FUn on the RUn

Last week, it’s been a long travel from Patiala to Gurgaon, for 300Kms it took me 11 hours. The bus I was traveling had a break down near karnal, and we made to wait for hours to get it operational. Had nothing much to do so I was wandering here and there on the road in dark surroundings when my eye balls stuck at a quote written behind our bus ‘Sarr na rees kar’ – Don’t be jealous, follow me.

I was little surprised because usually such quotes are found written on trucks and the funny part was what this bus wanted others to follow. That quote took me to a roll down the memory track. One of my friends had a serious accident while she was trying to read a long quote written behind a truck; the truck suddenly put on brakes and she rammed her activa in it. Later on she told me she had a habit of reading quotes written on vehicles, quite funny but from that day onward even I try to read all the quotes written on trucks and other vehicles.

I tried to re-collect such quotes. The most common one is the same that was written on our bus ‘Sarr na rees kar’ there are few more which are quite famous in india like

‘buri nazar vale tera bhi bhala’

‘nazran layenga jutti khayenga’

‘Uddi chal morniye’

And my favorite is ‘Main bada ho ke truck banunga’ which I read written behind a ‘Tata 407’ a mini truck.

Not only these truck valas but even the NHAI – National Highway Authority of India is quite innovative in chalking out quotes for the road safety.

‘Speed is a knife that cuts life’

‘Be Mr. Late than Late Mr.’

BRO – Border Road Organization, a unit of Indian army which deals with construction of roads which lead to Indian borders, is also pioneering in this regard; their quotes are even more sensual. Few of them I found very interesting which I read during my Leh-Ladakh visit.

‘Be gentle on my curves’

‘Don’t be a gama, in the land of Lama’

‘I am curvaceous, be slow’

‘Darling, I like you. But not your speed’

It’s been more than two hours I was running through my memory lane and counted numerous such quotes; but our bus was still not in favor of moving forward, so I decided to move on with another options – a lift from a bike then to a local bus for Karnal then got a bus to Delhi, waited at ISBT for an hour and then got a bus for Gurgaon that too jam packed; at last I reached my destination at around 2:00 in the morning. A hectic journey but my love for the quotes continued during that tough voyage also.

Try it out, I am sure you will enjoy it and it will definitely make your boring bus journeys bit interesting.

Chalo Haste Hain

‘Zindagi itni bhi asaan nahi k koi chain se jee jaye, magar itni bhi mushkil nahi ke koi bina afsos mar jaye’

‘Da for Diary’ the play which Rommy planned to watch to kill the laziness of Sunday afternoon and we four accompanied him in his brave decision. But instead of killing our laziness it loaded us with more boredom which we removed from our shoulders with a good evening stroll in CP afterwards. I somehow managed to survive the torturous play  but you can better ask Neiha, who I think took full advantage of the AC facilities of the auditorium and slept peacefully during half of the show or you can ask Ashish who asked ‘kina time ho geya yaar’ around 5-6 times during the one and half hour play.

The play started on a lighter note from two school children’s daily life. They took on diary writing while taking example of Anne Frank tragedy writing (A Jewish girl who wrote a diary about her experiences while in the hideouts during the world war-2, which became quite famous when her father published it in 1947 after Anne’s death). The best thing of the play was the performances by the 3 leads of the play who played multiple characters. And the worst thing was that the theme and plot of the story was not clear, it went up-down on the topics of happiness & tragedies. But till the very end of the show we didn’t get to know about the moral of the story, what they wanted to convey. Whether it’s about spreading happiness or it’s about tragedies of life. Let aside the moral of the play, it was not at all entertaining.

As the people say ‘There is always something to learn from everyone and everything’. The theme song of the play ‘Chalo Haste Hain’ was pretty good, that’s different if the play being a comedy play still unable to make us giggle. With this song they tried to pull out laughter from the tragedies, though unsuccessfully (But at-least they tried, so we can also). And the second thing is the dialogue which was repeated twice in the play ‘Zindagi itni bhi asaan nahi k koi chain se jee jaye, magar itni bhi kushkil nahi ke koi bina afsos mar jaye’ (Life is not that easy that one can live with a complete peace, but it’s not that difficult also to do suicide without any sadness’). I am sure this will be helpful to motivate at least some of them who try to finish this god’s gift on their own.

All in all the play was not that bad for the first time experience. Oh, sorry I forgot to mention one more thing which we learned from there…

Pooooo…….!!!!!!!