Saturday, March 28, 2009

tidbits..

It's a good feeling when all you have pending on a to-do list is to go to the bank and fight for a debit card! ;)

Yawn.. stretch.. lazy friday morning giving way to an easy time at work with a mere 2 client calls... a night with dinner of nice adrak wali dal... a movie... a few long conversations..!

A coffee shop.. a book... a humongously satisfying chicken salad and a humongous glass of chilled cold coffee to keep it company! Such is the massage to the soul!

A cute li'l kid deciding to crawl all the way up to and stare up with his big blue eyes and go.. 'aaaa' and then you get on the floor too and its a crawlathon with folks looking on weirdly amused!

A maruti service station guy who falls for ur smile and does your repairs on priority and for free... ;)

A gas station guy who insists you participate in a lucky draw! And lo and behold you win a pen! (hey something's better than nothing.. and since I already have the jonga you think i care about the SX4 in the bumper prize? ,';o) )

2 beautiful golden labs sniffing their way up to you and deciding to settle down and play with you!

A dholki that you bought off the roadside and love to create ruckus with! A night with the dholki, a 2 string guitar, drumsticks only and lots of food and banter!

Orange juice as a famished you stands on the street getting chappals repaired and buying pirated dvd's!

~ and a count of days to meet the special people in your life! (oh yes.. and a clean clean cupboard! ... complete ain't it!) ;)

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Saddi Jonga!

and oh well.. it's time for a formal introduction to saddi jonga! :)


This rugged li'l baby was driven from Baroda to Bangalore and Independence Day found her trundling along to Chennai for an Independence Jam and then to Tada falls for a night camp! 6 people, 1 Jonga and enough camping equipment for 12 people! Quite an inception eh? ;) This baby stepped into areas where even a safari wud've cringed! 

Since then she's been on various trips! And she's enjoyed every bit of them! This is one jongs who got her break drum changed within 4000 kms! And got a new tyre within 7000! :D (hey don;t stare! she's tough!!) Kabhi bas ek lambi drive.. kabhi airport ka ek geda... kabhi biryani ki khoj.. kabhi camping and trekking! She's already been there done that!! 

And then came the day when she got her shiny new stickers! Character had been added to the already existing attitude! If she likes you she'll literally drive like makkhan.. but if she takes the tiniest offence at the way you handle her... she will have her revenge! (as she did recently with Barwala who kept screaming this damn car is too smooth... so our li'l darling goes 'ha! now try putting me in gear!' :D The time he had was terror-ible!)

Like Mish often says... ye gaadi.. itna pyar hai iske peechhe na... none of of us can see anything happen to it!

Sometimes if she's not getting enough attention she throws a flat tyre tantrum!! And to give you an idea of the 'luv' around for this one here's a recent conversation:
me: happpyyyyyy holi! :)
 rathore: hey ... happppy holi to u as well
 caution: keep Jonga covered
 me: :D jonga aaj office jayegi ji
  and 3rd flat tyre in 3 weeks!
 rathore: opps..
 me: kal raat me hua!
  airport jaate jaate
  hee hee
 rathore: Jonga ..ek trip ke liye jidd kar rahi hai
 me: so to lag raha hai
  :)
me: :) chaliye ab hum egg masla banaate hain aur office ko jaate hai
  baaki ki baatein wahan se
  tyre bhi theek karana hai!
:D
 rathore: ok ...
  bye
  Jonga pe thoda red gulal laga dena
 me: :) ji
  bilkul
  jonga apne horn se aapko happy holi kehti hai
 rathore: ok ...main bhi jhappi leni ki koshis karta houn
and so... gaddi chaldi.. chhalaanga maardi! :)