So whatever happened to the Bambaiya club. Did it take off or was it flying too low.

Aare bhai bhel puri, teel malish, kulfi faluda, malun kidhar milta hai

You're right .... chowpatty. Aapun Aunty ke aade ke peche rahta tha

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Reiki Grand Master

Hi guys, read this and experienced a pang of nostalgia. Not my work though

Woh Kaun?

Woh Elco ki pani puri,
Woh chowpatty ki chaat,
Woh Naturals ki ice cream,
Wah usme thi kuch baat!
Woh Tewari ki mithai,
Woh raste ka dosa,
Woh Shivsagar ki pav bhaji Guru Kripa ka samosa.
Woh local train ka "suffer",
Woh Juhu Beach ki hawa,
Woh Chowpatty ke tange aur Joggers Park ka sama.
Woh December ki zara si sardi,
Woh baarishon ke mahine,
Woh garmi ki chuttiyaan, jab chhutte they passeene.
Woh Holi ki masti,
Woh Navratri ka Garba,
Woh Diwali ke patakhe aur Ganpati ka shor o sharaba.
Woh peak hours ki traffic,
Woh BEST ki rush,
Woh tadapti garmi mein, Snowmans ka ek kala khatta slush.
Woh Juhu beach ka mohol,
Woh samunder ki leheren,
Woh doobte suraj ka nazara,
Wah uska kya kehena!
Woh Sterling ka pop-corn aur Cotton World mein shopping,
Woh Fashion Street ka nazara aur Nariman Point ki building.
Woh cinema ke queue,
Woh black ki ticket,
Woh Shivaji Park ka maidan, jahan bachche practice karte hain cricket!
Itni cheezen kehene ke baad,
aur kitni karron mein badaee,
Yeh shehar hain mera apna,
Jiska naam hai MUMBAI pyaaree.

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Mai be Bambai ka ladka! Went to school in Chembur, studied in Podar college, Matunga before moving to Malad.

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THINGS TO PROVE YOU'RE A BOMBAYITE.
1. You say "town " and expect everyone to know that this means south of
Churchgate.
2. You speak in a dialect of Hindi called 'Bambaiya
Hindi',which only Bombayites can understand.
3. Your door has more than three locks, or you have more than
one door.
4. Rs 500 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.
5. Train timings ( 9.27, 10.49 etc) are really important events
of life.
6. You spend more time each month traveling than you spend at home.
7. You call a 10' x 10' clustered room a Hall.
8. You're paying Rs 10,000 for a 1room flat, the size of
walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal."
9. You have the following sets of friend: schoolfriends,
college friends, neighborhood friends, office friends and yes,
train friends,a species unique only in Bombay .
10. Cabbies and bus conductors think you are from Mars if you
call the roads by their Indian name, they are more familiar with
Warden Road, Peddar Road , Altamount Road.
11. Stock market quotes are the only other thing besides
cricket which you follow
passionately.
12. The first thing that you read in the Times of India is the
" Bombay Times" supplement.
13. You take fashion seriously. You're suspicious of strangers
who are actually nice
to you.
14. Beggars and the homeless are invisible.
15. You compare Bombay to New York's Manhattan instead of any
other cities of India.
16. The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.
17. You insist on calling CST as VT, and Sahar and Santacruz
airports instead of Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport
18. You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.
19. Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on
your toes.
20. Being truly alone makes you nervous.
21. You love wading throughv knee deep mucky water in the
monsoons, and actually call it ''romantic'.
22. Only in Bombay, you would get Chinese Dosa and Jain
Chicken.
23. You call traffic policemen as 'Pandus" and expect
out-of-towners to understand that.

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Orginally posted by shortbread

THINGS TO PROVE YOU'RE A BOMBAYITE.
1. You say "town " and expect everyone to know that this means south of
Churchgate.
2. You speak in a dialect of Hindi called 'Bambaiya
Hindi',which only Bombayites can understand.
3. Your door has more than three locks, or you have more than
one door.
4. Rs 500 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.
5. Train timings ( 9.27, 10.49 etc) are really important events
of life.
6. You spend more time each month traveling than you spend at home.
7. You call a 10' x 10' clustered room a Hall.
8. You're paying Rs 10,000 for a 1room flat, the size of
walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal."
9. You have the following sets of friend: schoolfriends,
college friends, neighborhood friends, office friends and yes,
train friends,a species unique only in Bombay .
10. Cabbies and bus conductors think you are from Mars if you
call the roads by their Indian name, they are more familiar with
Warden Road, Peddar Road , Altamount Road.
11. Stock market quotes are the only other thing besides
cricket which you follow
passionately.
12. The first thing that you read in the Times of India is the
" Bombay Times" supplement.
13. You take fashion seriously. You're suspicious of strangers
who are actually nice
to you.
14. Beggars and the homeless are invisible.
15. You compare Bombay to New York's Manhattan instead of any
other cities of India.
16. The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.
17. You insist on calling CST as VT, and Sahar and Santacruz
airports instead of Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport
18. You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.
19. Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on
your toes.
20. Being truly alone makes you nervous.
21. You love wading throughv knee deep mucky water in the
monsoons, and actually call it ''romantic'.
22. Only in Bombay, you would get Chinese Dosa and Jain
Chicken.
23. You call traffic policemen as 'Pandus" and expect
out-of-towners to understand that.

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Count me in!! I am from dadar (east)..

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Light up your life by being positive

MUMBAI: More than 50% of Mumbaikars may be living in substandard conditions in slums and decrepit chawls, but for the city's rich sky-high prices for plush apartments seem to be a piece of cake.


Property market experts say thatthe rates for high-end flats— mainly in south Mumbai—ave begun to touch the levels prevalent during the manic real estate boom of the early '90s.

At Cuffe Parade's Maker Tower B, a sprawling four-bedroom apartment with a commanding view of Marine Drive and Malabar Hill was recently sold to an industrialist for a whopping Rs 10 crore, or Rs 33,000 a square foot. The highest transaction in this building during the 1994 boom was at Rs 30,000 a square foot. "The apartment is on a higher floor and is well maintained. It was until recently leased to a multinational bank," sources said.

In the 34-storey Tahnee Heights on tony Napean Sea Road, a deal for a 3,434 square foot flat is on the verge of being inked for a whopping Rs 10.20 crore or Rs 29,700 per square foot.

But the big daddy of them all is industrialist Nusli Wadia's triplex spread across 8,000 square feet in Worli's Samudra Mahal, which is now on the block. The asking price?

An eye-popping Rs 24 crore. Several NRIs and corporates have shown interest in this swank property. "There are very few properties like this with a winding internal staircase, a terrace and a huge workout room," sources stated.

A couple of months ago, a 3,000 square foot flat in Rushila building on Carmichael Road was sold for a price in excess of Rs 7 crore. This, despite the fact that the building's brand equity has been dented by the 60-storey Shapoorji Pallonji tower coming up opposite it in Tardeo's MP Mill compound. Even in 'distant' Prabhadevi, a three-bedroom flat in a building still under construction was sold for Rs 3.70 crore, according to global property consultant Cushman and Wakefield.

But mind-boggling as these prices are, property consultants believe they will spiral upwards some more. Said Ashok Narang of L Lachmandas and Company, a leading property consultant, "The rates for high-end flats are likely to go up even further." Agreed Chetan Narain, another city-based real estate consultant, "We have reached the 1994 levels. People are willing to pay Rs 10 crore for premium four-bedroom apartments in areas like Cuffe Parade. With the stock market rally and the index going strong, genuine buyers are coming to us in droves. I have two stockbroker clients, each with a budget of Rs 15-20 crore for a 5,000 square foot flat and an NRI buyer with a budget of up to Rs 30 crore."

Indeed, high net-worth individuals, high-ranking executives, diamond merchants, stockbrokers, restaurateurs and real estate developers are some of the moneyed buyers opting for these luxury apartments.

Roopesh Kaul, COO of the Maker group, added that there was "virtually zero supply for high-end flats, even for those with budgets of Rs 5 crore. The way the residential market is going in south Mumbai, I forsee prices going higher than the 1994 levels in the next three months".

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