March

- March happens to be my favourite month of the year. It is quite hot in Bombay this time of the year but it is also spring time and the trees start sprouting new leaves.... beautiful , tender leaves in varying shades of green. Yes, even in Bombay if you see carefully, you shall notice this...(an auto hit me a couple of days ago because I was happily looking up at some tree and did not notice where I was going). There are a variety of birds who suddenly seem to have come from nowhere and merrily chirp throughout the day. These birds come in various colours. There are parrots and cuckoos and a variety of sparrows. My favourite happens to be a bird which has a red beak, has atleast three shades of green on its wings, has yellow colour under the wings, black colour under its beak. And of course it is always fun to try to locate the cuckoo from the general direction of the noise that it maked untiring throughout the day.

- I also love March for the exam season. It a trip down memory lane when you see groups of students sincerely going through their books for last minute preparation. How I wish I was a student all over again....

- I am totally absolutely in love with Bombay. Yes, I know it is not a perfect city to live in. It has its own share of problems but I love it inspite of the crowds (or rather because of the crowds), the traffic jams, the forever dug roads, the slums and the garbage heaps. But there are also the beautiful buildings, the old chawls, the lovely trees, the trains, the BEST buses, the roads and most importantly the people. The people and their attitude is what makes or breaks a city and Bombay is special to me precisely for this reason. There is this energy in this city which I have yet to experience in the other places that I have visited...

- It was our new year last week . And for the first time since I was in school I have made a new year resolution. A very very sincere and heartfelt resolution. I have decided to be happy. I have decided that I have wasted too mant years thinking about things which I could have done/not done and in the process am ruining my present. I dont want to waste some more precious years thinking about people and things which should ideally be inconsequential to my life. I deserve better in life because I am a nice person and there is no reason to be surprised if I am getting the attention that I deserve. I have been sad all these years and I have got nothing in return but sadness so I shall be happy and see if I get happiness in return . No use mopping around for such a long time and basically now I am tired to being so sad... Its my life and I shall do everything that I can to change it...Sad faces are well... pretty sad....As they say, change your attitude, change your life...

- And to compliment my change in attitude, I shall soon have a new nice colourful template....