home sweet home!

when you become friends with someone it is a natural ice breaker to ask where he/she lives, so when i get the question, i usually answer sion. (its not a lie mind you, chunabhatti is a part of sion (which is in mumbai,India for all the dumb people)). so yeah i stay in chunabhatti lovingly called chunnu by me! and now after years of living and cribbing about it, i have fallen in love with the place i live in.

lets face it where else in mumbai is there a place from where 2 national highways are walking distance, and it takes 20 minutes to both new mumbai AND vt! not to mention it is almost the geographical center of mumbai. plus Wikipedia even has an entry for it! doesn't matter if its just 3 lines long! so if Wikipedia says it exisits then yes it does.

so the other day i was talking to my cousin, he had a funny story to tell. his cousin (maternal) was supposed to visit him in chunnu. so he told him to take a ric from the suburbs. poor guy, instead of chunabhatti he happened to say chuparpati. the smart ric fellow dropped him off at Dharavi! now Nilay bhai had a task of finding him, and the only thing he knew was that cousin was near a slum. now only if he knew, whole Dharavi is a freaking slum!

stories aside. let me tell you the best part of being a chunnu-ite. we have a bus depot, a train station AND a rickshaw/taxi stand. ha! plus an authentic gaon type market with old aunties fighting et al. And for the religious people, there also happens to be a 100 yr old jain temple.

other random trivia courtesy wikipedia:

Chunabhatti is a suburb of Mumbai. It is also the name of a railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Harbour line.

Chunabhatti (Chuna - lime, bhatti - kiln) is home to the first cotton mill in Mumbai (Bombay), which was registered in 1886 as 'Swadeshi Mills' by late Jamshedji Tata.

Chunabhatti
Next station south: Guru Tegh Bahadur Nagar	Mumbai suburban railway : Central Railway (Harbour Line)			Next station north: Kurla
	Stop No:10	KM from starting:13	Platforms:2

oh btw if you are interested in seeing my building from the top visit: http://wikimapia.org/83786/

(ps: its tagged dharmashanti)

in search of heaven

WARNING:ok this is going to be a little philosophical so people not interested can take a hike.


everyone is looking for their piece of heaven. you me everybody. for some people heaven is being rich/successful, for some its finding recognition, while for some it is finding someone to share their life with. but they don't know the truth which i, dare say, have realized is not about all this, but is about enjoying your own self. being happy with who you are and not try being someone else.

i know my knowledge about the world is quite little, almost minuscule, but nevertheless i would make this statement. i maybe idealist and i know by the end of this i will have 5000 people telling me, "honey its not how it works" but I'll take my chances.

let me tell you how it works. see basic idea is if you can be happy with yourself you can be happy always. one very wise guy (you know who u are!) told me "cause of all evil is desires" but still we don't stop desiring.
we desire to be happy, we desire to be beautiful, we desire to be envied but somewhere we stop being ourselves. And that, my friend, is "evil"

so instead of preaching you lots of stuff i will just tell you to be happy with yourself. there is nothing wrong with you. you are who you are, God intended you to be the way you are. make a point everyday to stop and look at your beautiful reflection on the mirror every morning and tell yourself how special you are and the world is incomplete without you! trust me your days will go awesome!

now i'll cut my philosophy short, in case any of you want more of this..feel free to contact me. i can go on and on and on (on this topic at least!)

hmmm..

me,jinal and two or three other people always end up at CCD, tian for a coffee when we sit for studies and there....hell breaks lose! everyone ends up telling their dukh bhari kahanis or perhaps (lets tone down the melodrama) their life stories. so yesterday while i was supposed to study ecad, we went to, u guessed it, CCD. because i had a huge ass craving for a chocolate donut and jinal had a craving for cafe mocha! so there we discussed everything from the couple who were doing PT on the coffee table to the waiter who didn't understand what jinal was trying to tell him to long time crushes to cute FE guys (lol!) and at that point i realized i NEVER had a long time crush/obsession with someone nothing! my longest crush was what 9-10 months! and i also realized damn i don't even know what i am looking for in a guy while everyone had fixed ideas about their required future alliances. cheers to me the happily single girl..lol. anyways not moving away from the topic I've decided to make a list of qualities i want in a guy. it might be short or long i don't know because before i put this post up its going to be revised three hundred times. and by the way this is not going to be anything like the previous time pass list i put up. so lets start.

1. trustworthy (absolutely important)

2. loyal and honest (again like some people i know say, without honesty nothing lasts)

3. great sense of humor (if they cant make me laugh i'll say bye-bye!for sure)

4. understanding.

5. must know when to speak and when to shup up and let me speak.

6. should respect women. (male chuvnists rejected!)

7. manners and etiquette are really important.

8. should love to joke around and surprise me!

9. should love silly games like i do.

10.yes should be serious at times but not all the time.

11. whiners not allowed

12. should pamper me like a princess (i can dream right!)

13. impromptu plans thumbs up.

14. possiveness is good,excessive possiveness absolutely a no-no.

15. hopefully should be VERY comfortable wid my friends and family.

16. 50 phone calls a day--not allowed!

17. something called personal space should be present.

18. have a good dressing sense (really i dont want to be seen around with someone who resembles govinda from his younger days!)

19. should be independent and know his mind.

20. bossing me is not allowed.

don't give up.

i know i haven't written a poem in a long time. so this might be a little rusty,please bear with me. you are free to leave comments and interpret it your own way. I'd love to know your thoughts!
dedicated to all those people who need a reason to go on.i know i have one. =)


if everyday you wake up,
thinking whats next.
don't give up hope, not yet
sit back and relax.

for end this not might be,
you have still much to see,
think of all good things,
let all the bygones be.

don't be sad ever,
thinking of past and all,
it is called past because its gone
what you should do is rise above the fall.

think of all the things
you always wanted to do.
no matter how silly or stupid they maybe,
I'll help. I'll be always behind you.

wake up to a new day,
not thinking what went wrong,
rather, thinking "oh gosh,
to a new adventure you belong."

let me tell you one truth,
you are free to agree/disagree.
no one can destroy you,
only you can.not them, not me.

for me, and for every person
you call your own,
move stronger, move confident.
but please just don't give up.

my insane quick trip!

long time no blog..i know! sorry for that one..
yesterday krupa, sonam and i got crazy for some crazy reason and decided on a quick trip to panvel to do guess wat! see the station...lol..sounds crazy? it is! so instead of taking the usual 8.07 andheri train we took the 8.02 panvel (all timings as per king circle station). sonam picking me up, and we picking krupa up..from the respective home stations. (info: sonam->king circle, me->chunabhatti, krupa->tilak nagar)
then started our little stupid trip. none of our classmates knew anything about the "huge plan" so naturally people were worried where were the "central line girls!!??" because usually we the first one to arrive majorly due to our awesome(!) train timings. so naturally calls came followed by screeches on the phone saying "wtf are u doing in panvel?!" to more natural, "are you guys mad?" etc.
oh the weather, that was the best part. foggy and totally cool! all respective best friends called up one after another to inquire about our whereabouts. but what the hell its fun that we cared about. think about it. going to infinity mall costs us 20 bucks a trip per head, but panvel? its a different ball game. 26 rs return!
so we saw the amazing weather, saw random harrapa civilizations! that translates into loads of brick making units..lol..other than that the heavenly vashi-mankhurd bridge and lots of greenery and brownery! lol another one of my stupid jokes..
also mr.miral decides to call up. and while we are yak-yakking to glory, miss sonam goes and teases me yet again! (yeah mir, you din't hear that!) also i confess i am a pakka gujju especially now that i do have to count every random rupee i own. blaming that on my lost purse! next time pakka i'll have pan ice cream and vada-pav-outside-panvel-station! back to the phone since the time difference and all, it is good night for some people at 9.45 in the morning.
in any case. trip ended on a great note yeah and we REALLY didn't gossip,we were having too much fun just hanging in the train.also like we thought we actually got to attend a lecture!! missed only two of them! yay! so that was the end of our little trip. now i realize in simple words, mere pairo ki band baj gayi (translation:im dead tired!)!
lolz..
toddles!!
xoxo.