this is my second monsoon in mumbai after a long break of five years.....feeling nostalgic this yr....didnt feel like this last yr...maybe last yr i was excited jus to be at home after a long long time...but this yr i seem to have settled down here at home...things have quietened down a bit i think...and as i see the rains sometimes drizzling sometimes cats and dogs i sit and reminisce how monsoon has been the most happening season of the yr....there are so many memories associated with rains....so many different situations where i was stranded with different people in different places....
as far as school memories go back i very well remember getting at least 3 or 4 holidays due to heavy rains....and my school being in a low lying area the area always got flooded and we got a holiday...one not so fond memory (for mithila) is wen it rained very heavily on mithila's birthday and the school was cancelled...she was not at all happy as she was dressed in a pretty velvet skirt and top and she cud not celebrate her birthday in school...i had a gala time teasing her abt it :)
then of course at agru's we had a wonderful time in rains....
once we were stranded at classes due to heavy rainfall....trains had stopped functioning....sagar sudeep mayur and me went to bandra in a bus as trains had stopped functioning in dadar......even in bandra trains were running late....and they were extremely crowded as everybody wanted to reach home asap...well so we cud not travel in the male (general ) compartment...the ladies was comparitively empty....so i told mayur sagar sudeep to come with me in ladies compartment...after initial reluctance they agreed but soon were repenting as the compartment got crowded and they were stranded in compartment full of females :)
anyways it was much better than travelling in general compartment wud have been....it was fun seeing their faces and their embarrassment but it was a memorable train journey and a wonderful memory with all of us being there for each other...sagar had uncle living near by but he preferred to travel with us back home than choosing easier option....we were stranded and it was raining heavily and we never knew how much time it will take for us to reach our respective homes.....still we were sure we will be fine as we were together
a couple if yrs back i and sudeep had gone to meet deepu at her college....it was a nice sunny day with no hint of probable rainfall.......after meetin her we were walking towards bandra station as we thought it was a nice day to walk...little did we know that its gonna start pouring...and we did have any jackets or anything....still it felt nice to walk in rain getting drenched totally rather than waiting in shelter waiting for rains to subside.....and by the time we reached station we drenched to the core......and then wen we entered the train we were only wet people and everyone was staring at us.....and we were coolly talking ignoring the stares....we cud not even sit in train as our neighbours wud get wet......so we jus stood and kept talking not looking here or there.....that was a fun journey.......
how can i forget 26th july 2005.......the heavy rains that flooded mumbai and most of the state....we had our final yr university exams going on......and as the rains gods vented their fury we people were stuck in our rooms....the exams were getting postponed some of them cancelled as the rains showed no signs of mellowing.....we didnt know what subject to study as we didnt know if the exams were going to be as per schedule or according to new schedule....such a confusion it was.....then from somewhere we got news that for next two days there are not gonna be any exams and further exams r going to take place as per schedule......every hour we had some new news......the second and third day as rains decreased in pune but not in mumbai there were news floating that exams in rest of state will take place except mumbai.....so then again we wud start studing.......during all this confusion i got so bored and confused as to what to study as there was some news that all exams for next three days were cancelled all over the state that i went to see SARKAR with vivekanand.........also around that time HARRY POTTER AND HALF BLOOD PRINCE was released.....initially i had planned to read it after the exams...but with so much of confusion i was not certain wen the exams wud actually get over......and i cud ont wait for a month to read that book right ;) so i bought the book that day and finished it during the exams......also vivek took me to see the flooded mulla mutha river.....it was an amazing sight......the water was flowing jus touching the under surface of the bridge.......i cud very well imagine how it wud have been a couple of days before wen it was flowing over the bridge..........ya and the exams instead of scheduled ten days got over in a month i think.....
this is one of my fondest memory of pune....even though we hated it back then......now as i think abt it , i have a smile on my face
as far as school memories go back i very well remember getting at least 3 or 4 holidays due to heavy rains....and my school being in a low lying area the area always got flooded and we got a holiday...one not so fond memory (for mithila) is wen it rained very heavily on mithila's birthday and the school was cancelled...she was not at all happy as she was dressed in a pretty velvet skirt and top and she cud not celebrate her birthday in school...i had a gala time teasing her abt it :)
then of course at agru's we had a wonderful time in rains....
once we were stranded at classes due to heavy rainfall....trains had stopped functioning....sagar sudeep mayur and me went to bandra in a bus as trains had stopped functioning in dadar......even in bandra trains were running late....and they were extremely crowded as everybody wanted to reach home asap...well so we cud not travel in the male (general ) compartment...the ladies was comparitively empty....so i told mayur sagar sudeep to come with me in ladies compartment...after initial reluctance they agreed but soon were repenting as the compartment got crowded and they were stranded in compartment full of females :)
anyways it was much better than travelling in general compartment wud have been....it was fun seeing their faces and their embarrassment but it was a memorable train journey and a wonderful memory with all of us being there for each other...sagar had uncle living near by but he preferred to travel with us back home than choosing easier option....we were stranded and it was raining heavily and we never knew how much time it will take for us to reach our respective homes.....still we were sure we will be fine as we were together
a couple if yrs back i and sudeep had gone to meet deepu at her college....it was a nice sunny day with no hint of probable rainfall.......after meetin her we were walking towards bandra station as we thought it was a nice day to walk...little did we know that its gonna start pouring...and we did have any jackets or anything....still it felt nice to walk in rain getting drenched totally rather than waiting in shelter waiting for rains to subside.....and by the time we reached station we drenched to the core......and then wen we entered the train we were only wet people and everyone was staring at us.....and we were coolly talking ignoring the stares....we cud not even sit in train as our neighbours wud get wet......so we jus stood and kept talking not looking here or there.....that was a fun journey.......
how can i forget 26th july 2005.......the heavy rains that flooded mumbai and most of the state....we had our final yr university exams going on......and as the rains gods vented their fury we people were stuck in our rooms....the exams were getting postponed some of them cancelled as the rains showed no signs of mellowing.....we didnt know what subject to study as we didnt know if the exams were going to be as per schedule or according to new schedule....such a confusion it was.....then from somewhere we got news that for next two days there are not gonna be any exams and further exams r going to take place as per schedule......every hour we had some new news......the second and third day as rains decreased in pune but not in mumbai there were news floating that exams in rest of state will take place except mumbai.....so then again we wud start studing.......during all this confusion i got so bored and confused as to what to study as there was some news that all exams for next three days were cancelled all over the state that i went to see SARKAR with vivekanand.........also around that time HARRY POTTER AND HALF BLOOD PRINCE was released.....initially i had planned to read it after the exams...but with so much of confusion i was not certain wen the exams wud actually get over......and i cud ont wait for a month to read that book right ;) so i bought the book that day and finished it during the exams......also vivek took me to see the flooded mulla mutha river.....it was an amazing sight......the water was flowing jus touching the under surface of the bridge.......i cud very well imagine how it wud have been a couple of days before wen it was flowing over the bridge..........ya and the exams instead of scheduled ten days got over in a month i think.....
this is one of my fondest memory of pune....even though we hated it back then......now as i think abt it , i have a smile on my face
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