Matheran-walker's paradise

Walk for 8 hours straight, each some chocoloate fudge and chikki and then, catch a train from lonavla to karjat and from karjat down ahead to neral, a few kilometers from those billions of busy bodies in mumbai and you are near the foot of a hill station that cannot be traversed by any buses. Up you go by sumo, who droppes you at the gate of the hill station(giristhan) for a fifty and paying a tax of 25 to enter the town, you get in to find only one mode of transport-Horseback.
The first thing that caught our attention as we walked in was a flying squirrel. Next we found a guy with exquisite fotos of a resort who kept running with us, pleading us to have a look. The price, five hundred per day for a cottage with two rooms, A COLOR T.V.and what more could we want. Walking for another half an hour, we finally reached aa run down place, on the outskirts with a very bad pool table and fully wooden custom made t.t. table. switching on the T.V, we spent half a day with it when the stomachs started rumbling and off we went under the able guidance of Praneet to the local bazaar, where we found this only hatke restaurant with hookahs hanging around. with dirt cheap prices, we ran in to gorge on the fabulous food and then we realized it was already evening. Off we ran to the sunset point, a gory cliff that should things we saw only in animated or highly graphically manioulated movies. As praneet put it, it looked like the planet of apes. Everything below was foggy, and all we could make out was the faint outlines of nearby hills and the sun too disappeared, the orange ball gliding between heavey clouds depriving us of watching its magnificinet descent between hills. Slowly we walked back in the darkness, the forest really errie and we really scared, with no lights anywhere, we somehow reached back the 'resort', and got back to the major activity of pool and t.v.
come day two, we were all charged up to discover the rest of the matheran and andother 5 hours of walk followed in the place where one never tires. A silent night with people already mourning the fact that they had to leave, the coming morning was the one when we had emptied most of our pockets and had to get to bombay and thus, to ahmedabad.

Official guide:

Get down at Karjat, catch a train to Neral and then a sumo to Matheran. Then ask for Green Hills resort, the cheapest one I believe.
Food: Nothing beats Hookahs and Tikkahs
Must try: Masala Thums up, Kokam juice.

Monkey Incident 1:
Sarat chandra is brutally attacked by a monkey with spots, and hand in hand the monkey tries hard to take advantage of him(by stealing his bag).
Monkey Incident 2:
A walnut was kept in the hall and a monkey saw it from a window, ran through the door , jeered at us and ran back with the walnut.

p.s- non-monkey lovers keep off, neutral people can still adjust.

Darkness:
No lights, no house, no development, too much scenic beauty and forgetting the path back are things that usually happen up here. So, it is suggested that you carry along a torch.

Tell me if you go to this place. It will be a memorable experience, with memorable in bold.

Some words I like

baadko(low level abuse accepted without much retaliation generally. Useful when not intending to start a battle)

laude(me personal favourite. It leaves a smooth sense of cleanliness in the mouth when you use this word)

bulle ke baal(this goes to the extreme. the hairs of the balls are supposed to be highly abusive)

Though not belonging to any place, as I have been to both hyderabad and mumbai, I would like to enlighten people with asome keywords using which you can fool people into believing you were born and brought up somewhere among the two.

Haw: A simple nod, sometimes is not understandable and yeahs and yess can take some time off when there is haw round the corner.
egjample:
Q:Are, tu kahan jaara re? DAIICT ja raha kya?
ans: haw
compact, simple and precise.

kaiku: An alternative for why, it is bound to leave the other guy flustered when you say kaiku.
egjample:
Q:mereku gharaa jaana rai.
A: kaiku?

Nakku: Dont want
egjample: teruku peapsee maangta kya?
ans: Nakku

Waich: reemphasizing on a pre-said statement
Kya bol ra miya?
Ans: waich

This is the world of how, nakku, kaiku and waich.

and then, of course there is mumbai.
patli gali se satak, line mar le, bheedo, kat and more.. you can check them up.

or check this thing I got from wikipedia
Bas kya - Don't take me for granted.
Chava or Chavi - Boyfriend/girlfriend (normally the one that is going steady).
Double battery - A person wearing prescription glasses.
Haila or Aaila - "Oh God".(the aila aila from koi mil gaya)
Paka - Irritate (literally paka means "to cook", so here the word has the sense of "cooking one's brain" to mean irritate).
Atrangi - Something strange or extraordinary.
Chappan tikkli - One with lots of pimples on his/her face.
Tapri - A road side shop.
Chotay, Tambi or Ramu - Any kid working in a tapri (small shop or eatery).
Apun - Me or myself.(One who respects himself shall never use anything other than apun to refer to the self)
Kalti- Get lost or go away.
Kaiko - Why?
Cutting - Though an English word, it is used to refer to half a glass of tea.
Some more examples...

Saalaa - Written commonly as 'sala' or 'saala'. The real meaning is brother-in-law, but is used to address a friend (Abey saale, kidhar tha? - "Where were you, dude?"), criticise/tease/naughtily refer to someone (saalaa chor - "you/that/bloody thief/prankster!!") or as an impersonal reference (Saalaa, apun ka naseebich kharaab hai! - "Hell, my fate/luck is/was bad!")
Boss - Form of address to a friend, unrelated person or stranger.
Kharcha-paani - Literally it means "stipend, pocket-money, bribe or (small) payment". In Mumbai it may also refer to beating up somebody. So depending on context, "kharcha-paani deu kya?" may mean "Do you want me/us to beat you up?" instead of "Do you want me/us to give you some money?". Conversely a person asking for a bribe (or one belonging belonging to the lowest strata when asking for some money) will say "thoda kharcha-paani do" (Give me some money).
Fultoo - Too good or very cool, not to be confused with Faltoo which means useless or waste. Fultoo may also mean drunk depending on context.
Dhakkan - Depending on context may mean "lid" or "stupid".
Dedh-dimaag - Literally "one and a half brains", in reference to an over-smart, dim-wit or stupid person.
Talli - Drunk.
Dedh-foot or Dedh-futya - Literally means "one and a half foot". Usually refers to a short person. May also be a form of irreverent address to a kid.
Chikna - Literally "clean-shaven" or "smooth". Used usually to refer to a male new-comer or teenager, especially in a negative manner.
Gadha-majoori - Literally "donkey work or labour". To signify slogging, boring or heavy work.
Tadi-paar - Means long absence, absconding, hiding or evading the police.
Mamu - Depending on context may mean a police constable or a eunuch.
Waat or Vaat - Derived from Marathi. Signifies "(to be in) trouble". Meri waat lag gayi means "I'm in trouble".
Paan-patti or Tapri - A small shop selling tobacco, cigarettes, toffees and optionally, tea.

more and more mumbaiya here

ChairMan,The

as humans, we have begun to take everything for granted. The Chair, its importance, its essence, and its purpose, as I believe have all been lost and people simply live blind. Think About it. How was the chair invented? It feels pretty obvious that this turned out to be the best way to rest the body. But, was that why it was invented? Was comfort the purpose of a chair?? I,got this brilliant answer-

The chair is a symbol of power.A symbol of respect. Think of ten cavemen with maces in their hands, squatting on the ground. The only way you can make them listen to you is by sitting on the small mound above their "level". And thus rose, the differences in societies. Next came the turn of politics, the fight for the chair, And of course, the chair trend, when people thought that by sitting on a chair they could get power and so, everyone finally has chairs....And thus, by forgetting the arisal of chairs, the human beings are closer to their own end.

A bit humourous, but think about it, may be the chair is why the world is like this now. Why not?