Sunday, June 04, 2006

OF BOOKSTORES AND MUMBAI RICKS

Has been a long-sullen-dull weekend ...especially with bucketful of rains pouring down heavily ...damn i hate this weather.With nothing much to do in life i decided to go for a stroll at hiranandani gardens with the intention of checking out some books at crossword .. with none other than my cibophobic friend.Man how i wished to own them all ... if only i had the time and resources (yeah yeah i know i sound like a looser .. but then those books were costly)

Browsing thru the racks i saw some extreeeemely maggu looking junta all engrossed in reading weird and unpalatable stuff ! All set to invade their privacy the bogue investigateur within came alive and i started snooping around .. and got some really nasty get-lost-or-ill shoot-you looks! Well the book i was looking for was out of stock ... (it usually happens ..and the staff has come to believe that i go there just to kill some time asking for out of stock books)

With my friend half dead ..we decided to take a rick ..and man what a ride we had!Firstly these ppl in mumbai turn a bloody deaf ear if u address them as ""bhaiya""..even if you hold them with both your hands and look into their eyes they would refuse to acknowledge the fact that you are trying to tell him something ... you call them ""boss""and pat comes the response...so the next time a mumbaikar happens to be standing(read stamping) on your foot or you have to make way to get down at a local station DO NOT call him bhaiya! Well talking of autowallas .. invariably all autos that i have traveled in mumbai have been fitted with the state of the fart ..er... i mean state of the art moojic shishtem Its thru them that himesh reshammiya earns his bread and butter ! From the agonizing oooooooo hoooozoor tera suroooooor to aa aa ashiqui me teri ...he played them all .. killing two two dogs who happen to pass by and causing my friend severe epliptic convulsions.

These guys have this inborn killer instincts ..they just cant see a pedestrian walk peacefully on the road they'll swerve their vehicles to scare the poor chap to death ..follow no rules and fall just short of MiG pilots(now u know the reason why they crash this often !) What an eventful ride that was .. i coud not hear anything except a faint hissing sound fifteen minutes after getting down .. (the hi fi system had a problem with its treble knob :( .. ) And psst ...i have a secret to share i still have'nt completely understood the way mumbai auto meters are read ! ( i know thats kinda dumb given the fact the dumbest of my friends ..who has to look for the zipper to figure out if he has worn his pants the right way, has perfected the art of meter reading!) Mebbe some day ill learn ! Till then happily njoying amchi mumbai :)

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wanna all the books everytime i enter a bookshop... :((

Hamesha yun hi wapas aana padta hai :P

Moombai sure is funny 'boss'

Chalo you keep enjoying the blasting music....that sicko !!

:P :))

Anonymous said...

Nice ... very vivid. :)

Ofcourse... when I get into a rick I just hope that I will stay alive when I get out of it. :P

How are the rains these days?

-Hg

Anonymous said...

dost.....use some puctuations.

Anonymous said...

~laughs~

Kinda feel the same abt Mumbai rickshaw walas too.. U wudnt belv one guy actually had "Naam Hai Tera Tera" going on in his ric, and he was also singing along with it.. It was like listening to two long beautifully synchronised *arts.. :D But thats amchi mumbai i gues.. :)

Tell me if u get a crack on the secret behind the meter readn... I gues we'll mk a gud pair of 'Dumb & Dumber'.. (U r the latter of crs ;)..)

:)

..Me

Anonymous said...

mumbai mein you call rikshawala 'boss'!! ...sahi hai BOSS. :P

and log books ke piche kyun itne crazy rehte hain! ..waise I read the second novel of my life-da vinci code... :D

and don't talk of that himesh reshamiya...use gaane aate hain..!!X-(. oooooooooooo..:))

-pandora. ;)

Anonymous said...

..and again...fir se NAUTANKI!! grrr....

SUNMAY said...

@nidhi

blasting music .. he he

@hg

rains are bad :( wont have to wait for 26/7 this time

@anonymous

pal, i write as thoughts flow out ..
will try to take note from next time ..

@rose

:x ill soon figure out how to read those nasty meters ...

@pandora

ahem ... "" mumbai mein you call rikshawala 'boss'!! ...sahi hai BOSS. :P""" ab kya karein karna padta hai :(

Anonymous said...

hohoho...wow ,i'm sure all the mumbai rikshawalas would surely want customers like u in their autos,,surely..would get even 150/-instead of a ride worth 50.great job sir!and being in bambaiii,if u ever come across that awful mr. hoooozoooor,on atleast my behalf ask him to have hazamat some fine day.aapki nazaron se mango mumbai dekha....accha laga..

Anonymous said...

Well the book i was looking for was out of stock [THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN..OTHER THR IS NO POINT IN GOING TO CROSSWORD FOR A PERSON LIKE YOU] ... (it usually happens ..and the staff has come to believe that i go there just to kill some time asking for out of stock books [THIS THING I ALREADY UNDERSTOOD BEFORE YOU WROTE BCOZ YOU USUALLY DO THAT...DONT U? :))] )

ABE LIKHA TO MAST HAI...
BUT YOUR BLOG GOT ME INTO TROUBLE..
invariably all autos that i have traveled in mumbai have been fitted with the state of the fart ..er... i mean state of the art moojic shishtem Its thru them that himesh reshammiya earns his bread and butter !

AFTER READING THIS I WAS ABOUT TO BURST OUT WITH LAUGHTER...I SOMEHOW STOPPED MYSELF AND HAD TO GO TO TOILET BCOZ THR WERE 3 MORE PEOPLE WORKING IN THE SAME ROOM...

PLY TAKE CARE NEXT TIME.. :)

Anonymous said...

abe kya bol rha hia yaar mumbai ki rains rock. Main to infy miss kar raha hoon woh sab yahan :(

Anonymous said...

Just stopped to say hello. NIce post

Anonymous said...

Nice Moombhai :) post

Anonymous said...

Hey.. Hv u been hit by a ricshaw wala????

Anonymous said...

hahah!
Well whether u like it or hate it..thats what mumbai is abt!
And I sooo relate to the "boss syndrome"!
Have lived most of my life in Mumbai and am a die hard mumabyite...no matter how bad it gets..its always a special place!

Anonymous said...

I happened to arrive at your blog after getting interested with the photograph that you have kept for your profile :) I know it's not you, it's an African Maasaai. It actually reminded me of my pleasant days in Tanzania when I was a kid, and I used to see lots of Masaais over there!!

By the way, I enjoyed your post a lot. Believe me things are not that different here in Delhi. Only thing is the Autowallas don't mind being greeted with "Bhaiya" as long as you're willing to shell out some crumpy notes!

PS: you can check out one of my photos with real african masaais (i'm not in this photo, though, as I was the photographer!) on my website here.

-Gaurav