big here, you go from this place to another city and start the whole cycle again ??? Is this all education here has taught us? We going from one village to another city. In all sense Bombay is costlier than New York and if one can make it big here, one can make it atleast twice as big in any other city in this world. Thats what I know..

but I dont want to convince you cause I might take the offer and GO !!!......:D

After a while, writing this becomes really pleasurable unlike most of the times when i hate to stare the screen and thinking what to do.

Well, as it is all the regular bloggers on leave... Rabs :P and gang, I decided to take a short leave myself. So this month was kinda slag. anyways, not much to write about other than the fact that its F* (Fultu.. :P) hot outside.

Anyways, further much ADO, will cut short and start studying. The tube-light in my house will be on for a while, and i need to get my thoughts right for what to speak in front of the huge crowd..... for the huge day tomorrow @ Symposium.

for those who decided to stay dead and not catch up on events, heres the video of the hyd. airport. Its one of my artistic captures.... :P