Saturday, December 11, 2010

delhi winters and chai..

its not unusual when you start deriving vicarious pleasures from something.
In fact it is this virtual experience which enables you to strive through hard times, especially when you are working towards converting the virtual to reality.

2-3 days back i woke up ; it was a weekday and had to go to office. for the morning tea i had to go to the tea stall near my home as we ran out of gas. Seven in the morning and you find school kids going to school, hand in hand with their mummy papa .. auto rickshaw drivers watching people coming out of their homes and speculating their chances of getting this passenger for their first fare.tea stalls are already in full swing by then, because thats when people need tea the most.
its a very fresh feeling to see the start of the day. in decembers, mumbai gives you a tinge(mind you, only a tinge) of delhi. mornings are similar and nights too.. what happens between these two is poles apart from what delhi experiences in december :)

the sunlight was at just the right angle. i was sipping the morning tea at t stall and observing all this. They dont make good tea in mumbai, trust me.. have no clue what they put in their tea but its tastes highly inorganic and chemically treated.. they call it 'cutting ' ..
some places are exception though.. my office pantry serves awesome tea.. right amount of ginger and sugar and milk..

thats it.. nothing else to put here.. there nothing else which mumbai gives me when i am missing delhi.. :(