Getting off the train at 6 AM , yet the station at DADAR is all alive and buzzing!..lesson 1, The cabwalas know that you don't belong here generally...so don't take the first cab that is offered to you..its mostly triple rated. Hail a cab from outside the station. After your pranams to Hanumanji at the mandir outside the station..
The roads are clean all the time, the only thing that makes it dirty is the peak hour traffic! Something remarkable about MUMBAI, the autos and taxis actually follow the meter reading! Man I love this place!...
Chembur is my first stop. The local residential area, where morning walks go for both kids and dogs!..the place wakes up earlier than rest of the city...
To begin my stay here with something auspicious I gota go to a temple. the right place is jus close by. The Ahobila Math...Abode of the pious bhramin! :P..I know I wont be visiting many temples that often..so let me do it now! :P
I start off for IIT Powai at 10.30...auspicious on that particular day, according to my dad!
45 minute travel by the fast cab, and eureka..the gate is lost somewhere on the main road! Its a task to spot it...so you need an experienced taxi driver!
Campus entrance has a check...That was the first and the last time they checked for anything while getting in or out of the campus! No one gives a damn if u disappear for days from here!
My room in hostel 10..the new building! It rocks big time! Rest of the hostels are trashy..so I can just consider myself lucky! My new roomie is this really sweet girl from Delhi...Savita..my companion for the next 5 months..apart from my buddy Dumeel that is!
My hostel has an elevator..so spared of the trek!
Next stop is the Coffee shack..The favourite snack place for tired IITans..then comes the Gullu( Gulmohar) Cafeteria..(This place is the 5star hang out!) even a lousy dosa is freakin expensive...but if u r loaded..this is the ideal place!..a sit out in the open and food is served at ur place!
Sandwiches are an expensive yet good choice here at gullu!..grab one and be off to the Powai lake..But make sure u are equipped with mosquito repellent! ...or ul be eaten first. This lake is a sit out, study out, flirt out common place..for kids, students, and oldies! The common dress code of the place..Bum shorts.. be it a girl a guy...it will take time getting used to!..early morning, you walk out of the room to find a bunch of scantily clad guys?...dear god..save me.!.
At some point of the day..youll have this craving to unleash your tamil..so start looking for anyone who remotely resembles a tamiliam!(I am a tamilian, so here I go!)
...will continue soon! once I find the outlet for my TAMIL!!!!
Welcome to the city of lights!!
ReplyDeletenice en devour!!
ReplyDeletethanks shanthan and loveleen!
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