This winter, like every other, is urging & inspiring me to write. Alas, I'm not moved. Maybe there is nothing specific in my head I can put down. Maybe there is too much, I don’t know. But, for this splendid winter’s sake, I sit, pen & paper in hand, & let a good old fashioned random rant out..
It has been some year – form last winter to this one. Take South Bombay for instance – the once elusive, land of far far away soon became a terminus on my Railway Season Ticket. Churchgate wasn’t the mysterious, seldom visited part of the city anymore. Now, it was all about the train schedules, bus rides, rickety cabs, ganna juice, cold coffee (the saviour), pocketless trousers, jaywalking..articleship, to sum it all up. Soon enough, this phase ended too. Churchgate, once again, became the land of far far away, to my relief this time. When I went back there, a week after 26/11, I felt uncomfortable. I knew the streets too well & for once, I truly missed articleship. After a week of partial insomnia & watching my favourite part of the city on news channels, it was good to be there & see it like it used to be; only a little tattered & crowded now. I slept well that night. Can’t wait to renew the Season Ticket!
Also, in winter I’m most prone to a nostalgia attack. So when I met a few school friends at a college fest recently, I got thinking about how carefree school & JC life was & how I’d tell them (my science stream pals) “Don’t worry, you guys are frustrated now. After 2 years, I will be!” Given my powers in clairvoyance, here I am :P
Amidst all the irritation, humour is easy to find & it’s what keeps me & my girls alive at the end of 5 hour-long lectures on direct taxation. In an accounts lecture once, the professor asked the class to come up with the solution to two of the toughest Schedules in the question, in return for which he would solve the other two Schedules, which were a cakewalk anyway. In response, albeit (& gratefully) not too loudly, Mudra told him – “Sir aap humein khoon do, hum aapko aazaadi dengey..” At a seminar cum pep-talk, a speaker was telling us how some married women also, even after giving birth to children, have cleared professional exams; to which my involuntary reaction was – “Wasn’t labour pain bad enough?”
My thoughts, like my parlance, have become very textbook-centric. That’s why, when someone asks how long I’ll take to get to class, I reply – “30 minutes. That includes a provision for slow-walkers & TCs at the station. Might reach sooner if no TC” When a friend asks if she can borrow my book, much to her annoyance & my nerdiness induced pleasure, I counter question “But under which section?” Then again, change in thoughts, like in people, is inevitable, no?
And in present day, after over a year of longing & craving for the freedom to wear jeans & a tee instead of trousers & shirts, I finally have the liberty to do so. But when I open my cupboard, it’s the casuals that are the hardest to find. As an annoying pg. 3 columnist would put it, ‘such is life, dearies!’
So as my merry musings end & I wish the 4 people reading this post a nice, normal New Year, I know for a fact that my ‘2 oh-oh 9’ is going to be anything but normal. For starters, the next 4 months & 14 (or so) days are probably going to be the most somber 4 months & 14 days of my life. And I am all geared up for some cyberspace hibernation. Till then, so long! ..and thanks for all the fish! :D
Cheers. Keedas (but limited). Peace.
7 comments:
First blog-post me reading in 2009...hehe...had a few laughs (or smiles) over the finer aspects of a CA-cum-BCOM students life...wish ya a happy new year...hope ur 2 0h 0h 9
goes well...filled with excitement and adventure...and please do post once in a while...if not here (coz u cant find the pen and paper)...probably on snippets....
Cheers...Keedas (As many as u may have)...Peace(We need that)...
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Pratz
Yay. I'm in there! As part of you and "your girls" - LOL.
Also, "Aap mujhe khoon do..." is the best joke by me that you could think of? I'm offended.
And like I just told you, I wanted to post about New Year, 5 hour tax classes, PCC, the joy at being able to wear casuals combined with the absolute dearth of any wearable casuals... ah well never mind.
Happy New Year to you too!!
I had no idea that u were this good in creative writin.....nw i knw dat apart frm irritatin the hell outta ppl there r other things u can do.........nice!!!
Hey,
Finally someone wakes up from hibernation. Or just sleep-blogs a little.
Did Muddu actually say that? Thats really funny.
You guys not blogging gives me the creeps. Coz I'm still here in the U.S. - drinking, gambling, blogging and doing all those things other than studying.
But anyways, happy new year and see you when i'm back.
Jumbo glass Ganna juice in South Mumbai. The ultimate challenge- A bottoms up!!
Apart from that..i could very well relate to the CA class jokes, keeping in mind i have similar subjects..i more often than not at the end of the class, end up either asleep or kicked by my original and innate mastery at lameness..!!
And as for the normal new year, i told a close friend when he called to wish me at 12:00 am on Jan 1, "Yaar KUCCH new nahi lag raha hai"
Anyway all the best!
See you
Avinash
hey peru :)
Happy new yr gurl
I guess I'll feel the same way when I visit marine drive and the roads near oberoi..i've crossed it like a million times.
Lets hope 2 oh oh 9 gives us some peace, and some sense to a lot of ppl in the world.
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