When I first visited this place (sometime in February last year), I didn't really like it...
Crammed with people....crammed with traffic....crammed with, well, almost everything....
Roaming on the fashion street carrying three huge bags, searching for the route, finding only a McD's to have something to eat.....well, it was an uncomfy experience for sure..
I was there in Mumbai for only few hours, but my rendezvous with Mumbai didn't exactly lead to love at first sight....
My next trip was a little more than an year later, when I was to appear for my NM interview...
It was a far better trip, more of a jaunt, more so 'cuz I caught up with a dear friend of mine, and we went to experience the delights called The Taj, Marine Drive, Chaupati.....
Yes, it WAS awesome....but still, Mumbai didn't have that pull that could make me wish to be back there again.....
but.....
FATE....NMIMS.....back to Mumbai....
20th June 2009, and my mild flirtations with Mumbai became a full-on affair....
It is not that I am a very studious type of a person who doesn't get any time to move out of my cocoon, it's just that M..B..A..these three alphabets had intimidated me so much that I took some time to come to terms with the bottom line of studying in an MBA college..
Don't let this wonderful time go in vain....
it won't wait for you, it won't come again......
I have had many dates with Mumbai in the last 5 months....sometimes religious(Jai Ho Sri Siddhivinayak Maharaj Ki), sometimes romantic(ooooh the lovely Marine Drive and its eye candies), sometimes confrontational(my dear Local Train), but always unpredictable.....
Like many around me, I too wish to see some Katrina or Kareena some day, but so far, the list has gone only as far as.....Bhiku Mhatre aka Manoj Bajpai....wtf...
5 months into the relationship, and I already feel I'm unfaithful....
I miss my ex...New Delhi....the queen of my heart....and whenever I get time, I do go back and meet her....
It's not that Mumbai has some inherent shortcoming as compared to my darling Delhi..it's just that i find it impossible to commit to it...at least as of now...
There have been many things that I have really liked about this city of dreams....but that would need a separate post....
Anyways, it's a long way to go......let's hope for the best....
I'm leaving many threads loose here....but i assure you all i'll be revisiting them soon.....
Mumbai....you better give me a reason to fall in love with you..
otherwise I have better options, falling under my purview.....
Seems,u hv strengthened roots into ur so called "new cocoon".
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A nice piece though,would really look fwd to new posts:-)
thank you ridhs..the biggest achievement of my blog has already been accomplished...inspired another person, you, to start her own blog....:)
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