MUMBAI RAINS

The monsoon started very late in Mumbai. Even though I love rains, but I don’t like rains in Mumbai. As we need water throughout the year, I wait for the rains here. It has become every year story that Mumbai gets badly flooded during the monsoons. I have faced the worst 2yrs back when it was 26/7 the worst rains the city faced.

I know for sure this problem of flooding is going to increase each year, as there is no development for avoiding these disasters. I can state an example, the flat where I live now, it was surrounded by a huge area of mangroves, this year they have been filled by sand and the result I could see in the rains which hit the city, there was flooding in front of my house. I do not understand why man is after the living of the other man. Nobody wants to come forward and improve the situation; everyone is busy filling their pockets.

I hate the monsoons in Mumbai; the city becomes more dirty and stinky. There is flooding and you just don’t feel like enjoying the monsoons and venturing anywhere, as you never know if you could come back home the same day.

Mumbai is growing left, right and centre, but the improvement for the city is diminishing left, right and centre. Wake up guys and everyone must contribute somehow to improve the situation or else very soon, we could get drowned in our sleep.

ALONE IN THE CROWD

It has been a year now since I am alone….okay alone means not lonely but alone…me, myself and not Irene not anybody else also. I am working with Ness Technologies since past one year now. My job is in US recruitment and partially domestic recruitment. I am mainly into the US recruitment, but I end up doing the domestic recruitment. I have done a good enough job till date, but not exceptionally well. Average type’s u can call my job that. Okay what has ALONE got to do with this - okay let me explain. I am the only girl in my team, initially there were 8-10 members now the no is 15members. I was actually recruited for working in complete night shift, but unfortunate for the company and kind off fortunate for me, the company didn’t get permission for girls to work in night shift. Poor guys from my team, they must have suffered the most. Okay now coming to Alone again, as I am the only girl and as Ness had already given me a letter to join, I joint the company and then I come early and leave early from rest of the team members. This is where the Alone funda comes into the picture. Like I do not have any colleagues with me when I come to office and when I leave they are there, but now again cherry on the icing, I was previously seated where my entire team sits, but now due to some issues, they have shifted me elsewhere, so atleast first I got sometime to interact with my team, now I do not have any contact. So again the Alone funda comes into the picture. Also I am not a friendly kind of a person, or the girl next door kind of a person. I very much stay to myself and my team. So as such I do not have another friends in office too, actually its not that anyone would not like to make friendship with me, but it’s me I don’t want to, this is where the attitude comes into the picture. Anyways I am Alone always.
From the past 5months I am staying alone and there again Alone comes into the picture. So it so happens that I hardly speak to anyone expect for my candidates or some of my team members, sometimes I call my friends, other then that I am cut off with the world outside.
Today when I had been to the canteen I realized this, when I went there the canteen was crowded and everybody was chit chatting and I just took my coffee and rushed out, I could not bare that noise. I like to stay alone, live alone this is what I realized. But of course there are a very few people I like spending time with and they are not there everytime with me. Anyways now I sign off being ALONE.

TEAM PICNIC

There was a team picnic on 26th January'2007. I was not very keen to go, first of all I don’t enjoy picnics with not so close people and then I was the only girl in my team with 15 other guys, So I was wandering if I should go or not. Then I decided I must, as we work together then we must enjoy this picnic also as a team.

I started off from home at 7.00 am and then we gathered at Malad west station. We took a local train to Vasai where we were to go to West Palm Beach Resort. We reached Vasai at 9.00 am.
After that we had our breakfast, first of all we were given similar t-shirts to look like a team. We all wore the t-shirts. In sometime we started playing Volley ball, divided into 2 teams. My team won 1 match and lost the other. Anyways it was fun. Then after that everyone went into the pool, I also was sitting by and enjoying. Then we had our lunch went to the beach next to the resort. It was a pleasant beach and I always love to see the sea. Till the end of the day, everyone was tired and wanted to rush back home.

It was a short picnic but then it was fun and I didn’t get as bored as I had expected.

Everything has a Meaning....

If it's not a volcano,
It's not worth trekking,
If there are no lions in a jungle,
It doesn't excite...doesn't kindle.

If the destiny is known,
Its meaning itself is blown.
At this point, I narrate a story,
which no one is gonna hate.

Once upon a time, there was a desert...so remote,
No one had ventured there before,
Its sand storms were fatal, And the creatures so very scary.
Then a man chose to make the desert tale - fairy!!
He walked to the desert bare foot,
Plow was his tool, courage his weapon,
It took him years it's told,before he struck his first gold,
The aroma of crude filled the air,
The desert now had a fragrance.
The man lied on sand in trance,

Coming back to my point, I'd like to add a few more lines.
If, beneath any heaven,lies no desert,It's not a heaven at all.
If you lose in a fight,It was never a fight.
If it's not a winning situation,It's not even a situation.