Mumbai..
Left hyd on 22nd eve..! Packed everything and took an auto..!! met Bhargava on the way n reached station 5 mins before..! Sam joined at begumpet..! "ayya!.. I forgot cam!!".. Sams's well calculated first words.. Sam intentionally left the cam home cuz of wat had happened to Bhargava's cam in vizag trip - was Bhargava's claim!.. :) ..
The train moved on.. A "Jumma ki jumma"(muslim lady) was crying at the window seat.. Bhargava was curious abt her family problems..! He made her family relations within secs.. "shes her daughter, he's her bro-in-law, that fellow - her husb,," all done.. her family was decided..!..
Sam was getting bored as there was no advanced gadjet which could keep him busy.. so scolded me for not gettin the laptop..! Jumma-ki-jumma started crying suddenly n tried to run.. sayin she would suicide..!! her husb stopped her... we also stopped talking n were givin eye n mouth signals to each other.. L8r continued doing our stuff..!! had dinner.. Discussed the Address location wid deepak n jumma family.. by then I think her husb had managed to calm the lady.. The bro talked well.. giving us directions on how to reach the destination.. n the Jumma also involved in the discussion.. Her daughter - "Riya"..was cute n played wid us for a while..! So it looked like a happy "jummakijumma" family at the end of that nite.. donno wat happened .. but ended well..!!
Reached dadar.. went to andheri station.. then irla masjid.. Spend 2 hrs on road.. as we had strict instructions given by the goa guy to enter his room as late as possible..! By the way.. My RBI accomodation had failed n we were to stay at Goa guy's room in mumbai as he had gone to goa..(take some time to understand that line.. no probs..)
Goa Guy's Mumbai room, after he had left to Goa...
Waitin for the owner to oper the door.. we spent 1/2 hr infront of their door on steps.. She gave the keys.. We opened the door... "He" was sleeping..!! who he..? One of deepaks room-mates..! WHy da hell did we have to wait 2 hrs outside to get keys from a lazy owner when a roomie was inside??!! was the Q..!! anyways.. we scanned the room..!! Cigaretts all over the room, magazines thrown all over, papers everywhere.. sam picked few packs n 1 egg!!.. n threatened to break it over my head.. n finally he did..saale..! 70% egg on my head n remaining on the pants,etc,,etc.. so sam washed my pant :) .. n I washed myself l8r..! We were ready.. Devi called up..!! Frustrated from a 2 day journey in train.. he was reluctant to come alone in auto n wanted some1 to pick him up frm station.. he came by auto to irla masjid.. Bhargava bought 2 eggs..!! Which finally landed on Devi's head in the bathroom..! I was happy :)..
Techfest 2010...
Went there by 2 or 3.. Ate maggi n drank frappe..!! the good old times came back to mind.. when we had been there 2 yrs earlier with an IC engine car that we were proud of...!
We visited various events.. abt 2 or 3... We were eager to see the sunlight eiffel tower.. "Which was to be recreated again at the heart of mumbai city".. as claimed by the pamplet..! I expected n waited watching a 20 ft eiffel tower made of metal rods .. to project its light up high in the air n an eiffel tower image to be formed which would be 200ft..! To get a better view of the realistic version of my imagination.. we went upstairs..!! Bhargava was expressing awe over my imagination.. "How re..?.. Wont the light interrupt flights.. disturb pilots..? ".. ;) ..
Waited for 1 hr... the eiffel tower model stood there.. doing nothing special.. !! when asked, an organiser told .. It did nothing more than lighting small bulbs fixed on it using solar energy..!!..he expressed dissapointment that..the eiffel tower model had decreased in size than previous year, when it used to be 2ft higher..!! lol.. I was expecting 200ft stupid..!!..
The day ended with Eiffel dissapointment.. but we were glad we 4 met again..!! We then explored a bit of mumbai n slept at 1 or 2 I guess..!!
.. More to come l8r..
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