'Snoring' Cold :)

Real funny conversation happens between my colleague and me two - three days back..
C is down with cold..running nose and tears to support the proof of cold..she has been using her handkerchief often to wipe of the running nose.. to someone who just looks at C for a moment may feel that C has been crying..but thats how C catches cold and displays its symptoms..
So at the end of day C informs her colleague that she would leave for the day..

C: V, is there something else to look at
V: No
C: in that case, I will leave.. as I am down with cold ( as if it was not apparent :) )
V: o yeah, u can leave... I can see you have been snoring the whole day..
C: A little shocked to hear and cant control her laugher.. says again , since I am down with cold and eyes are also watering..
V: yeah yeah .. i know you have been snoring the whole day..
C: now cant stop laughing, rectifies V that C has been 'sneezing'..and not 'snoring'...
Funny the incident was that C laughed on it the whole of her return journey back home :)

On Beach Cleanup drive and more ...

On the 11th day Post Ganpati Visarjan , 4th September, our team had decided to go for beach clean up drive at Juhu Beach...

Lalbag ganpati fetched Rs 5 Cr worth of donations of just mere 10 day festivity..they say that the money will be used for medical treatments for the poor at a highly subsidised cost...People felt happy of bringing the statue and then bidding it a final good bye and the statue was shown its way to the beach where it was finally immersed...

The final journey of the God was done with great pomp and show.. people dancing their way through the nights.. bursting crackers.. dancing to bollywood numbers with ear deafening music through the night..food and prasad distributed freely and what not...

God was immersed into the sea finally.. and people got back to their lives after..
the Beheaded GOD...

See the beheaded god..the story of its home coming to its final adieu..and then the forlorn look that it had on the beaches...

The state of Beach pre clean up..

The images of broken statues of POP lying all over the beach that were gutted out of the choked sea, garlands, food waste .. all this was never a part of their consideration...who cares.. its government's responsibilty to clean !!!!!
Broken statues, garlands and the food waste..gutted out of sea...

This post is again about questioning the rituals..and that are we responsible enough for our actions.. and what are we leaving for our future generations...filth and dirt...!!
Don't know if people thought the environmental impact they will leave behind post celebrations....On the beach we could find dead sea creatures....probably fishes..lying on the beach along with the filth.. and many more creatures which died inside the choked sea..who knows...


Many environment sensitive groups came early in the morning to do the clean up of the mess left the previous night..Though the weather was deceiving and it was raining the whole night , many NGO's, people from many corporate groups, school children were determined to get out of their beds and do beach cleaning along with the BMC officials..
Must appreciate the incessant efforts of the BMC officials in cleaning the beach... the patch of beach where we helped clean the beach was almost cleaned in about two hours..
See how we are treating the statue..
Bulldozer running over the statue of the Lord Ganesha..

Trucks so filled with waste will be landfilled somewhere little far from the city and in few years time that landfilled area would be an upcoming area to invest and get our own private houses..!!!

Post Clean up...!!

After the clean up most of us felt satisfied and happy that we contributed in the clean up drive!!and made the beach clean.. but what about the people who keep making mess and are dirt generators.. don't know if we are taking steps to curb the cause..

more pictures here

wondering over..

Just wondering over .. if continuous hooting of ambulance on a road blocked with traffic is annoying and irritating for a normal person.. how annoying would it be for the patient inside..

Seems I found an answer ....

As mentioned in a previous blog I was questioning about why certain things just happen to you and not someone else.. off late just bumped into a book called "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne .. a popular book , which has tried to answer that question of mine which quite matches to what Jaydip answered..

Excerpts :

Thoughts are magnetic, they have a frequency. As you think thoughts they are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source - You.

The law of attraction doesn't compute "don't" or "not" or "no" or any other word of negation. As you speak negation this is what the law of attraction is receiving :

"I don't want to spill something on this outfit "

"I want to spill something on this outfit and I want to spill more things"

"I don't want to be delayed "

" I want to be delayed"

" I don't want that person to be rude to me"

" I want that person and more people to be rude to me"

The law of attraction doesn't care whether you perceive something to be good or bad, or whether you don't want it or whether you want it. It's responding to your thoughts. So if you are looking at a mountain of debt, feeling iritable about it, that's the signal you're putting out into the Universe. "I feel really bad because of all this debt I've got." You're just affirming it to yourself. You feel it on every level of your being. That's what you're going to get more of.

Seems quite right on one plane.. and may be answers the question quite a bit... but at times I think things happen because they were bound to and not otherwise..

Jaydip by any chance you had come across this book called "The Secret" :)

fully faltoo..

just came across this picture from a website..intresting one.. what all could be interpreted from this picture...

i could think of :

- virus that can spread thru mucus ;) ( based on so much hype of swine flu and its spread )
- foul speech
- the hot air ( looking like steam then ) that comes out from mouth when its winter and its chilly...

if you could add to that list :)

some not so usual spottings in mumbai..

Travelling in Mumbai .. only experience can teach how you can squeeze into the traffic of humans and vehicles..while there are long hours to reach your destination , one can utilise time by observing others or reading or listening to one's own 'manpasand' songs but that is only once you have made yourself a place to stand or sit if you are using public transport... :)

So at times I use observation as a means to pass the travel time..and here I come with a post of not so usual for me spottings . may be usual for the other people though...

on my journey from office to home , there are helmet shops on the western express highway..never understood why on the pavement you find so many used helmets lying 'laavarish' .. was it a way for promoting to buy helmets from their shops or was it a donation/dumping ground.. :)

If you are a little familiar with Bombay train routes , Western line is from Churchgate ..andheri .. Kandivali..Borivali ..Virar. Have seen people, who climb onto trains from say Kandivali station onto a train coming from Churchgate and going till Borivali. Their travel destination is say Andheri but will travel till the last destination Borivali. They will travel unnecessarily just to book their seats , cos once the train reaches borivali , from where the train will start it reverse journey to Churchgate,it will get full from Borivali only , and as soon as it reaches Kandiali there will be no place for them to sit. Such is life..Tough ..
( there was one more..but can't recollect it rite now ;) :) , will post it later..)

Today is Happy Friendships Day...

Today is Happy Friendship's day :D ... had lost the track of it .. but the smses and the photos of the youth in the newspaper reminded me how even we used to cherish these days in college... :)