Delhi laws - shivjeet Kullar

1. the other side law: if my side of the road has traffic jam, then i can drive on the wrong side and the incoming cars will be rerouted via meerut

2. queue nahin hai rule: if i wanna break a queue, noone notices me if I avoid looking at them

3. cinema hall fact: if i get a call on my mobile, the movie in the hall goes to pause

4. the burrp break: louder i burrp, better it is for others digestion

5. VIP rule: I me, my mainu, main aamee moi

The great Delhi summer

35 degrees - fans on speed 2

36 degrees - car ACs on

37 degrees - wimming pools openACs serviced

38 degrees - sunglasses and ganna juice

40 degrees - coolers and mosquitoes

41 degrees - power cuts

43 degrees- roads melt

44 degrees - road rage

LOL

Dilli to pagal hai- shivjeet khullar

A nice collection of anecdotes :

1. "clonies" in dilli

ungreen park

uday no park; no place to park in uday park

crore bagh: crorepatis in middle class homes

cannot place: cant place anything there

lonely kunj

rkrkrkr puram

garbargaon

things i love to do

1. prepare maggi at night after skipping dinner . it tastes better when dinner is skipped and it is prepared late night
2. sleep late on weekends and holidays.. sleep till the time your eyes cant remain close any more.
3. change my nail paint and try new colors

4. love to take green tea after a heavy lunch and ice cream

5. take a nice oil bath on weekends

6. gorge on nice rajma chawal in dinner

7.

Trip to Goa

Its a chilled out holiday destination. Still has the small place feel and lush greenery around it. It is state with a population of around 17 lakh only. Most of the land area is under forest cover and small narrow roads passing through it. Houses are built on the sides of the narrow roads and beautifully pained in bright pastel colors. Around 60% Hindus and 35% christians inhabit the place.

The place is one of the oldest churches in the country. St Francis Xaviers church has a more than 400 year old body preserved in the form of a mummy and it is taken out every year. The place has beaches- both sandy and rocky, Anjuna being the rocky treacherous beach and Calangute, Bagha, Miramar and Colva being the sandy ones. The sandy beaches have water sports like parasailing, motor boats, etc. There are shacks on the beaches with very cheap liquor and seafood. The water cruise has a lovely sunset tour where they present Goan dance and music.

A nice place for a sunny beach vacation

Marriages again

I just had a very hassled colleague come up to me and tell me" Anupama do not go for a marriage where you have a joint family" Stay with the husband only..Families are a hassle.

She was worried about the comments about dowry from her mother in law. The family rarely gave enough time to her to spend with her husband. ... hmm i thought.. the way women look so unhappy after marriage and always cribbing.. i wonder if my excitement or to be more realistic eagerness to get over with marriage is right?'

Saas bahu and marriage ...on the idiot box

Saas bahu and all have become such an integral part of my daily life in Delhi. Get back home, wind up the kitchen swallow my dinner and lock eyes with the idiot box lest I miss the saas bahu ....
Noticing the storylines of these indian soaps one day, I realized that all of them revolved around the same theme.. Indian marraiges gone wrong. . , and the number of lives affected as a result of that.. The one on Zee Tv, "chhoti bahu" talks about a guy in love with an adopted daughter of a poor family and who got married, by mistake, to the rebellious step sister of the girl. The guy cannot forget his love and the adopted daugther is a symbol of sacrifie and silent love.. phewwww. The second one talks about child marraige. The third one again talks about a struggling family whose daughter marries a blind man. The blind man breaks the marraige when he realises that the girl had a pre marital crush.. OMG!!! And then the daughter is pregnant and has nothing to eat at home ...phewwwww. Pavitra rishta on Zee tv again talks about a poorly educated girl married to a poorly educated guy and then the rishta seems to not get so pavitra and again she comes back to her mother's home... Agle janam mohe bitiya on Zee has a bihar rural setup and a thakur wanting a grandson but bahu cant give.. so he buys a low caste girl and son falls in love and so and so ,,,, and sacrifice and all

And the final fiasco is "Ichchhha" on colors..where a servants daugher falls in love with a rich man's son. But the thakur's daughter is jealous of the servants daughter so she creates ...phewwww

Is this the reality of marriage ??? Or are these exaggerations ... I wonder .. Time will tell

Food craving in winters

I am writing this post after a long long gap... work and other things led me away from writing for a long time ( included work, a lot of travel and winter hibernation of course!!). However, am back with some food for thought during winters. Just enjoyed some pakodas and kachodis with hot masala chai. My food intake during this season definitely increases... I think the body needs more calories to fight the cold... :))

a story

A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam.
He called his parents from San Francisco. "Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've got a favor to ask.
I have a friend I'd like to bring with me." "Sure," they replied, "we'd love to meet him."

"There's something you should know," the son continued, "he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting.
He stepped on a land mine and lost an arm an leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us."
"I'm sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live."
"No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us."
"Son," said the father, "you don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us.
We have our own lives to live, and we can't let something like this interfere with our lives.
I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live on his own."
At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him.

A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told.
The police believed it was suicide. The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son.
They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn't know, their son had only one arm and one leg.

The parents in this story are like many of us. We find it easy to love those who are good-looking or fun to have around,
but we don't like people who inconvenience us or make us feel uncomfortable.
We would rather stay away from people who aren't as healthy, beautiful, or smart as we are.

Thankfully, there's someone who won't treat us that way. Someone who loves us with an unconditional love that welcomes us into the forever family, regardless of how messed up we are.
Tonight, before you tuck yourself in for the night, say a little prayer
that God will give you the strength you need to accept people as they are, and to help us all be more understanding of those who are different from us!!!

Rains in Delhi

When it rains in Delhi, it pours...Last week when it finally rained, the city was in a turmoil.. A few days of rain and the capital is at the mercy of the rain gods. Gross mismanagement and life comes to a halt. This makes me wonder what happens to other smaller cities in rain when this is what happens to the capital.

On a more positive side, it helped in bringing down temperatures and the office got shut half day on two consecutive days due to incessant rains. However, we were stuck on road for hours and hours .. Roads were converted into mini black colored lakes full of gutter water...the gutters got freedom to flow ...And trees got uprooted. This also gave us a break from the usual well dressed and grommed selves. I wore an old tee and capris with chappals to work.

But there was no way to venture out. All you could do was to wait at home for the rains to stop. The place outside was a mess with mosquitoes, open gutters, puddles of water and what not. I silently prayed for the sun to come out so that our normal lives are resumed. And finally it did, after 3 days :)