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The Central, Western, Harbour arteries pumping life to and fro suburbs to the city. The clap-clap of metal hitting metal so-like the heartbeat of one who’s scrambled on-board. Come a major station, the blood curdling yells of those alighting the yet-moving locomotive. You prepare yourself for lift-off – place your hand-bag forward, anything dangling -earrings, weird necklaces stashed away, run and hold onto the side corners of the door for leverage.Cries of “Pude salaa!” (Go forward) “laukar!” (fast) as the compartment empties and fills up in a short span of 20 seconds – just like that!
The ensuing drama as people hustle for space within -
- “Oye heroine, you want all the space to yourself!”
- “Aunty, please make some space?” “You called me aunty, you granma!!” ( LOL!)
- Stinking noisy fisher-woman who spits out wrath at people insisting she’s blocking the way
- Someone who takes out time to be nice, helping out an old woman with her heavy package 
- MP3s, phone players switched on, spoken into amidst the movement, the rush
- Eunuchs who promise your well being in exchange for a few coins
- Students discussing Income tax laws, engineering drawing assignments
- Space permitting, hawkers display their wares from the hand grips
As your station draws nearby tap your neighbor in front ”Getting down at XXX station?” “Haan haan”.Make your way towards the side of the compartment again. You are pushed with a force inversely proportional to the speed of the slowing train, reaching a crescendo as it slowly stops. Grab the nearest immovable piece of metal. Push your way out. Breathe freedom.
Sure beats them roller coaster rides hollow!
In the odd-15 minute break from work, you try figuring out what the hell your friends, general public have been up-to. Ah, for those 24/7 ‘net Kampus days- when unusual Gtalk status messages, possible interpretations were speculated over hot Maggi and coffee; for the IP (campus internal messenger) spam wars!
Wake up! We joined office 3 months back didn’t we? The social network sites are usually a no-no. If your company’s IT management is generous enough to allow mail access through the day you wouldn’t face an issue (clear cookies, restart browser, use https 
g-talk up!! yaaaay!). If not, Internet @ home? If yes, we go snooping – orkut/facebook scraps/walls, updates (“Oh, his/her status has changed to committed!! Kya chal raha hai “). While evolved netizens Twitter away, small time users like me just discovered another “Whatzup” source – comments on Google Reader’s Shared items..
g-talk up!! yaaaay!). If not, Internet @ home? If yes, we go snooping – orkut/facebook scraps/walls, updates (“Oh, his/her status has changed to committed!! Kya chal raha hai “). While evolved netizens Twitter away, small time users like me just discovered another “Whatzup” source – comments on Google Reader’s Shared items..He he he
