another week goes by… !

Hey people, its been a very very busy week ! plus very less access to internet doesnt help… ! I havent replied to the comments in the last post and I need to do that, reading blogs is becoming increasingly difficult as I am rarely able to blog hop so please excuse my absence from some of the places, reading will still take some time to come back in… sigh !

As much as they say dont be a Taansen be a Kaansen, I cant help being a Taansen… its inherent in me… !

So while I dont have time to read and visit places I still have lots to tell people… it also seems the blog is also becoming a sort of a diary…  btw I would love to show you this welcome I got at coming back to Bharuch…

 

Well in Gujarati they have written : Shuddh Shakahari !!!!!!!! They obviously dont mean me !!!!!!!!

Although Gujarat serves enough nonveg, there is a special emphasis on pure-veg restaurants, the variety of food available is totally awesome, gujarati’s by nature are a food loving community and being here means one thing for sure, I aint STARVING TO DEATH !!!!!!!! (in case you guys got worried… )

The English obsession of this state is unbelievable, every good English speaking guy or girl is always looked upon as a cool dude/dudette. So if you speak english well be sure a lot of them will be in Awe of you !!!!!!!!  The spelling mistakes are classical throughout the entire state and I hope to now share them here as and when I come across them… ! What is also apparently apparent is people here can speak English without using Gujarati words, but cannot speak Gujarati without using english words, the language has totally been diluted, its a fusion of Gujarati and English !!!! you might as well call it Gujinglish !!!!!!! if this word sets the precedent… I surely want all the rights as I have just discovered it and established it… !

The other thing I have realised and realise it more and more with each passing day, I dont like the IPL, I dont like T-20 format all that much and with my Indian players playing against each other I just dont know which team I support…. Test Cricket is the best form of cricket and its getting proven to me all the time…

I strongly feel IPL is a pure example of killing the goose that laid the golden egg… already the popularity is not what it was, with two teams being added…next season will have 94 matches !!!!!!!!!! Absurd… two matches everyday for 45 days is not logical not practical and not at all something you crave for… ! We recently went to Inox to see a movie and were shocked that we were the only 7 people to go for the match and infact we left the match half and came out as the bloody owners didnt run the A/c trying to save money !!!!!!

I cannot believe I would ever write something like this, but I have not seen one match fully, it simply doesnt matter to me, believe me you I consider myself and actually am a very very very big fan of cricket, but guess I am a fan of Test Cricket, even ODI cricket doesnt sound all that appealing to me anymore unless against Australia or South Africa… !

Too much Cricket Mr. Modi too much and much tooo commercial… its better to see a bit of bitter rivalry, but what we see is a celebration where everyone is simply making money and this mindless market wont last forever, the consumer will lose interest eventually ! I hope I have made some wise proclamation !!!

The only fear I have is with so many matches making people shell out so much money for tickets, they will have no money left for Test Matches !!!!!! Guess I am obsessed with Tests but thats what Cricket is all about a contest between bat and ball not between two batting sides where the bowler is reduced to a pauper… This comes from a guy who is a fast bowler at heart !!!!! Sigh

Anyways… money is what drives any and everything, the other discerning fact I am obsessed with is Trees rather the lack of them in Gujarat suddenly ! Over the last 3-4 years some massive investments, developments and humongous infrastructure projects are going on, we have heard of thousands of crores worth of Mou’s etc being signed everymonth. While a lot of Gujarati’s were going gaga about the investments and development of Gujarat, what I have seen and realised is tremendous chopping of trees, societies where everything is in concrete no trees. Wonder how all people are forgetting that Trees are the life line for us humans… Unless some drastic turnaround is made and fast the weather here will be unbearable !!

I think in the next 10 years the amount of Plastic and the industrial waste combined with this mad rage to build concrete roads and huge buildings and structures… this state will develop only in quantity but the quality of living here will be most horrible !!!!! Man it seems is obsessed with development but I kinda feel its obsession with destruction… !!!! Sigh…

We friends are thinking of starting a plantation initiative if anyone can help and suggest some way please do, right now its only an idea and we have no clue how and what to do… and we are trying to find out !

  

And now before I keep ranting and ranting I would like to part with this song, I had almost forgotten this song from one of my most favourite movies, Gardish ! Recently I heard it about 15 days back and since then there has not been a day where I havent heard it once, infact had it playing in the loop once for 25 times !!! Do listen to this song and enjoy its SP and Asha at their very best !!!!!!!!!!

So folks I hope you loved the song, it was a desert after a badly cooked meal to leave the reader going back a lil happier to the comments section !!!!!!!!!

Cheerios… until next time…

-Hitchy !!!

the first week at home…

Before I start rambling off let me first solve the quiz …

The only guy to guess it correct at the first go was Karate Kid errr Brat and I have been rewarding him enough already !!!

Monu guessed it correctly too but in her third try ! The last pic was actually clicked by leaving the shutter open for a while and then in the balcony we were using the mosquito killing racket for about 2-3 minutes and all the lights are the number of mosquitos that were killed during that time… !!!!  

So finally I have a sunday today after two weeks, last sunday was in training and so didnt get a weekend off… but finally its a day to relax and chill and we have a plan to go to Valia (40kms from bharuch) to have some lovely home made chicken masala served to us… !!!!!! So looking forward to tonight’s dinner !

The last week has been eventful and have been rushing by… having to travel, train, settle, meet new colleagues and so many hours spent observing, understanding things and getting ready to put thoughts into action… ! Largely life has been rustling and bustling and thankfully everything has been good and no mishaps… well none but one…  when in over slept in the volvo while returning from Bharuch and travelled another 60 kms… !

It so happened my bus was late, instead of 9.30 it came at 10. My travel agent had told me it would reach Bharuch at 7 so the half hour delay meant 7.30. The bus conductor said 7 too ! At about 6 I woke up to see the highway and no hotels were visible… and I thought in my mind that I had to stop the bus as I had this huge urge… as I prepared to get down, luck, which has changed it seems for the better (touchwood), the bus turned into a hotel, we stopped !!

It was Galaxy Hotel, the name sounded familiar, the dining area etc too.. and I thought I had eaten Bhajiya’s here once.. I asked one fellow,

“Bharuch ketlu ?” (meaning how far is Bharuch)

“60kms” pat came the reply

I relaxed and did my stuff and took out a cigarette and was just enjoying the cold morning mist and breeze on the highway puffing & thinking of the training days gone by and the implementation to be done… when I noticed that if I were going from Surat to Bharuch I should be on the other side of the highway… I turned around and tried to figure this side or that side and it seemed I was on the side which would be right if I were going from Bharuch to Baroda… so I went to ask a guy at the counter of the hotel,

Where is this hotel situated ?

“Por” came the reply to my horror !!!!!!! I had crossed Bharuch by a good 60 kms and phew… I suddenly rushed and asked the conductor why he didnt wake me up and he said I screamed so hard… 5 people got down at Bharuch… Sigh… I still cant believe he drove from Pune to Por in 8 hours !!!!!!!

thankfully there were many buses going towards Bharuch on the same hotel and I did my changing but in that I forgot my Biwi’s shaawl in the bus sigh !!!!

The first week has been busy and hectic, the colleagues in the new office are quite nice, most are young and very energetic and quite co-operative I must say, the environment seems positive and it should help, now for me to work really hard… !

Also have started playing cricket in the mornings and the first day involved a finger injury and one ball decided to just jump as I bent to field it and decided it liked my Ear more than my hands… it was painful to say the least and the ear was ringing… Remember the doordarshan “teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” before it starteed….. yes, I could hear that same sound… thankfully no bleeding !

Feels good to sweat it out in the morning and the body is now quite well, after the first day’s play I was locked, I walked almost like a ROBOT !!!!!! but now its getting used to bowling 4-5 overs daily and that should help get the belly in…. !

Another blasphemy happened when one of my bro’s colleagues (I play with my bro and his colleagues) pointed at me and asked my bro,

‘Pela kaka kaun che ?’ (who is that uncle, kaka is gujarati for uncle ! )

SIGH !

Talk of giving fodder to my readers … but what the heck… I have been away and I want my legs pulled… Lol…

I will now be rambling for sure… hang on guys and I am now starting to read blogs and make my reader lighter… !!!!!!

Life is happening … !

hey guys

n most importantly girls !!!!

How have you all been, largely well I guess, I have been really busy shifting, travelling, training and a new job… ! Hopefully slowly settling in and will do well, havent been logging in off late… and havent read most blogs or replied to all emails but things should now change.. as I plan to be a bit of a night owl !!

Now that I have spared you all since so many days and not given you any headaches since a long time let me pose a quiz to you, here is a picture taken by Nikon – D60 now watch carefully :

Now lets see how many wise cracks can tell me what are the purple lights… !!!! Lets see how many of you can actually guess and come up with the real answer !!!!!!!!!!! Till then let me start blog hopping and catch up with all that I have missed… !