Mumbai...my city my life...

Hi frnds,

Wishing you very happy Parsi new year , Ramadaan , Shravan....

I'm Priyanka. Born and brought up in Mumbai..The city which never sleeps...

Don't worry I'm not gonna to introduce what Mumbai is and what not. But I would like to share some memories of this Mahanagari in just few words....Hope you like it...(Fingers crossed)

Currently I'm living in Kuala Belait,Brunei..Thousand miles away from Mumbai.Every night before sleeping I recollect what I ve done today.and every night I miss my wonderful days I spend with my friends,my parents ,my office colleagues and everyone till now I come acrossed.

This post is not related systematic description.While reading you may wonder why she is written this at this point of time.But its like full of my mood swinging on joy,cherishing memories.

Balmohan..My school

I remember the time when I go to school ,Balmohan Vidyamandir via  bus.Every time i fight with friends to sit across window.Mostly I succeeded but even If I failed in fighting ,We divided window in half parts.I always take help of big brother to threaten them a lot.It too had fun doing dadagiri.(beating bullies).IT was top secret for both of us but my mother scolded me once other parents complain her about me.

With my papa I had visited many hotels in dadar, parel area.We visited some typical choices of hotels often.There was reason behind it.

Can you believe can any restaurant retained its taste for more than 20 years.Yes It does.
Aswad Hotel ,Prakash Hotel ,Vada Pav near Samarth Vyayam Mandir near Shivaji park.Those all were just great.
I guess still after 20 years taste of these hotels remains same...It was really uniqueness of those hotel serving us
And how much I should count..Vada pav near Dadar Station, Chhabildas Vada pav ,Vada Pav at lalbaug ganpati Visarjan ,endless taste..Here I really forgive myself If Im not mentioning Vada at Balmohan school.consecutive 10 years we survived on it.

chhabildas vada

So where were we are.Yes on childhood days of mine.I remember festival days of Mumbai.The most famous among them are Diwali (festival of light), Ganesh Chaturthi ,Navratra ,Holi (festivals of color) , Gudipadava (New year of Maharashtrian),Dahi handi, and many more holy days of shhravan.

Diwali Celebration

Among festivals we often visit my ants house at borivali and kalachowki.There we all siblings being as kids had hell of fun. In ganpati days I visit ganpati idols at parel ,lalbaug with my father.Then Navratra at kamgar maidan organised by Uncle followed by bangali devi at shivaji park.Last but the not least 5 days of Diwali. Diwali comes after our semester exam with tremendous 25 days of holidays.Lanterns ,diyas, rangoli ,diwali faral , utanyachi anghol everything made my mark on mind since early days.Still we follows it very ritually.
In summer days I spent my entire vacation at my Uncle( mom;s brother) house in kokan.

marine drive

Next , last days of school and starting days of Ruia College, I enjoyed every bit of life. Five garden ,hindu colony ,enjoying chat at parel (pani puri shev puri ragda pattice what ever)Rainy days at marine Drive ,Hot n sour corn,Tea/coffee at manis hotel, Street shopping at fashion street ,linking road ,Ranade road for Diwali shopping,vyapri peth in navrata days ,roaming alone any where with or without friends at church gate, movie watching ,bunking lectures ,jumping in mud like hell at shivaji park , udyan ganesh mandir ,outing at restaurants as DPs  for pavbhaji, delhi darbar chicken, bhendi bazaar kawab ,persian darbar tandoori ,Manis idli sambar , Juice at haji ali , Siddhivinayak mandir prasad ,badshah falloda at crowford market ,casata kulfi at masjid ,Misal pav at prakash hotel , batata vada at Chhabildas , thanda gola at ganpati days, ice cream softy at King circle,nebula ,Gypsy , french fries at bandra mc donalds, mahim halwa sweet, tandoor and kawab sold at mahim, fishmarket of citylight and mahim, Shitla devi temple,  last some home made not many more food by my lovely mom... n pappa too.Those were really fabulous 5 years.

Then after my ruia days till 12th std, I persuaded Engineering coarse outside Mumbai.near to Pune, at Ahemadnagar college.I stayed in hostel one more golden time of my life.Those days also I ll write one more post for it.

After returning to Mumbai finishing engineering ,I got job in VSNL,Fort in 2007 .Again cycle starts exploring new places , new friends.
VSNL aka TATA situated just in front of fashion street along with MTNL , BSNL buildings like peak of eagle.

VSNL blg now TATA

That premises have buildings in Gothic style. It has style of British mark everywhere.
After lunch ,with my female colleagues I roam around fashion street and after office our fac stops of hanging out were Gate way of India , Leopold cafe , colaba streets  for shopping for beads , bracelets ,earrings.We also visit kala ghoda festival fewer times and some times at globus and west India ... (using its washroom at emergency... hhhaha)

After VSNL ,I got in Reliance, DAKC. It was not office it was totally resort.Spread around 10 acres of area ,(I guess so) provided different variety of cuisine among its 6 food courts 24 *7.
In reliance we used to visit vashi , In orbit mall, Raghuleela mall. Other than shopping these malls provides unique taste of food items that satisfies your hunger.

In Mumbai ,, you thirst of hunger satisfies at any moment of day night. You can easily get anda Bhurji , pav Bhaji , Chicken ,pani Puri at every inch of road you visit.

I love my city..Though currently I'm far away from my parents my best friend aarti and deepshikha..I feel still I'm surrounded by that noise of people ,noise of car , bus everything....

I miss Mumbai ..my love...My city...My life...

marine drive at night.

 Note:- Images for this post google courtesy.