Mumbai ki Nasheli Hawa..Aaye Haaye..
Writing from a Satyam I Way Cyber Cafe in Mumbai today. My cousin Chandni was coming to the cafe so I decided to tag along. Stupid cafe has IE 5.5, and our site shows up like crap. Hadd hai yaar. 
Met up with Neeraj last night, and he has too much work to do today so doesn’t look like we will meet up today. 
Kya kare? That’s life I guess.
New Year celebrations were not too extravagant. We had planned to go to The Lawns in Juhu as it was cheap (Rs. 1500 per person), but then plan was scratched, Neeraj ended up coming to my home, and then later we left to go to Nariam Point only. Why? That will be explained in another post at another time.
Yesterday Neeraj and I went to Andheri for some shopping. I had to be home by 8 pm but we had gotten late. We changed auto rickshaws two times in hopes to get to Andheri station faster. As we are slowly moving thru traffic in the second auto rickshaw, all of a sudden his brakes fail! 
OH MY GOD! He swerved between two different auto rickshaws later colliding with a taxi. Its a good thing that traffic was moving slowly otherwise we would have been seriously injured. After colliding, Neeraj and I got out of the rickshaw without a scratch but were quite shaken by the incident.
Didn’t get a chance to meet up with Mona in Jaipur but did get her SMS. She will no longer be able to contact me as Neeraj made a fatal mistake in Jaipur. While trying to see if his Jaipur SIM card would work, he left his Mumbai SIM at his sister’s home. 
So now none of my Mumbai friends or Mona are able to contact me. 
Anyway, I do have a new number and if you want to chat with me and Neeraj send us an email @ np [at] neerajpoonam [dot] com.
Aur sab toh theek hi hai. Hope all is good with you.
Alvida. Jai Mata Di.
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January 4th, 2005 at 6:45 am
Got your mail Poonam. Will probably call you up tomorrow.. keep it switched on!!
January 4th, 2005 at 6:50 pm
Hey Poonam, nice to hear from you. I am glad you’re having fun, continue doing so.:mrgreen: I hope you’re all right after that rickshaw incidence…
Enjoy!:hyper:
~Aaina.
January 4th, 2005 at 8:36 pm
hi Poonam *hugsss* happy new year ….
ohhh that’s why, after sending you the last sms, I tried to message you again but I didn’t get any reply. Then I tried to call you but it said the mobile was off. Ohh Neeraj left the sim card in Mumbai
hiksss too bad we can’t meet but it’s ok it’s ok we will definately meet one day
How’s your holiday in India ? My holiday was great, I don’t want to go back to Indonesia, I love India
Tell your story in India and how’s the meeting with Neeraj and his family, ok ok ? 
Upsss that’s really a bad accident
luckily you and Neeraj are ok, nothing serious happened. It’s really dangerous.
Can’t wait to talk with you
January 4th, 2005 at 10:34 pm
Hey take care…autos in India can be bad…thank God u two are safe…My wishes to both…
Nice to see an update…keep enjoying…
Regs Deepak
January 5th, 2005 at 3:29 am
Break Fail
Good to know… nobody got hurt
January 5th, 2005 at 12:40 pm
hope you are fine…
have fun and don’t forget khandala… 
January 10th, 2005 at 3:53 am
Thanks Aaina! Neeraj and I are fine after the incident. Its a good thing that the traffic wasn’t fast otherwise the accident would have been 10x worse.
Kismat aachi thi aur Bhagwaan saath tha.
Monadear! I hope that everything was well with you. Ever since hearing about the tsunami Neeraj and I had been worried for you and your family. Hope all is good. I hope that your trip to India was enjoyable as well. I can’t wait to hear your stories. So sorry that we couldn’t talk on the phone.
With the whole SIM problem, everything went haywire. But soon that shall happen as well. 
Thanks Deepak for coming. Aate rehna. Hum dhyaan rakhte hain ab bahut bindaas se about which rickshaw to sit in.
Right Ankur. The accident could have been quite worse than it was. Good kismat.
Khandala toh bhool hi gaye hain Abhi. I don’t think it will happen. Thanks for dropping by.