Because.....We Are Indians.

I would like to share this incident because I am an Indian. This actually happened to my husband who went to passport office to submit application for a new passport (he actually went short of pages). Now there is some rennovation work going on in the building ( no mention in the website....for our convinience sake ofcourse) due to which there was serpentine queue ending all the way out of the gate of the embassy.

Now no choice but to stand in the queue ( mind you its hard job unless you don't qualify in the art) numbly. My husband hates WAITING quiet punctual where time matters. But he hardly had an option. So he came to know that the security is sending peoples batchwise in the gate. Sun here was little lazy but after half an hour came in its full glory only to make the wait more worse and sweaty. After an hour a good thing happened... my husband was standing just near the gate Yipppeee! and after sometime he was the lucky one ( credit goes to securitywallah) he entered the gate. Now his heart went to all the people waiting outside the gate. Yes the gate was very important during that time. After an hour he forwarded his application to the passport officer only to find that he has to bring photocopies of his old passport. Well one thing is very good about our Indian Embassy, they have provided the photocopier machine in the embassy itself. So he went towards the copier to find that the queue here was as big as the passport queue. He has to wait in that queue for an hour till his turn came. Now his temper was rising more because of the inefficient system.

During the wait he also helped many such persons who just entered the embassy in hope that someone will help them in filling there forms, with not even a writable pen. But my husband was intelligent enough to tell someone to hold the line till his number in the photocopier queue came. And after gruelling three hours he managed to submit his application. A feeling of victory ...for sure.



My advice: If anyone going to Embassy(Indians Anywhere) please call and check any renovation work going on etc. and avoid....still can't, then please carry a foldable chair,a battery operated fan and 3-4 snacks with you. Happy Waiting.

Gold Gold Everywhere

Surprising isn't it??? When all the stock indices are at all time low, When there is cutting down of jobs like farmers eager to trim down his produce, when the purchase power is low then who is buying gold???
Why are Gold prices touching all time high? Gold has always been "The Precious Metal" ofcourse, my husband is well aware of it, he would never venture in the gatherings where "gold' was the topic and shopping for it was totally an alien thing. But that was few years back when the metal was not that expensive. I really don't know how he will react now if i utter the "Gold"word.
I just hope this metal does not come in the category of "Only for rich" and bloggers like us can well afford it. Hope So.

Delhi 6- Worth a Dekho

This movie came for me in a toss. Yes, really, as my kids and hubby wanted to see the other King Khan starter movie but eventually it was me who won the toss. And we headed for Delhi 6.
You can term this movie in the bracket of all the 'KJO' movies termed to woo the NRI audiences but , with difference. This movie is not at all picturised is Big Apple nor Pear. This takes you straight in bylanes of Chandni chowk or Old Delhi.
I have been to Delhi, but that time i didn't know where i was ( i was just 6 yaar) i do have some friends from Delhi and looking at them i can make out how the director ( who himself is dilliwala) has projected Old Delhi so well.
Small things like the cotton weaver, the chaotic traffic, the cows on streets , the Ram Leela etc reminds us of our childhood days. And for audience who watch the movie miles away from India sometimes yearn to go back.
Abhishek is a NRI lad who comes to India to fulfill his Grandmother( Waheeda Rehman's) wish to die on Indian soil. No sooner he lands he comes across the news heading of sighting a "Kaala Bandar" (Black Monkey). The director here has projected the Kaala Bandar to symbolise the beast within us. Our intolerable nature where brothers have built a wall in their house only to leave the gosipping co sister in laws ,how untouchability is still prevalent, and our total intolerance as far as religion is concerned.In total the movie is remarkably directed by Rakeysh and all the actors have played their part to perfection. Especially Abhishek is a brilliant !(blame Drona on the director, Please).

Sonam is very fresh and charming and AR Rahman's music is again 'Jai Ho'. Totally a must watch movie were the feel is "India Calling".

Joining Spree!!!

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20090084041


More and more famous names are being heard joining politics. And now is our one time best(bribed) cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin joining the bandwagon.
With little hope left among the masses about the role of so called ministers,mainly after the Taj Attack it is to be seen how tainted cricketers and flimstars rule us in this coming years.

Teen Killers

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20090083894
This is very disturbing. I look upon my 11year old and shudder. This is what is happening in the outside world? First it was teenagers going rampant in college campus killing fellow students but that was not in India was our attitude.
We try our best to give good education, and instill good values as a resposible parent. But then where we are going wrong? Time has come where we should stop thinking 'Its not happening to us' and 'we are safe'.
We Satisfy their demand for increasingly expensive digital gadgets, take them on world tour buy them all the comfort which A,B, and C has. But do we know his likes, dislikes .
I feel there should be more communication between parents and kids.

I think time has now come to look into ourselves! and time has come now to TALK.