Did you know...Sewri bay, mangrooves, flamingoes and migratory birds..

C was lucky enough to go and see few of the many migratory birds at Sewri bay.. that chaddar of pink with a glint and a shimmer of gold on a hazy bright sunny day..the horizon of pink with lesser and greater flamingoes shadowing others like ergets, ibis, sandpiper, plover, common green shank..

Did you know some of the facts of Sewri bay and Mangrooves??
lesser flamingos

The Sewri Mangrove Park was declared a protected area by the Bombay Port Trust on January 15 1996. This park consists of 15 acres of mangroves in the mudflats between Sewri and Trombay. It can be reached from Sewri station on the Harbour line of the Mumbai suburban railway network.

In 1995, the BPT had undertaken to protect this area from any new construction or dredging activity. It had also declared an intention to influence the chemical industries along the coastline to check air and water pollution by reinforcing effluent control measures. The Trust further planned to protect the park from residents of nearby areas who cut down the trees for fuel, as well as from unscrupulous developers who remove sand from the area, thereby weakening the grip of anchor roots. In all this, the BPT was more successful than people had expected. However, more than a decade later, in 2007, this wetland habitat is in danger of being wiped out by the planned Mumbai-Nava Sheva road link ( this information is collected over from the internet)


On Mangroves

Mangroves are essential to the ecology of the coast and the island. They provide fertile ground for fish to feed and breed in and nurture a large variety of birds. Seven species of mangroves have been identified in this area. The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) will help the BPT to replant barren areas inside the reserve. ( this information is collected over from the internet)

intestine of some bird/animal used as bait to catch crabs

To conclude:

There are many concerns that lie for these migratory birds that come to inhabit from various parts of the world in this industrial area during winter..

Our Human activity is impacting every other species living on this earth..to add more , the planned Mumbai-Nava Sheva road link will endanger these species further.

Sanctuary asia has urged the civilians to appeal against this road link by writing our concern to CM of Maharastra, to build this link road 400 mtrs further then from where it is planned in order to affect the least to these wonderful guests of winter..

Lets do our bit...raise our voice and stop what is wrong....

More of pictures here

slip of alphabet..

Off late C got into habit of writing in official mail .."Tried calling you" if she couldn't reach a colleague over phone to clarify some doubts..

Now one fine day, C would have been in some great hurry. She contacts S over phone. S didn't pick up the call, may be because she was beezeee.. so C thinks its better to drop her an email.

So as a newly acquired habit, C starts with "Tired calling you. blah blah blah"
After a week she wants to refer the mail she sent S for some reason. And to her astonishment she finds the 1st opening line of the mail as

Dear S,

Tired calling you. blah blah...

C was shocked for a moment of what could be interpreted on the other end as it sounded very unprofessional..and laughed it out loud though..

Just a slip of alphabet between "I" and "R" changed the interpretation of the whole sentence which was really short to change the meaning all together..
C just laughed out that instance...but such is life....

fine challenge...

One fine day C wants to do creative things so she decides to go to upmarket stationary shop at a near by mall..

She mulls over a lot of things there.. but small, colourful origami kits cathces her attention.. C was very fascinated by origami since her L.kg days where she was taught little things like pillow, boat and other simple stuff, she finally decides to get the origami kit to pursue her creative instincts..

Fascinated by the little colourful kits , she doesn't give a second thought and buys one kit in memory of her chldhood days..

As soon as she reaches home she opens the kit to read the instructions and to her dismay she sees that all the instructions were in Korean.. and the pictures were difficult to follow on the immediate go...C tells her sis of what has come in the kit and on suggestion of her sis she goes to the shop to exchange for some thing better.. only to realise that C got 2nd such kit along with the 1st one.. :) and starts with the simpler 2nd kit...


C gets till step 8 but is stuck at step 9.. tries to understand the figure as instructions were vain for her..tries some more before she hits the bed...

Again one day after her office journey she thinks to get it straight but seems she had to use more of her brain to understand step 9 and leaves the figure as it is..

So on a leisurely weekend she tries again.. with lunch breaks and siesta breaks , C made it finally after all the initial scuffle to make a little flower of paper .. after all the engineer's ego was at stake...


Fine arts posed a creative challenge which was fun to solve...
All's well that ends well :)

that smiling face..

That smile on his face.. for something ran through in his mind's window..
his smile, brought a smile on my face..
and it made me wonder..

He was calm and quiet, with the smile on his face..waiting for his train stop to come..
with external world seen by touch and sense..his world was his mind's expanse..

It made me wonder how unperturbed was he by the external world that he could just touch and sense but not see..yet in harmony with the world and accepting things he couldn't change.. blind that he was...

It made me realise ..petty we are in the hands of god or the so called super power but how to live with given circumstance was in our hands...

My best friend at Mumbai and me..

My Best friend and me...
My Best friend at Mumbai and me...

In a city that's dwelled by millions,
where one gets lost in the crowd,
crowd of friends or aliens.
Walking with noise within and outside so loud
I go to its refuge and seek peace,
I blabber and speak till my mind's ease
with no record of hours, hours slip by in its company..
I ask questions in the waves of mind,
answered or not answered by it,
Yet I seek its company..

That touch of wind and its lapping waves going back and forth..
hitting the rocks, breaking the silence
those bubbly bubbles and the froth ...
medidation previals in its silence..

who cares for those lovers behind,
who cares for blarring sound of the traffic behind, who cares
till you get to see your friend - the ocean,
so vast with brim full of water and the peppiness of the waves and the wind,
inspiration it is for me
that sea...
Marine lines, sea and me..

I love this place, I love my friend..
to whose refuge I always depend..
Thats the story of my best friend at Mumbai and me

Some one rightly said " When the student is ready, the teacher appears"

Whistling...

Over the time I have realized, whistle - is the only thing that you tend to do when you are the most happiest or joyful .. you can dance even when you are not happy, you can sing even when u are not happy.. but not whistle...