Time to learn to swim?

Sometime (shud there be a space between some and time) back India Today carried a cover page graphic of the Gateway of India half submerged in the sea declaring doomsday by 2020. Maybe other publications, esp all the environmental ones have been harping on the topic for a while but i don't read them so too bad. And everybody, including the rather well-spoken (by that i mean speaking grammatical English) former mayor of Pune, has seen The Inconvenient Truth and is now all scared about the future.

About time we started worrying about the future but wierdly enough everybody still thinks its someone else's problem...the government does not seem to be in any mood to make any drastic changes in the way we live...lets face it we don't make changes for good unless somebody forces us to... so the government might as well do something. I've been trying not to litter, scraps of paper and plastic are proudly tucked away, into several pockets of numerous handbags, to be thrown into bins later. It's another matter that the 'later' happens a very long time after that but at least i make sure the scraps go into the bin after all. but I've been thinking about getting my kinetic honda to live with me so that i could have a much more convenient life. hitch is every time i think of riding the scooter i think of the gateway pic...and i wonder if getting a sailing boat would be a better investment...

Another thing...if all of Mumbai is going to be underwater in the next 13 years why are property prices still rising...

importance of a flush...

i've turned into a nomad because of a non functional flush...

never did realise how important the flush is...its quite an integral part of the loo setup but for some god forsaken reason the new house that i'm supposed to have moved into does not have one!! it has a loo...not a flush :) its not like there never was a flush in this house...just that there are only a few remnants of the contraption that stare at you insisting on making u feel so foolish that i did not check whether the pipe led to a tank at all!!! no there is no tank in the entire house that leads to the pipe...i've checked, the broker has checked and so has the plumber...mr plumber finally declared our worst fears last night.

so currently my life revolves around coaxing/threatening my broker to talk to the owner to get the damned thing repaired. the broker ofcourse care two hoots about my problem and the situation that i am in he knows my threats are as empty as a used plastic bottle flinged away into the sea bobbing to reach the shore but going further away from it all the time...

the rest of the house is awesome tho...come over sometime...do call to check if the flush has been replaced :)