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Flying to DOHA ..this saturday...


Hope to be back on blog after i reach there....

Heard in a Mumbai Local

Jab 9 mahine garbh main fasa tha tabhi itna mach mach nahi kar raha tha..

Abhi 9 minute keliye.....

New Year Eve in GOA

Shot by my k300i camera fone

Parasite

After being a parasite for long 23 years I found that I am going to exhaust my host (My parents!!).Now I was trying to find a new host. That was during Onam(Harvest festival of Kerala) when my friend Rajesh told me that I can join him at Mumbai .He would provide me place to stay and I can be there till I get a good job. It was a good offer, as getting an accommodation in Mumbai is a difficult thing. And when it is FREE it is really a double lotto. One of my classmates Ramprakash was already there. He was there frustrated and was about to leave back home to Kerala.My arrival made him stay there for another, at least one more month. Ramprakash was a well disciplined guy. He had completed engineering with too good marks than me. He had a well thought out plan where to go and how to go JOB SEARCHING..
During this time my father told me that one of his colleague’s friend Sushant is going to Mumbai and that I can go with him. Even though my father had a First class railway pass with family to go anywhere in India we never made that. It was the first time I was making such a long journey a one night one day journey. I got a new host in Sushant till I reached Mumbai. It must after lunch that train stopped and there was confusion all over. Sushant as usual got down from the train. The rail line had been blocked as a MAAL GAADI had derailed. People where getting down from the train and Sushant and I thought the journey would be punishing. Phew!! The train has started again on its journey .Jaded with the journey both of us where looking haggard. It was almost in the morning that I reached there in Mumbai. It was a Sunday and my cousin Deepak was there to take me to Rajesh’s place. Deepak too was in my college but was from electrical. He was with his friends there. I don’t remember why dint he call me being my cousin.( I think it was because his room had more persons…No ha.. I remember he was also just new like me. First thing Sushant told was the directions EAST and WEST. And he told this was something which is to be learned and important. I was a bad student of direction from my school days. Whenever someone says north I would check which my right hand is so that I can face towards the sun to find east. This made me more worried. Sushant seeing the consternation on my face told me that I would learn soon.
I was introduced to all those ticket, coupon and pass facilities which can be used to travel the local.Sushant was staying in Thane and he left to his place. Even though we where cousins we knew each other only when both of us got through engineering entrance exam. Deepak was in Gujarat and me in Karnataka all till we both got to know each other.
The room was at Mira road and I found at least 4-5 of them there at Rajesh’s house. I was sure I would find someone there addicted. They where in a confusion as to what to have for the breakfast.
I don’t remember each of their faces, but they where busy in their own world sitting in front of TV .Rajesh introduced me to the group. Ramprakash had gone out .Had my tea made by Rajesh and after exchanging pleasantries, he invited me to the good and bad things in his room.
All of them had planned to cook good sambar as it was Sunday. Had good lunch with the new folks. Ramprakash put the plans as how we could start on the new mission
Day 2: Rajesh left to his office at 7 eventhough his office was an hours journey from Mira Road .Remaining guys got ready and left to their office.Now it was our turn to start. Ramprakash got up and made upumma and tea for both of us. It was still not 11 which was the time when novice like me could at least get into the local train.
Copies of resumes where ready with both of us and we took the train at 11.06 to churchgate.Address of placement cell where ready with Ramprakash and the plan was also clear on his mind. When to start, take lunch, which are the placements to be covered, what time to be back etc. And I have seen that every time he finished the day as he planned. Most of the agencies told there where vacancies for sales engineers and we dint take that.Beggers..still choosers..coz we are engineers. Almost one month I learned almost every nook and corner of Mumbai.I will be back soon with more of this sooon.....

The begining...after a break.....

Cambridge learners dictionary defines
addiction /@"dIkS@n/ noun [C, U]
when you cannot stop doing or taking something because you are addicted to it
I was just thinking how we where doing things which we were not able to stop doing. Addiction is something which we don’t stop doing because we enjoy doing that rather than as what the dictionary defines. If that was correct I have still not got to what addiction means may be because I never got addicted.
When I was a kid like any kid I too was exploring the world. As first home was the world, then came school…where my friends and their habits made my world and their world.
In school there where friends who smoke, drink and take drugs but I hardly know anyone who was addicted. They drink, smoke or took drugs just on to know what it was.
I never made a try during that time. And now I don’t know whether anyone is seriously addicted. Except one or two guys I have never met any of my school friends.
Oh I remember something.. when my teacher put a guy with me who was taking drugs(Drug Addict..?). It was done so that he could improve himself. I don’t know what made my teacher think so. Whatever it may be he stopped taking drugs, left school 2-3 days later(if what I remember is correct) neither did he reach home. Later when I met him(must be after 1 year) he was with his own exporting business.
Getting back.. now I have left school and have to join a college. Now my aim was clear, get into a good college and then gets through engineering entrance and become an engineer. Was I addicted to ………??? ’learning’. At that time I was not able to stop doing that. There where no friends as such (I mean special…) in my college. I remember we had good looking teachers. We where 80 students in a class and it was a crowd than a class. Addiction..??!!! People almost dint know each other, so no experience. I dint know whether anyone was addicted. And I too didn’t try anything coz I had an aim in mind.
Then the next stage. Got thru entrance joined a engineering college. Here it was altogether different story. Start of my hostel life. The real test people say. Parents get the most worried .Life was lot cool. Just enjoy everything round.Wether it is the lectures, the elections, night outs, arts fest or anything which came on in those 4 years. The whole life those 4 years was addictive. I almost stopped going through books. The only time I used to go through was the night before the exam. Luckily…I got through everything in the first attempt itself.
Just after our exams I heard one of our batch mate had molested a minor girl. Was that an end to a sort of addiction..??? Or was he a paedophile.No...There was nothing like that from him earlier.
Now it was time to get into a job. It was time of networking. And a whole One year and I got into my job in dream city of Mumbai. And again its 4 years round.
There is lots of stories. And sure I must find someone who is addicted. Or I will have to try my own….
Its time for now, to leave as lunch break is over and my client will bang me if he finds me so……