Though there is no connection between the photo and the blog...just a picture of the Ganesh Idol at HOME...
I’m back from the week long holiday in Mumbai (already!!) and entered back into mundane office days….Get up...get ready (people who know me get irritated on the time I spend on this especially my sister)...go to office…come back home….have dinner…and sleep to glory. So now you know why I don’t have a blog coz guess all the posts could look identical. I think I’m going tangential again but what I want to say is I have again stepped back into the Hyderabad Blues.
Oh no!! I think I gave a pretty boring picture of myself…..It’s not the same everyday guys I do go for the occasional movie or the occasional dinner or the very occasional dance and I just hope the superlative “very” remains and I don’t have to look out for a even superlative option. I even have fun at work with 2-3 cups of hot chocolate that I drink everyday thanks to the vending machine options.
The last time I shopped in Hyderabad I had loved a pair of shoes that they didn’t have in my size and a t-shirt that said “for men” but I picked up both anyways. Did you know in Hyderabad the rickshaw drivers think they are controllers of our destiny and can dictate a sum of money so outrageous that if I had collected all that in the 2 years that I have been here I could have bought myself a car. See I told you it’s not all that bad!!
There are good days and bad days and in Hyderabad there are BLUE days…Beware of Latenights U will be Eveteased. I have lived for nearly 25 years in Mumbai but the blue days I have faced here are unbeatable. The opportunity of being so useful to MANkind was never felt by me before.
I’m thoroughly enlightened to pen a song so with apologies to Julie Andrews as I take inspiration from Sound of Music’s “These are a few of my favourite things”
Hot chocolate in office and shoes that don’t fit
Rickshaws that loot and movies that suck
Blue days in Hyderabad that choke me to tears
These are a few of my favorite things
Oh no!! I think I gave a pretty boring picture of myself…..It’s not the same everyday guys I do go for the occasional movie or the occasional dinner or the very occasional dance and I just hope the superlative “very” remains and I don’t have to look out for a even superlative option. I even have fun at work with 2-3 cups of hot chocolate that I drink everyday thanks to the vending machine options.
The last time I shopped in Hyderabad I had loved a pair of shoes that they didn’t have in my size and a t-shirt that said “for men” but I picked up both anyways. Did you know in Hyderabad the rickshaw drivers think they are controllers of our destiny and can dictate a sum of money so outrageous that if I had collected all that in the 2 years that I have been here I could have bought myself a car. See I told you it’s not all that bad!!
There are good days and bad days and in Hyderabad there are BLUE days…Beware of Latenights U will be Eveteased. I have lived for nearly 25 years in Mumbai but the blue days I have faced here are unbeatable. The opportunity of being so useful to MANkind was never felt by me before.
I’m thoroughly enlightened to pen a song so with apologies to Julie Andrews as I take inspiration from Sound of Music’s “These are a few of my favourite things”
Hot chocolate in office and shoes that don’t fit
Rickshaws that loot and movies that suck
Blue days in Hyderabad that choke me to tears
These are a few of my favorite things
5 comments:
it sgood to see thee is still the HYDERABAD BLUES. GREAT job mam.
Is it so BLUE ?
I thought it became white when we all left the city.. :)
Nice thoughts..nice blog..!
thanx Abhay...haa you give yourself too much credit..there are other people who get in the BLUES...
This post makes me wonder if reality leads to perceptions or perceptions end up being reality. This question is complicated enough to suggest to one that there indeed is a possibility that there are no right answers in this "perception v. reality" debate.
Whatever the answer be, the only thing that I am certain about at this point of time is that perception is subjective and more importantly "personal". I know it because I felt it. When I read this post, instinct compelled me to defend my hometown, but rest assured I won't! Because, I very well understand that people have a different set experiences and formulate their opinions based on such series of events (which according to me is fair enough).
More significantly, what intrigued me was the idea that, though at face value it appears that our perceptions sit on the opposite sides of the table, they actually don't. There is a common thread that runs across that almost gets lost in the details. Its important to note that opinions are not only personal but also "relative" in the sense that the world view changes as you have better or worse experiences. As I see it, your Hyderabad experience is relative to your Mumbai experience. On a similar note my Hyderabad experience is in many ways relative to the way Bangalore currently treats me.
In a nutshell I am of the view that perceptions are never final, they change with the events in life. Simplistically put, life being a chain of events ensures that every stage is perceived relative to the events in the past and the events that occur in the future. The reality never changes, only the perception of the reality does. :)
PS: Interesting read. I especially like the abbreviation for "B.L.U.E"
"I have not read the post for which I'm currently writing the comment...but then again I have not seen the commercial so cant comment, can I?
I'm just replying...
I'm not here to argue or as you put it debate the perception Vs reality thesis neither do I totally agree about the relativity theory..what I do want to say is - didnt you actually make the point that you wanted in that comment.
And you did this by justifying your comment and hence actually in the process got your point through!!!
Ahh!!! I assume I would have felt the same way if it was Mumbai.
I have only one learning from all this, I thought my blog would be read by people in the same frame of mind as I am (by which I mean all non-hyderabadis) I guess I was wrong!!!"
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I am not sure if i interpreted your comment correctly, but if I did read it right, then I have to disagree. :)
The only point I was making in the comment was that the world view of a person changes with time as they experience new things. The scope of the comment was qualified, as I was building the argument. But, I don't think i was trying to "justify" my comment in anyway through its content.
thoughts? questions? threats? :D
PS: btw.. you can reply to ur own post. I get emailed if u reply.
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