Bombay Dreams

Let me state a fact. Everyone wants to go to Mumbai- the city that never sleeps or atleast they say so. No one has time for anything ,they do have time but for travelling coz that is all they do. Rarely will you find a local train empty. But travelling across mumbai for someone visiting the place is nothing less than an adventure. This wouldn't have been the case if the people there weren't as helpful as they are(just thought i'd mention this coz i think i owe them one.) So one weekend i went to Mumbai. I had big plans- Lech at babes, go places,lech at babes :D. Staying there wasn't going to be a problem because some of my friends were there - these were the same guys i had planned to roam about the city with. Got there on friday night, chatted with moi freinds for a while and crashed. We had planned to get up early and go to "the Gateway of India" and stuff but got up at the IITian Standard time- around eleven in the morning, lazed around till three when we finally decided that we'll go to Juhu beach.Off we go. Now for two guys who have no idea where what is Mumbai can be quite a handfull. So we got some advice. Initially we had planned to go the whole distance by auto but around Jogeshwari we saw the auto's meter showing 60 bucks and this place was not even close to Juhu. So we decided we'll get down and go by bus. The thought of a Mumbai bus scares the hell out of me. But gladly that was the most peceful time of the day to travel.We asked people around for directions and got down at santa cruz. Then we took another bus to the santa cruz station, crossed the station(west to east) and then from there took a bus directly to Juhu. Meanwhile it had rained for sometime and the weather was awesome. Large number of people had flocked to the beach and the beach looked a picturesque site. We roamed about for sometime, my freind got really desperate lookin at the "you know what" and we started the come back journey> thi time we decided to try the mumbai local.

Time : 18:15 santa Cruz railway station. The train was a scary site. The amount it had digorged was unfathomable. Before we could even move we were pushed by people behind us in the train.

Important note: There are two lines of Mumbai locals and both of them cross at Dadar Junction. So to go to the other line you need to switch trains here.

We got down at Dadar, switched trains and finally got down at Kanjur marg at around 07:30.

We had booked tickets earlier for Pirates of the Caribbean - 3 , 10:45 show. We were joined by one more of our friends - MGM. During the auto travel to the theatre the guys started telling me about their friends at the intern place and about how one guy puts pseud(trying to show that you're some stud) with his accent adn then it happened - MGM said " This guy puts more pseud than i do". I won't ever forget this. Btw the movie is really good and worth watchin, but theatres only. After the movie we went to MGMs room where we (me and MGM) started introducing our naive friend, lets call him satch boogie for now :D, to some really good music. The day came to an end when we crashed at 5 30 in the morning. We got up very late the next day and i had to leave at 4 in the evening so there was no time to go out. It was a pretty ordinary day. This concludes this post of mine but i won't leave you without telling you y i chose to write this -
Firstly, I hope it serves as a travel guide for all newbies to Mumbai(atleast the basics have been covered , details will be taken care of in an advanced post.)
Second and last - I have nothing else to talk about.
Thats all folks - Later.