Ye hai bombay, ye hai bombay......meri jaan!!!

Back to my favourite topic…..“Mumbai”. This place is surrounded by sea. Almost every place has got a beach and that’s the best part of Mumbai!! And a walk by the beach is so soothing. It works like a panacea…..bringing peace to the troubled mind and calm to the restless soul, with the warm sea water lapping at ur feet……..and if it’s Juhu beach….….u get the added advantage of the smooth sand (I love the place…..in spite of it being very dirty most of the times!!!).

Sunset at beach......a time when u just want to keep mum and observe and let the sea and the nature take hold.........

Well, there’s another sea, which amazes me more than the first one. The sea of people…..in the beginning it drives you crazy. You just don’t feel like going out. And people like me are just too scared……born and brought up in place where u see so many people at one time only in d morning and evening(when all people go to work and children to school) or in a festival …….in fact d road becomes so bare in d afternoon…u even here the leaves rustling. Mumbai is just the opposite….always chaotic. The shoving, pushing, dhakkam dhukka….....almost evb around u is ready to hit u if u come in their way. But lately it doesn’t seem to be so overwhelming. Once you realize u r a part of that crowd, and not, as one of my friend tells me a “Jhansi wali rani” who has to live in this big bad city; u can negotiate that sea easily.....just like a wave does!!.....sorry for putting the whole idea in such a blunt way….but I just love the similarity…..sea and crowd(shayad simile or metaphor kehte the…yaad nahi)

Watch ur steps...........May God help u if u falter........shayad itna kadam se kadam mila kar kabhi marchpast bhi nahi kiya!!!

My Alma Mater!!!!!

Was missing college days a lot.......thought of uploading few pics which are my favourite.........

The gulmouhar tree looks so beautiful......some of the trees are so full of flowers dat it
appears all red in colour......

Mera College!!!!!!!!!!!

BIT looks sooo beautiful on a rainy day.......mesmerizing!!

BIT bus........the best, cheapest way to travel to town(ranchi as referred to by us)......its so
crammed most of d times dat once d driver had commented "hum to kehte hain bus mein bhi
train ki tarah boggie laga deni chahiye"

Jab bus na mile to auto hi sahara rehta tha........chaahe woh jitna bhi fare le.........but ek baat
thi........hum bhi pura fare wasul kar lete the.........must be clear from d pic......hehehehe

BIT looks beautiful in winters......just a sample of one of d blooming dales........

Looooooong time no see.........

well, well.......i know its been a long time that i wrote anything.....not because i was so overloaded with work or because had nothing to write about( Mumbai mein reh kar aisa kehna gunah hai!!). Simply because i was most of the times too free to do anything(u know sometimes u've nothing to do, and u keep cribbing about the same and even if thrs something which u can do....but u still wont do it nd keep complaining).
Anyways.....right now i'll just put a wonderful poetry i read in "Little Women"......its a wonderful novel by Louisa May Alcott.

Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash and rinse and wring,
And fasten the clothes to dry.
Then out in the free fresh air they swing,
Under the sunny sky.

I wish we could wash from our hearts and souls
The stains of the week away,
And let water and air by their magic make
Ourselves as pure as they.
Then on the earth there would be indeed,
A glorious washing day!

Along the path of a useful life,
Will heartsease ever bloom.
The busy mind has no time to think
Of sorrow or care or gloom.
And anxious thoughts may be swept away,
As we bravely wield a broom.

I am glad a task to me is given,
To labor at day by day,
For it brings me health and strength and hope,
And I cheerfully learn to say,
"Head, you may think, Heart, you may feel,
But, Hand, you shall work alway!"