tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post7024581327228653607..comments2024-03-29T17:19:23.201+05:30Comments on Compulsive Confessions: So, where you are putting up?eMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12716202062654957842noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-15233622250194903802007-03-25T10:30:00.000+05:302007-03-25T10:30:00.000+05:30Oho...let me say one word to you. Dwarka. I just m...Oho...let me say one word to you. Dwarka. I just moved from Bangalore to Delhi and I live in Dwarka. As is is the coolness metre is running overtime because I am not wearing this season's hideous flat ballet shoes. But it's a good excuse when you want to run away. "I have to catch the last train." In Bangalore I lived in a place that was a shade away from being a slum and had a super good time. You could buy things in the most piddly quantities, everyone was up till 11 pm so the streets were full of people and everyone had some festivities going so my parties were the least noisy. My landlady even sent me kheer in the middle of a party. It was easy to be brave then so I used to wear what I wanted while trekking to the nearest auto. In Dwarka I would like a sex change operation to feel truly comfortable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-27223260584697676722007-03-22T12:34:00.000+05:302007-03-22T12:34:00.000+05:30Congratulations! you have just taken bigotry and h...Congratulations! you have just taken bigotry and hypocrisy to a new high.<BR/>when people "regard" your comings and goings late at night, you habits and you being you in general, its "oh-so-middle-class" (read not liberated, orthodox,regressive, etc) and it curbs ur freedom to be you, your individual choices are forwned upon.<BR/>Are you not doing the same by frowning upon what they choose to believe is right and how they choose to bring up their daughters? Did anyone ever gently point out to you , that while it is your prerogative to drink, smoke, wear clothes according to your choice and be "cool", being "uncool" to you isnt really being uncool, its just other people being themselves?And if thats a problem, you need to cultivate more "cultural tolerance", the same thing you seem to expect from your middle class neighbours.Clearly liberalism as a thought-movement passed you by although you certainly "feel" touched by it.make sure some ur loyal bigot followers think of some choicy invective to write about this anonymous too.it should be fun. :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-31765530831586113482007-03-18T20:26:00.000+05:302007-03-18T20:26:00.000+05:30TM, I so agree, LA is super cool...and not just be...TM, I so agree, LA is super cool...and not just because of the weather. But you get that diversity everywhere now - what with the world becoming smaller, heck I hear dutch and german on a daily basis in my office in Bombay apart from a smattering of Bengali and Telugu.<BR/><BR/>CC: I agree with the 10,000 extra coolness points for living alone...all my Mumbaikar friends live with their parents...even the married ones, even the ones in the burbs...sigh.Pranavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10477107055610304596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-80157180043160667512007-03-18T19:33:00.000+05:302007-03-18T19:33:00.000+05:30You anyway have much more that ten thousand coolne...You anyway have much more that ten thousand coolness points...irrespective of where you live... :)Jay Sunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08617579343335812849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-13750887563092235452007-03-18T16:53:00.000+05:302007-03-18T16:53:00.000+05:30Reminds me of this one friend of mine who stayed i...Reminds me of this one friend of mine who stayed in east delhi and people would keep telling her "so you stay trans yamuna...hahahahaha" so she'd turn around and say "ya but from where i stay, YOU stay trans yamuna!"<BR/><BR/>Give it right back to them em! :)Zeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124938389441103859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-83684930943319912652007-03-18T14:36:00.000+05:302007-03-18T14:36:00.000+05:30Good one ...Talkin abt Mumbai whr ive been for 5 y...Good one ...Talkin abt Mumbai whr ive been for 5 yrs , i heard that nowadays the newer suburbs like malad have acquired some sort of cool factor tho nowhere in the league of South Mumbai. Then was in B'lore where Koramangala / Indiranagar were considered the only happening areas. Then in London I heard that East London was downmarket being a black/brown area and the whites have moved out to the suburbs. And there s notting hill whch wasnt too attractive a place to stay- and then aftr the eponymous movie acquired a new cool status. Currently in tokyo- dont know how it works here :-)flaashgordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943333204108916610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-21637777987698094262007-03-18T11:19:00.000+05:302007-03-18T11:19:00.000+05:30Raccoon, no NY hangovers for me, I've never visite...Raccoon, no NY hangovers for me, I've never visited NY. LA all the way baby! <BR/><BR/>As for coolness, what I love about LA is that I can get the best Korean food outside Korea, the best Chinese food outside China, and the best Iranian food outside Iran within a 5 mile radius. <BR/><BR/>And hear 5 different languages from 5 corners of the world in a 5 minute walk down the street. Diversity is coolness as far as I'm concerned.thalassa_mikrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01942716364297839680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-45046097189746985902007-03-18T11:05:00.000+05:302007-03-18T11:05:00.000+05:30hey can u tell me, takin out some of ur time...how...hey can u tell me, takin out some of ur time...how to put that picture along with the blog name...as u have done so..<BR/>i wud be real glad..if u can reply to this...Mirror99https://www.blogger.com/profile/06733393907568432323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-64362224779495508312007-03-18T11:01:00.000+05:302007-03-18T11:01:00.000+05:30hey confessor...have been reading ur blogs for som...hey confessor...have been reading ur blogs for some time now...<BR/>some of ur posts are real ...guuud....<BR/>like the recent address one..den that second date one...<BR/>like dem...very much..Mirror99https://www.blogger.com/profile/06733393907568432323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-28819281338401441722007-03-18T07:11:00.000+05:302007-03-18T07:11:00.000+05:30"SoBo, 'burbs!?!...dude you speak in the lingo of ..."SoBo, 'burbs!?!...dude you speak in the lingo of an elitist snob"<BR/><BR/>lol, you look like you've been truly flamed by people from SoBo - yeah its convenient to call South Bombay as SoBo and suburbs as burbs...so? whats so elitist about it? Or errmm...snobbish? you need to get out of the ghetto mentality and look at the world without those slummy blinkers.<BR/><BR/>"the kind of judgments passed by our generation"<BR/><BR/>haha, didnt you just pass a judgement up there - 'elitist', 'snobbish'! <BR/><BR/>'Bambai's NY pretensions'<BR/><BR/>Thalassa here seems to have an NY hangover. pretensions?? eh. Bombay is anytime much cooler than NY. AND Soho in NY takes its name after the London shopping district, Soho...just fyi. So much for pretensions, lol.Pranavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10477107055610304596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-3011625340960814142007-03-18T04:43:00.000+05:302007-03-18T04:43:00.000+05:30I thought this obsession with who lives where has ...I thought this obsession with who lives where has *always* been part of 'being cool' - across the world, across time. No different from dropping a thousand dollars on a tie just because it has a fancy italian name, and later bragging about it to friends.<BR/><BR/>I live in Brooklyn (I am a 'bridge and tunnel guy' in Manhattan-speak), so I hardly have any right to talk about what's cool. But everytime Manhattanites snivel about my uncool address, I show them my roof and my backyard, and my neighborhood bottle-shop where the bartender *actually* knows me.<BR/><BR/>As for bombay, you're better off living comfortably east of the tracks than living in a hole westside/townside. And if people judge you on that, you can ask them to shove it.. you probably don't want their company in any case.Heh Hehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00221367276532123230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-6407457291976316122007-03-17T19:46:00.000+05:302007-03-17T19:46:00.000+05:30Address matters here but again Bombay is smart eno...Address matters here but again Bombay is smart enough to consider convenience. I moved from the west to the east because traffic screwed up my life before. And yes, I also live in the suburbs now after 10 years in South Bombay. Well, today I have some friends who look forward to coming all the way to party at my place, whenever I call them. Nobody looks down on anybody for where they live. <BR/>It's a general view, a common opinion that people used to have about the east and the west. But I dont think today anybody feels superior or inferior about location when they meet someone personally.<BR/>Living in Bombay is kind of community or profession oriented too.anumitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04801367425344899569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-48842857636588214262007-03-17T12:21:00.000+05:302007-03-17T12:21:00.000+05:30Great blog...I totally relate to most of the studd...Great blog...I totally relate to most of the studd you blog about...<BR/><BR/>I will be back :)<BR/><BR/>NoojesQueenmatraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10028135290830157457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-90016242448552433992007-03-16T23:53:00.000+05:302007-03-16T23:53:00.000+05:30"as does being on the other side of the sea here."..."as does being on the other side of the sea here."<BR/><BR/>well, em, that would mean living in the sandy expanse of Dubai! or Mogadishu, i guess!<BR/><BR/>All that apart, i agree with egghead. i lived in thane and went to college in fort, all the way across the island and loved both of it! even the travel! it's just the people around you...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-42148478070145240922007-03-16T23:15:00.000+05:302007-03-16T23:15:00.000+05:30SoBo? Ha ha ha!!! Where did that come from - SoHo ...SoBo? Ha ha ha!!! Where did that come from - SoHo I presume? Bambai's NY pretensions are hilarious. <BR/><BR/>Hah - I'll see your South Bombay and South Delhi and raise you a yacht sailing through the gorgeous Aegean sea, in the midst of the Cycladic islands. <BR/><BR/>When you're on your sleeping bag on the deck, looking up at a zillion stars, you stop caring about "cool" addresses anywhere. No fixed address - I'll go where the boat takes me.thalassa_mikrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01942716364297839680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-28373783498563290912007-03-16T20:00:00.000+05:302007-03-16T20:00:00.000+05:30This reminds me of a conversation I recently had w...This reminds me of a conversation I recently had with my Delhi friend. She was trying to explain to me what 'South Delhi' was all about. From what I understood, it basically just means 'land of pretentious fucks'. <BR/><BR/>She's elitist, and the sort who won't read a book unless it's won a Booker or some such. And I have a low tolerance for that kind of stupidity. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, I see all Delhiites as Delhiites and all Mumbaikars and Mumbaikars. It's only when you're sufficiently familiar with a city that your stereotypes get more refined.Raindrophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09868858360846629731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-71159974314917917032007-03-16T19:45:00.000+05:302007-03-16T19:45:00.000+05:30they're i meant not their.they're i meant not their.hedonistic hobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693480297800328494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-37402751929837782452007-03-16T19:44:00.000+05:302007-03-16T19:44:00.000+05:30@raccoon and egghead: come on guys open your eyes....@raccoon and egghead: <BR/>come on guys open your eyes. this isn't a south bombay (sobo! omagawd!!) or north bombay issue. their just the idiom through which such elitist snobbery can best be expressed. this elitism creeps up as questions about your address, your clothes, the places you hang out at, the places you vacation at, the books you read, the music you listen to, the car you drive or don't drive and how. it's foolish to take any of these judgments seriously but impossible to escape being judged. or judge yourself (SoBo, 'burbs!?!...dude you speak in the lingo of an elitist snob). also you quote my comment yet failed to read or comprehend or whatever deficiency prevented you from actually being relevant, that i am not one from the 'burbs'. <BR/><BR/>egghead you're bang on in suggesting she ditch people who make that judgment. eM you used to crib and quibble over the same south delhi (SoDe) issue. thing is we never came to east delhi to partay coz there isn't any place to partay in east delhi. ppl go to gurgaon don't they? and it's not most the convenient suburb to get to either, it's just evolved in to an area with enough bars and pubs to keep us entertained and keep us coming back. the point is no one judged you or thought less of you because of your address and the ones who did, well we aren't even friends with those kinds of people. it takes all kinds to make this world and you should ditch the 'i-don't-have-a-posh-address' victim complex about now.<BR/><BR/>and for surviging khaki chaddi'd middle class suburbia, i salute you! <BR/><BR/>ps--the scheize's you describe aren't any different from GK1 or the likes. kapisch?hedonistic hobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693480297800328494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-88745942807369464662007-03-16T17:57:00.000+05:302007-03-16T17:57:00.000+05:30oh and yes, raccoon speaks much sense as well.oh and yes, raccoon speaks much sense as well.Nikhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01131198025316915708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-70494452664577832042007-03-16T17:50:00.000+05:302007-03-16T17:50:00.000+05:30not true at all. You're just with the wrong group ...not true at all. You're just with the wrong group of friends, I imagine.<BR/><BR/>Sure a location can be inconvenient: I barely end up going to my own cousin's place because he lives at Mira Road. But that doesn't mean I judge him for where he lives.<BR/><BR/>If the people you hang out with look down upon where you live, then I'll have you know (and I've lived in bombay for all 24½ years of my life) that this isn't a "bombay thing" at all; you've unfortunately found the rare, bad apple; you're better off seeking a new bunch of peers.<BR/><BR/>I must admit though that this is much easier acknowledged than undertaken. <BR/><BR/>But I won't judge you for that either.Nikhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01131198025316915708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-42917271235287405322007-03-16T17:21:00.000+05:302007-03-16T17:21:00.000+05:30to clarify: this post wasn't so much about south b...to clarify: this post wasn't so much about south bombay and north bombay, it was about a) how your addresses define you and b) more, if we're talking real life examples here, the drift between the east and west neighbourhoods. :) which could hold true for any city, not just bombay. it does, for delhi, being on the "other" side of the yamuna classifies you totally. as does being on the other side of the sea here.<BR/><BR/>that said, carry on, do.<BR/><BR/>ps: i think that anon comment over there about people who are "not selfish" and so on is my favourite troll comment EVER. one for the books babies.<BR/><BR/>ps2: its nice that i can write about bombay without anyone piling on to me telling me i know nothing. or should i not speak too soon?eMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12716202062654957842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-91352884328682017402007-03-16T16:41:00.000+05:302007-03-16T16:41:00.000+05:30these things are inevitable in societies.. but I d...these things are inevitable in societies.. but I dont see any reason why any south delhite (or bombayite) shd feel upper class.. i have seen some of the shittiest ppl with zero coolness from those parts of the city! :p<BR/><BR/>I am staying alone in the crime capital of india.. tho my parents also live in the same city.. I wonder how much coolness that gets me :p :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-5972807608578814562007-03-16T16:24:00.000+05:302007-03-16T16:24:00.000+05:30''whoever told you that in Mumbai they don't care ...''whoever told you that in Mumbai they don't care about where you live probably lived in South Mumbai anyway.''<BR/><BR/>Whoever cribs about the north-south divide probably lives in the burbs anyway. <BR/><BR/>While I havent seen many SoBo guys turning up their noses at ppl from burbs (ok so they'd not travel up north unless it was absolutely necessary but thats because its impossible to travel up north without getting overly frustrated), I sure see many ppl from the western burbs looking down at people from the easter side of the track and thats kind of hilarious.<BR/><BR/>Heck, its mostly the people from the burbs who REALLY want to know where you live - to compare with their state and to put you into different buckets of relative well-being.Pranavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10477107055610304596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-72678695628944986422007-03-16T15:39:00.000+05:302007-03-16T15:39:00.000+05:30I clearly and undoubtedly take the cake. teedaa.I ...I clearly and undoubtedly take the cake. teedaa.<BR/><BR/>I techincally dont even live in bbay because while all my uncles and aunt migrated to the "cooler" and the "hipper" parts of mumbai my folks chose new fucking bbay.<BR/><BR/>right from people asking me "do I need to book a trunkcall to call u" to how long does it take a acquire a visa .. been there, heard it all.<BR/><BR/>sigh<BR/>sigh<BR/>and more sighs<BR/><BR/>[and I dont even live alonneee]once againhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08975202756764052257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-25316450826232900192007-03-16T12:28:00.000+05:302007-03-16T12:28:00.000+05:30I recently found out that I'd be spending more tim...I recently found out that I'd be spending more time in Bombay. Every single person I know said to me "of course, you must find a place in South Bombay!" Then when I brought up other neighborhoods that may be more convenient, some were sniffed at and others "oh, that's okay - it is almost South Bombay". Hilarious stuff.<BR/><BR/>The reality is that the city is heinously expensive (price per square foot is the same as mid-town Manhattan, rent or buy) and it takes forever to get anywhere. <BR/><BR/>So, I'm going with picking somewhere convenient and somewhat affordable. I wonder if I shall be ostracized...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com