Its a car? Its garbage? Wait, its a 'Garbage- Car' !!

I have a fetish for trash ! Yes, I am a person with strange interests. It is always the most bizarre objects that catch my attention. This lookout for trash also once got my mother naming me a 'Kabadi' [hindi name for a ragpicker ] ! Actually she called me a 'South-Indian-Kabadi' but I shall enlighten on that next time . .

Heres a little story of how I found the most incredible looking trash ever :

There is a small piece of land beside the sidewalk in an area named Kadru in the city of Ranchi. Being my regular route of travel I passed that plot almost a million times before. In the daily race to meet and beat time I never gave this site a second look. One fine day, gaiting across the street something struck me. I looked up and in the midst of all the muck stood an old, almost ancient motorcar with rust reeking from every possible inch. 'Wow' ! - my first words. I ought to have a picture of it. I just did. I took out my camera [thats right ! I carry my camera everywhere I go !] but batteries had worn out. Everytime i passed by a sense of need for the picture overwhelmed me. Finally I fixed batteries for the cam and snapped the perfect picture. The onlookers failed to understand my fascination but I continued my action. You might think I am crazed too .

Only yesterday did I see, the car was gone ! City groomers are building a mall there. Maybe no one will ever feel its absence but the cadaverous piece of iron shall be missed by me . .

For all those who wish to share my experience, here is the dollar shot . .

Worth it ! :)

love,

S

I Hate Ranchi . . or do I ?

Walking down the street with a friend one day, my jaunt got disrupted by my trampling into our sacred animal's most sacred giving to us - the 'holy-cow' poo ! The facetious event drove my friend to an outburst of chuckling and rolling . To cover the embarrassment I quickly uttered my three favourite words put together - I hate Ranchi !! Yes, I do hate Ranchi. Now you may wonder, why fight with a city ? What gives ? Well, heres a little back up story for you :

I have lived in very many cities all my life. All those places have been major cities of the country. My father's job allows us to shift as soon as I get comfortable in one place. No, it is NOT the army. This vagary had done enough damage to me already and was back to do some more. I mean seriously ? give a break already will you !? The news of moving to Ranchi was finally broken to me. I cried I moaned I weeped but there was no escape. Finally the day had arrived. Since the day I set foot in the city, not a single day passed when I did not utter these three words ! I think I would have said this more than I have ever said 'mamma' or 'pappa' !! I did hate Ranchi.

Now going back to the former, that day when the poo destroyed my lovely flip flops, it occurred to me how I haven't used this phrase in so long !! I was struck ! A phrase that dominated most words I spoke in a day was suddenly a forgotten sentence . The baffled me asked herself - you still do hate Ranchi right ?! Now c'mon, don't say no ! Yes I did but i realized i never really got time to hate it anymore because even in this awful city I managed to find wonderful people . I might bicker over little things but facts cannot be gainsaid, I AM having fun ! Its not the city that you like its the people . Coming from me is stranger cause I am infact the most city oriented, superficial, materialistic person ever. Had I not given a chance I would have never known . Sure I will be soon out of this place but believe it or not I will miss it . Miss hating it too . No, I am never coming here again, not as a joke and NEVER for a holiday but I ll miss it ! Thank you those special people for making even a super crappy place like this interesting ! Oh bite me, to err is human after all :)

PS: Now now don't get me wrong, I still do hate Ranchi :p

Thank You Mr.Vijay Vittal P S :)

Wasting my time on Facebook today my friend made me realize how my blog has been stagnant for over a year now ! Wow ! I sure am lazy ;) Hence, today shall be a mark of me re-blogging again . Yes, i do realize that i have lost my only 2 followers in this entire process but hey i promise to boom back with twice the number :P

I don't have anything interesting to write as of now but I thought I might as well show off my amateur photography skill ;)

Hope you like what follows *fingers crossed*

love ,

S