Fun time

"Hallo- haan, mein bol raha hoon"(Hallo-yes,it's me speaking)
"Haan, kya chal raha hai?"(Yes, what's going on?)
"Munna so gaya ya abhi bhi ro raha hai?"(Has Munna gone to sleep or is he still crying?)
"Haan, mein bus ke liye wait kar raha hoon."(Yes, I'm waiting for the bus)
(The person on the opposite side must've said, shocked"Bus? What bus? You're going to Dubai on a plane, na, not on a bus?")
"Arre, woh bus nahin, yeh airport ka bus hai- humko uthaakar plane tak le jaata hai"(arre,not that bus, this is the airport bus-it will pick us up and drop us at the plane)
"Theek hai, meine plane mein pahunchke phone karta hoon"(Ok, I'll call you from the plane when I reach it)
----------
"Haan, pappa, mein airport pahunch gaya. Nahin, koi problem nahin hua".(Yes, Pappa, I reached the airport. No,no problems)
"Haan, mein Dubai pahunch ke phone karoonga"(Yes, I'll call when i reach Dubai airport)
---------
" 24 C,D,E- yeh apni seats hain...sab log ek ek karke gothva jaao"....witness a  mad flurry of activity as hubby,wife and kid rush to place luggage on rack and occupy the three seats".(24 C,D,E- these are our seats- everyone settle down one by one)
---------
"Aapan ne thoda khakhra ane naasto rakhvo joiye, nahin, jyaan sudhi aa loko jamvanu laave?(We should have kept some khakhra and snacks, to while away the time till these people serve food)
---------
"Haan, Pappa, hoon Dubai airport pahunchi gayo".(Yes, Pappa, I reached Dubai)
---------
Always such a refreshing way to begin the day- conversations galore, right from Abad to Dubai, from entry to one airport to exit from the other."
---------
In a way, I envy these people- with me travelling the way I have been lately, my family treats it as if I'm going from Baroda to Ahmedabad and back-so, they don't even wake up fully in the wee hours of the morning at 5 AM, when I leave the flat...a sleepy 'bye'...hehehe!!(That's the way it should be, frankly-the more emotions when a person's going abroad, the more the tension in the mind when abroad and wondering what's going on at home. Don't you agree?)

Comments

Lazy Pineapple said…
hahha...funny conversations..especially the one in which the dad is asking about the bus and the Khakra one....

When travelling abroad becomes an everyday thing..I guess people around would not be soo excited :P
6/08/2010 11:16 AM
austere said…
You have made this into a up-down commute... sahi hai, boss!
6/08/2010 1:56 PM
~ Lopa said…
//sab log ek ek karke gothva jaao.

Gothva jaao? really? I thought it's gujju word ;)

Yeah it happens all the time... after marriage our most of the fights were on this topics as my in laws instructed to keep calling and when he doesn't they will and i would be annoyed till death that we are not kids, not the way i grew up...took lots of patience to deal with difference of south Gujarat and kathiyawad !
6/08/2010 4:05 PM
AmitL said…
LP...haha..indeed...but then, very people travel abroad frequently,na?don't know whether to call them lucky or unlucky-1/2 their life's spent at airports.
------
Austy-haha...ya-up/down,as in Baroda/Abad or Baroda/Surat..so tiring.
------
Haha..Lopa,yes,gothva jaao is a Gujarati word,indeed..and,they were speaking a mix of Gujarati/Hindi.:)Like many non-gujjus,who've settled there,do..like,me,sometimes.haha.:)
a big grin at your 'calling'experiences..that must've been so irritating in the beginning.:)
-----
6/09/2010 8:12 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Perception

Image
  Hi all positive people.. a topic I often think over.. it's something which helped a lot in changing my thoughts towards the positive side (Again, learned via the Secret)... and, still does, in this always continual learning curve. The subject: Perception... my own perception: Think over it, specially, your negative thoughts and emotions about people and things - you find someone to be angry, you find them to be always complaining, you hate(That's the worst negative word, according to me.. better to dislike than hate, if you have to) someone or something. Think over it... are those persons or things like that? Or, it it your perception of how they are? Have you tried to put yourself in their place to see if they are, deep inside worried about something else, and that worry comes out as irritation towards you? One of the best remedies: Smile, bless that person or those persons and wish them all the best.. if they don't change, nee, not them, but YOUR perception of them does...
Read more

Inventions and Discoveries

I'm really curious. Who invented the 'Va'. Or the 'Sha'. Or the 'Wi'. Or some such words. No, they're not some illnesses or prefixes. These are the words we invent when talking to people. I see the usage the max, specially in Baroda. Like: 1. Chai-Vaai peeni hai?(Want to have some Chai-Vaai?) 2. Naashta-Vaashta kar liya?(Did you have Naashta-Vaashta?) 3. Chutney-Vutney hai kya?( Is there any chutney-vutney?) 4. Lift-Wift nahin hai kya building mein?(Isn't there a Life-Wift in the building?) 5. Bombay-Wombay/ Dubai-Shubai kab jaa rahe ho ab?(When are you going to ....?) 6. Paise-Vaise milenge time pe ya nahin?(Will you get Paise-Vaise on time or not?) There are so many others I come across during the day, like, say speaker-veeker, phone-vone, kapde-vapde, dukaan-vukaan, that I have these rhyming words coming out of my ears, and, Arghhh!! Since the last few days, even I've started talking like this. Hopefully it won't be too rampant on my blo...
Read more

Tag:What's in your bag?

Image
(Disclaimer: all the briefcase pics are courtesy goo-gling) Sush ,nee, SS has tagged me(thanks for that,SS)-the (ahem) only guy picked to do the tag...curiosity @ what I carry in my briefcase,apparently.:) So,here goes...be ready to get shocked??Not really.. ---- Currently: Answer is : Nothing..:)hehe..why? Coz I don't carry a bag or a briefcase. Some months back, I decided that I was fed up of carrying...(Well,that appears below)...anything to work. Just decided' Khaali haath aaye the hum, khaali haath jaayenge' applies to my work place,too..and..the rest,as they say, is history..so while people look proud lugging their laptops,their lunches, et al everyday to work..and sweating away in this humid weather, I'm cool,calm, collected...no pressure on the arms,so to speak. All the 'necessities', from otrivin to homeopathic medicine to headache tabs,biscuits,sweet awla,sunflower seeds ..are kept in the drawer of my desk. ---- To continue the tag from the...
Read more