Its been long now that this draft title has been in my blog and to prove myself, check the date on this blog :) and i think i should complete it now.
I wonder, what are we running for? Is it the money OR life OR career OR basic things required to be alive in this world. Why are we running in our life so much that we dont have time to say "I love you" to the person we love. We dont have time to ask our beloved "How are you"? We need big houses, even large patios facing the swimming pool of our apartment community, and a wonderful view of beautiful hills. But do we stand in that patio once in a week or even once in a month to enjoy the view for which we payed more than others. What are we doing to our lives is the question in my mind these days. Everyday we are in so much hurry to complete out tasks and go to office which we barely manage to make in time. Work like bulls there and come back to your house, while doing office work, having dinner and then its sleep time again.
In the weekends, do some goodie goodie shopping, buy a jacket for thousands, spent the money which you got after so much struggle just like that, be happy for few mins or hrs and again the same story in the weeks. Our parents generation were more happy in their times than our generation is. Watching a movie in a normal theater with Rs10 ticket, wearing very normal unbranded clothes and still looking more beautiful and handsome than we look, eating in a normal eatry with no sho sha...... Us not watching the movie other than multiplex, wearing branded clothes not less than Tommy Hilfiger, and eating in not less than a posh restaurant..... on the cost of our lives, our precious time which we should have spent with our beloved, spending either in the pub or working at home. Life has become so mechanical these days that you have just become bearing in the hands of a big machine who just can run and run and thats it and one day you are just gone, being replaced by a new one.
Do we all want this kind of end? I am sure not but then whats the solution for all this? Yeah, i know, the answer is get satisfied in your life and dont keep asking for more things......Easy to say but then...donno...i guess i am searching for its answer.....if anyone else has answer to my question as to why we are doing "ALL THIS BULLSHIT" to our lives, sure welcome.
I just keep asking myself "Is it all worth?"
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Tune to marwa diya yaar
Seeing Europe through train is the most enjoyable experience but i didnt know it would be such which i will never forget in my life.
It was a weekday and i had to go to Sttugart, Germany to collect my passport which i submitted two days back to get my Swiss visa stamped. Guggu couldnt come as he had to go to his office.
One day before we bought the return ticket for the place. Train tickets are real expensive in Europe and being Indians we wanted to save every penny.
It was something like this :
We both reached the Hauf - bhanoff (Raliway station in English) one day before to buy the tickets. Our chance came and lady at the counter told us about the rates. It was 40 Euros two way. 40 euros means arnd 2000 INR. Obviously calculation was done instantaneously ;). Seeing our face, she told us about a cheaper option. A sceme was there that if you travel after 9 a.m. you will get the ticket in half i.e 1000 INR (20 euros) and both of us jumped on the idea. But there was a problem. If i take 9 'o clock train, i will only reach Sttutgart by 11:30 a.m. and reaching the Swiss visa consulate from Stuttgart, HB (Hauf - bhanoff) by 12 :00pm was highly impossible. At 12 'o clock the office closes. So the only option was to take train before that which was at 8:40 a.m costing us double the amount.
The lady at the counter was so sweet that she told us about another option when we told her our problem. She said "If you have a pass for zone 4 (zonal passes are very famous in europe which is valid for some areas) , you can board the train at 8:40 a.m. A station will come after some time which is out of zone 4 where you pass will not work but by then it will be already 9 and you can use your ticket of 20 euros". "Oh wow...what an idea..." we thought. "Thanks a lot" we told the lady, bought the ticket for 20 euros and we were out happily.
The twist in the story is that now we have to think about the zone 4 pass which we didnt have. :) What shall we do? My dearest hubby got a very good idea. He had been travelling in trains for the past one month and i believed him.He told me that no one is going to check my ticket early in the morning and its just a matter of 20 min. I agreed.
Next morning, inspite of heavy rain, i boarded the train. It was 8:40 a.m. I opened my bag and started listening to the cd player. I was also praying at the same time that no ticket checker should come. But something in my mind was telling me that something is going to happen.
It was 8:50 am.m. One station came. Many people boarded the train and among those were two men both wearing light blue shirts and black pants. Somebody from above, probabl God told me that they are the ones. Oh No.....i thought in my mind. I started to gather my things and pretended to go to WS as we do in India but i wasnt so lucky. I came face to face with one of them. He asked me to show my ticket. Pretending that i am searching for the same and took some time to take it out, he went off asking from other people. I was about to dodge the second one, when the first one told the second to check my ticket. "Ho gaya kaam tamam", i thought. I had to take out my ticket and i showed that to him. It was 8:54 a.m. He showed me his mobile watch that it is not still 9:00 and you have boarded the train before that. He didnt know so much of English but i tried explaing him that i have got the pass for zone 4 (which i didnt) and what all i could think in that time. After some time of our arguement, he took my ticket, punctured it and he left me :). I ran towards the washroom and called Guugs to tell the whole "Kand". I was in the washroom for around 20 min. I thought its all over now and i can happly go back to my seat. I came out of the WS and to my dismay saw the two siting just out of the WS, waiting for me?
It was not over yet, i thought. I tried to sheepliy come out of their way. To my surprise, they didint say anything to me. Never ever i saw them again and ran with my legs on my head.
Tarun tumne to mujhe marwa diya yaar, yeh bolkar ki koi nahin ayega ticket check karne...........
This is how i escaped the fine and other penalities which could be huge sums if that checker knew english.
It was a weekday and i had to go to Sttugart, Germany to collect my passport which i submitted two days back to get my Swiss visa stamped. Guggu couldnt come as he had to go to his office.
One day before we bought the return ticket for the place. Train tickets are real expensive in Europe and being Indians we wanted to save every penny.
It was something like this :
We both reached the Hauf - bhanoff (Raliway station in English) one day before to buy the tickets. Our chance came and lady at the counter told us about the rates. It was 40 Euros two way. 40 euros means arnd 2000 INR. Obviously calculation was done instantaneously ;). Seeing our face, she told us about a cheaper option. A sceme was there that if you travel after 9 a.m. you will get the ticket in half i.e 1000 INR (20 euros) and both of us jumped on the idea. But there was a problem. If i take 9 'o clock train, i will only reach Sttutgart by 11:30 a.m. and reaching the Swiss visa consulate from Stuttgart, HB (Hauf - bhanoff) by 12 :00pm was highly impossible. At 12 'o clock the office closes. So the only option was to take train before that which was at 8:40 a.m costing us double the amount.
The lady at the counter was so sweet that she told us about another option when we told her our problem. She said "If you have a pass for zone 4 (zonal passes are very famous in europe which is valid for some areas) , you can board the train at 8:40 a.m. A station will come after some time which is out of zone 4 where you pass will not work but by then it will be already 9 and you can use your ticket of 20 euros". "Oh wow...what an idea..." we thought. "Thanks a lot" we told the lady, bought the ticket for 20 euros and we were out happily.
The twist in the story is that now we have to think about the zone 4 pass which we didnt have. :) What shall we do? My dearest hubby got a very good idea. He had been travelling in trains for the past one month and i believed him.He told me that no one is going to check my ticket early in the morning and its just a matter of 20 min. I agreed.
Next morning, inspite of heavy rain, i boarded the train. It was 8:40 a.m. I opened my bag and started listening to the cd player. I was also praying at the same time that no ticket checker should come. But something in my mind was telling me that something is going to happen.
It was 8:50 am.m. One station came. Many people boarded the train and among those were two men both wearing light blue shirts and black pants. Somebody from above, probabl God told me that they are the ones. Oh No.....i thought in my mind. I started to gather my things and pretended to go to WS as we do in India but i wasnt so lucky. I came face to face with one of them. He asked me to show my ticket. Pretending that i am searching for the same and took some time to take it out, he went off asking from other people. I was about to dodge the second one, when the first one told the second to check my ticket. "Ho gaya kaam tamam", i thought. I had to take out my ticket and i showed that to him. It was 8:54 a.m. He showed me his mobile watch that it is not still 9:00 and you have boarded the train before that. He didnt know so much of English but i tried explaing him that i have got the pass for zone 4 (which i didnt) and what all i could think in that time. After some time of our arguement, he took my ticket, punctured it and he left me :). I ran towards the washroom and called Guugs to tell the whole "Kand". I was in the washroom for around 20 min. I thought its all over now and i can happly go back to my seat. I came out of the WS and to my dismay saw the two siting just out of the WS, waiting for me?
It was not over yet, i thought. I tried to sheepliy come out of their way. To my surprise, they didint say anything to me. Never ever i saw them again and ran with my legs on my head.
Tarun tumne to mujhe marwa diya yaar, yeh bolkar ki koi nahin ayega ticket check karne...........
This is how i escaped the fine and other penalities which could be huge sums if that checker knew english.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
My experience of my first steps in Europe
I never thought that so soon in my life i will get a golden chance to visit the most beautiful continent in the world "EUROPE". I said most beautiful in the world becuase i havent seen more beautiful place than Europe in my life till now. All the credit of me able to visit that place goes to Guggs. For his project work, he got a chance to go to Germany and my plans got fixed after that. He went there for 3 months and for the last 15 days. i joined him for Europe trip.
It is a perfect vacation place. Those 15 days were the most enjoyable vacations in my life. Although i have been for vacations to many palces in India and also to Malaysia for my first HM, but this was simply amazing and we(Guggu and myself) call it as our second HM :) lol.
I heard about its beauty from people and saw it in many hindi movies especially DDLJ but when i saw it with my own eyes, I can say, it is more splendid than what i heard and saw till now. But i am not writing this blog to describe its beauty but my experience when i reached the land of panaromic views. Actually i cant stop myslef talking about Europe becuase it has left a lasting impression on my mind by its Charisma.
So, My first day of vacation started on July 27th 2006 when i took a flight for Frankfurt, Germany from Bangalore, India. I was very excited from the very beginning of the trip as I was going to meet Guggs after so many days. Although he came for 1 week in between to arrange for my visa and other things but that were not enough for both of us after 2 months of "Judaii".
The flight which was for 9hrs went off in sleeping. Whenever i got up in between, guggu was in my mind and i couldnt stop thinking of the ways as to what i will do when i meet see him first. Finally when i got up, i was in "Europe" :). Tarun was not able to recieve me at the airport due to some problem, that made me a lil :(, but the excitement to meet him overtook that sadness. After coming out of the airport, I took a cab and reached a place where i was supposed to meet Guggu. Guggu was late ;). I was standing outside some hotel. Guggu came and he didnt even smile, seeing me. I was shocked. What has happened to him? Why isnt he smiling? Why he is not excited. Why he is not running to give me a hug? All these questions were running in my mind, still smiling at him. Atlast he smiled and started to run and gave me a big big hug :) and i was so happy. But the questions didnt stop and i asked him about his weird behaviour. He said, he couldn't recognize me. WHAT? I asked him. Can you people(who know our love story) reading the blog, believe it. He didnt recognize me. Oh My God......The reason was i had a recent hair cut and hair got lil small than what i usually have ;).... Too much..Is'nt? So, this was my first experience. lol.
It is a perfect vacation place. Those 15 days were the most enjoyable vacations in my life. Although i have been for vacations to many palces in India and also to Malaysia for my first HM, but this was simply amazing and we(Guggu and myself) call it as our second HM :) lol.
I heard about its beauty from people and saw it in many hindi movies especially DDLJ but when i saw it with my own eyes, I can say, it is more splendid than what i heard and saw till now. But i am not writing this blog to describe its beauty but my experience when i reached the land of panaromic views. Actually i cant stop myslef talking about Europe becuase it has left a lasting impression on my mind by its Charisma.
So, My first day of vacation started on July 27th 2006 when i took a flight for Frankfurt, Germany from Bangalore, India. I was very excited from the very beginning of the trip as I was going to meet Guggs after so many days. Although he came for 1 week in between to arrange for my visa and other things but that were not enough for both of us after 2 months of "Judaii".
The flight which was for 9hrs went off in sleeping. Whenever i got up in between, guggu was in my mind and i couldnt stop thinking of the ways as to what i will do when i meet see him first. Finally when i got up, i was in "Europe" :). Tarun was not able to recieve me at the airport due to some problem, that made me a lil :(, but the excitement to meet him overtook that sadness. After coming out of the airport, I took a cab and reached a place where i was supposed to meet Guggu. Guggu was late ;). I was standing outside some hotel. Guggu came and he didnt even smile, seeing me. I was shocked. What has happened to him? Why isnt he smiling? Why he is not excited. Why he is not running to give me a hug? All these questions were running in my mind, still smiling at him. Atlast he smiled and started to run and gave me a big big hug :) and i was so happy. But the questions didnt stop and i asked him about his weird behaviour. He said, he couldn't recognize me. WHAT? I asked him. Can you people(who know our love story) reading the blog, believe it. He didnt recognize me. Oh My God......The reason was i had a recent hair cut and hair got lil small than what i usually have ;).... Too much..Is'nt? So, this was my first experience. lol.
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