Ramblings

Three months in Bombay, and I feel quite settled. Sure, I miss a lot about Pune ' from the breezy evenings to riding my bike, but Bombay's not bad. Though I haven't really hung out a lot with my new friends here, because I meet my friends from Pune almost every weekend when I'm not working; I'm liking the life here. I guess that's more because I'm loving the work and the place where I work.

Office has a lot of specimens, each unique in their own way. While my art partner's a foodie by birth and right, it's funny watching her trying to stick to her various diets ' fruit/detox/no carb/low carb and a million others. And another copywriter trying to break her will to the best of his ability the scene's actually funnier than I can explain in words. Thankfully, most of our seniors are nice, helpful and often ridiculously funny. Sometimes by meaning to be funny and other times, just by nature. Like the other day, when we were trying to have a serious conversation with our creative director while he was trying to clip his ear lobe with A-clips. Hmn, yeah; they're funny like that.

Then there are the pretty things flying around. Svelte nice looking women who besides taking the train and other forms of Bombay's exciting public transport don't have a single hair out of place. In unfortunate times, when I am with stuck with one of them waiting for a vacant loo, I cannot help but think that my hair must be suggesting I'm related to Jimi Hendrix ' genetically of course. 

There are things I miss about Pune too. The evening weather, for instance. And my interaction with children. Not just the Prayatna kids, but other too; you know, I mean generally. I miss picking up children; playing knee rides and singing to them (counter productively scaring them). 

But there are a lot of good things too. I've caught up on my reading, thanks to the bus rides. And walking along the beach, though technically, you can't walk a lot near the water here. Just on the concrete pavements, which works just as well for me too. This week, two of my closest friends leave for what these comp geeks call "onsite" travel. One goes west, to the UK; and the other to the far-east, to a small town called Fukushima in Japan. Of course, we couldn't get more dramatic. With these two leaving, and the monsoons coming in to do what they do best, I'm guessing my Pune visits will become less frequent and I'll get more time to go out with my new found Bombay buddies (Ouch, that sounds disturbing). But anyway.