Sunday, January 28, 2007

ST buses v/s BEST buses

The first difference which comes to my mind when thinking about the topic is the speed with which they travel,

st buses take almost a straight line path where as the best buses ..oh boy! god knows why have they been cursed to take most busiest and the most boring route possible and by the time you reach the desired stop ..you ponder "why did'nt i try take the train?" or something like, what if best buses travel with the speed of light.

traveling in best buses is not always such a bad idea provided your destination is some 30-45mins away, but if you are taking a bus from the depot or from a stop near the depot to go to the last stop of the current bus (in case you are as lazy as me to avoid taking a rick got to the station then take a ticket blah blah blah!)

then you have had it , dude

a very classic example:
my grandma stays in goregoan and i stay in chembur there is this best bus 374 starting from anushakti nagar to all the way upto goregaon..earlier i thought of the bus to be a jackpot, believe me when i say this the entire route till goregaon took me two and a half hours,
the route is so screwed up- the bus starts from anushakti nagar straight till sion circle
....there it turns and heads straight till the kalina- kurla junction literally crawling its way up till there thanks to the pedestrians,hawkers,bikers etc..... then to inner area of santacruz ,mumbai univ. ..then to vakola bridge ....... through the highway to vileparle and thats where this bus moves a lot and wastes a ton of time and makes me wanna pull my hair out till i go bald!! ...... then again through the highway by some opening near Garware (some tapri plastic manufacturing company) it heads to the andheri s.v. road via flyover +more traffic and finally to goregaon depot ...phew!!! finally

..but if you wanna look to the brighter side of it ....lets just say that people in best buses dont end up puking ,unlike in st buses which rumble,resonate,vibrate you right down to the core...so much so that things start getting out of control and such evidence can be found along the sides of these buses right below the windows ..or in some worst cases on the foot board in the gangway of the st buses..

And for some particular reason the type of people who travel in these buses also vary, people in ST buses stick to entrance like a tongue stuck on a ice frosted metal bar, but such is not the case in best buses probably because its got one door for entry and the other for exit...isliye maaf!! hai

st drivers are probably the most ruthless drivers on the planet, its not that they cause more number of casualties or bang and break more number smaller cars (which actually in some cases they do.)
its just that their speed at times is so damn high the whole chassis of the bus seems to be saying "yo driver dude its gonna blow ,what are you ? insane!!!"

and lastly but not the least about bus commuting,let me just add
S.T. buses rock dude log!!

Sunday, January 21, 2007

on a new leaf...

Malls -we all know about such places by now ,probably because they tend to pop up at the most busiest junctions in the city.
Inorbit mall is one such example ,its truly a one shop stop for all your needs, be it groceries,clothes,food,gaming gadgets,electronic gizmos (sigh!!!)

But ofcourse each of the above with its own hefty price tag.I have been to inorbit many times , what i was not aware of is the fact that, this time there will be a slight change ,frankly speaking inorbit is one place where i prefer to stick my tongue out and wag my tail like a dog while looking at the showcase windows of the varied shops in the mall,literally begging at the cookie shops for one more sample of that delicious chocolate cream dipped cookie chip.

Ah!! anyways ,

As i was walking along gazing at the shops ,i came across a display of paintings , these paintings looked pretty simple in nature they did not hide anything ,revealed exactly what the painter thought of while drawing it, which could somehow be interpret very easily ,because they sure seemed logical and could be related to with ease- things like night life in the city ,greenery after the first shower of rain,women working in the village were conveyed by them as if they had the power to speak to people.

Although i never understood paintings very much or probably never made an effort to bother about such things,but this set of paintings however was of a different style ,a unique example in itself.Below it were a few words about the person who drew it "Paintings by Shashank Mittal from The Doon School,Dehradun".The name suggested to me that he must be a big time painter in his early forties.
Surrounding the gallery at one end were a bunch of boys talking amongst themselves,so with the thought of commenting at the paintings, i looked for the visitors log , and i asked one of the boys as he came forward ,since i looked curious "so you are looking after paintings eh?" he replied yes, so i asked him do you know the painter and he said "i am the painter, i am Shashank mittal"
jee i had never met a painter before ,so i was a bit enthralled by seeing his confidence and i did my best to encourage him further by admiring his work.






Thats how the conversation began and it so turned out that, he was otherwise a regular guy studying in XII std. (science stream) aspiring to get into the N.I.D.(National Institute of Design) in Ahmedabad .
I wished him the best for his dreams and goals and i told him that he would definitely get into the N.I.D.

And so for the first time i left inorbit by taking home something unique and yet free of cost- i.e. some of his paintings in my camera phone.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Heroes....


its a new series on cnbc hdtv....kinda really cool though..ordinary people developin special powers due some mutations in their DNA....usin their powers to save the world and stuff...

kinda sounds pretty comical and of X-men origin...but has been presented in really cool way on the small screen..

the guy above is my favorite character from the series his name is Hiro Nagamura...a guy who can bend space and time...go back in time and correct things ..set a few things in a way which would be more pleasant and desirable...warn people about the consequence in the future of their present action..

the only one thing he could not stop from happening ..is the murder of his best friend Charlene..who was a very pretty lookin waitress at a stop-by-motel...later he realises that death is inevitable...no matter however hard he tried he could stop her from dying by murder....coz nature had already givin her a brain clot....

meddling with time has always been my dream wish...obviously such a thing doesnt exist
..but i love giving it a thought whenever i see those clock hands movin ..time doesnt exist in any physical form..it jus there..lookin at us ...starin...like a watcher..non interferring whether in grief or joy, not sayin a word about whats gonna happen next..

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

lazyyyy....sleep and the workzzzzz..


oh yeah..can go on about this for hours together....been lazy wherever i have been ....be it in the school days ..or junior college or the engg. college..or as a matter of fact even this blog..i am posting after about a month or so..shii even lazy enuf to cut short words and to try and think to type less..and skip some extra typin..

i do pretend to be enthu sumtimes..it happens only when my brain realises "holy moly i forgot to switch on the dopamine dump"..and ther u go i wake to my senses ..make my self aware whether its the darn college bench ..or my pillow
..kiddin:p
but i do tht only when i want to be more lazy or so that i can get a wholesome sleep with loads of loud snoring ..to let the whole world know tht i am sleepin and if any one ever bothers to wake me up
he/she is gonna sound jus like my snoring does..

now thts one of the reasons why no one bothers to wake me up while i am gulping down the huge bouts of slumber..sleep..and laziness

no alarms are of any help..if thers anything that really gets me on my feet are the nightmares which i tend conjure up at times!!(sem7 results are on their way!!)

frankly speakin i sleep so that my brain can get some rest.....coz in my line of work it really needs to be active u see, thinkin for time slots for dozing off... makin plans for a wholesome nighty night isnt childs play now is it?..

Sunday, December 10, 2006

where's the good gone.....


life is a matter of choices which are made in the present ...and what we reap in are its aftereffects which may occur in the future..or even probably in the next moment....u jus never know..

passivity is taking its toll.. offlate there have been many disturbing events...the dr.ambedkar issue in kanpur.....
....students deciding to end their lives...domestic violence is on the rampage...something very bad is awakening from its deep slumber..is this just the start...

casteism....dowry......psychological torchure...are 'nt we living in the 21st century then why do people who are quite educated behave like this ,resort to such idiotic measures....
are there no things such as moral fibre,compassion,love,positivity,peace left in them have they forgotten what is to live, to love and to give ...or will such things now be found only in storybooks ...

why has the good been left so far behind....has it gone completely...vanquished.....or will these people have to be reminded of it...gandhigiri for instance did leave some good things on these minds.....sadly it doesnt take long for us to forget it all....are we really so busy that there is no moment to stand and think for a second about wat we just did....agreed that life goes on and we must take it in the stride and move along....and in the fear of being left behind in this fast pace world
we jus dont stand and stare anymore do we?....or will the good rise up in the last burp of nemesis
when there is nothing left to look forward to....?