Hear n’ There

Hey, Adeel though I did get your point let me at least describe Kandla before my posts on our travails to Rolla and descriptions of Ijaza Inc. and Hot Breads. I also wish this could have included Mr. Panda and co. but you know why it cannot be so. Back to english, as spoken by common people.

Nonetheless, let me try my best to describe Kandla in as glowing context as possible.

Ha ha ha. I am so happy, my dad’s been transferred to a new place called Kandla. This place is very famous. Do you remember your class tenth when you had to mark a port called Kandla? Did you know it is one of India’s largest ports,in fact the second largest in terms of Break Bulk Seaport in terms of quantity handled yearly! Shouldn’t that just make my day, and make you so jealous that you spontaneously start burning like Sodium? This place is a some big number’s size of Delhi (0.00235422345249534542, go figure!). Look, wikipedia even has an article on this place. Though I don’t really know why the population of this place mentioned to be zero in that!

This place is so quiet and serene that you would hardly find any activity after 9 pm. Though the people of this place are filthily rich, thanks to this being such a trade hub, they probably have no time for anything other than counting the money in their banks. Perhaps that is the reason why they do not have any of the fast-food chains here. The gujratis here are all exceptionally sweet, they even eat their Dals with sugar in it.
So there are gymnasiums of course built, because too much good or gud is not good for anyone. I daily even work out in one of the gyms. It is sad that the gym here is made like the cool gyms of Mumbai and Delhi. A sad deviation from the normal way of things being done here, ah the corrupt influence of money on people. The typical Kandlaish gym should probably have been an empty room with some poles and some things to hang on. Close to mother-nature as they call it these days; bapu ishtyle. I daresay they will make for world class body builders given that the average Gujrati is either too thin or too fat. Have you ever heard of exercises for the ears? These people have, they were playing Vengaboys and Aqua at such loud volumes that my eardrums were doing work equivalent to my biceps lifiting 50 Kgs with 20 repetitions and 12 sets of it. Alas, my hearing tastes have changed since I was in third grade. The gujratis have a ’strong sense of pride’ towards the Indian culture. You seldom find English movies here, they ensure that the pirated DVDs available here are all dubbed in Hindi. My brother had a lot of fun watching Chronicles of Narnia in Hindi. The gujratis also have waged a war against piracy, they discourage piracy in all and any form. This is done by selling a game CD for Rs. 150. I can go on and on about this place. It is just so much fun to live in.

Enough, all said and done Kandla as I tell my friends is a small rich village. This place has a lot of facilities for a place as small as this, be it hotels or nice gyms. All thanks to money constantly pouring in here, and hence this place is ridiculously expensive too. The people here are peace loving and quiet. I guess that is what my problem is, too much peace is just so not on! I miss the chaos, the disorder, seeing people in mass numbers, checking out that hot tattoo on those curvy chicks at Priya (Basant Lok), clubbing at all those places and hanging out anywhere you please. This place may have the Discotheques but not the people to be in there. On top of all this, I do not have any friends here. It indeed are only people who make a city, or take your boredom away. I have lived in far worse situations and places. It not that I will never like this place, I just need to turn eighty.

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