Madhouse on Road

While driving to the office today, I took me almost twice the time it generally does.
There was no traffic congestion on the way, no long stoppages...

It seemed as if all novice drivers, who are roaming and having a fun time on a high way, slow moving traffic like rickshaw and tractors and some crazy bus drivers, not ready to allow overtake, were present on the road!

The moment I came out of my drive way, there was an old Matiz moving in front of me and that uncleji it seemed didn't believe in driving at a normal speed or neither allowing the rest of the people to do so....There was a cute boy with him, who after every 10 seconds would peek out and wave to me!!

I wonder, why does all the roadway bus drivers feel like its an insult to them if they will allow some smaller car to over take them....I felt like stopping that bus and telling him " Bhaiya please thoda side mein chala lo na" (Please drive your bus on one side and not the middle of the road).

Just to save a few milliliters of petrol , people will go on the wrong side of the road...
The auto rickshaws instead lining up one side, have to occupy 3/4 of the road..so that they can over take each other and race........The drivers of these rickshaws are at times so young.

The funniest part is the traffic police is cool onlooker to all these happening...I don't know either no one pays a heed to them or they don't want to regulate any of this.

When will that day come when the traffic is regulated and one can enjoy the driving, at least on a national highway!!!

When one door, closes another opens

We all were very disappointed when my sis did not clear ISB.

Though, along with ISB, she had also cleared the written for IIFT (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade).
The same week after the ISB result was out, the GD and interview for IIFT was scheduled. She had to be literally pushed to go for it.

And last week IIFT result came out and to everyones surprise "SHE MADE IT". Her hard work finally paid.

Someone has rightly said "When one door closes, another opens".

I am ecstatic!! She is on the top of the world.........

What better luck could anyone ask for, out of the two exams she appeared, she managed to clear the written for both, and finally made it to one...

These days everything around seems so full of life and vibrancy...........
Thanks God!!!

Me, My books and My Library

At one point of time before my marriage and before my son was born,I was an avid reader, Thanks to my mom who got me hooked to the books.

I started early with comics, then Enid Blyton( Famous Five series, Secret Seven, Malory Towers....), Nancy Drew. I loved Agatha Cristie and had finished reading almost all of the books when I completed school!!!
As I grew, the books I had read also grew!!! Jeffery Archer, Sidney Sheldon, Robert Ludlum, Aryn Rand, Robin Cook used to be some of my favorite authors.

For light reading I had a Mills and Boon in my hand. Amidst the traffic of Delhi, hot summer traveling in the bus, Mills and Boon were a great company. The TDH(Tall, Dark, Handsome heroes made you forget the misery of traveling.....

I always wanted to have a Library in my home. A complete wall to myself where I could display my books, the ones which I have collected over the years!
Well such dreams take time to fulfill!

A couple of days back, I had an urge to look for book reading events or groups in Noida or Delhi.
Though these days, I have slowed down but I love to keep a book or two on my side.

While searching for such group I came across the site http://www.shelfari.com.
On browsing it, I could see the online version of the book shelf I had always dreamt of.

This site allows its users to add books to your shelf, categorize them, tag them, give your reviews and opinions about a book, catalogue them.Basically manage your library the way you want.

I simply loved the site.It has a huge database and its possible to search almost any book and add it to your personal shelf.
I have managed to add about 45 books to my shelf which I have read till now and the list is still growing.

The best part I could add that shelf to my blog and show off.

So my dream of having a complete shelf had been fulfilled though in an different form...

Now I have a personal library(thanks to shelfari) to which I can add books, and also showoff...
A small difference being that the library is online and not on the wall!!!