Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Happy Dussehra and Shubho Bijoya
We went to participate in the festivities yesterday at the Personal Floors Lawns and enjoyed a lot. It was wonderful to see a lot of community bonding and working hands putting together a great and enjoyable show. I have always noticed this about MTRWA, there will always be celebrations and all are invited to attend and have fun. Wish we could see more of such excitement in the towers also....
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Drivers Menace
Seems like Malibu Towne is slowly being taken over by "I dont care who you are?" driver brigade. The benches infront of Tower 5& 6 have become their favourite hangout zone. If not out there you would find them catwalking gallantly right outside the Tower entrance.
Just the other day while coming back from office in the evening I found 4 drivers lounging at the entrance of Tower 6. Upon asking why are they all hanging around here one of them said that he is waiting for his "madam". Upon checking with the others, phat came the reply with a smirk on their face ... we are waiting for our madams too. And without a bit of bother they kept lounging there, couple of them also made their intentions clear by putting their feet on the black railings.
Am sure many of us had many discussions about the driver menace but the way I look at it, controlling the drivers is not MCRWA's responsibility nor MEPL, its the driver's employers responsibility who am sure would happen to be one of our co-residents. The issue isnt that one has a driver, issue is how much leeway have you given to your driver. I have a driver and he has been with me for 8 years and I can boldly make this claim that my driver has never argued with any resident or have lounged around inappropriately or have ever been found openly leching at women of Malibu.
Honestly, I am fed up of fighting with these drivers and trying to be their moral police or individually calling up their employers( have done that on a few instances). Am making this sincere plea to all of you who have drivers (am sure there are exceptions of decent well mannered drivers) - please speak with your drivers and coach them on the dos and donts of being in a civilised community. They should not be lounging around in the lobby area or the benches which are meant for residents. They should not be parking at the "no parking" areas and most definitely not argue with a resident when they are pointed out that they have parked their cars in the "no parking" area. And last but not the least....please do warn them against the show of attitude and muscles.
No I am not asking this favour for my personal gain alone...its in your interest as well. As your wife, or your children otherwise could be a possible victims of actions someone else' driver tomorrow and trust me its not worth waiting till then.
As I write this blog I see 5 drivers parked on the bench, one of whom with a orange T-shirt is lying on the bench with his feet up escorted by couple of other drivers. And the most blood boiling part is that he saw me glaring at him from my bedroom window but he didnt buzz either from the bench or from his posture.
Just the other day while coming back from office in the evening I found 4 drivers lounging at the entrance of Tower 6. Upon asking why are they all hanging around here one of them said that he is waiting for his "madam". Upon checking with the others, phat came the reply with a smirk on their face ... we are waiting for our madams too. And without a bit of bother they kept lounging there, couple of them also made their intentions clear by putting their feet on the black railings.
Am sure many of us had many discussions about the driver menace but the way I look at it, controlling the drivers is not MCRWA's responsibility nor MEPL, its the driver's employers responsibility who am sure would happen to be one of our co-residents. The issue isnt that one has a driver, issue is how much leeway have you given to your driver. I have a driver and he has been with me for 8 years and I can boldly make this claim that my driver has never argued with any resident or have lounged around inappropriately or have ever been found openly leching at women of Malibu.
Honestly, I am fed up of fighting with these drivers and trying to be their moral police or individually calling up their employers( have done that on a few instances). Am making this sincere plea to all of you who have drivers (am sure there are exceptions of decent well mannered drivers) - please speak with your drivers and coach them on the dos and donts of being in a civilised community. They should not be lounging around in the lobby area or the benches which are meant for residents. They should not be parking at the "no parking" areas and most definitely not argue with a resident when they are pointed out that they have parked their cars in the "no parking" area. And last but not the least....please do warn them against the show of attitude and muscles.
No I am not asking this favour for my personal gain alone...its in your interest as well. As your wife, or your children otherwise could be a possible victims of actions someone else' driver tomorrow and trust me its not worth waiting till then.
As I write this blog I see 5 drivers parked on the bench, one of whom with a orange T-shirt is lying on the bench with his feet up escorted by couple of other drivers. And the most blood boiling part is that he saw me glaring at him from my bedroom window but he didnt buzz either from the bench or from his posture.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Fotu Anyone ?
Hi All,
Playing tennis in the mornings is becoming a little more bearable now, there's a nip in the air, dew on the grass, the sun feels pleasant on the skin and you can feel winter trying to get it's toes in the doorway. For the past many weekends I have been promising myself a photo trip early in the morning to the qutub but rains or cloud have played spoilsport, finally last weekend I managed to go down with a friend to click some snaps. Photography is a hobby which has caught on with me big time and it's great fun to go out with friends on a photo trip/expedition. So if any of you are interested in this hobby, you are welcome to discuss,share your photo's and even plan small photo trips together. With Dussehra round the corner I can't wait to attempt some fireworks & colorful Ravan images.
Playing tennis in the mornings is becoming a little more bearable now, there's a nip in the air, dew on the grass, the sun feels pleasant on the skin and you can feel winter trying to get it's toes in the doorway. For the past many weekends I have been promising myself a photo trip early in the morning to the qutub but rains or cloud have played spoilsport, finally last weekend I managed to go down with a friend to click some snaps. Photography is a hobby which has caught on with me big time and it's great fun to go out with friends on a photo trip/expedition. So if any of you are interested in this hobby, you are welcome to discuss,share your photo's and even plan small photo trips together. With Dussehra round the corner I can't wait to attempt some fireworks & colorful Ravan images.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Are we witnessing the death of our festivals?
How frightening a thought it is to realise that its very much possible that soon our children would hear of our festivals only in their curriculum books and never get to enjoy them....... that our children would get sucked into all kinds of artificial source of entertainment out of sheer boredom and there is little we can do about it...if we dont act now!
Richa and myself was discussing this issue today morning and couldnt help feel sorry for our kids on one hand and get frustrated on the other at our changing social priorities.
The question here is can we do something to prevent this from happening atleast in Malibu Towne? Why is it that last year we celebrated Janmasthami with such fanfare at the Tower 5-6 portico but this year we didnt? Do you know the reason? Well it seems last year's volunteers (nothing to do with MEPL or MCRWA) were repriminded for having not made the effort of personally "SENDING" prasad to each household who contributed money!!!! Well, my question to all this narrow minded unfortunate literates is that....did you contribute for home delivery of prasad or to enjoy a festival???
We had a grand Diwali couple of years back but thereon the festival scene in Malibu has been bleak. Like one of our coresidents recently commented " bolne wale bahut hain par karne wale bahut kam" :)
I remember when we were small we used to look forward to all the festivals...be it Holi, Durga Puja, Janmasthami, Saraswati Pujo, Laxmi Puja, Ganesh Chaturthi Diwali, Christmas, Guru Gobind Singh's Birthday, Eid for the Kheer, 26th January (not a festival but a day to celebrate still), 15th August (not another holiday but a day to rejoice our independence...try and compare this day with 4th of July :)
But do you see that excitement in our kids (apart from the chance to burst crackers in Diwali?) Well, we can hardly blame them. Where is the exposure? To give you an example, I was pleasantly surprised on 15th August to hear drum rolls, group songs etc...only to realise its celebration of Independence day and that it is happening in Uniworld with much fanfare. What did we the elite Malibu Towners do? I felt ashamed of myself for having treated the day as yet another holiday.
Would like to make this outburst an opportunity to come together to make sure that we take some time out to celebrate our festivals before they lose their meaning behind the much hyped nonsensical Friendship Days, Valentine's Day which today's kids seem to prefer to celebrate.
To make a beginning, lets come together to celebrate Diwali. The scale and the grandeur doesnt matter ...lets put up something. Count Richa and myself in...if there are more of you who would like to join hands it could be fun.
Richa and myself was discussing this issue today morning and couldnt help feel sorry for our kids on one hand and get frustrated on the other at our changing social priorities.
The question here is can we do something to prevent this from happening atleast in Malibu Towne? Why is it that last year we celebrated Janmasthami with such fanfare at the Tower 5-6 portico but this year we didnt? Do you know the reason? Well it seems last year's volunteers (nothing to do with MEPL or MCRWA) were repriminded for having not made the effort of personally "SENDING" prasad to each household who contributed money!!!! Well, my question to all this narrow minded unfortunate literates is that....did you contribute for home delivery of prasad or to enjoy a festival???
We had a grand Diwali couple of years back but thereon the festival scene in Malibu has been bleak. Like one of our coresidents recently commented " bolne wale bahut hain par karne wale bahut kam" :)
I remember when we were small we used to look forward to all the festivals...be it Holi, Durga Puja, Janmasthami, Saraswati Pujo, Laxmi Puja, Ganesh Chaturthi Diwali, Christmas, Guru Gobind Singh's Birthday, Eid for the Kheer, 26th January (not a festival but a day to celebrate still), 15th August (not another holiday but a day to rejoice our independence...try and compare this day with 4th of July :)
But do you see that excitement in our kids (apart from the chance to burst crackers in Diwali?) Well, we can hardly blame them. Where is the exposure? To give you an example, I was pleasantly surprised on 15th August to hear drum rolls, group songs etc...only to realise its celebration of Independence day and that it is happening in Uniworld with much fanfare. What did we the elite Malibu Towners do? I felt ashamed of myself for having treated the day as yet another holiday.
Would like to make this outburst an opportunity to come together to make sure that we take some time out to celebrate our festivals before they lose their meaning behind the much hyped nonsensical Friendship Days, Valentine's Day which today's kids seem to prefer to celebrate.
To make a beginning, lets come together to celebrate Diwali. The scale and the grandeur doesnt matter ...lets put up something. Count Richa and myself in...if there are more of you who would like to join hands it could be fun.
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