Monday, April 19, 2010
2 Rupees
Mumbai, as in my last post, is unique in many sense. With passage of time I am discovering some of the unique things of city. Six working day at office is certainly not helping the cause.
As in last post, Poha, upma and Idli are most favored item for the breakfast but its the toast/sandwich that is available for whole day. Its quick, healthy and filling( Toast filled with vegetables). However the vendors keep few prepared for evening rush. If you are in hurry and take the ready one you are charged Rs. 12 and if you insist on the fresh piece its cost Rs. 14.
The ready piece is also warm and its not that they are serving the cold one.
As you take a prepared piece they make another ready and replace and the next one again has the option.
Whats the Rs. 2 charged for? May be trust that you don't have in vendor that its stuffed properly or its made long back but that you can find out in first byte itself as you know whats in stuffing. The vendor will not take a chance with the less stuffing as toast vendors are present at max 5 min walk
This 2 Rs. charge is something a puzzle.
Labels: Silent observation
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
First Impression of City
This city keeps surprising me. I have never seen so many variance if you travel for 5 minutes. Sometimes I love it and at others I want to flee away as soon as possible.
What will be surprising for most part of country is totally normal here. You roam around Bandstand and Pawai lake and you will find that whats going on in land of much hyped protectors of Indian culture.
First glance of the city to international visitors from flight window will be one of biggest slums and as soon as they come out of Airport they will land in The Leela. The travel on Airport road (Andheri-Kurla Road) will be crawling and Metro work can make it worse.
In morning several stalls of Poha, Upma and Idli will come up for the breakfast and this is most preferred by bachelors. Toast will be available through out the day and seems pretty much in demand. I will talk about transportation, crowd and food in details in my later blogs.
This city is totally different experience altogether.
Labels: Experience, timepass(office)
Friday, April 09, 2010
Most difficult work
Everyone say that how their work is difficult. Some crib about it and some love it. I am not going to tell you that I am doing some great job that is different and difficult nor I am going to compare different jobs on different parameter to come to conclusion. Just a thought in mind doing round since long.
With time I have come to believe that most difficult work in this world is to keep everyone happy and satisfied. No matter how hard you try, you will always find dissatisfied people. People who can find mistake and points finger. The appreciations are few and far but criticisms will be continuous.
The best way to move forward and keep doing your work after all as I said that you can't satisfy everyone. Nothing else you can do
Labels: Thoughts
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