Saturday, December 31, 2011

Morning woes!

 

Is it possible to get lost one fine morning, driving down the same road that one has been taking to and from work every single working day in the last six months?

Seems like it is.

I DID get lost today! And it was around 10 AM in the morning!

No, I wasn’t sleep-driving and No, I was absolutely not having a hangover. It isn’t New Year’s eve yet.

Not that I ever get drunk and have a hangover. For that matter, I don’t drink at all. Rather, I can’t. Something to do with my system never being able to metabolise alcohol so that I just end up falling asleep for the next 14 hours straight. Naturally, I have never been able to figure out the pleasures of drinking!

Anyway, coming back to the point.

Yes, I knew the fog was bad. (Didn’t you notice the pictures on Shadow’s Post yesterday?) But I never imagined it would be THIS bad.

As soon as I braved out of our colony gates, I suddenly found myself in this never ending, all encompassing white blur! How was one supposed to drive when you can’t even see three metres ahead of you?

The headlamps were useless. Not entirely of course. They would, combined with the distress lights, help others spot me. But that didn’t serve my purpose. I needed to spot others!

It was daytime..late morning in fact.  And I almost missed the sharp right turn outside our gates and crashed into the thick hedge outside the school next door!

Alright. Slow down!

But now what? No car in sight to follow. Or worse,was there a car/bus/lorry right in front of me that I couldn’t see?

I tried to map the road in my brain. Come on! Of course I can do this, I told myself. I know this road like the back of my hand. (To tell you the truth, I don’t know the back of my hand that well. Why people refer to this phrase I could never fathom but it repeatedly kept coming back to me as I struggled to find one familiar landmark!)

Anyway, I did know this road perfectly well. Every curve ahead, every uneven bump, each tree at the traffic lights. I certainly could find my way to the highway and then there would be heavy traffic that I could follow.

I don’t know where exactly I took a wrong turn but I could sense I was lost in the maze of those identical roads in Dwarka. Visibility was down to just my car bonnet!

I don’t think I will ever blame those airlines when fog delays their flights. Even with the best of navigation systems it would be terrifying to take off a huge trans-ocean liner when you can barely see your headlights! (Do aircrafts have headlights or are they called something else? Well, never mind)

For one quarter of an hour, I navigated those (un)familiar roads solely helped by gut instinct and primitive sense of direction.

Wasn’t I glad when suddenly, to my left, there was traffic!

AH! I was entering the familiar high traffic zone that I always dreaded, cursed, and complained about. The stretch of about 3 kilometres which invariably messed up the average mileage of my car.

But today, I couldn’t have been happier to see the traffic crossing which always meant the start of a bumper to bumper row of cars moving at 15 km per hour!!

Guess whoever said there is a meaning and purpose in everything was right.

Today I understood the greater meaning behind traffic congestion!!

 

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Screened!

 

See this?

This is not photo-shopped. This is the legendary Delhi fog! And at 10 AM too!

 

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At 12 Noon!

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This is how it looked just a week back

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And my older brother and sister can’t be bothered to check it out! Sigh….

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…Now they have even hogged the cosiest sleep-seats in the house!

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Snooze..zzz..

Shadow

 

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Art for Art’s Sake

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Awaiting Expression’





For more ‘Shadow Shots’ please go visit Harriet’s beautiful meme ‘SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY’.

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Monday, December 26, 2011

Coldest Christmas in 10 years!!

 

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1.1 degrees Celsius right in the middle of Delhi. Some fog. Some humidity. No rains. Definitely no snow. Coldest ever Christmas and the coldest December day in 10 years!!

 

We elected to stay cosy indoors. Yummy food, a good movie and plenty of snoozing by the electric fire. Even the laziest,fattest Persian feline must have been out-snoozed by now!

 

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas.

Happy Holidays to you all.

 

Bless you…

Ginger,Buddy and Shadow

 

Monday, December 5, 2011

Kindness

 

As M.K.Gandhi stepped aboard a train one day, one of his shoes slipped off and landed on the track. He was unable to retrieve it as the train was moving. To the amazement of his companions, Gandhi calmly took off his other shoe and threw it on the track to land close to the first. Asked by a fellow passenger why he did so, Gandhi smiled.

“ The poor man who finds the shoes lying on the track will now have a pair he can use”, he replied.

 

It just takes a little will to be kind. Not power, not riches, not time….just a little will. You just need to find it in your heart.

 

 

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