Machaan.....tree house for da human apes.. 

Ice cold Beer!!.......A/c for da body 

clay soaked boyz 

gangtaz' 

Success is a long haul...

Someone I know was part of the initial team at IndiaInfoline, an online share trading Co which started in 1995... A company which saw more than its shares of problems dot com boom, bust, consolidation, boom again... it finally got listed at the Sensex, NSE at Rs. 76. He has over 40000 shares since the inception offloaded 5000 last week at Rs 80 something...

 

I'm not saying this just to blow sunshine up my ass or anything but I sincerely believe that success in a long haul, overnight success is as rare as Halley's Comet... There will be unpleasant times when people will have all sorts of things and advice for you but when you hit bingo the same people will do an about turn. 

 

I hope MyZus also also get listed on the Sensex or Nasdaq someday, I've a few ESOPS :))

 

Saturday Recce

We had an office junta lunch at Delhi Darbar, the food quality has deteriorated big time... though I ate 3.5 rumali rotis, butter chicken and Pahadi Chicken Masala and Dal tAdka......total full tummy but no major taste :))

After office me and my friend Bhatta decided to check out the if the book sellers are back as I wanted to a book "Maximum City". Bad luck... all the bookwallahs from Oval Maidan upto fountain.. barring a few have been evicted, though the media and some local politicians have been little supportive but having spoke to one of the book sellers he said " Matter abhi court mein hai... Aap ko mallum Adalat mein kya chutiyagiri hota aur zindagi nikal jayegi chakkar lagate lagate" .... I hope its not true ...

There are book sellers near Stan Chart Bldg till Khadi Bhavan but they aren't keeping much stock for fear of BMC.

Had a sukha Bhel minus mirchi, Malai wala Nariyal pani after doing the recce.

Since I was a kid I've always been fascinated by the "Kuch bhi Utao Dus Rupiye Mein" stalls.... outside the churchgate subway there is one of them a zillion things from torches to yo-yo's to Chinese batteries to jumbo ball point pens ....... I bought a jumbo red fluorescent Ball point pen .. which looks like some Jedi weapon :)


Also bought a few magazines to kill time on a Sunday from A.H Wheeler at the Station. ....Magazines I bought Outlook Money, Business Today, Business World...

Sunday is another day .....A day I look forward to zzzzzzzzzzz.

Naina.....the movie

 

1 word to sum it up ... PAKAAO!!! 

 

Irani Restaurants that are functioning

Some requests and emails from junta prompted to do some wiki and googlegiri on the Irani Cafe's of Bombay...
if anyone has any feedback on the excisting ones, feel free to comment... to give an opinion is good karma :))

Irani Restaurants that are functioning

1. Cafe Mondegar (my Favorite)
2. Cafe Leopold ( 2nd Favorite)
3. Paradise Restaurant
4. Cafe Oval (when I'm short of money)
5. Britannia Restaurant
6. Cafe Ideal
7. Free India Rest. and Bakery
9. Kyani & Company
10. Bastani & Company
11. Cafe Garden
12. Byculla Pharmacy
13. Everest Rest. & Stores
16. Daryush Restaurant
17. Asian Stores
18. Messrs Cecil Restaurant
19. Mocambo Cafe & Bar
20. Cafe Dilbar Bar & Restaurant
21. Congress Bar & Restaurant

Irani restaurants that have shut down

1. Lucky Restaurant
2. Cafe Metro
3. Cafe Shahapur
4. Cafe BBC
5. Moonlight
6. Cafe Royal
7. Gulshan-E-Iran
8. Ruhani
9. Vazir Restaurant
11. Golden Star
10. Rolex
12. Toofan Mail Restaurant
13. Lucky Restaurant
14. Cafe Premiere

Badhwar Park Beach

This is the dirty beach behind my office at Mittal Tower which I see every day from my office window, it stinks big time of fishes, crabs, garbage and god knows what.... But this image made me change my mind, this is also the real Bombay.... The real smell of Bombay..
No matter where I go the smell of the Mahim Creek, Fishes at Churchgate, smell of kababs and chicken at Bade Miya, the Chinese stalls at Nariman point are so much a part of my DNA that I have a craving to come back.....
Like they say love has no smell......



Pic courtesy Kiran - http://jace.seacrow.com/pics/

Only in a Irani Hotel

Its been ages since I had some decent Brun Maska, Paani kam Chai and Pudding , used to have it on a daily basis at an Irani Hotel in Shivaji Park, Dadar.
Most of the Irani restaurant's have either sold off to Shetty's or are selling PAv Bhaji, Pizza and Chinese... I guess another metamorphism of a key element of Bombay's soul.

Office Picnic - Nagaon Beach

Do you remember "Sagar Kinare Dil Ye Pukare" from film Sagar ? That is Nagaon..approximately 7 Km from Alibag. Famous place for Clean,serene beaches,Coconuts, Mangoes and betel-nuts. 

 

Things what we did out there

• Had breaker (poha,chai)
• Swimming, rolling, covering ourselves in clay, taking diving catches, little cricket
• Ice golas too cool ourselves
• again rain dance, swimming in a tank at our resort
• Some beers n Pepsi to quench our thirst
• Lunch - smooth Chappatis, aloo sabji, moong usal (sprouts), rice, dal, salad, soul kadi
• monkeying around on Hammocks, Jhulas
• general picnic stuff antakshiri, dumcharadz, extra sounds n songs

 

We had a fcukall driver n cleaner absolute morons.

 

Resort where we stayed

Radhangan Holiday Home

Nagaon Beach Road, Nagaon, Alibaug - 402204

 

total VFM Rs 110 only each person incl breaker, lunch, tea and Macchan (Log-hut)

Fotus are yet to be developed, will post the craziest ones on on blog :))

 

some gyan  on Nagaon

http://www.globosapiens.net/travel-information/Nagaon-1634.html

 

Fed-up, Mumbai's top bookie surrenders

Fed-up, Mumbai's top bookie surrenders

Shoban KalaChowkie knew that it would be better to get himself arrested, get out on bail easily and avoid faltoo mein panga with the cops, so that he could be around when the reaction begins with India v/s Australia.
Bombay police is the biggest gang with a toli of 16000 men, D company, Rajan, Chota shakeel, Thakur, Mancherkar,Poojari gang combined are not more than 2000-3000.
Cricket Betting should be made legal and the government can earn huge revenues by way of taxes and spare the middle class of taxes.

I wanna read this ....

Would appreciate if anyone who has it can lend it to me or knows anywhere I can get a disount. My bookwallah near fountain has disappeared due to the BMC anti hawker drive...


check out what amazon has to say about the book
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375403728/002-2423435-5930459?v=glance

NatGeo on Bollywood

National Geographic Magazine Multimedia: Bollywood

Awesome foto story by William Allard on Apna Bollywood.
Check it out, takes a lil time to download but its worth the wait.

Filmy, and proud of it!!!

11 things Bombay can defnitely live without.

1. Jam packed trains
2. People shitting on da road.
3. Hijras troubling people and threatening to utao their ghagra if you don't pay.
4. Gardulla's under and over every bridge.
5. People spitting gutka and Paan.
6. Security Guards and Waiters in bars (;-) ) troubling you for tips.
7. Renaming overdose of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and his Family
8. Pampered BMC workers
9. Rude Pandu's and Govt. staff.
10. Illegal Zoppadpattis
11. Corrupt Corporators, MLA's, MP's

How do you psyche someone.......

A Mallu - reject his passport application, deny him entry in Gelf for life & stop showing Shakeela movies on Surya TV

If you have the inside dope on how to phyce your own tribe, Go ahead and add on the comments section..

p.s I think my spelling of psyhce is wrong.. its not to be Confused with the Human Psyche... Its plain big time tormenting...

What's Bombay music??

Apart the filmy music that is played everywhere in Bombay the real music of is the Nasik Dhol played by the infinite Banjo Party's on streets during Ganpati, Holi, Indian cricket matches, weddings, election campaigns etc .
Everyone will stop, look around if he knows anyone,if no one around he too might join the crowd and shake a leg or two.. marao a few whistles, unleash the wilder side or the tapori in everyone of us.

I love this music and this is one music I can get up and dance without having the feeling am I doing the right thing, coz this cool ekdum Raanti dance is all about being yourself and discovering yourself... this was later discovered by Art of Living :))

Download this really awesome Nasik Dhol music ...... Don't juss listen, unleash yourself :)
Your Download-Link:
http://rapidshare.de/files/1779883/03-Track3.mp3.html

Numerous weddings, cricket's funeral?

School Kids protesting against the Govt Decision.

All the maidans in Bombay will not be the same again if the DF Govt has its way, as such there is shortage of place to play and now this, the Government should find some other way of collecting money or else Cricket will die a slow death in Bombay's Maidans

As such all main maidans are encroached by druggies and hookers and now the Nasik Dhol and Shaadi party will add to the mess.

Azad Maidans is full of political rally's and people who are into fasting for no purpose.
Cross Maidans is for Circuses and the Melas
Only Oval Maidans & Shivaji Park has some cricket happening.
All the remaining cricket pitches on Marine Drive viz. Police, Hindu, Parsi, Islam, Grant Medical Gymkhanas are nothing but a money making racket they pay paltry sums of money to the Govt for their leases and earn crores without or with minimal investment for the betterment of the game.


Mid-day's report Numerous weddings, cricket's funeral?

Life is a gamble.......nahi kya!!

I spoke to someone yesterday who told me what a dodo I was to leave a steady job and get into stock-trading and lose money and become a laughing stock.

Well everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, I live life thoda Hatke... :))

On a serious note...
"One should always pursue your dreams if you don't, they will always come back to haunt you"

I did lose money, but trust me the thrill and excitment of day trading it next only to a Indo-Pak match in the last 5 overs. Besides I have my NCFM certification valid for 5 years and I have rented it to some broker :))
Some of the people whom I find cool are

• People who are well read.
• People who are opinionated and will stick to their stand.
• People who made money legally
• People who are good with numbers (mathematics, futures, options, lotto's, matka etc)
• People who did things to prove others wrong
• People who reply promptly (SMS,email, phone calls)
• People who have not let failures stop their conquest of life
• People who respect other people's time.
• People who have lived on the edge and ends of life and made it reasonably well.
• People who are crazy, have out of the box ideas and inventions.
• People who tell good jokes
• People who think India rocks and Bombay Lives on....

If you fit in any of these list, you are cool for me :))

Digging Bombay

There is a very popular saying in Bombay "Bombay mein do cheez kabhi bandh nahi hoti... Ra## ki Chu@@@ aur Road ki Khudai"

Indian express has documented it well and this is what it says on Mumbai Metropolitan Road Digging Authority

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=128805