Something that made my day...my life..

U are a part of me baby..
I can feel u..
Its a feeling beyond words.
Its beyond love or emotions.
Its just an amazing feeling..
And I know am gonna cherish it all my life.

How just a few lines in todays world of information overload makes you realize what makes it really worth it. Neither money, nor fame. Just selfless and boundless love. What i reframe as "The Art of Giving" :)

I am reviving my blog after ages.. so thought of keeping it short n simple by immortalizing a message on virtual space.

Tagged........AGAIN!

Another one of what they call these Tag-zies! So here go another set of interesting facts about me.. :)


I am : painfully simple! If thats off-putting in ur put-up-a-pretence-that-i'm-oh-so-cool-world... buzz off! Sorry for the harsh tone but these particular feelings kinda run deep.

I think : Of all the possibilities before makin any move. Sorta like being in a perpetual chess game. Ekdum the complete opposite of my tagger Annie here.. hehe

I know : That you'll envy me when u see my completely flat navel :D Annie even said i should get a navel ring n flaunt it! But VJTI gives me limited scope for that ya knw.. maybe in California where i'm sooooooo yearning to go n study from nex yr!

I want : What i js said above.....CALI baby! The beaches and the hip cities... wow.. m not the reclusive small town watching the snowflakes types

I have : no sense of reading between the lines, n catching hints n stuff like that. I'm the quintessential WYSIWYG! n i like others to be one too.

I wish : That i was rich enugh to have a car completely to me to take anywhere i wished.. missing driving like crazy after dad took our car to goa.

I hate : cold food.

I miss : being 16 goin on 17....when literally the whole world is your oyster!

I fear : that i may never be able to sing well enugh as i picture myself in my mind having a crowd raving to my velvety voice! :D

I hear : that there's a new Rolls Royce on the block.. N an expo of big spanky multi million dollar yachts in mumbai!!

I smell : nondescript rite now. but usually of an essence of freshness.

I crave : chocolate mousse. for dat matter nethng wid chocolate in it.

I search : for Google.com and Google searches the rest :D

I wonder : How India's managed to become the 2nd most populous country in this entire freakin world with 159 other countries, some almost 10 times our size!!

I regret : That i didnt realise it earlier what a sucky feeling not doing something you really want and regretting it later is. So from now onwards..... I DONT REGRET!! yeah!

I love : Kitties!! Cant help goin "awww" in full public when i see one even tho it is too girly and off-putting to my guy friends..hehe ^_^

I ache : When my friends ignore me..

I was not : doing what u 'think' u just now saw me doin..nope..no no...wasnt me.. *big puppy dog eyes*

I am not : wired in the normal girly way..i think shopping is too frivolous and a big waste of money!! oh yes... i bet this brings on angry disbelieving glares from most gals now!! Aaaaaaaaaaah

I cry : quite often. its my usual stress buster and makes me think a lot clearly after the anger and feeling of helplessness is outta my system.

I believe : That hard work pays off... but a slight streak of luck never hurts :D

I dance : ekdum mast! N i love the supple way my body feels after i dance.. its a great way to be one with ur inner self trust me.. so js dance to the tune of "YOU"!!

I sing : Whenever and wherever.. (not the shakira song :P)

I read : normally hard-hitting tales..then be it fiction or non-fiction. The latest book that created a large impact on my mind was "ATLAS SHRUGGED" by Ayn Rand.

I don't always : Like to talk. I need my moments of silence and introspection. Or mayb i'm just bored by the way you talk..

I fight : wid my mom...its fun...like having the elder sister i dont have.

I write : Only when i have the inspiration to. Right now this tag seems js too long!! Aaaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhh

I win : mostly when my opponent goofs up! lolz

I lose : grams of weight by the day......wwwwuuuuahhhh there's no one who's been trying harder to gain weight than I have.. n as u've guessed..to no avail whatsoever!

I never : Like being unfair. Kinda a Libran to the core

I always : lovvvvvvvve to eat Maggi :D

I confuse : Movies with real life..n then cry like an idiot during them :P

I listen : To the yelling matches my neighbours have and then my mom and me have mock-fights like those for fun!

I can usually be found : Sitting in front of my computer wishing I had a laptop..

I am scared : of darkness! Classic case of Nyctophobia or wateva its called. Damn my habit since childhood of watching horror things at night!! Remember the Ramsay serials?? :D

I need : An mp3 player.....and a portable hard disk to dump lotttttsss of pics, movies and serials on it.

I am happy : When I have a great hair day! Yeah it doesnt take much to make me happy does it?? :D

I imagine: Too much patience from the reader here :D

People I tag: Anyone who's interested.. I'm a blogger newbie n' I dont have a big enugh blogger network yet

Tagged!!

This is a new blogger game my friend introduced me to.

RULE 1: People who are tagged must write their answers to the tag and change any question they like.
RULE 2: Tag 3 people and they cannot refuse to do this tag. They must write who tagged them and cannot tag that person again. Continue the game. And I hope it will be sheer fun.

1. If your lover betrayed you, what would be your reaction?
I'll be in shock and then I'll probably get high on adrenaline and bash him with a club!

2. If you have one dream which could come true, it would be?
Hey hey...i wanna be a rockstar!!

3. Who is more blessed-loving someone or being loved by someone ?
Being loved by someone whom you dont love can be quite an unpleasant and normally avoidable situation after the narcissistic pleasure derived from the fact that you have an admirer..blah!

And loving someone who doesnt love you will just break your heart. But if really really HAD to choose i'd say loving someone is more blessed coz its selfless, teaches you a lot of things in return and is generally one of the most wonderful things to ever happen to u! Try it :)

4. Can you fall in love with your best friend ?
Yes cz that one's the most complete form of love. Your best friend may not always be your lover but your lover should always always be your best friend :) get the logic?

5. How long would you wait for someone you love?
Till the verge of paranoia when ppl start watching movies in a movie theater ALONE for lack of choice!!

6. If the person you like is secretly attached, what would you do?
Secretly detach him! Not from urself, u stupidly selfless hopeless lover! From the one he's currently attached to! (can u see the horns rising from my head??)

7. If you could root for one social cause, what would it be?
Global warming! Its very much social as it is environmental as you may debate.. Coz we need to understand its deep impacts..together..as a society.

8. What according to you is blogger in denial?
One who posts once in a year but calls himself a blogger!! Even a "blogga" to be "self-acclaimed" cool.

9. What’s your fear ?
That there are ghosts hidden behind my doors when i switch off all the lights at night.

10. What colour are your socks now?
Brown........ They were white when i bought them.

11. What are you listening to now?
I hope you dance- Leann Womack! The very essence of what me,Mona is all about.

12. What takes you down fastest?
I'll tell you what I WISH would take me down fastest.....my elevator!!! such a crawler!

13. Which one do you prefer - ice-cream or chocolate?
Marry the two and serve me with a waffle :)

14. What would you do with a billion dollars?
Give it to Obama to bail the US out! Of course after making a pact for me to be vice-president :D

15. What was the last thing you ate?
Some of my nailpolish.. lol...not directly yaar!

16. How old are you today?
One day younger than what I'd be tmw! So ask me then..

17. How do you vent out your anger?
By taking exquisite pleasure in banging stuff here and there and screaming!

18. Favourite toy as a child?
Wasnt much of an indoor kid..kept TOYING with the idea of playing with racquets and basketballs.

18. Favourite season?
Obviously monsoon... but only cz here in india it lasts for js some time and makes way for a blatant summer and a "winter ke naam pe" another summer.. The adverse times are the ones that make the good times sweeter!

19. When was the last time you cried?
I'm so happy to say that I honestly dont remember! Must be Enthusia, VJTI 09 when i lost a match.

20. Who is the friend you have had the longest?
Tushar. He's a friend for life..

21. What did you do last night?
Never ending final year project work! N went to sleep cuddled with a great novel that sadly ended.."Twilight".. n couldnt sleep in anticipation of when would i get my hands on its sequels!! :D

22. Favorite day of the week?
Saturday! The only day in the week when you can wake up in the morning happily thinking its a holiday, party hard being awake into the wee hours of the night and can also sleep after that happily thinking the next day is also a holiday!!!!

23. Diamond or pearl?
Pearls only looked good on Princess Diana. Diamonds for me please..n not cz the commercials say they're a girl's best friend n stuff.. they js seem to capture all the light of the universe in them!

24.Would you be single & rich or married & poor ?
Option C.

25.What is the first thing you do when you wake up?
Admire my 'outta bed look' in the mirror :D

26.If you fall in love with two people simultaneously, whom would you pick?
The one who can make me laugh harder.

27.Would you give all in a relationship ?
Yes.. Arent we all js waiting for the right person in order to do that?

28.What’s eating you now ?
My mom.. to make me eat dinner! How oxymoronic! hehe

29.Do you prefer being single or in a relationship?
Being in a relationship where you dont miss out on the important fun stuff you owned when you were single!

30. Your opinion of 3 bloggers who you are going to tag and the one who tagged you.
Karan tagged me. He's one of my best friends!

I tag the following peeps:
Zai, Anupam and Sumedh.

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P.S: anyone who likes these questions is welcome to answer them. do leave me a link, so ill check out ur answers. hava great day.

The Train Ride Saga continues...

So finally we step into the cabin. Its a unique experience to see the railway tracks that we see everyday but now from the point of view of someone who's gonna manouver on them. Joe uncle is very kind and keeps up a continuous monologue describing all the little useful things that make up the cabin. Its fascinating to see the multitude of controls and signals that aid the motorman.

And that is when my misconception about driving a train broke once and for all! I used to think that like any other vehicle, one actually has to steer the train on the rails.........n now thats some job!! Taking care of the shifting tracks and all.. But thats not how it works. The motorman simply has two sets of brakes at his hands- air brakes and pneumatic electrically controlled brakes. And speed is the only thing that he has to control while moving between stations. Well sounds simple enough eh? Thats what I thought too.... but having to keep drifting your eyes between the host of signals and alerts built in the cabin, its quite a herculean task!

The train that karan had travelled in earlier had just one chair for the motorman and he'd had to stand. But this cabin, we were surprised to see, had two chairs and so we could comfortably sit and enjoy the view! (apart from Joe who had to worry about driving the train, for us it was quite a fun ride!) Joe kept filling us in about the three types of signals near every station that indicate the position of the preceding train in front, so as to adjust the speed accordingly. Joe was giving some sort of a directly proportional formula.. "yellow double signal..toh 35 ka speed. nahitoh we can go beyond 50" etc etc. And as many of you must've been sharing my doubt about "How do the specific train bogies like First Class always halt exactly near the stripes where its supposed to?? Driver ko kaise dikhta hai??"........Well the train comfortably halts at a position marked as EMU HALT. N thats the only thing the motorman has to worry about. (y am i giving you the impression that driving a train is no big deal :D hee hee) no offence to the skilled motormen haan.... they have to train for years to drive the "esteemed" Mumbai local! (esteemed eh?)

I also learnt about an "intelligent" auxiliary agent built in the cabin to take charge of the train in case of emergencies..which include the motorman sleeping off!!! Damn convenient na.. Then Joe told us how the control room at VT centrally keeps track of all trains and controls the track positioning and everything. All of this was amazing amazing info.. kinda felt bombarded at the time honestly :D but gaining info was nevertheless a part of our supposed "official college project" remember?

Then just after a few stations, we wistfully got off at Matunga cz we had to attend college. Otherwise Joe was willing to take us all the way till Kalyan! I never wished for this ride to end.. It was just something that i myself wouldn't have imagined me doing some months back!

Would just like to add...Karan.. thanx yaar! Adios

One of the most improbable things you get to do!!

Here come one of my instances after a long time here :D

One of my best friends Karan is a member of the renowned Indian Railways Fan Club of America; better known as IRFCA of course. Somehow I wasn't quite aware of it when he described it at first but later I was amazed at the close-knit network of its fan members spread all across the country.

Now these IRFCA guys keep having interesting conventions and stuff and hang out and basically do everything related to their beloved topic...trains! And one day Karan tells me he and another fellow fan talked to a Mumbai Local Motorman ( read train driver for laymen :P ) and got a chance to actually ride with him in the motorman's cabin!!!! Now this is something! N not stopping at that.. Karan's friend had met the motorman uncle once again and he actually had a chance to work the controls! n not js watch :D

While I was going bonkers with jealousy, there came a surprise call from karan... "Hey mona, remember my ride in the motorman's cabin? Wanna do that??? I talked to him.......n he's willing to take us on!". YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS! was my reply without a second's hesitation. I was supposed to meet Karan at CST Station at around 2 pm and our friendly motorman uncle was gonna take us aboard on the 2:34 Kalyan bound slow local. Now the only hitch was uncle warned us that women are not normally allowed inside the cabin! ( How chauvinistic, I thought ) But he'll make an exception considering we were such sincere engineering students engaged in an active project involving the SIGNALING MECHANISM IN TRAINS. Oh well... that was our alibi to substantiate our sudden interest towards train driving; complete with a permission letter on the most-easily-reproducible "official" VJTI Letterhead with our "project-guide's" signature underneath!!!



So, I reach CST, haunted somewhere by flashes of images of the very same place ravaged by the gruesome events of 26/11, but nevertheless undauntedly excited bout this extra-ordinary ride. After waiting outside the officers' cabin for a while, inside which were a horde of people working on a host of controls and displays that centrally governs our entire central railway system, Karan pointed out to the motorman uncle (Lets call him Joe) who amicably led us to the 2:34 train that he'd be driving. While passing the compartments, which normally never earn a careful glance from hurrying commuters like us, Joe explained to us that, there are three types of dabbas comprising the train:

1. the 76 ones: comprising the motorman's cabin
2. the 70 ones: carrying the driving motors of the train and
3. the 72 ones: extra compartments having only seats.
These 3 dabbas make up ONE unit and THREE/FOUR such units make up the whole 9/12 coach train; which therefore, in technical terms, is called an EMU (Electrical MULTIPLE Unit)! Now thats info for u, right? :)

Thus,I found myself beginning to learn tonnes about a field of info completely new to me and it was fun! After walking the length of the train, we reached the front cabin. Joe rolled up the destination indicator to Kalyan and then we entered into the small cabin for one of the rarest rides I'd ever be on!

What happened once the train started??........to be continued.. Keep dropping in..

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Something from my retrospective n' poetic diaries...

HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED….?

Like every other day we wake up gray
Cursing the alarm for ringing so shrill
Then drag outta bed and get on with the day
Of boring routine and a mechanical drill.

Surprises are few, happy ones close to perish
The whistle goes off to an endless race
What do we stand by? What do we cherish?
When the person who’s your friend becomes just another face..

And then suddenly when ourselves lonely we find
Drenched, shivering in the rain with the tea gone cold..
When you conclude that nothing can ever be kind
Have you ever noticed the world that you sold?

Beautiful things, have you ever noticed
Are not merely what you can keep and hold
The wonders that lie deep, you should notice
Are not always polished, they don’t always glow.

The most beautiful things in life are veiled
Beneath the wings of the feeding mother
Who soars far and high from field to field..
To provide her child with all of her gather.

The majestic sunrays piercing the dark night
Announcing the dawn of a new day
Is a gift in its own, when we absorb it all in sight
A promising new beginning expunging the gray.

The words of a friend, his contagious laughter
The sweet tears shared when he’s in pain
Feeling there’s nothing else worth running after
Such beautiful things know of joy as well as the tortuous lane.

The raindrops lined on the edges of the leaves
Glowing like diamonds and defining beauty
The rainbow so perfect, the admiring heart heaves..
And then we drench in relief of sheer purity.

The smile of a student, when you’re the teacher
A baby curling his tiny fingers around a single one of yours
Have you ever noticed how the world hates a preacher..
Yet I say anyway, doing good and helping needs no cause.

So learn to notice the small things around thee,
Imbibe it, grow to love and learn to be free..
On the most beautiful thing you may not agree..
But the most beautiful thing is all you can really be.