At home

For the past 3 days I have not stepped out of home. Courtesy… non stop torrential Mumbai rains. I like rains but hate it when it rains too much. I hate to walk on road with puddles and pot holes. You have to be very careful while walking on road during this season. There are few morons who love to drive and splash good puddle water on you making beautiful brown pattern on your clean clothes.
Recently we had renovated our house. I don’t know what stuck my dad that he decided to put stone tiles all over our hall. He found it very innovative. Now our home does not seem to be a decent flat, but a cave of Stone Age man. My dad loves thing which are old or reminds him of something old. These days he is bugging me a lot to wear Kurta and Pajama at home instead of Shorts and T Shirt.
Last Sunday I saw a person hanging on rope and applying paint on outside wall of our building. The first thought that came to mind was that has our building chairman lost his brain that he is spending lot of money to apply paint in middle of monsoon season. I was later enlightened by my mom that its not Paint but waterproof coating which has to be applied all over outside walls of building to prevent water seeping in walls.

This pic of painter I took from my window.


After 2 days of heavy rains the water proof coating proved to be useless. There are wet spots on wall in our flat.
On 26th July 2005 there was flood like situation in Mumbai. In fact there was full fledged flood where water came up to level of waist on roads. Thank god I was in Delhi at that time. Just few minutes back I saw outside my window that same havoc is about to be created by rains. It’s raining non stop for 3 days. Mumbai municipality has been caught with its pants down again.
Hope 26 July is not repeated again.