tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post116808620473484108..comments2024-03-29T17:19:23.201+05:30Comments on Compulsive Confessions: The Exile Files (the truth is out there)eMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12716202062654957842noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1169527761137821392007-01-23T10:19:00.000+05:302007-01-23T10:19:00.000+05:30Linking road and cyber-cafe... wasnt that hard to ...Linking road and cyber-cafe... wasnt that hard to find your blog.. :)...had a fun time last evening...and yep this girl can sing....Welcome to Mumbai..Take careAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168898891162270372007-01-16T03:38:00.000+05:302007-01-16T03:38:00.000+05:30club IX is what TC is like? that sounds hidous. ha...club IX is what TC is like? that sounds hidous. hard rock is good once all the poeple leave and you can actually get a table or stand anywhere in peace. and no cute boys, but loads of cute girlsScritchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10076214799969441827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168769530786188742007-01-14T15:42:00.000+05:302007-01-14T15:42:00.000+05:30Hard Rock, is where u should be at.I read a scrap ...Hard Rock, is where u should be at.I read a scrap of your writings in a men's mag today...which are of course more fun then the cosmo/ elle/etc( although i flip thru those too)and then i read ur blog. <BR/>Not only is your blog interesting but a JMC now in mumbai, just cinched the deal, and i finally created a blog after having thought about it for long enough.<BR/>Well, i've been in mumbai nearly 3yrs. I still have this Love -hate thing with the city. ;-)<BR/>Well, TC is a thing i did in the JMC days, din't know that it was still around. In all my visits to delhi which are as frequent as every month. No one ever mentioned TC, so i assumed it was a thing of the past era. Its nice to know they have the same music.<BR/>Am neither a Toto's or a Leo's fan. But, i do like Hard Rock a lot.<BR/>It's great that you are liking bbay already, i think i hated it in the beginning but the place grows on u. And yes, anytime is party time in bombay.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168716321319758422007-01-14T00:55:00.000+05:302007-01-14T00:55:00.000+05:30as someone who grew up in a metropolitan urban set...as someone who grew up in a metropolitan urban setting i can assure you not everyone is immune to such things as the teeming human squalor that mumbai also is aside from being everything else that people have been gushing about in the comments section here. maybe the wide open spaces of delhi allow us to compress our human squalor in to servant alleys in never-go-there-nagars whereas in pichko'd up mumbai you just gotta cope with all kinds of existence.<BR/><BR/>but glad you're enjoying it, it's new it's bound to thrill. it's mumbai, it promises to thrill. shorts in jan and thigh high gumboots in july. <BR/><BR/>:) and oi monkey caps in mumbai.....hehehehe idiots.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168698823074594662007-01-13T20:03:00.000+05:302007-01-13T20:03:00.000+05:30Mumabai (Bomb-bay if u will) needed another blast....Mumabai (Bomb-bay if u will) needed another blast..so delhi sent a bombshell over.. more cumming!!! -UnSaneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168624067308663052007-01-12T23:17:00.000+05:302007-01-12T23:17:00.000+05:30I love your blog!!!..I swear..its like the best bl...I love your blog!!!..I swear..its like the best blog tht ever existed! :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168480155518685952007-01-11T07:19:00.000+05:302007-01-11T07:19:00.000+05:30Welcome to Amchi Mumbai! I dont live there anymore...Welcome to Amchi Mumbai! I dont live there anymore. I got exiled in the nineties, after the lease at my folks place expired, like it does for everyone who turns 18. But I do have tenure, which gives me rights to welcome folks to this crazy city. I do have a secret desire to have a few beers at Leo's (did you say Leopold's? Thats so .. err ... neveau-school!) and walk home. These days when I visit SoMu (SoMa and SoHo's distant cousin!), it's always something I do at the last hour, and then rush to make it to my flight or train. Ahh nostalgia, red in tooth and claw ...Lemmor Ergnodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02404253034910910407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168352086863857552007-01-09T19:44:00.000+05:302007-01-09T19:44:00.000+05:30Don't know about the pasta at Basilico (Colaba)......Don't know about the pasta at Basilico (Colaba)... try the mashed potatoes ( is not on the menu, but they make it for you :) ), the sauteed mushrooms and the Tuna Salad...and then the desserts !!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168341843742581382007-01-09T16:54:00.000+05:302007-01-09T16:54:00.000+05:30bricks: hah! i think that might be taking it a lit...bricks: hah! i think that might be taking it a little bit too far :) i'm still a delhi girl. but, thanks.<BR/><BR/>anon1: i actually haven't been to shiro yet, though i've heard many mixed reviews. my next stop, i think :) but i don't know what the man LOOKS like, sadly enough. sigh. i could've been sitting right next to him.<BR/><BR/>beks: ahhh, then perhaps the mallu in me is emerging, a little late in the day though, no?<BR/><BR/>anon2: apologies. abject apologies. :) but it SHOULD have an apostrophe, right? i mean leopold's, would be belonging to leopold, unlike tc, which is just a short form of turquoise cottage.<BR/><BR/>jay sun: i've heard of that also, although i was told it's pasta, gujju style :)<BR/><BR/>jack: thank you! and have been to two out of three of those, which is not bad i think. :)<BR/><BR/>leo: enthusiasm is good. exclaimation marks even better. <BR/><BR/>tiny black cat: you know, i don't think so. :) it WAS slightly nippy two days ago, but now the a/c's on full blast at work and not a goosebump do i have.<BR/><BR/>sneha: i hope so, dude, i really do. :)<BR/><BR/>sakshi: thank you, thank you. it was lovely meeting you also. and salman khan is very nice, since you concede to my point. :)<BR/><BR/>armchair philosopher: i know, but first opinions, a wise person once said to me, are the best opinions. coz that's when you're operating from your gut and all.<BR/><BR/>ir: absolutely dude. everyone here that i meet will soon be of the same opinion.<BR/><BR/>rohini: it WAS really seedy. pollyesther i went to a few years ago, (link, if anyone's interested, and because i feel like pimping my archives: http://thecompulsiveconfessor.blogspot.com/2005/01/nope-im-not-home-yet.html) sigh. i sound so young.<BR/><BR/>anon3: i suppose so. but then there's also making the new memories, right?<BR/><BR/>cale: you've been promising to visit me for ages now also. :P hmph.<BR/><BR/>pri: thanks for the link! but yeah, adventures in delhi is a little bit redundant now. well, at least till i go home on holiday or something. <BR/><BR/>whitelight: i know!! there wasn't any music, but the pint of wine made up for everything. and they're not exactly WIDE roads, as in not Delhi-wide, but wider, than some of the ones i've seen. <BR/><BR/>iz: you sound just like all my friends. :)<BR/><BR/>anon4: thanks! i've been to most of those already though, the busy tourist type person that i am. :)<BR/><BR/>anon5: thank you, like i said earlier, it's a place i've been meaning to check out. :)<BR/><BR/>sherriff: actually, no. i mean, maybe as someone who has grown up in a metropolitan urban Indian city, i'm terribly immune to these things, but i actually haven't noticed significantly more slums here than delhi has.<BR/><BR/>(and just once, because i'm a little bit homesick: chirag delhi; iit; khan market; nehru place; mehrauli; hauz khas; safdurjung; def col. and tomorrow is wednesday also. oh dear.)eMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12716202062654957842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168332437655732622007-01-09T14:17:00.000+05:302007-01-09T14:17:00.000+05:30and u missed hundred of slums everywhere...i thoug...and u missed hundred of slums everywhere...i thought that is the first thing someone notices about Mumbai...oops they dont make happy readingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168258168224866582007-01-08T17:39:00.000+05:302007-01-08T17:39:00.000+05:30wow wide roads and trees?!!! which part of the cit...wow wide roads and trees?!!! which part of the city are you living in?whitelighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712723381825195447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168257314162447262007-01-08T17:25:00.000+05:302007-01-08T17:25:00.000+05:30The only problem with Leopold is lack of music (th...The only problem with Leopold is lack of music (they too had a juke-box many decades ago). They have music upstairs but level one is not the real thing.whitelighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712723381825195447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168243705761151552007-01-08T13:38:00.000+05:302007-01-08T13:38:00.000+05:30GO to Shiro, gorgeous and pretentious Japanese lou...GO to Shiro, gorgeous and pretentious Japanese lounge thingie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168238407735298642007-01-08T12:10:00.000+05:302007-01-08T12:10:00.000+05:30Try out Seijo N Soul Dish, Hawain Shack,Poison.......Try out Seijo N Soul Dish, Hawain Shack,Poison....all in the vicinity of Linking Rd....Njoy Mumbai.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168232973609110012007-01-08T10:39:00.000+05:302007-01-08T10:39:00.000+05:30I knew you'd LOVE bombay! Everyone does!I knew you'd LOVE bombay! Everyone does!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168230100204430402007-01-08T09:51:00.000+05:302007-01-08T09:51:00.000+05:30I hope its okay that i blogrolled you. Although i ...I hope its okay that i blogrolled you. Although i might have to change your name now that you've moved and all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168225488481704222007-01-08T08:34:00.000+05:302007-01-08T08:34:00.000+05:30oy, tell us when you're gunna do the bombay thing ...oy, tell us when you're gunna do the bombay thing and come to pune for a imsickandtiredofbombayletsgetshitfacedinpunethisweekend type weekend, ya?<BR/><BR/>you know l'email.<BR/><BR/>love loveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168211499755049032007-01-08T04:41:00.000+05:302007-01-08T04:41:00.000+05:30Isnt it that we carry so many bitter and sweet mem...Isnt it that we carry so many bitter and sweet memories of the past that it takes some time adjusting to new things? Be it new job, new apartment or a new city for that matter. May be its just how firmly you are attached to those memories will decide (to a LARGE extent) if you will like something new or not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168187944466944642007-01-07T22:09:00.000+05:302007-01-07T22:09:00.000+05:30It's difficult to have lukewarm feelings about Mum...It's difficult to have lukewarm feelings about Mumbai - guess yu will figure out soon enough whether you love or hate it.<BR/><BR/>Club IX is really seedy isn't it? It was really hot and happening about 5 years ago but has gone dowhill since then.... check out Poison and PollyestherRohinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11234347487003665907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168158922255295652007-01-07T14:05:00.000+05:302007-01-07T14:05:00.000+05:30as you said, this is your hoenymoon period,so mumb...as you said, this is your hoenymoon period,so mumbai seems all rose water !<BR/><BR/>what is with the "all people from delhi are not bad" as if "goodness" is the membership privelage that comes with living in a particular city<BR/><BR/>delhi and delhiwallas are still BETTERAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168153583400734602007-01-07T12:36:00.000+05:302007-01-07T12:36:00.000+05:30hehe. completely agree with leo there. that said, ...hehe. completely agree with leo there. that said, bombay does sound interesting - but i'd wait for the honeymoon period to end before forming really concrete opinions :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168152125607952342007-01-07T12:12:00.000+05:302007-01-07T12:12:00.000+05:30Hey..babes "Welcome" to the Mumbai Blogging Gang. ...Hey..babes "Welcome" to the Mumbai Blogging Gang. Was great to meet you last night. <BR/><BR/>And Yes ! Delhi rocks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168147918145774512007-01-07T11:01:00.000+05:302007-01-07T11:01:00.000+05:30wow, up here in calcutta it's around 12 degrees an...wow, up here in calcutta it's around 12 degrees and at bombay it's 26 or 27? do they <I>never</I> have winter?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168125451793634112007-01-07T04:47:00.000+05:302007-01-07T04:47:00.000+05:30wow. i have never seen so much enthusiasm (and so ...wow. i have never seen so much enthusiasm (and so many exclamation marks) in one place in all my life.Leo Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00325785953464914250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-1168116493986155612007-01-07T02:18:00.000+05:302007-01-07T02:18:00.000+05:30Welcome to the city with the big heart eM. I'm sur...Welcome to the city with the big heart eM. I'm sure you will fall in love with it soon. Btw (altho you might have been told by your many frnz by now) some pubs to goto: Toto's, Shack & Tavern.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com