Back to Mumbai!

After a cold,boring and 18 hour long train journey I was back in Mumbai again. The first Mumbai local train , first Mumbai BEST bus and weirdly the first Mumbai garbage dump we saw were greeted with cheers and whoops from me and my friends. Mumbai hasn't changed much and somehow thats comforting. Mumbai isn't the same without crowded local trains and dirty stations. Or maybe I'm just missing this city so much that I miss the stuff I used to hate when I lived here.

An ambulance which was called "Swarg Rath"(Journey to Heaven) overtook us on the way back from the station. Pessimistic and premature. Just about the two worst things you could be to someone who's battling for life.

I went out to get a frankie at my (old)usual place at Breach Candy in the evening. The frankie guy recognized me and asked me why I wasn't there so often anymore. Its good that the food that you miss the most in college actually misses you back ;).

Pot Luck...

I always get incredibly nervous the day before a math exam. Maybe because math is a subject that I always assume I’m supposed to know. Maybe because a maths exam can go horrible even if you are reasonably well prepared. And if you are reasonably unprepared theres more chance of that happening.

Living in a hostel which has common bathrooms and toilets gives you few unexpected perks. For example, if you pass bowel movements at the 1 in the morning you might actually get company. Not that you need or particularly want company when you take a shit. Maybe just hearing another person in the cubicle next to you use the pot doesn’t qualify as company. I also found a 5 rupee coin today on the floor next to the pot. It seemed somehow wrong and gross to pocket the money but I did anyway. And I felt like it was a lucky coin. I mean, how many times do you expect to find money in a bathroom? Now, I’m feeling like a lucky man. This would explain why I’m not studying or worried for tomorrow’s graphics exam. It’s funny how little things can make you feel better.

What do you call it when you’re up at two in the morning and you can’t sleep and don’t study for an exam that you have that morning at nine because you feel lucky? I want to say its courage or faith but I’m pretty sure its just stupidity.