Its a sucky feeling! To sit in front of the screen and being stumped for something to write about....it's the perfect way to make an utter fool of yourself in your own eyes!
However...enough is enough! Time to WRITE!
Well...for starter....just the other day I had quite a memorable local train journey! It would have been quite hellish had it not been for good company alongside.
Now local trains being late is nothing new....its actually normal. Late afternoon warm sun poured into the station as we waited for the blasted train. An aspiring group of documentary filmmakers (:P) were shooting a yet to be named film. They had taken a lot of interesting footage which had marvellouly invaded some very private moments of scores of people. And they were at it again at the station! :D
One of them, lets call her Siya, is a great chum of mine and as we sat chatting we zoomed into a the balcony of a tiny apartment a few yards outside the station. It was something you have seen on TV scores of times but up close and live it's the most beautiful thing to watch. A few months old baby with his mother holding him in her arms. She was keeping up a constant chatter with the baby and the baby's innocence and the blanket of love around them kept us mesmerized for quite a bit. Siya is the type who is so in love with babies that if she sees one her instant urge would be to pick it up and shower it with unconditional love from her highly evolved maternal side!
Finally the train came and at that time in a flash I truly understood the meaning of "filled to the brim"! It was a mess of tightly squashed bodies inside the compartment and at the entrance people were hanging on like the Buddhist prayer cloths flapping in the wind!
Well that was me and Siya! There was place enough for one foot, a pole to hang on to and all the strength in you arms to hang on tight as the train whooshed ahead!
As we sped ahead with me on the outermost edge it was the most exhilarating experience ever. As it was speeding over a small bridge under which flowed the putrid waters of Hussain Sagar it was pretty much like cruising over water on bare feet! Phew! Jesus must have felt pretty good when he actually did this feat! Siya was right behind shuttling between taking more footage and holding me in case I decide to jump off!
At the Secunderabad station a hilarious cat fight broke out in our compartment! I so totally understand Barney's love for cat fights!
At long last our stop arrived and after a brief struggle to get out of the darn train before it chugs off again we were free!
Cherry on a not so toothsome train ride?
Well the "khaddar" [;)] that I am it has to be the lip smacking chicken shawarma with a generous dollop of mayonnaise me and Siya had on the way back to the college!
Mmmm...
:)
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