25!

I have completed 25 years on this earth yesterday (nothing great to mention as such!). A real huge period! Time to celebrate my silver jubilee in this world :D. But on the serious notes... I feel it’s a kind of a milestone in my life. I feel from a girl I have become a woman now. When I look back how I was before some years, I can see a huge difference in the prachi then and prachi now! Nothing like I have achieved something very great. But I have changed.. My priorities have changed.

Below is the list of the things which are making me think that I am getting matured (a decent way of saying growing old... Don’t know what expression to put... a *sigh* or just a :D)

• When I work I can not forget about my personal problems, and when I am at home, I can’t stop thinking about my work problems.
• I really think collage going young ones should plan for their future well in advance.
• I have realised work experience is very much important. And our work is done more smoothly when we have experienced people with us.
• I find mother’s day more important to celebrate than a friendship day. Of course friends will always be friends, even though you celebrate the friendship day or not!!!
• I have realised my parents are doing much more for me than I deserve.
• I have realised lots of other people around me including my ahem Mr. Special.. are also doing much more for me than I deserve.
• Rather than listing to the music loudly, I like to keep the volume low. (okay.. Anyways I was never a fan of high watts of music system n the loud music as such.. but still now a days the music I listen to is as good as in mute volume).
• I love to listen to the old songs. Sometimes I also say.. today’s music.. ohhh..
• I feel the music albums today are shitty. (okay.. not all but some of them are).
• Poetries... yes.. I can read poetries now.. earlier I never used to understand a single line.
• I have started exercises.. (Confused? But earlier I used to hate doing all this, n used to feel I will be perfectly fit without it!)
• With reference to the above point, I have started going for a morning walk. Because I really feel that it’s the best exercise and I should start exercising now before I get some incurable decease.
• I think should drink atleast 2 litres of water in a day to keep my self healthy. (I mean in short I should say I have become health conscious!)
• When I go out with any of my friends in hotel after many days, I keep on saying.. I will pay the bill... n I really do. When the friend gives the half the amount, I say, leave it.. you pay next time!
• I can eat alone at the chat counter if I am hungry (I have not yet gone alone in any of the hotels thought. May be I will do that in my 30s :D).
• I don’t wait for my all the friends to see a movie. I just go n watch it whenever I feel like. With some company of course.
• I don’t watch all the movies!
• I don’t watch all the Yashraj movies only because Shahrukh Khan is there!
• And even though I happen to watch the movie of srk, n I don’t like it, then I don’t pretend that I liked it very much!
• I like a car more than a bike.
• I don’t like modified funky bikes.
• I think majority of (n not all, okay) MBAs are over smart than just smart.
• I think I don’t have any right to interfere in anyone’s life.
• I think I have given more than required rights to some of the people around me to interfere in my life.
• I don’t pay money to each and every beggar who comes across.
• I keep on looking for the tax saving options :D.
• I buy comfortable foot ware than sexy looking high hilled one.
• I have realised that the company hires the useless and non-cooperative people for its HR department. And these people are there to make employees feel that they are paid much more than they deserve.
• I have accepted the fact that everyone around you is not a good person. You have to fight a battle to make them behave well with you.
• I have realised, life doesn’t hand you a trophy, you got to get it yourself!!! (Not my sentence but feelings are mine ofcourse! Just read somewhere some days back.)

There are many more to add on I guess.. but I thing I should save some for my 30s right?

Note: I have not done proofreading of the above post. So if any typos... please bear with me!

Some drawings from me!

I have a hobby of drawing some drawings in my free time. I know this is not an art as such because I am just drawing them and all are NOT my original-imaginative-creation, but still... just thought to include them on my little something because all these have got some special meanings for me and they are part of me... my life!




A sad lady...
I saw this picture on some greeting card. Originally in the greeting the lady was in pink. But then I thought to make her grey by using pencil shading. Pink is certainly not a colour of sadness, no?




The ship...
Just saw this on the internet while browsing something. Freedom... the word came in my mind. Or should I say Escape???




Some childhood memories...
Now this is not copied from anywhere. But have some special memories for this. I used to draw this from my childhood. Don’t even remember since when. If you see it carefully, the lines are very dark and the pencil (-ink? I don’t know what we call the black part of the pencil :...) is sprayed at the outside of all images. May be not looking that great in the photograph, but looks very beautiful on the paper!




Ahhh... this is something original...
Yup, this one in from my own imagination! Should not comment on this but still, I personally think this is beautiful. Again an old picture which I drew many years back in my computer classes :D. Now you know why I am in the software industry ;)!

That’s it for now!!! You will have some more very soon! Even though you don't want :D

A good (???) morning...

Recently, I read in the paper about the arrogance of autowalas n how they trouble all Mumbaikars! Not only autowalas, but everyone related to the public transport is arrogant I think. I remembered the following incidence which happened some days back.

What a bad start it was!

Usually everyday in the morning I catch the office bus 8.30 AM. That day I was a little late so I missed my regular bus (which happens many a times *oops*). Then, I was waiting for the next bus.. I saw it coming and waived my both the hands thinking that bus driver should not pass without halting.. But.. *sigh*.. he pretended that he did not see me.. (or I think I have reduced so much that he actually did not see me.. Here, I can see my friends saying, “no no.. he just ignored u!”)

I had to reach to the office before 9:30 at any cost because of some urgent work! So I went to Mulund Check naka (East) to take an auto. And guess what all the autowalas refused to take me to the Vikroli (the place where I work)!!! *surprised-annoyed-sad* W H Y??? Why the hell I am not fitting in to the criteria of the autowala? Lots of other people were getting the auto and I was the only one who was refused to take where I want!!! :(

I went to the traffic police for help and thanks(?) to him for making me understand that why I was refused! He said “Aho madam tumhala tar vikroli la ch jaychay na, andheri vagaire sanga mhanje lagech yetil te. Tyana laambchi bhadi havi astat!!!” (Translation: “You want to go to the Vikroli, if you tell them Andheri n all, they will come immediately. They want long-distance customers!!!” **). I was so irritated n my immediate reaction was “Mag tumhi kay kartay?” (Translation: “Then what the hell are you doing here?”). The traffic police got very angry, n started saying that this is not my duty n all, I am not here to provide you autos n blah blah! (I still seriously think that then what he was doing over there???, I mean i know he was there to manage the traffic but I think autowalas are also under them, no? What say?) Anyways, I came to know that there is no point in arguing with this guy n I have to help myself to reach to the office in time. I straight away got in to one of the autos and told autowala to take me to my destination or to the Police station!!! I can not believe that I actually did this. But then I had no option. Angry autowala is anytime better than an angry boss! And finally I reached to the office!

** Note: Distance from above mention Mulund check naka to Andheri is far than to Vikroli. But, it is also quite far. It charged me 95 bucks to reach my destination! Is Rs. 95 a small amount??? May be for autowala, but not for me *a-deep-sigh*

Lots of people must be experiencing similar incidents like this everyday. What is the use of this public transport then? I mean why such a things happen in India? I have been to Paris-France some months back... My first international trip, all alone, without knowing the place, without knowing the language. After getting out of the airport, I just showed the map to the taxi driver (he was not knowing anything apart from ‘YES’ in English!), and he dropped me I exactly where I wanted to go, without taking me anywhere else, n the taxi fare was also exact what I was told it will be! If this would have been the case in India... then you can imagine how taxi driver would have fooled the person. The traffic police, who is there to help the travelers (atleast I think so), when he refuses to help you, whom should we go? In a city like Mumbai, people travel so much to reach everywhere in time, especially at their workplace, but then if we have such a bad transport system and people around then how should we manage?