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At 4,


I wanted to be an astronaut.

I thought my dad was superhero

My deepest desire was to be able to cross the street without holding my mom’s hand.

I didn’t knew that girls and boys were different



At 9,

I wanted to be a cricketer

I thought my dad is great

My only wish was to beat up those bullies who used to play with me.

I didn’t want to talk with any girls.



At 14,

I wanted to be poet

I thought my dad sometimes loses his sense.

My deepest desire was to learn riding a bike.

I had a big time crush on her, but could hardly tell her.



At 19,

I wanted to be an engineer.

I thought my dad is a Oldie.

My deepest desire was to be able to afford a bike.

I proposed her finally for the first time.



At 24,

I was an engineer, but I hated doing engineering work

I was convinced my dad is a complete jerk.

My deepest desire was to quit job and enter politics.

After umpteen proposals from me, she finally agreed.



At 29,

I was an MBA, I wanted to be a business head

I thought my dad isn’t that bad afterall.

My deepest desire was to own a Mercedes

Luckily, she married me.



At 34,

I wanted to become CEO

I thought my dad is a great person

My deepest desire was to write a book

Our daughter’s smile was our most cherished treasure



At 39,

I want to write a book.

My dad is a superhero

My deepest desire is to be my daughter’s superhero.

We have started planning for our retirement.



Ahh….and who said Life begins at 40.

mumbai...

Mumbai - a city of subdued morality bubbling with a frenzy of nervous energy, where every individual fights for himself, a city which gets channeled to jingoism by its resident evils, a city whose self-centre persona lacks empathy, a metropolis whose only remnant culture can’t be scripted as culture, a city with fake identity, no roots and a juxtaposed spirit. The city which under its deceptive subtle stink of dead fish metamorphosis the unsuspecting human into hollowness and makes him cherish it. It is the city which in its quest of smartness has parted ways with intellect, which walks in an unknown unyielding race to nowhere, a city which can’t be on time, it’s a city which lacks civilization.

You know you are busy when

- When you walk into a CEO’s cabin and then suddenly forget the reason why you went in


- When a person putting in 18 hours a day starts calling you ‘workaholic”

- When you consider being called “workaholic” extremely derogatory

- When you start having dinner with your left hand because you can type faster with only right hand as compared to only left hand while eating.

- When you are the only moron in office who is served breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner, tea on the table.

- When you receive over 200 mails marked “to” to you every day.

- When you put ‘having sex’ on your ‘to-do’ list for the weekend and still miss it

- When you have worked atleast 20 hours every weekend including public holidays for the last 7 months

- When you stop replying to SMS/ messages/calls / offline messages even if it is from some very sizzling hot babe asking you for a date

- When someone who speaks a bit slowly comes to talk with you, you tell him to drop a mail instead.

- When you can’t remember your dad’s cell no. and your own ATM / credit card passwords

- When the CEO asks you what time can he have a word with you about something important and you innocuously reply ‘during lunch time’

- When you ignore the SMS you receive from the bank stating your monthly salary deposit

- When you don’t have time for meeting Directors of prominent investment banks who fly from Singapore and New York just to meet you.

- When you book 4 flight tickets every week and cancel at least 2 of them and forget to take refund

- When you wake up in the morning the first thing you do is try to recall is what work in the office is pending.

- When you have no time to claim reimbursements of over Rs 1.5 lac of your bills from the accounts for the last 2 months

- When you keep extra pair of clothes in office so that you can work overnight in the office and pretend to be fresh next morning.

- When you were planning to write this post for the past 2 months and will be posting it sometime next month.