order in chaos

couple of days back i had to go to lower parel. even though others trust my driving skills, i trust my impatience more. so i dont venture there. i always preferred travelling by bus rather than train, yes the chaos of western and central line train always remember to send a shudder down my spine and yet so many millions of bombayites travel in time, day after day, and it does not matter how many new commuters join in this chaos, yet there is place for all. the trains mostly make it on time.

well that day i while coming home took an ST (state transport) bus, she is always known as the older, uncool country cousin of the more urban BEST, though she is still more faster, but in todays world, looks matter too much so she stands a dismal third in bombay.

you know how the tickets look out here, tickets with different denominations printed and conductor has to punch in the boarding and the destination place which is coded in numbers. but this time i saw a ST conductor having a machine similar to the credit card amount punching machine.

i told the conductor that this time you guys have left BEST far behind with this new baby. he at first just smiled
later he came back to me with lots of pride and said, yes we are progressing, and started explaining to me how he had found it initially difficult to learn this new machine as he is 50 year old and had worked already on the old machine for 27 years, but then he believes in being modern helps life.

i guess that is what i admire most about we indians. we learn very fast and even though many are resistant to change, once they see how beneficial it is. we really pick things up fast.

on my way i also say a 60 + man driving a rustic lamby scooter with a tire rubber tied around the body to ensure the scooter from crumbling apart. where else will you see such enterprising people who never believe in giving up and are passionate.....


yes this country is full of chaos, yes each state is radially different from its neighbor, yes there are very few SOPs followed and yet we are rising and shining... so there must be an order somewhere which is allowing all this to happen...

its just that others need more time to figure us out !!

Paa paa dont preach !

saw the movie last week. one more movie which proved ab is a legend !! and the srks and aks (amir in dis case) have light years to catch up wit movies and those seen on big screen move me faster to tears.. this one dint do that .. of course it did make my throat go parched and my heart move a bit too fast but nothing more than that..

long back i had seen a movie named "anjali" where a little  girl with a heart warming smile, chubby body and most gorgeous curls which would give even dimple kapadia   a complex; made even the guys watching the movie, cry even though she did not have any dialogues..

mass media as we all know is most influential and if movies make non usage of condom sound cool, polygamy as hep, glorifying murderers and goons, making being evil the new "it" thing , drinking and rash driving as macho, smoking a cigar uber cool.

we really are giving wrong signals out to the younger generation.

its not about moral policing but it is about using the power in hand with responsibility and keeping the hidden agendas as hidden !

lastest gossip which is making the media go crazy is of tiger woods. read his press release. it seemed heart felt and i really liked the way he asked forgiveness from his fans. maybe its an pr thing but at the same time he is not endorsing being a polygamist as cool.

i wish movie makers got more conscious of their social responsibility and of course it is for mullah the world goes round but when they get a taste of the bitter fruits they planted, maybe money wont be able to act as life line to them !

Tiger gives a (mouse) flash

Since I am back in the business of  being boring let me use this opportunity to say something to justify my credibility.

Well I was driving to work in the morning and like I said earlier I fear all vehicles.. no exception.. no favorites.. so this driver in honda city all of a sudden got out of his lane and entered mine without signaling. We could have rammed !! I obviously got  mad because I am superstitious about a good start and it was an important day work wise for me. Luckily for me the signal went red. I walked up to him and gave him a piece of my mind with lot of love. Seeing that he is an south indian uncle ( read as 40 + , fat and goon looking) I expected him to add on words to my vocabulary but something really hilarious happened. He in a real squeaky voice said “Sorry”. Of course it did burst my bubble to spoil up for a fight so I just said the typical monologue that proceeds sorry “ what do you mean by sorry ?” and huffed and puffed back to my car. But later I just could not stop laughing at this incident. Sure the tiger did give a mouse flash.

Pointing fingers to others .. 3 pointing to You !!

Well as an after thought I have put these lines which I so conveniently had forgotten to mention

I was commenting honestly again on my brother's drawings when he started painting after years of break. More so I gave honest hard hitting comments as I saw his friends were flattering him for reasons unknown to me but definitely not because of his drawing skills. So I did not want bro to get carried away by those comments. I missed out one little point here, my bro is generally too level headed and knows his worth. When we were kids, the exam for which I would brag home I would score full marks, I would not fare well and for the ones I thought I would do bad, I did well .. Each time.. Every time without exceptions. On the other hand my bro could almost predict with only 5 % variation his marks for every paper and he too was right ..  Each time.. Every time without exceptions.

Some times in relation we just forget to give space to the other person, trust the other person's judgment, respect the other persons feeling. All in our zeal to protect the other person from harm, not realizing maximum harm is done by our this attitude. After burning my fingers I did learn my lesson, hope I dont have to revise this lesson soon and follow what I believe in.

broi n me :D

Criticism.. constructs ?? !!

Not been blogging for long. Not only that I have not even been visiting my blog site for about 20 days now. Thats something because I am my only loyal reader. So dear blog am sorry.

I just realized the reason I have not been blogging. Nothing really interesting is happening in my life, not that this is something new, my life is as mundane as it can be but earlier I would atleast find something humorous or annoying or silly to share. Then one day my bro told me that he thinks my blog post have become very boring and monotonous.

I decided, I will take his constructive criticism in the right spirit, I for days stared into blank word documents, jabbing words and deleting words with equal ferocity. Thought it was time to write that big bang novel I claim I will always write. I did that for days together every night before sleeping and then that pursuit lost its charm as  nothing magical happened. Then started the even more boring one way sparring with god for making me so little talented which quickly lost its charm as god did not respond with acid dipped one liners to spice up the war !! so I got back to my blog, will pen in words that come in my heart and continue my lone journey towards creative writing with my goal clear in my heart, my soul still ready to give company to my heart and my mind being pulled along as else it would wonder lonely.