Hmmmm…so sits been a long time, sinces I updated my blog..two months in Mumbai and just one post, not fair!! So, less than two weeks left now…things must have definitely changed or let me say, improved, since I last wrote about Mumbai.
I am sure many people must be happy to see the word ‘improve’ above…yah, I don’t dislike Mumbai as I used to do in the starting….and now the three of us have even started liking our PG, specially now when we have the whole place to ourselves, as the land lady isn’t there..cool, isn’t it!! But once you have to stay its not even that cool..specially when you have thousands of ants all around, but I must say the ants of Mumbai are highly skilled!! Can you imagine ants coming out of a close packet of maggi, inside the lappy or worse still from inside your cell..yes, the ants out here, have made one of my friends cellphone their home :)
So, now I have a number of observations about the people, city which might be useful, for people who decide to visit it in future…First and foremost, the sense of distance of the people out here is really weird..no offence please!! But if you are new to the city you will definitely agree to me. Just ask someone “How far is this place??”, if he/she says its just next by, say a two minute walk…I can assure you its not less than a 15 mins walk…like one day a place two buildings away turned out to be a 20 mins walk..its not happened once, but several times, rather always…
Oh!! And Mumbai is so damn crowded…u go to any restaurant, any place on any day of the week..and its always crowded…the city has soo many people. Actually, that’s not strange, the city is called the city of money after all…if you are one of those who hasn’t been witness to it, (though I seriously doubt that) don’t worry I have loads of snaps of that too..
Hmm..now what!! The office, of course. Hey office is a cool place, have made cool friends with the co-interns…the work is good and I must say primary research is a great learning experience, provided you get the contacts. Getting that is perhaps the most difficult!! And working in itself is quite different, though college life has its own fun!! Am sure, all the working people out there must be missing their college life!!
Oh!! How can I forget to write that…my sim card connection actually has very poor services..can u imagine, someone says, ‘your sim will be activated (pre paid) only when you give me a Mumbai address proof’…now when you have come to Mumbai for only two months from where do you get that, but isn’t that weird..atleast I had heard this for the first time, nyways now I have stopped bothering about that…so would just say Airtel rocks!! Because using that on roaming is cheaper for me, compared to the new sim I had bought!!
Since then I have seen quite a few more places, but the other day when I was talking to someone, I realised I have hardly seen anything..because all the places that person named, I hadn’t visited, some I hadn’t even heard of..so lets see how many more I cover in the remaining time, which I seriously doubt as there’s gonna be loadssss of work..but I must say Marine Drive is the best!!
Hmmm towards the end, I would say Mumbai is not that bad..but I still don’t love the place either :) but the experience has improved from the start…though anytime I would say Lucknow or even Delhi are much better…Guess I don’t have much to write now, so would just end hoping these last two weeks pass even better
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