Home Sweet Home

Okay, back into the home mode. But the nocturnal behaviour keeps me awake. Everyone is asleep and me online.

The Train Journey (Arghhh):

The train was late by 3 hours to begin with. It started at 6:30 when the scheduled departure was at 3:15. We spent the time at the Barista near National College. And to our surprise they didn't accept cards, just managed to scrape sufficient money for me Rathi and Harki to have a coffee each. The last coffee with Rathi in a long time to come.

Me and Harki were the only ones in the compartment till Borivali and had a good time dicussing the tactics of CS :D. At Borivali our co-passengers boarded. Two families, with a kid each; talk of 'good company'!! The next four hours were spent with me and Harki critically observing and commenting on everything our companions in the compartment did. The mobile phone girl who kept moving in and out of the A/C speaking on the phone also got her share of comments. Except for the ultra bad voice she was good looking. The foreigners in the coach also seemed to be enjoying the antics around them and were discussing stuff amongst them pretty much the way we were. Though I doubt if they were as critical about things as us. No conversation amounted to a meaningful and good timepaas primarily because none of what we talked of shaped into a discussion as Harki rightly put. It has become a habit of ours that only when things become discussions that they become entertaining else it is all, trivial talk.

Home (Finally):

We reached Jaipur at 3:30 more than 24 hrs after we left hostel and about four hours late. Home in another 15 mins.

Nothing changes at home, it is always the same. It makes me feel strange and relaxed at the same time, the unchanged and ever so familiar atmo at home. Same old activity early in the morning with BulBul and Nishu going to school, daddy returning from the morning walk, mummy and bhabhiji preparing for the days work ahead. The kaamwali moving around switching off the fans to disturb the sleep >:P, bhaiya reading the newspaper with his morning tea. Lunch and TV soaps when the bacchaas get back from school, the afternoon lull and lack of activity followed by sitting on the verandah on cane chairs in the evening while the kids go around with friends in the colony. All of this makes me feel relaxed because it gives me a hope that says living like this is still possible in today's world, the relaxed and easy paced life that I so much love. Strange, as I wonder at how I have changed since I went to Bombay that it makes me marvel and feel elated at the simple, straight forward ways of everyday life that were so much a part of my own life some three years back.