Bombay is Different

Gate Way of India

Siddhi Vinayak Mandir

Beautiful sunset. Picture taken from the Marine Drive.

Back after the Bombay trip. It was loads of fun and loads of masti in Bombay. Met friends from IIT and cousins.

Met Trupsster. She was amazing. :-) We both had so much fun together. Watched Zinda. What crap it was. About the movie later. Few things about Bombay.

• Crowd- As soon as you land up at the airport you get the feeling like. Ooops where am I?? You find that suddenly the population of India has crossed 300 crores. You find people every where. Under the flyover, in small houses. Cant explain at what allplaces. There are people just everywhere.
• Linkin road- There is this place in Bandra (I guess) where you can get all the girl's stuff, like bags, accessories, chains, etc etc. Trupsster bought a belt there. The shop keeper said Rs 200 and she said "I am going to give Rs 30 for it, take it or I am leaving" I was like "What??" I kept quie and she finaly got it for Rs 50 I guess. Ok, I havent seen anyone bargain like this. GOD!!! I would have given that guy Rs 150 minimum. And there was this shop keeper who kept on giving me vibes. "Sir aap gale ka chain le lo na. Sir aap kaan ki baali le lo na. Aap ko bahut suit karega, bahut aacha lagega aapko" Saala Kameena!!!
• More Crowd - Dont even try getting in the train from 8 AM to 12 noon. And again from 7 PM to 11 PM in the night. Simple reason "YOU CANT GO IN" There is crowd everywhere.
• Public showing of affection - You can find people hugging and kissing every where. Looks like I am back in London. :-) Aacha hai. No one bothers you, "Arre jawan dil hai, kiss karne ka dil kiya. Kiss kiya. Hug karne ka dil kiya, hug kiya" Now this can never happen in Madras. As my Prof would say, "It would be a cultural shock for the Madrasi"
• Traffic jams - Because of bad roads and no one looks at signals.
• Half roads - The Bombay Municipality is making the roads and the city looks like a great Civil Engineering Project which is going to become Shanghai in next 5 years.
• No one cribs - There is hazaar tension on everyone's head to go back home or reach office or met someone. But not a single gali from anyone. No one cribs about anything. Loved this part of the Bombay.
• Even more crowd - Was at Dadar station around 9 PM in the night, all I could see was just heads and heads and heads.
• You can never get lost in that city - You can always find someone to help you out. I was waiting at Dadar station and then someone walks up to me, "Lower Parel??", I said "Nahi yeh Dadar hai!!!" (He was asking how can he go to Lower Parel and I told him this is Dadar station) He started laughing at me. I was not helping him but still he was not tensed at all. ok I tried helping him in as much possible way I can. Took him to a constable near me and he helped him out.
• Banglore is not the fashion capital. South Bombay rocks. Beautiful roads. Beautiful girls. Awesome fashion. :-)
• Shiv Sena doesnt even exist in the city anymore. I saw just one poster of Bal Thakrey in the whole of Bombay. Some place at Mulund station. Thank God he is gone. Bloody cheater.
• Didn't find even a single guy pissing on the walls. Amazing for an Indian city na?? But true. Come to Madras. Every wall smells of piss.
• The worst thing about Bombay is that my I Pod is worthless here. I had put on my I Pod and I was like "I am too cool". But in Bombay everyone puts on their radio and listens to FM music. Its too good in Bombay. Saala mera I Pod was useless. But I could listen to what I wanted to listen.
• Gujjus Rule - What is the probabilty of any guy wearing white pants and red shirt, turning out to be a gujju?? 100%. You can distinctly point out a gujju in a crowd of 100 people in Bombay. The characterstics would be: gutka chewing, wearing printed blue colored shirt, with a toota foota Reliance phone, with a leather chappal, with gold ka chain in the neck and talking abt SENSEX. "Arre saab aapki toh fir aaj chandi ho gayi na?? Dekho maine toh pehle din hi bola tha khareed ke raakh, aaj aapko laakhon ka fayeda ho gaya na?? Toh for party kab hai?? ha ha ha (fake laughter)"

Bombay is not for me!!! Loved the stay there. It is very different. Hate the too too too much chaos loved everything else. :-)

Just look at the photo. Where am I supposed to go in the train from??

Chaos at Dadar Station at 9 PM in the evening

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