The last few weeks have been a potpourri of an experience and the hectic schedule and the pace at which things have moved have precisely been the reasons why I haven't been able to blog for long. To sum up, my experiences over the last one month have varied:
(i) from numerous visits to hospitals, clinics and chemists to an almost equivalent number of visits to ice-cream parlours in the city;
(ii) from surviving a stampede at Lal Baugcha Raja to visiting the Siddhi Vinayak temple in almost complete isolation;
(iii) from struggling with the office lunch to get my minimum calorific requirements to hoarding loads of calories by having pizzas for lunch as much as thrice a week;
(iv) from working late at office for almost the entire month to sneaking out for a four hour lunch session during office hours;
(v) from attending to a galore of guests at home and craving for my personal space to being in complete isolation and craving for people around me;
(vi) from being in the clouds at Malsej Ghat to sweating around in the streets of Ghatkopar;
(vii) from a failed attempt to watch Abhishek and Ash shooting for Ravana to sharing the elevator with Bobby Deol and his family adn not even greeting him with a 'Hello';
(viii) from making up an altercation with a friend over lunch to having an altercation with another friend after a lunch;
(ix) from attending a training on structured investment products at BSE to struggling with taxation matters of the family;
(x) from quarelling with the car mechanic and crying foul over their customer care services to being sent flowers by the management of a Shopping Mall for giving them a feedback on their services;
(xi) from eating street food in the by-lanes of suburban Mumbai to being at Leopold's and Theobroma in the heart of the town;
(xii) from enjoying the loud and heavy downpour of a retreating monsoon to suffering the heat and humidity of this peculiar season;
(xiii) from struggling with the gears and pedals for hours in the traffic to driving at over 100 kmph in the city.
But for now I want to enjoy this extended Dussera weekend by sleeping over and wish to be woken up only when September ends!
8 comments:
Too Good!
nice list of contrasts... gud to see a new post of urs after so long...happy blogging
@ Aparna - Thank you!
@ Ankit - I hope to blog more frequently in days to come.
hey...cold battle :)
You wanted to say 'hello' to Bobby deol? Why? Cos we are 'mango ppl' and not celebs?
@ Shikha - cold battle sounds odd...I did not write that I wanted to say 'Hello' to Bobby - I just meant that I did not even acknowledge his presence. We all are special in our own ways but there is no gainsaying that we indeed are mango people and not celebs!
@ VT n Shikha: I dunno exactly on what point u two are discussing but wud love to believe in what VT said.... "there is no gainsaying that we indeed are mango people and not celebs"..
@ Ankit - The discussion was which English word can define a subtle form of 'Cold War' and can 'Cold Battle' be an appropriate usage for it or not. Somehow I feel that it sounds odd and is not an appropriate usage unless I want to coin my own idioms.
:)
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