mumbai visit. part 1

hey guys.....

Ya , I think I am addicted to internet and blog. Its been a part of my everyday life. Such that if I sleep without cheking my mails and some sites at night, I feel I have missed out something that day.

What to do? Aadat se majbur.

So right now, I will tell you some of my experiences of my mumbai visits this year .

This year, you can say has been one of travelling year. Though I can say that I have not travelled that much , but still what do you tell of a person who does not  go out of his city that often and all of sudden , he is let loose on his own to do things he wants to do? thats what is happening to me nowdays.. Suddenly and unexpectedly, I am travelling .

My first visit to Mumbai after so many many years was approximately in august 2009. I had last visited it when maybe I was begginning to come in my teen years. I was going to pay a visit to my cousin who was working there and was calling me .

I was having a pre impression of mumbai, that it is a noiseless city infested with careless people having attitude of " I don't care a damn" and with "bhai log". and a crowdy city and some more.

But to say that only 2 of my pre conceived notions came true. Rest may have been overlooked or ignored by me or may not have been in my luck to see.

I stayed in one of Mumbai's silent area called goregaon ,infested with malls every 10 meters. Though it was among malls, it was still silent . The first time I stayed in west area crowded with malls and other shops, second time i stayed in east area, which I was surprised to find was filled up with a semi jungle area  and some hill station type of view . wow... was i dreaming?! trees in Mumbai? But that was true.

Ok so you might be thinking that we might have been roaming around in mumbai the most of the day  and drinking  away. No, wrong. I stayed there for around a week , and to say the least we never actually traveled during the daytime. Only after noon, we did think of going out. and why? Because my too good great brothers slept up til noon while, I idled away on tv and net . what can i do? I cant sleep more after 7 am at the most. Such sleeping energy, people have got.

We traveled in mumbai's luxurious local transport system. Yes, am talking of local trains. hoards and hoards of guys come out and in of each local trains daily . it is a miracle as to how the guys there manage to have the local trains on time each day. You don't have to worry about going in or out. Just stand there facing the direction you want to go , and you will get there automatically with 50 people behind you pushing you out or in.

But it did give me fun to travel in local trains such that i actually looked forward to it every time. And it also provided me enough practice to actually get some space inside before I would come there again.I think, the local trains should be awarded some award of some type of best public transport system or something. the local trains have improved much much compared to before.

Well, we travelled to usual places there ,  that is juhu beach, gateway of India, Marine Drive , etc, and yes would the journey be complete without seeing the house of the superstar of millenium Mr Bachchan?. Just sad that didnt get to see him .

The pigeons at india gate are  a site to watch. They have formed a practice to take grains from your hands. Great. Atleast they teach people to trust each other and be innocent . Some lesson to learn.

What do people do when they have had a heavy lunch in a restaurant and then go out for a stroll at juhu beach in evening time? Of course, get wet and eat some pani puris and light weight. But here also, me and my brothers started ordering heavy cheese pizzas and other stuff. People also do have heavy capacity to eat anything , anytime.

And like i said , Mumbai is filled up with malls and malls, so off we went to the nearest mall within walking distance of our place. the Inorbit Mall. I learned recently that it is the biggest mall in India.

Well not surprised, but yes, among all the malls I have seen, this mall has been my favorite to haunt.

Go and visit this mall once if you want some more each and every time but yes with enough bucks in your pocket.

Other great place to visit is Haji Ali dargah. The place is situated right in the middle of the sea we can say. But as you enter from the crowd and noise of the city to this Dargah, you experience a quite serene peaceful atmosphere . you feel such peace inside that you would always like to stay then and there.

Like I said Mumbai is nice city to live in but only if you have enough bucks in your pocket ,otherwise the City does not care who you are even if you are some son of a influenced person also. Money is what matters the most.

Next time , i will write my experiences of the people there in my second part. see you guys soon.

bye bye

kuldip

micheallllllllllllllllll............

Hey guys

well its been almost 20 days to be sure ...
been a little busy... can't help it also these days...

I sometimes wonder how Mr amitabh bachchan in spite of his busyness keeps up his blogging. But like he says in his blog,its become a routine for him or say his love to connect with his fans around the world that he does blogging. all of his fans who surf including me regularly stay in touch with his blog. and i must say he has got a very good flair of writing . Must have picked up the trait hereditary from his great father. The seriousness, the fun and the gravity with which he writes his blog is worth looking for..... even when if he criticizes someone , its good to read it...
Will write an entire blog on him quite soon.
Coming back to the main topic of Mr Micheal Jackson we will go ahead with him....
remembered amitji because he had mentioned Micheal in his blog recently and that's why went little off the topic. here i come back again.

Micheal Jackson .... the man we grew up seeing to and listening, dancing to his songs also.....

The first time i saw him... he had came out of his plastic surgery on his face.. i thought of him as a woman and kept thinking so quite some time. And my brother and his gang of friends in their teens were so crazy about him that i would sometimes wonder why they are dancing to tunes of this woman.. Then i got to know from big bro that he is in fact a man who has done his surgery on his face. I then saw his previous face and i till today think that he would have looked good in his previous black face....then he was post surgery. Well individual opinions these are and individual likes. I even tried to dance like him in my kid days without much success but with one swollen ankle and twisted foot.....

OK so Jackson , who we grew up seeing and dancing recently left us and this world suddenly out of the blue. He indeed gave us some of the great songs of pop music. remember the songs
'DANGEROUS SSS.....ow.. , "DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH", "SHAKE YOUR BODYYYY". ouchhhh. "CAN YOU FEEL IT"! ? Cant forget the THRILLER album. The list could go on and on... the winner of 8 and more grammys .all gone now in 1 second flat.... tyre punctured of his life vehicle...
The king of pop gone up in poopsssss and whoosh.......

Undoubtedly he had many many abilities . to list a few......

Unlike many artists, Jackson did not write his songs on paper. Instead he would dictate into a sound recorder, when recording he would sing from memory. wow..... he must have faced a good memory man! and that's quite a good achievement by itself.

His dance moves, his style of dancing , his movements all of sudden from position x to position
b and then directly to z. again wow.... how he would accomplish this is a wonder to me till date.
i bet few, very few would be in this world or say rare guys who would copy him perfectly.

His voice. well we can't say that he had the best of voice but yes, he made full good use of his shrill voice in his music and knew how to implement it in right and correct way.


Too bad... now we wont get to see him anymore except in his past videos and songs.....
how he died is also a so called mystery and a obvious story to tell.
He died of taking excessive medicines or drugs.
When you become a great celebrity, it seems you have immense pressure on your head to perform up to expectations of guys and fans around you. you have tensions to act up to their standard expectation's, have to do as your 'DOC' tells you to do or eat, live like your P.R.O asks you to do,and worst of it all... maybe have fear of mafia and try to stay clear of them.......
it's said that he was a mere skeleton left in his body and all people could find in his body were medicines. sheeeee..... imagine the amount of medicines he would have been taking daily , maybe hourly. signs of pins and holes in his body all around , skinny skeleton body shape, from having millions of dollars to becoming a debtor and having huge debts , to having no one from immediate family around him at his last moment to having 2 broken marriage...... again the list could go on and on... he created this all around by himself only....

Personally, how he was , we have different versions on this.... Bachchanji says in his blog that he came across as a humble, kind, soft spoken , well mannered individual...
When he came to India some years back, we have reports that he mingled freely with his fans here, stopped his car mid-way the road to talk and chat with urchins who had lined up to catch glimpse of him.....and had relished Indian food very much....
then we have opposite versions of his having molested a teenage boy, hanging his kid out of window to fans and behaving wildly in couple of occasions....
what to believe what to not. maybe he was in his own world , his own personality.

and the fans...... what to say of them.. gathered in huge numbers outside hospital and shattered and crying over the losss... i doubt if even the few of them would cry this much for loss of their mother or father or brother. they have this mentality there, that they dont cry as much over the loss of their relatives as much as they cry over the loss of their favourite superstar. what an irony.


hey , i don't understand one thing is that why do some geniuses die prematurely? like his father in law, the famous guy of Beatles who died at 42, his own example, then some guys like Vivekananda, swami Rama tirth, guru dutt, miss Monroe..etc, etc. maybe its god ordained that as soon as they do their work on earth, they return back to heaven or whatever it is called to entertain some guys up there.

anyways..... i would only wish him to rest in peace and stay happy wherever he is.
see you guys soon....
kulls.