Mumbaaaaaaaaaai...

Finally, I am again on my blog. Its been such a long time that I forgot that I have a blog and I can write. It has been a great time after shifting to Mumbai, however there are occassional "I miss hyderabad" times and I really feel low but overall I am having FUN. Lots of work, less time for myself disturbing rains and painfull sunny days, but this is also a great period of my life which I am gonna remember forever. 17th May 2009 was the day I landed here (actually, i came by train...my organization is on cost cutting so no flights) and post that had some good, bad and ugly experiences (dnt know if I would be able to actually categorise them as good, bad or ugly, but it does sound good):

* Got a workstation: I am one of those lucky few who got a workstation (with a landline, one of my clolleagues is yet to get one) within a week at the corporate office. Some of them are still praying that atleast somebody from our floor take leave daily so that they can get a port for a day. Thankyou God for your blessings and support. It might seem an exaggeration, but its true.

* Cynosure of the eyes : Wow is the word for this experience. There were some issues in our red fridge and had asked the guy to fix them and send it to us. The guy did send it but without actually fixing them. So we called him, but he was pretty rude over the phone. We got really furious and decided to go to his shop and fight (mind you guys, the time was 11 PM on a working day). We decided that we will take a rik (thats what an auto rikshaw is called in Mumbai, we to call it Auto) and asked two of our male friends to join us. But God had it planned some other way and we rode the luggage rik. Four of us, standing the the open rik and going to andheri through the highway, we really were cynosure of everybody's eyes (this phrase was used by one of us and we had to ask the meaning atleast 10 times). Every passerby was staring/laughing at us. But we got a ride to andheri and back without spending a penny. And what happened to fridge...this is another story, will tell you sometime later.

* Good old Mumbai rains : Yes, I am also a victim of Mumbai rains. This city actually stops when it rains, I guess the only good thong about rains here is treks. Coming back to the experience:

One day, it was raining heavily. But we the brave ones decided that we will still go to office. Work was calling us and we were no escapists. So. we took our regular bus and started our journey (anything which takes more than 3 hours to reach office, is a journey to me). But fate had something else in store for us. We saw a traffic jam at Andheri flyover, we thought its a small jam and we'll reach office by 10 AM (under normal circumstances, wereach office by 9 AM). But it took us more than 3 hours to reach office. The only good thing was that it dint happen on our way back, it would have been all the more frustrating.

hmmm..so thats it for now. Will write some more stuff soon. For now, all of you who are planning to shift to Mumbai:

* If your weekends are set, you will enjoy the city inspite of the work and travel .

* The rik guys are honest here. They will even return 50p and not ask for half return before 12 in the night. It was a positive cultural shock for me. People who are staying in Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai can relate to me on this.