Mumbai - Land of dreams

20th October 2010, it was Wednesday, early in the morning my bus reached the land of dreams, it was drizzling slightly....like millions of individuals who come to fulfill their dreams, one more to add to the count was me ....My elder bro accompanied me to Mumbai as he was well aware of Mumbai....full night i dint get proper sleep, was it the thought that "now what and how Jayesh?" or was it the moving bus because of which i dint get sleep i don't know.....One thought would give me a li'l relief was my MAUSHI and cousins stay in Mumbai.....

It was a tough decision for me to leave place like Goa, and more importantly my family, to be more specific my mom, god she was in all tears....for a moment i felt i can't be leaving her and going....but the selfish career guy inside me forced me to take that step....

This was the 1st time i went away from my family, when i came to Mumbai i only knew to prepare 2 things tea and Maggie....:-P....now u will think by now i must learned to cook everything.....i m still stuck with that tea and Maggie....lolz.....only difference is now you i can do it a li'l better.....:-p.....

Moment i reached Mumbai, crowd, dirtiness, noise, beggars....for a moment i thought what have i done???....where have i reached???....Today I have completed 1 and a half year here and believe me i have seen all kinds of people here , black, white, brown, rich, super rich, bad, ugly, all caste, all religion, people from all parts of India....."Yeh hai Mumbai meri jaan"....home of all kinds of people....lot of beggars here....i would give change in my pocket to beggars i see, my change would get over but not the beggars....

You must be thinking why did i choose Mumbai???.....actually Mumbai chose me....i got a job in Mumbai that's the reason i am here.....and how i got this job is yet another funny story.....Seeing the overloaded trains and buses i decided to stay nearby my work location....walking to office was 10 - 15 minutes but that too was tough for me.....don't be shocked, as soon i took up my 1st job i dint go anywhere without my bike.....i could hardly walk when i was new here....but today i do walk, actually i have to travel now, client changed i go all the way to Malad by bus from Andheri....1 hour distance one way......

Mumbai has given me a great boost to my career, got a few friends, met different and interesting people here, but today's date i don't think of staying in Mumbai anymore....Nah! Mumbai ain't bad....everything is affordable here and available readily except home sweet home....today one cannot even think of buying a 1 RK in a good area....I would have written this blog long back actually the day i stepped in Mumbai but i started blogging this year itself...thts the reason for delay.....

Keep rocking n blogging people!!!


Regards,
Jayesh

What boosts me up???

Today when i look back at my life and try to figure out what are the things that encouraged, boosted me, helped me to acheive something.....answers were strange.....most of people get encouraged by parents, teachers, then beating by parents or bribing like if u score so much marks i'll buy you a cycle.....during my time, cycle sounded so good but i dont think 2days kids would settle for less than a bike....haha

Well getting back to things that power me up are pressure, embarassment, pride, someone taking me granted and saying you can't do this.....when saying all these things i mean some sensible stuff only.....not something like someone saying i cant run faster than bus or car i will accept it, am not superman or rajnikanth....:-).....

To support above factors i would narrate a few incidents in my life, as a kid i was not interested in studies, only thing i would think about studies is, studies are important and i have to just pass through and get to next standard....parents saying, that one's son got distinction, he came 1st, why can't you??? nothing mattered to me at all....listen from one ear n leave from other stuff i used to do....To narrate about pressure i felt it when me and my friend sam(name changed) went to visit darshan(name changed) during 12th preliminary exams....both started discussing about papers....i couldn't understand so much of stuff what they were talking about, to my suprise i dint even hear about most of things.....darshan's mom noticed my face going blank and she consoled me you will make it son dont worry, while sam and darshan laughing seeing at my face....that was the time i felt the pressure and studied hard and was able to achieve passing marks in prelims exams, failing in one....Chemistry paper i scored 39 and 40 was passing marks....i found a place where i could earn that one mark....once my Chemistry teacher gave me that one mark she said "people like you can't do better than this"......Now to prove myself i studied very hard for those 20-30 days gap between preliminary and board exams and scored PCM of 77%.....I managed to get admission in 2nd best engineering college in Goa, now you will say wow! 2nd best....nothing great in that 2nd best, there are just 3 degree colleges in Goa...:-P....I met that same Chemistry teacher on one of my juniors football tournament....Smilingly, she asked so what are you doing now???.....Moment i said engineering in PCC,she was like what???....hahaha her expressions were priceless.....

Speaking about embarassment, during my school days teachers forced me to participate in a seminar after which there was a debate infront of almost whole school.....just imagine what would happen to a student who would hide his face even when teacher asked any question in a class and teacher trying to find a student to ans it, when he was forced to enter a debate that too infront of whole school.....that scared the hell out of me.....before that i had faced stage just once when i was in 1st standard, i had to go on stage and say "I am Mr. Nobody"....seeing such a big crowd i forgot that also....haha....after around 20 seconds i remembered that sentence....i was like thank god.....Ok now coming back to debate after seminar i was assigned a topic "education should be compulsory".....i wrote a speech on my own, rehearsed it well but seminar person dint find its contents good enough....so now when 2 hrs were left for seminar to start he changed my speech and i had to memorise it......it was a disaster......when seminar started, seeing the crowd i was half scared and my throat got all dried up, no water was there on stage....moment my turn came i couldn't speak well, voice started kind of cracking....it was like an old cassette being played....haha....i was a stock of laughter for entire school......You ask me about my mot embarassing moment....here it is.....But that did not give me stage fear like it would do to most, instead it boosted up my confidence levels so much that i could talk infront of crowds in future....what i would think of was how much more bad can happen to me than that stage incident....

Finally let me brief you guys about pride.....Slow cycling event happened to be most popular event during my higher secondary school days, i could slow cycle very well, infact i could balance my cycle at one place for lot of time.....i won my 11th standard competition with ease.....my friends had lot of expectations from me for slow cycling event in 12th also....but by 12th lot of my peers practised slow cycling and could balance cycle just the way i could.....there were 2 practice sessions in which i came 2nd and 3rd.....when my friends asked me wht the hell i was doing....i lied saying that i allowed them to win practice sessions....:-P......day before finals i practised the hell out of me, i could not even sleep properly night before that since my pride was on the line....boss then results were satisfying, i won it again.....what a relief it was!......

Regards,
Jayesh :-)