The road more travelled

BHAVNAGAR <--> AHMEDABAD Here are a few things you will see (if ever you do) when you travel on this highway..... Flamingos Some white birdie When was the last time you saw a horizon? Salt mountain Islands? Light through clouds Salt refinery People moving from one place to another

I sold my kerchief for Rs.100/-

Unbelievable but true. I sold my old kerchief for Rs.100.Where? What? Who?....At Ahmedabad, Reliance mart. Cant believe it right? They were ready to buy any piece of clothing for Rs.100/-. Well the story is as follows: I went there looking to buy a kurta and found a good one. Then the store guy tells me that there is an offer where any piece of clothing can be exchanged for a coupon of Rs.100 which can be redeemed for anything above Rs.500/-. I wished I had known about this offer earlier. Alas, I had to get rid of something very soon. The first thing that came to my mind were my socks. Then thought a little harder and asked him if a kerchief would come under the offer. He told yes and I exchanged it. Fortunately, I did not have anything else to buy and did not cross the Rs.1000 mark, else I would have been tempted to get another 100 bucks discount giving away another clothing of mine. All I could think of then was playing strip poker and losing it ;-)

Maar dala !!!

Maar dala!! Aur woh bhi bookha maar dala. Ahmedabad is a very different place compared to the various south Indian cities. I had been there for the last three days and came back today to Bhavnagar. It is a 3hr drive from Bhavnagar(where my parents stay). We started off today morning at 10.10 am from the guest house(in Ahmedabad) having planned that we will first go to a restaurant, eat breakfast and then start our 3 hour journey. We went from one restaurant to another and all of them had just opened and were cleaning the places at 10.30 in the morning. It seems all food is served only after 11 am or 11.30 am depending on the restaurant. What non-sense??? I have never seen anything like this anywhere in the south Indian cities. And by the way, there are no "fast-food" restaurants here like in Bangalore. In Bangalore, most of the fast food restaurants are up and start serving by 6.45 am. And in Tamilnadu, it is much earlier depending on the city where you are of course. Had to travel an hour on the highway to get to a daaba/restaurant which is one of the only two eatable places on the highway for us. P.S: I have not got anything against Ahmedabad, but it is just that this wasn't what I expected from an upcoming Major city in the country.

Exotic fruits cheaper than regular vegetables

Strange are the times in India. Stranger are the costs of the fruits and vegetables in Bhavnagar/Ahmedabad. The costs of a kg of the not so ordinary fruits like peach, litchi, apricot, plum, jamoon are cheaper or equal to cost to that of the cost of a kg of the usual vegetables. My mom is taking some real advantage of this situation. She went to the bazaar the other day and bought more of these exotic fruits (I have never before seen a real peach, apricot, litchi and green badam) than the vegetables. During my childhood days these fruits used to come up only in memory games and scrabble. So I have heard of them and never actually seen them. I started seeing their pictures of these only during the last 3 years in the tetra packs of the fruit juices being sold in the provision stores. And now when I open the fridge for a quick bite, I see peaches and litchis waiting for me. I used to fancy the strawberries and the litchies. But now after eating them, I feel that the ordinary fruits (Mango, grapes, musk melon, chikku) are better than these extra-ordinary fruits. There is a certain sourness about these fruits that I dont seem to like. But these fruits taste great in their flavours in the 1 litre fruit juice packs with a hell of a quantity of sugar added in them.