My Bai is Zabardast

During our discussion in office I thought why not to ask my bai to write a letter to my boss.

The discussion was about what percentage increment will happen this year and whether it will be sufficient to give the increment to the bai(s). The bai(s) always ask for the fixed increment whether there is positive or negative variance, their demands have to be met as somehow they know they are indispensible. My view, if it so directly proportional they should also have their KRA and appraisal process, they can also accompany us in our appraisal. Now since this is middle of the year I thought I will ask my bai to write a letter to my boss to give some emotional touch. Here she goes ….

साहेब,

खर तर  मी हे मराठी मध्ये  लिहिणार होते पण उगाच भाषा विवाद होईल आणि विषय बदलेल म्हणून हिंदी मध्ये लिहिते

हमारे दादा बहुत अच्छे है, समय पर पगार देते है, month end पर छुट्टी भी देते हैं और कभी भी पगार में कटौती नहीं करते हैं, कुछ ज्यादा बोलते भी नहीं है पर मैं जानती हूँ वह अपनी net salary को लेकर बहुत परेशान रहते है, मुझे तो समझ नहीं आता आप लोग जाली लगा कर salary क्यों देते हो, आने दो ना पूरी

एक दिन कुछ हफ्ते हफ्ते बड़बड़ा रहे थे तोह मैंने पूछ लया की दादा आप तो समय से दफ्तर जाते हो और कभी भी समय से नहीं आते फिर भी कटौती क्यों होती है तो बोले की tax भरना पड़ता है, फिर बोले की तुम नहीं समझोगी कभी return भरोगी तब पता पड़ेगा, return सुन कर मुझे लगा कुछ पगार में कटौती की बोल रहे है इसलिए चुप हो गयी

मुझे जब भी वह terrace साफ़ करने के लिए कहते हैं, main मैं कह देती हूँ की कल करुँगी पर मुझे पता है की आप जब भी कोई काम देते है वह उसी दिन ख़त्म करके आते हैं

मैं तो सिर्फ इतना कहना चाहती हूँ की इस बार उनकी पगार ज़बरदस्त बढ़ा दीजिये और उनको बताने से पहले मुझे बता दीजियेगा, क्यूंकि मैं उनसे उसी हिसाब से negotiate कर लुंगी

अंत में शहरयार साब की दो लाइन पेश करुँगी

दिल cheese क्या है आप मेरी जान लीजिये, बस एक बार मेरा कहा मान लीजिये

आपकी सौ आशा

(name changed on request)

दादा कोई correction हो तो DC Query डाल देना, मैं लगेच respond कर दूंगी

alignment...cue from microsoft word

(Left aligned) So often I use Microsoft word for professional purpose but I never thought it can give an acute personal advice.

(Right Aligned) One day while doing final touch-ups to a write-up I was not getting what I wanted so while reading text by placing the pointer on every button, I read about alignment.

(Center Aligned) Technically alignment is proper adjustment for coordinated functioning.

(Justified) Of the four options, there is Justify which means Align text to both the left and right margins, adding extra space between words as necessary. This creates a clean look along the left and right side along the page.

So easy it is I thought, and I make things complicated unnecessarily. The alignment of the life has to be justified, apparently the different meanings of justify are not apt to my thought, so I will stick to the Microsoft Word definition.

Just try to strike equal balance between all the heads and tails of the coin of life and the in return the life will be just to you. Add personal space, apply brakes and take required breaks to maintain average speed of your life. This in turn will give you a clean life, full of peace and happiness.

बस आपही की आँखों के लिए

ये जिंदगी बस युंहि गुजर जाती

अगर आपकी आखों में थोडीसी जगह मिल जाती

युंह तो जिंदगी जीने के हजार बहाने मिल जाते

पर खुश रहने कि एक वजह मिल जाती

इस मुल्क में दो झीलें हैं, पानी बहुत साफ है, रंग नीला है,

नीला तो आसमान होता है, और इसी में तो मेरा जहiन मुकम्मल होता है

युंह तो वक़्त भी वक़्त के लिए नही ठहरता,

अभी कल ही मिले थे हम, आज बरसो हो गये

तुम्हारी आखों में खुद वक़्त भी अपनी राह भटक जाता है,

बुलंद है मेरी तक़दीर कि मेरा वक़्त मुझे यहिं मिल जाता है

सात समुन्दरों की मस्ती है इन आंखों में,

एक मैं ही हुँ दिवाना हजारों मस्तानों में

इस समुद्र की गहराई मापने के लिए डूब गया एक बार

तबसे बस तैर ही रहा हुँ उन जज़ीरों के अफसानों में

मुस्कानें झूठी हो सकती हैं, पर सच बोलती है ये आंखें

दिल की धड़कन को बढ़ा कर, दिवाना बना देती है ये आंखें,

युंह तो आवारा बादल भी चांद के इश्क का भी मोहताज नही होता,

पर उसी आवारा बादल में प्यार का ईमान जगा देती ये आंखें 

that kitchen

Disclaimer: Any resemblance to the character is purely coincidental and unintentional.

My daily usual TV slot is 8:30 pm to 9:00 pm when I have my dinner and watch ‘Tarak Mehta Ka Ulta Chasma’. Though it is not a favorite or a subject serial but a light and easy daily soap compared to usual family issues serials.

I am a foodie ... certainly eating is more interesting but I also have a small flair towards cooking so I know a bit of things and have good nose to smell a few spices and like to cook these spices by imagination.

But for past few days I was getting bored with that daily soap and since I don’t do any exercise I thought of starting post-dinner night walk.

It’s been quite few days...

Just happen to come across that kitchen at first floor in the opposite building. Though there are no fix timings of my walk but there is a discipline in that kitchen, right from the light up right at 8:30 pm to the whistle of the pressure cooker at 8:40 pm and so on ...

It’s been few more days after quite few days...

It was a 10 minutes’ walk initially, and now a daily soap of 30 minutes, the entire dinner preparation. I always hated my mother and sister to watch the entire cookery show for 30 minutes but this seems to be interesting. I was trying to fit some analogy between the aroma of the food and the person, so from here I started imaging.

The next day....

I love rajma, my no. of chapattis just go up with rajma but the aroma of that rajma is still with me even after almost 12 hours so today I thought to get raaz of that rajma.

The day after rajma....

Though I was very tired after a hectic day at office but I still started my walk and lost again in the egg curry ... another favorite dish. If invited I will not mind for a consecutive dinner and I was so much lost in the fragrance that I missed out on the raaz.

It’s been few more spicy days of the continuous aroma

My aromatic senses suggested that it has to be a Punjabi cook ... so the target for today was to check the society board.

And it read only Bhalla, though it was a hint but by now my senses was so much engrossed, that they ignored it. These days usually the name boards are in plurals or they at least have both titles, but I ignored giving the benefit of doubt of an older board.

The last week of the month deprived me off the post dinner walk, but my inquisitiveness for the person behind the spicy aromas was still alive. It goes in tandem with “पेट भर गया पर मन नही भरा”

So back on track after few days, today it appears to be a non-veg smell, although I don’t eat it but I know the gravy and it is amazingo so once again i returned empty stomach, i mean without any information.

The following day it was veg biryani and I almost had a full plate...

Today being a Sunday, I decided to craft a final drop-dead gorgeous image of my imagination and rang the bell to behold the beauty of all those spicy aromas.

In desperation, I rang the bell again and one uncle almost 45 plus opened the door ... wearing a pyjama that was not washed for almost a month, vest of which the color was yellow or white was difficult to recognize, almost bald and holding a skimmer in hand.

  

इस एक महीने का लेखा जोखा

इस बितॆ हुए महीने का लेखा जोखा किया तो समझ नहीं आय़ा

कि यह बिता हुआ महीना आपकी यादों के सहारे इतनी जल्दी कैसे गुजर गया

यॅु तो हर पल एक महीने के बराबर होता है

पर लमहो का गणित ना बने तो नासमझ को भी भला कभी अफसोस होता है

यादें हमारी ही थी लेकिन ख़याल सिर्फ आपका ही था

तसल्लि सिर्फ इसी बात की थी कि खयालो मे ही सही पर मै आपको जानता तो था

यॅु मै तो नासमझ ही ठीक था, जानने - पहचानने मे र्फक नहीं करता था

पर अब मै गणित समझ गया हुं, ख़याल अभी भी आपके ही है, बस ख्वाब खुद के बुनता हुं

There should be no उम्र for this लालच

It may sound a very derogative statement but that is the way it has to be.

I always crave for lot of things but cravings for fitness doesn’t come naturally for me. So thanks to my colleagues Pushp and Kartik for this inspiration.

They recently completed Mumbai Half Marathon in 2 hours, the inspiring point, this is their first marathon and the training time was less than 3 months.

The dream was seen in last year dream run only,

So those who don’t sleep properly, sleep and dream, it will come true in a year only, once dreamt you only need to be determined (you can buy determination from these two people).

Both Pushp and Kartik were very definite and distinct in their version of the preparation.

Definite as they were determined to do it, so determined that they even ignored a few drinks.

Distinct comes from their profile may be, version Pushp was very credit oriented, divulging required information only, sharing specifics and maintaining the stand that it is not a big deal.

The focus should be more on regimen, scheduling, timing etc.

Version Kartik was branded one involving things like how do you feel running in cold early morning wearing a t shirt and short, how to prepare the mind. It is all a mind game.

How do you feel running with horses on race course track.

Beside this, we also have one super hero Deven in our branch, who has also completed 3 half marathons in last 1 year.

Well, all in all the entire discussion was very afflatus and am sure there will be one more participant next year.

We can form a House of Dedicated about Fitness Companions. 

She is still profound in me

Your last nudge killed a lot in me …

                                                including U …

                                                     my first and last incorrect perception

            I used to feel it and lived it for years under the false roof of my well treasured understanding, that you are not any more in me but the gullible me, thinking something and feeling something else.

Then I was a minor for life’s original spin-offs. But in my bewilderment I flowered the deepest you in me. I was ignorant of the slow process of poison creation, the poison which gives life and takes away the living from you.

            My several attempts or rather several unsuccessful attempts of living that life without you, were making that living arduous without you. This is unfair, life given by you can’t be lived with you and life given by you can’t be given up as it is given by you.

            When I became major and thought of living somebody else’s life, I failed as so poor actor I am, even before others caught me I caught myself for being so unnatural. By now you were so in depth in me that the depth of my life was you.  

            You were in all the three tenses for me, the only moment you were not in me was the moment in between two seconds.

            The only way to be alive now is to live like you, maybe someday you will get tired of yourself, will leave me and then we will live together.