Chembaite or Munnaite ????????

Sounds not so funny a title right? Is it just to GRAB ATTENTION !!!!! [not to mention my insane efforts by posting my blog address on Gchat, Facebook, Orkut] .. hmm .. still puzzled though? let me give you some idea about the month’s happenings..

Yours truly arrived in Mumbai [yeah guyzz.. I am gonna earn my bread n butter here for some time] and

much delightful is that the city welcomed me [you know that feeling...a gentle, positive vibe] and

I witnessed what it really means when they say “Mumbai doesn’t stop L-I-V-I-N-G for god sake”. It’s that time of the year when as a Chennaite I would have felt really happy for a change in weather. Forward to Mumbai, cabs ply with half their tyres immersed in the puddle created, people are knee deep in water and believe me nothing stopped functioning or ceased to exist in Mumbai. Who gives a shit about whether the “dadar - eastern line” has become non functional or not. [legs, auto, bus and ofcourse T-A-X-I (eeeeeeee),Fort chalenge? Cabbie nods, you get in and off you go. When myself and my colleagues quizzed a cabbie how many cabs run in the city, no wonder he said 1 lakh] and

my worst of dreams came true when I was “chilloued” by a cab-driver, for giving mixed signals, courtesy my “pandit level” hindi and

I am working on a lot on excel nowadays – (aap sochtha, mein zyaada kaam karta hoon) – hmm shayad.. the working goes like this. One sheet for hindi nouns, another for FSHW (Frequently Spoken Hindi Words), another for verbs and tense, and yet another for prepositions. Frankly I don’t know how many more sheets will be appended, but believe me when I say, I haven’t worked so dedicatedly for learning a language to get my tense, grammar, pronunciation rite [even for my mother tongue, Tamil] and

continuing from where I left at Chennai, my friends from the fatty brigade of wada, dosai, onion pakoda got some competition in Mumbai in the form of wada paav, pyaaz bhajji and

you guess, who’s started cooking ;-) The root of my inspiration lies within lot of facts, that I wanted to badly continue my new found passion during my exchange program to Barcelona, and that my cunning soul wants all of my “pathla dosts” sharing apartment with me to put on oodles of weight [2 bottles of oil used, innumerable kgs of potato cooked and it goes on] (and that includes my Hindi tutor Jammy! Ingratitude you would say!! Help that poor soul! He cooks along with me!), and

not to mention, of course I am in the savings phase of my life [who gives a damn if it’s the same rice, dhal, potato-pyaas curry, rasam all through the week. Who wanna dine outside !! ]. It seems Einstein once observed that the “eighth wonder in the world” is the power of compounding. So my fraands, start making some savings and do some investments [ok. if you are puzzled still why this observation, that’s my pitch as a representative of financial services to make you guys create wealth] and

you know what, seriously I don’t give a damn about being a chembaite or a munnaite, becoz Mumbai cabbies are gonna continue extending their friendliness, I am gonna gobble up wada paavs as diligently as ever, be awed during the special monsoon life, while at the same time thrown into nostalgia of the Marina beach, “mulagai bhajji”, Captain’s ossum flicks, Rajni frenzy, dear tam friends and all…

Oops…have to get up very early tomorrow for an important meeting. Gracias for a patient reading, watch out this space for some more L-E-G-E-N-D [wait for it] A-R-Y stuff [yeah... HIMYM rox]

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