Mumbai Chronicle 1st June 2012

There is an old saying in hindi, that Uparwala jab bhi deta hai, chappar phaad k deta hai. It means, when God gives, there is no limit to it. Well 1^st of June was a day when something like that happened for me and Sujith Bhai. We had plans to visit our cousin in Pune (yeah it again sounds as if I am on vacation) for the weekend.

Pune is 3 hours away from Mumbai and generally you can reach there by road or train. But that day God had some other plans for us to travel. Isn’t it cool if you have a private chopper flying you down to Pune in 30 minutes, while you enjoy looking Mumbai from air. Well thanks to my jeeju (brother in law) who manages the Mumbai operations for a Private Company who rents out choppers, we flew to Pune. How that happened? The story goes like this –

 Well when we decided to visit Pune, we called our brother in law, requesting to book train tickets online for us “Hello eten, We are thinking to go Pune this evening. So can you please book our tickets online for evening train?”

“Oh! Is that so? Do one thing, reach here at Juhu Airport by 3 PM. There is a chopper flying back to Pune without passenger. You guys go in it.”

“What? Chopper? Really? That’s cool...”

“Yeah, No problem for that, as it is flying back without passenger. You come here and you can travel in it. Ok. See you at 3.”

“Ok eten. Thank you.”

I informed the same to Sujith bhai and we were pretty excited about it. But that was not the end to our excitement, because after an hour, we received another call from Jeeju, informing that there is a company car coming to Juhu Airport via our accommodation, so we can come along in it. What else you need, if you have someone picking you up, drive you directly inside the airport next to the Airport hangers and then you board your flight without lines and checking counters. Well it sounds awesome and we felt privileged. But there was still more to come. At Pune, the landing was supposed to be at a private hanger which was 1 hour away from residence of our cousin and public transport was not available from that location to city. However there is a vehicle which drops the Pilot home and luckily for us we had to go in same locality, so Pilot offered us a ride to our destination.

Sujith Bhai Capturing the view

So if I summarize my 1^st day of June, we had a awesome flight, believe me, Mumbai looks awesome from air (and when I say this, I mean the view is better than what we see through the small window in plane), then we went Pune without spending a single penny and got a chance to click lots of photographs. When I started my journey to Mumbai, I used to believe that Mumbai will show me a different phase of life and world. And yeah indeed I am loving it and looking forward to it. Thank you God for giving me the courage to take this step and being there along me.

Apna Juhu chaupati

Me and Bhai inside chopper

Mumbai from Chopper

Mumbai from chopper