Mumbai……

I love Mumbai….even though I am not born and brought up in this city….I just started working here around 5yrs back….but I feel a part of it always….Mumbai’s population is about 2 crores and it is the biggest city in India and is still growing……what’s unique about this city is that it fulfills everyone’s dreams….I don’t know that if its true but definitely it does have something magical……they say Mumbai ek maya nagari hai…means it’s an imaginary place….
Okay what does Mumbai mean to me…I come from a small city Belgaum and I never really had any great ambitions to fulfill at Mumbai…I just came here because I had many relatives and some special friends and I knew the city since my childhood days and It would be easy to start off here…..and sure it was easy to start off…as soon as I landed within 3 days I got a job…not a dream job but something which I could survive with in this city…you know in Mumbai u can land a job, u can stay with minimum money to spend….but u need to have a place to stay….which is the most important factor….luckily I had got a decent pg…..ofcourse there were a million problems there…but I had something to comeback to at night….
Its been 5 long years since I am living in this city….I know its nothing great to celebrate like Sachin Tendulkar's 20 yrs in Indian cricket but its special to me....I have achieved some things and lost some things…the city has given and taken……today I have my own house, my car and my own family here in this city…so it has given me some things…but also taken away my love, some of my closest friends and some relatives from me…..I still don’t know whether I am happy with what I have or not….but I know that I belong here and nowhere else….
If I look back I have faced many things in this city in such a small span….I do not know what will the future hold…like I was there when the city faced its worst rains…that is on 26/7/2005….then the Mumbai terror attacks….26/11/2008….these were some really deadly incidents that happened….Mumbai is a city which is very unpredictable and on the other hand it is full of life….its a city which never sleeps and but ofcourse it can ruin others sleeping…..I just hope that my future life in this city goes well and I achieve something which I am still waiting for……

My Trip to Konkan
It was a long weekend, so I decided to take a trip somewhere but where I was not sure. As usual it was a last minute plan and I searched the net and found out a place to visit…I shortlisted Harihareshwar beach which was the closed from Pune and also got some good reviews about it on the internet.

We set off in the morning at 8.00 am……I was super excited as I was visiting this part for the first time….the journey was awesome….we crossed across Mulsi river which was a beautiful site, then via mangoan and then to Harihareshwar…..there were many ghats and the roads were round and round….we reached in the afternoon….and to our shock there were no ATM’s/debit cards accepted…and we didn’t have enough cash for 2 days….so we cut the trip short to 1 day coz the nearest ATM was about 60 kms away and we didn’t want to come back all the way….we went to the hariharehwar beach in the evening it was rocky and different from many beaches I had seen…..but the view was again beautiful….it felt great…..
The next morning we left at 8.00 am and set off to the nearest ATM at mangoan and from there as we had 2 more days in hand…. so headed to Murud….which is again a famous beach in Konkan….the way to Murud-via Kolad and Roha…..was good but scary….especially after Roha which is a small town named after the roha river….Murud is 55kms which is completely an isolated route…..the road felt like never ending….there were hardly any humans to see which is a rare site in India….and the roads were too narrow…I would recommend you take this route only if you are in a big group or else its scary…..finally we reached at about 1.30pm and checked in a hotel…again there are no ATM’s in this place…but this time we were prepared but in Murud the debit/credit card is accepted in some hotels…so that’s an relief…..we were planning to go to the beach in the evening but it started raining heavily and the rains didn’t stop for a longtime…finally when it got dark we just took a stroll on the beach and returned to our hotel…..next day as we were leaving we had to check out the beach…so early in the morning we went to the beach…..Murud beach was also very beautiful…and it also had a fort in the middle which is called as Casa fort and about 5 kms from this beach you again have another fort in the sea which is Janjira…..we didn’t have enough time to take a boat and visit the Janjira fort but we just took some pictures and left murud in the afternoon….we didn’t take the Roha route while returning we came via Alibagh-Pen-Khopli express way to pune…..but on the way back we also stopped at Kashid beach….which is also awesome….and the way up to Alibagh is filled with rivers and sea…it’s a joyride……we reached pune finally in the evening…but this 3 day holiday was too good and I definitely plan to visit Konkan again..:)

Questions????

I was very upset someday’s back, I needed answers to some questions, I was furious and curious to know, I just needed to know by any means, But sometimes you don’t realize, but you have your answers within you, I only needed to listen to my heart to find them ....

I will WAIT

Its has been more then 2months now....
I am waiting to know why, what and when???
I do not have answers to these questions….
I don’t know if I can ever get these answers….
But, yes they hurt deep inside……
I have to wait to know these answers…..
I beg you to tell me……
I know you are enjoying this period, to check my patience…..
To know how long will I go???
Honestly even I do not know, but I know I will wait to know….
I want you to comeback and give me my answers…...
I will wait to know …….

How it changed??? (I dont know who has written this, but i think its worth reading)
Here i am sitting in my office @ night. Thinking hard about life How it changed from a maverick collage life to strict professional life....
How tiny pocket money changed to huge monthly paychecks but then why it gives lesss happiness..
How a few local denim jeans changed to new branded wardrobe but then why there are less people to use them
How a single plate of samosa changed to a full Pizza or burger But then why there is less hunger...
Here i am sitting in my office @ night. Thinking hard about life How it changed...
How a bike always in reserve changed to bike always on but then why there are less places to go on..
How a small coffee shop changed to cafe coffee day but then why its feels like shop is far away...
How a limited prepaid card changed to postpaid package but then why there are less calls & more messages..
Here i am sitting in my office @ night. Thinking hard about life How it changed...
How a general class journey changed to Flight journey But then why there are less vacations for enjoyment..
How a old assembled desktop changed to new branded laptop but then why there is less time to put it on....
How a small bunch of friends changed to office mate but then why after 8'o Clock it always feel like getting late..
Here i am sitting in my office @ night. Thinking hard about life How it changed... how it changed....

Shahrukh Khan here I come

Ever since I was 12yrs old I have been greatly influenced by Bollywood...I was a die-hard fan of Aamir Khan, then it was Salman Khan and then Shahrukh Khan and ever since I just adore him...
I do not know but from when I was 15yrs old, my life has grown up with movies especially of Shahrukh Khan… I kind of related to them always…
My first crush was with Dilwale Dulhaniya le jayenge this movie made me understand the meaning of love and I too like most of the girls wanted to marry someone like the movie hero Raj…I wanted a boy who would woo me and love the way Raj loved simran…..but then life is not all the same….that was after 2 yrs when I was 17yrs old then the movie Dil toh pagal hai released now the hero was Rahul….someone very chill, very cool then I thought of having a boyfriend who was cool like rahul and who loved me like Raj….I did manage to find one boy but he was close to nothing like what I had expected….then I moved on with him in a very bad relationship …he never made me happy nor did he love me the way I expected him to….then released Kuch Kuch hota hai when I was 20 yrs old….here again the hero was Rahul was a combination of both the above movies….again I was still thinking that why didn’t I find a love like all these film heroes…I was still searching….I had come in very bad terms with my boyfriend and had a break-up soon……then I moved on after a years time I went for my further studies there I found a guy who liked me a lot and I said yes finally my search for Raj, rahul has ended…I was in 7th heaven but that relationship just ended up and I didn’t even realize it because now I had found someone like Rahul like Raj like Shahrukh…he was the most loving person I had ever met or even thought really existed….he loved me a lot, he pampered me, he was also so cute, so much like the real Shahrukh that I now was like yes finally I have found my true love…..but then its not like movies, all good things have to end someday…he too became Amrish puri, Pran, Ranjeet all these are villains in movies he also showed me that I was still dreaming and there was nothing in this world which was true like we see on the 70mm screen…
Then with all this trauma I finally got to know one thing for sure that even though none of the guys where Shahrukh, but due to liking the movies and loving Shahrukh’s character and just been so much into this filmy life I realized…that I don’t need to find someone as romantic and nice like Shahrukh coz I myself had become one in all the relations….I always went out of my way and did generous things for my loved ones and was always the romantic one in the relationship….so ultimately my love for Bollywood did succeed, not find one SRK but being one myself…