Do we still believe that there's good in the world!!!!

I drive a cool TVS Scooty Pep+ to my office every day. Suddenly I noticed that the headlights of the bike weren't working at all. I wondered when I could take it for servicing. So I am still using it without headlights.

Usually I leave my office at 7.30pm or so... and it gets pretty dark outside. I still had to take the risk of riding the bike home (it’s just 10 minutes away if I take the national highway). And just within 2 minutes of my slow and careful drive on NH4, I noticed that 2 guys were following me on a bike.

Well it started like this. I overtook them from my left and I think that triggered it. Girls know that most guys have this fear that if a girl overtakes their vehicle, they wouldn’t be able to show their face to the world :)

Well so these guys began driving exactly parallel to me, slowing down when I did and accelerating when I sped up. I didn't know what to do... the pillion rider was staring at me and talking to the driver. It was scary and weird. It's not that it was the first time this happened, but then I had options to drive the way I want. This time it was not so since I had 0 lights and was forced to drive slow. I was hoping that the busy signal ahead (8 mins away) comes up ASAP, and that I take the small service road to my house.

Suddenly a thought crossed my mind. 'Are these guys following me just to make sure that I was safe… driving close by so that I can drive with the light from their bike!?' Crazy thought for a cynical person like me, eh?

The signal approached and I took the service road to my house. These guys were already on the flyover and were still looking at me when I disappeared in the lane... I don't know why.

I don’t know if they meant well. Why is it so hard to believe that people have good intentions? I'm still wondering… whether they were trying to help me OR it was just another incident of harassment. I truly want to believe the former for once...

Mere paas maa hai.

P: Hey wats that written on your whiteboard? 'Pistol jail mein aa chuka hai'
K: yea we are writing dialogues from famous films on this board. but thing is ... we should first use that verbally in a relevent conversation and then write it here.
J: toh quote of the week hoil.
P: hmm... so what does this dialogue mean?
K: nothing really.
P: Ok thik aahe. nako sangus.
K doesn't know what to say.

Next day >>
K: I have to buy grocery for this month! That too cash this time!
J: ab to baniye ne bhi udhar dena band kar diya hai. Voh kehta hai, 'pehleka udhar chukta karo, aur baad mein saman le jao'.
K: wow this one deserves it!

Yet another day K walks into the office....
K: hey J i have mentioned you in my blog after you told me what that bird was called
J: 'yeh toh apka badappan hai, varna mujh jaise nacheez ko kaun poochta hai'
K: 'hum voh cheez hai jo udne vale parinde ke par gin le'

J and K in D's cabin. (D is the boss)
K wanted to show some PDF file on D's PC, but it was taking huge time to open.
K to D: it's taking so much time to open the PDF
D: (smiles) i'm not a developer so my PC is slow. Developers get faster PCs.
Later outside the cabin K mentions to J what D said.
J: Khud Gabbar ki pistol mein paani!!!
We got another dialogue of the week :)

and the dialogue bazee on the board went on...

After a few days... J erases all dialogues... 'doesn't look professional he says'

but the verbal dialogue bazee still continues...

Bird watching (in a good way hehe )

I always love watching birds, on trees, on windows, on electricity poles, on the wires …everywhere. They are chubby, chirpy, and so very active! I love to see them crane their necks to see some object or move their eyes from side to side. It is very lively. Such small creatures and so much enthusiasm for things!
Anyway, lately I have shifted to a seat near a huge window. The window is wall to wall and ceiling to floor and I have a beautiful view from the stained glass.

Now here's the thing. I have a regular feathered visitor on this window sill on the fifth floor. The bird comes everyday in the afternoon and rests on my window. With twigs in its beak, it surely is building a nest somewhere near this building. Of course it doesn’t know that it is sitting soooo close to a human being! Sometimes it stares at my window straight at me. It can see its own reflection; it stares for a few seconds at the image and flies away.

The other day, it was raining heavily and this little fellow sat near that window for shelter. I showed it to my colleague Jayant who told me that it is a 'Titvi (Marathi)', which is a Redwattled Lapwing. The bird has reddish brown wings with black feathers on the neck and head, and a white belly. I know that there are birds that are far more cute, but this one is great to look at. Now that it comes here every day, I think I've formed some sorta bond with it.

Waiting for it to come by even today :D