Ganpati Bappa Moriya

Mumbai has again gone into festive mood, after the dahi handi(krishna Janma ashtami) ,its time for the festival of most beloved god of mumbai ganesh .In mumbai i like this festival a lot along with navratris.The most famous ganpati in mumbai is Lalbaug Cha Raja .

When i was studying in NCST ,juhu.I had a chance to go to the main wisarjan ghat girigaum chaupatii ,it was sheer madness huge crowd was there there was lot of enthusiasm .Then for two years in vashi my place was near to the lake where they did the wisarjan,so we would go and stand and watch till it was over.Beautiful marathi women, children dressed in their traditional attire would be sitting in open truck and giving out prasad. I am not sure if i will be going any place this time round but if i go I will surely post pictures.

Some facts about Ganpati Festival:

Presiding diety:Ganesh (Son of lord Shiva and Godded Parvati)
Duration:The worship is 10 days Bhadrapad Shudh Chaturthi to the Ananta Chaturdashi,the immersion is on 11th day.
Prasad: Modak

Happy Friendship Day

Yesterday was friendship day and I didnt remembered it ,well i know most of you would be saying that i anyways dont remember any day. Well i admit i that ,I have made big blunders on remembering dates and even more associating days to it .But the surprise that three of my friend remembered it and i got sms from each of them,will be replying to them sometime tomorrow(I know but its already very late,they will curse me if i do it now).

First was from my old roommate Subodh whose message was exactly what i will be sending .

“Happy Friendship day “

Second one was from Vikas My ex-colleague and exactly the type of message you expect from a guy like him.

“Achhe Dost ki teen nishaniyan

1) kamine kabhi phone nahin karte

2)Zaleel has – has ke sms padhtein hai

3)Kitni bhii be-izzati ho jaaye besharam message puraa padhtein hain :-p

The best part is that we both share the same quality which proves we are friends

Happy Friendship day”

Third was from nikhil a sweet sms at twelve midnight

“Happy friendship day ,I hope i am the last one to wish u “

Well i would also like to wish every friend of mine

“Happy friendship day”

The Type of girl I am looking for

When are you getting married? Many people have been asking me this question for sometime but in last few weeks, unlike earlier, this question makes me think a little. Alas! I realise that this is not so far away . So I really tell the truth that now I am ready but I have not found the girl yet. Well that settles the question normally at that time but it leaves me thinking what exactly I am looking for .

Last time when I had gone home I met a distant relative and she asked What type of girl you are looking just tell me .You want working, non working, whatever you say. I really started believing that this lady is a real wizard and I just I have to give my demand and she would just assemble what exactly I wanted. What a great thing it would have been but I think real life does not work that way. But still lets jot down the points that I am looking for may be I really get someone and then I would not waste time on thinking .

1.Appearance:

The most important factor ,I have seen many liberal persons saying they don’t look for outward beauty. But you would rather find out that these persons usually either marry the most beautiful girl or have very beautiful wives. So the choice naturally should have be a very beautiful girl but I know the problem is that I have seen what happens when you have a have a very beautiful girlfriend. The first thing that you are going to hear “Langur ke muh ke mein angoor”. And type of extreme nature I posses ,I would be reduced to a situation best defined from the song “Pichhle saat dinon mein”.

“Kabhi kudh pe hasha main aur kabhi kudh pe roya”

And yes we have to factor in my appearance so we will settle for a good looking girl. Secondly the skin color .There is an obsession among us Indian men for the “gori chitti larki”, I believe I don’t mind that thing a lot .If I have a choice I would like to have a girl with big eyes .The reason for this is that my eyes are really small and I would like my children to have a chance to big eyes. What else I don’t have much of a choice on this factor.

2.Intellect:

The jury is out I don’t think anyone is really interested in marrying a highly intellectual girl if given a choice .They would rather marry a dumb person. As for me I don’t want a dumb person but certainly don’t want someone who is going to debate with me on every point and make my life hell. You all would have by now start detesting me but I would tell you not to make an opinion until you read out my experience.

Well one of my friend was exactly of this quality that is an intellect and she knew so many things and she always had an opinion about just everything. I think I went to some shop with her either I had to buy shampoo or bread I don’t clearly remember. So I went in the shop I picked up what was nearest and as soon as I picked it up she gave me a lecture on what was wrong with that thing .So I did what came naturally to me .I kept it back. And as soon as I did that she gave me a lecture for next 10 minutes on what was good in that. So what did I do ,again what came naturally to me, I shouted at her and asked her to decide weather to take it or not. And what came next any guesses well she shouted back another lecture why short temper is not good for health. By that time a crowd had gathered and I didn’t wanted to preached in public by a girl so I picked the next in line paid my bill without even listening to what she was saying.

So for me a person with right amount of brains would be good enough.

3.Working or Non Working:

Working not much of a choice over there .Though most of my cousins prefer the other way round .But I feel that any individual should be independent enough to make decisions right for them.

4 Nature:

I am confused on this one never ever gave a deep thought on this, though I have interacted with a myriad type of personalities.

Recently we were having the bachelor’s party for ex manager ,he told us about the why he wanted a livein relation. I was really impressed by the reason he gave and now I am also thinking in that direction . Though I know it is going to be difficult ,first I don’t feel I will get a girl ,secondly my family would disown me . But yet lets hope for the best, I have started preparation from my side I am going to run this years marathon and would start training shortly. No I am not looking to find a girl over there instead it will help me pull back my weight by 4-5 kg .

So now you know what I am looking for if you find someone do tell me.

My Teachers and Me

Yesterday I met an old friend who has become a teacher and it kicked in memories of my Teachers and Teacher’s day.In India September 5th is celebrated as the teacher’s day.Thinking of it makes me nostalgic ,still I can envision those days of childhood and it sends me in a state of bliss.It was so good .I can still remember those days,All day it was so refreshing .On teacher’s day we mostly had a holiday and thus was saved from seeing my teachers,those morons. Me and my teachers shared a love and hate relationships, mostly hate. I loved it when they did not came ,were sick and would have celebrated if they died in an accident.Alas never got that pleasure.They it seems got real pleasure when I made some mistake and they had a chance to punish me.Well there were few good things which saved it from getting disastrous. My school had a no capital punishment policy ,my sisters helped with or did my homework and I was able to pass my exams rather easily(maybe they were so fed up with me that they did not wanted me in their classes for another year) .

When I was young I had a violent nature .Once one of my home tutors picked up a notebook and hit me ,I believed in newton’s theory and added a bit to it and threw a book on him.After that there was commotion, my mom came in and sent both of us away.She tried a lot to make me apologize but I believed that he had asked for it so no question of apologizing .So end result ,Mom fired the tutor and told me she will never keep a tutor for me ever after. Well bad luck ! only if I had known ,I would have done it earlier.

There is an interesting incident ,most of us would have faced .A teacher correcting your homework with you standing there and she says you have written this spelling wrong.Fine till now, she has got good eyes. And then she will say and again its wrong ,this time shouting. Can you imagine my thoughts ,’Moron ,if i had known the correct spelling ,have you bitten me that I would write it wrong in first place’. There would be many such incidents like they give you such un-innovative punishment like write it down hundred times that ‘I will not do it again’.As hell I wont, but yes I wont be caught.What good such a punishment will do all the words in that sentence are easy.I

Its not that I hate all Teachers ,I really like the Teachers wine .And also I like the hotties from my engineering days ,my college recruited college pass outs (dot com burst had left them with no other option).One of them the mechanical engineer lecturer was so hot that we started calling her thermo mam .One of them who taught us in third year was real bomb and guess what she always had complete attendance .She was always wearing designer dresses and throughout her class we were doing nothing but ogling her and she knew and it seems she was ok with it.She left soon to join another college and there she was made warden of boys hostel,lucky fellows. I love such teachers.