Mumbai Roads!

all is not sundry...

aight so the rains are excellent and the city has an uniqe and unibiquitious din about it... but all is not sundry... mumbai doesn't have roads.. ok so maybe I'm being a bit harsh.. but maybe I'm not.. mumbai has potholes.. copiuos amounts of potholes in all shapes sizes and forms.. in fact mumbai's speciality is potholes.. aight aight I do relaise the 26/7 rains were abnormally disasterous.. but still..
ok so i go to pickup my car from this place called vaashinaka, jus a bit beyond vaashi station, its in navi mumbai and its very far! which means its 37km from my house. and it took me 2.5 hours to do that... and not because I am new to mumbai and don't know the roads like the back of my hand, and not because the traffic was atrocious.. it was.. but because there were no roads.. most of it was potholes but in some lucky places it was mud.. lots of mud.. so I was supposed to take this 'left turn' except that the turning was no more than a bit of mud sliding a bit to the left and leading to some potholes.. and I was supposed to figure that out.. and i got lost! twice!
hmmm.. ok letting go is good.. very good.. breathe...

mumbai the city thats alive.. thats got magic.. potholes and mud...

good morning mumbai!

Mumbai Rains!

sheher ki dhup si bewakt hi dhalegee,
kyun humko yaad aae woh*

so i've been in mumbai now for about three days, and it has been raining since then... but not to say its 26/7 all over again... sometimes it slows down, drizzles... sometimes the wind picks it up and it sheets across like a fine spray, sometimes its blotchy and you want to jus get out of it.. but its been raining everyday.. I have a luvly place here, i.e its free and its on the 12th floor and very clean... my room faces eastand its got a large wall to wall window, luvly cityscape view... havent seen the sun yet, I'm beggining to wonder about that whole thing about rotation and revolution... no sun!! in three mornings!! okok not panickin..
there is a great thing about mumbai though, its alive.. its buzzing.. it has soul, and the rains play their part, they contribuites their verse... its makes everything come alive more so... the humdum.. the fruit markets and street hawkers, the traffis jams and the late night sojurns back home.. it all looks like a glazed din... wet and brimming...

mumbai rains...

also it seeps into everything.. it drips form everywhere.. its all pervasive.. you cant escape it even if you want to.. luckily most of the times i dont want to...

good night mumbai!
cf: Jaane - Ost Chameli

addictions and 3CCD LCD Projection Panels...

so its finally done then, its proven and on record, im addicted to shopping for dvds... picture this, I was feeling lazy one afternoon, and I decided to drop in on Landmark, a book/dvd/music store in Chennai which has recently been aquired by the Simone Tata controlled Trent Enterprises, the compnay that also runs the Westside stores. (Tata goodwill advertising done.. I am proud) So I went to spend some time, lookin at some nice books, maybe pickup something for a casual read, and what did I walk away with twelve DVDs which cost me a damn bundle... but unabashedly I paid for them and smirked myself home... muttering so im addicted.. thats ok its my only vice... which brings me to the actual point.. when is it enough.. how do u decide whats worth spending money on, assuming u have it... cause I am currently in the thores of saving up for a LCD projection panel to augmnet my DVD addiction, I'm looking at close to 120 odd titles on me now... and ive been meeting strict ideological resistance with the thought of spending "200,000 odd bucks on a TV", I am of course shrugging away the deluge of criticism and am sticking with "why the hell not... I enjoy my movies and besides, who am I earning for anyway.. savings my ass.. this is no time to save, Ill save when I'm thirty and earning some serious money.. right now ill splurge and live from one creditcard bill scare to another".... which begets me back to... whats the deal with this "worth it" stuf... how can u possibly understand the finer attractiveness of a 3CCD Sony LCD Projection Panel unless u happen to be a boytoy loving tech crazy sort of person.. you cant, so big deal if the world is gettin you down.. go get it... that ipod, that pdp, that reall cool new nokia.. life is too short, and if you have it and can justify in your own head, why not??... you only live once and if u enjoy music or movies or jus happen to be a gadget guy.. this is as good a time as any to aquire and upgrade.. assimalate and salivate... get addicted if u can afford it... what say?