Diwali was great fun. Watching the *two great movies* was the highlight. I like Jab We Met more than both.

I visited a place recently that I had visited once as a kid; a park as a venue for a drawing competition- I think I was in 6th or 7th standard...I was with my school friends then- I remember Manjunath most distinctly. We used to call him ‘koli’; I have NO idea why. Hehe...I haven’t met him in 8 years now; he moved to Bihar as soon as we completed primary school. I wonder what he is doing these days- He was my dearest friend; I hope to bump into him on the street someday...The world isn’t really that big a place, you know..:)

I think the word ‘safety-pin’ is a bit out of context to its use. ‘Safety’? really? I wonder.

On the way back home today, I witnessed a minor accident ahead of me- a truck scraping the side of a stationery bus while getting around it. I was behind a car which was immediately behind the bus; the incident was to change the fate of that man in the car- he was about to be two hours late to wherever he was headed. Such rotten luck. And to think it was in NO WAY his fault. The same with all vehicles headed in the direction of the spot- terrible, terrible mess. If carefully seen, though, these kinds of incidents also provide a variety of entertainment; the two victims screaming at each other, neither listening- background music provided by the honking vehicles waiting for a clear road, and onlookers occasionally walking up to the scene with bitti gyaan. There are some things we should just laugh off, I guess. But then, it’s really not possible at that moment, being in the driver’s seat of that car.