About a month ago i stopped near my office and handed out chocolates to 15 little slum kids aged 3-6 who study in a "school" thats basically a lady who teaches them on a footpath mon-fri.
The smile on their little faces at getting the treat touched my heart. one lil choc and they were so so happy. we evil adults on the other hand need so much more to get a BIG grin like that. A week later I stopped in again just to see what they were learning and if they were having fun. They were equally happy that I had just stopped to say Hi even though there were no chocs this time.
We all went wow when we heard that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet left all of their riches to the betterment of the poor. $100 billion. thats a lot of money right ? should last a long time yes ?
Well there are 3 billion people who live on less than $2 a day. So lets say their money is used to buy 3 billion people a $1 meal a day. Yup....that's right. In 33 days all that money will be over folks.
Its never enough. There are just too many who have too little. Nobody is saying to give off 1/2 your money. But every little bit helps.....from making small donations to charities close to your heart to giving old clothes to orphanages to recycling unsued or old home stuff with your servants to even lending a helping hand and not money at an orphanage or old people home for an hour every Sunday. Heck...or even an hour once a month. Something is better than nothing right ?
So next time your thinking of buying that one extra drink at the bar your partying at on sat nite....that you could really do without. Think about it. That Rs.300/- could buy 60 kids a vada pao....or 20 bars of choc. One less drink for you.....20 smiling faces....a no-brainer yes ?
Monday, June 25, 2007
Sunday, June 24, 2007
India. Common Man = Helpful. People in Position to help = Losers !!!
Here is what just happened. I was on my way to watch Oceans 13.
I park my car opposite the theater, get out of my car and slam the door shut. As a look to cross the road, I hear a sickening "thud". I turn around and see that the left corner of the road had just crumbled and fallen into the open gutter next to it and with that the back and front wheels of the left side of my car have slid off the road and my car is now tilting precariously and almost gonna fall into the gutter !!!
Manmohan u loser......build roads that don't collapse with one strong shower. I pay my taxes...the least you can do is provide some basic quality infrastructure !!!
Tried lifting the car out with the help of 4 more guys but to no avail. Time to get a tow truck.
Its pouring like crazy I rush in the rain to the nearest police chowki at juhu circle junction only to be told by the cop there go to juhu police station for a tow truck. I jump into an auto and head that way. Reach there drenched in crazy traffic only to be told there is no tow truck here and I shd go to the chowki at the sv-road junction. I head there in the same auto and the cop is like "there is no tow truck here. you go to dn nagar station" I was like "this is my 3rd police station. 2 hrs have passed. My car is sliding further into the gutter. Will the tow truck surely be at DN Nagar". To which he cooly replies "I don't know. How will I know what is there. You go there and see" !!!!
Last time I checked Cops were - protectors of the innocent,and helpers of those in trouble....well guess again.
Frustrated I jumped back into the auto and on a whim got off at the petrol pump next door.the puncture repair shop there had the number of a tow truck guy. He was nice enough to let me use his mobile phone to call as well bec I had forgotten mine in a hurry in the car. I make the call, jump back into the auto and rush to my car to wait for him.
I'm at the car praying anxiously that it doesn't slide further and turn turtle :(
As i bend to inspect it....more of the side of the road crumbles into the gutter and I fall in !!! (ya i know whats in there. spare me the details). How about returning some of my tax manmohan ? so I can buy new jeans and sandals which are now totally destroyed !!!
The tow truck arrives. He looks at the angles and decides to pull diagonally from the front. 2 guys passing on bikes and 2 in a honda city stop to help. The pull out is a success.
As of now the damage stands at a scratched bumper, the bonnet alignment had gone and a little something under the car has got bent. 2 wet mobile phones, one of which, the screen seems to have gone bad in corner.
Drove home. had a bath in dettol and washed my jeans and sandals in it too.
A big thanks to
1.the chawl man in the umbrella who 1st came when the car fell in and helped gather 4 guys to push
2. the rickshaw driver who drove me from cop station to cop station n finally back to my car in mad rain
3. the guy at the puncture repair shop who let me use his cellphone to call the towing guy.
4. the towing guy who took his time to ensure he got the angles right and save my car. not to mention to come to juhu from khar way past his shutting time.
5. the guys in the honda city who stopped to help and give moral support
6. the guy on the bike who helped push the car and disappeared off on his bike before I could say thanks
A big NO THANKS to
1. Our "garbagement" "gubberment" who takes taxes from us but gives us shit infrastructure in return. Collapsing roads. How cool.
2. Our loser cops who made zero effort to make any calls or to genuinely help. Maybe next time I should run over some sleeping pavement dwellers. I hear the cops come really fast to the scene then.
Goodnight. God bless the man on the street who does his best to help (most times).
God help us from people in positions of power/responsibility in this country.
I park my car opposite the theater, get out of my car and slam the door shut. As a look to cross the road, I hear a sickening "thud". I turn around and see that the left corner of the road had just crumbled and fallen into the open gutter next to it and with that the back and front wheels of the left side of my car have slid off the road and my car is now tilting precariously and almost gonna fall into the gutter !!!
Manmohan u loser......build roads that don't collapse with one strong shower. I pay my taxes...the least you can do is provide some basic quality infrastructure !!!
Tried lifting the car out with the help of 4 more guys but to no avail. Time to get a tow truck.
Its pouring like crazy I rush in the rain to the nearest police chowki at juhu circle junction only to be told by the cop there go to juhu police station for a tow truck. I jump into an auto and head that way. Reach there drenched in crazy traffic only to be told there is no tow truck here and I shd go to the chowki at the sv-road junction. I head there in the same auto and the cop is like "there is no tow truck here. you go to dn nagar station" I was like "this is my 3rd police station. 2 hrs have passed. My car is sliding further into the gutter. Will the tow truck surely be at DN Nagar". To which he cooly replies "I don't know. How will I know what is there. You go there and see" !!!!
Last time I checked Cops were - protectors of the innocent,and helpers of those in trouble....well guess again.
Frustrated I jumped back into the auto and on a whim got off at the petrol pump next door.the puncture repair shop there had the number of a tow truck guy. He was nice enough to let me use his mobile phone to call as well bec I had forgotten mine in a hurry in the car. I make the call, jump back into the auto and rush to my car to wait for him.
I'm at the car praying anxiously that it doesn't slide further and turn turtle :(
As i bend to inspect it....more of the side of the road crumbles into the gutter and I fall in !!! (ya i know whats in there. spare me the details). How about returning some of my tax manmohan ? so I can buy new jeans and sandals which are now totally destroyed !!!
The tow truck arrives. He looks at the angles and decides to pull diagonally from the front. 2 guys passing on bikes and 2 in a honda city stop to help. The pull out is a success.
As of now the damage stands at a scratched bumper, the bonnet alignment had gone and a little something under the car has got bent. 2 wet mobile phones, one of which, the screen seems to have gone bad in corner.
Drove home. had a bath in dettol and washed my jeans and sandals in it too.
A big thanks to
1.the chawl man in the umbrella who 1st came when the car fell in and helped gather 4 guys to push
2. the rickshaw driver who drove me from cop station to cop station n finally back to my car in mad rain
3. the guy at the puncture repair shop who let me use his cellphone to call the towing guy.
4. the towing guy who took his time to ensure he got the angles right and save my car. not to mention to come to juhu from khar way past his shutting time.
5. the guys in the honda city who stopped to help and give moral support
6. the guy on the bike who helped push the car and disappeared off on his bike before I could say thanks
A big NO THANKS to
1. Our "garbagement" "gubberment" who takes taxes from us but gives us shit infrastructure in return. Collapsing roads. How cool.
2. Our loser cops who made zero effort to make any calls or to genuinely help. Maybe next time I should run over some sleeping pavement dwellers. I hear the cops come really fast to the scene then.
Goodnight. God bless the man on the street who does his best to help (most times).
God help us from people in positions of power/responsibility in this country.
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