Ai dil hai mushkil...

Ai dil hai mushkil Jeena yahan..
zara hatke... zara bachke, Yeh hai bambai meri jaan!!

Sourced from a mail I recieved...

Some trivia on the City of Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay)
Bombay has no bombs and is a harbour not a bay.
Churchgate has neither a church nor a gate. It is a railway station. [it was named that because in 187? the station terminated near an old church built by the British]
There is no darkness in Andheri.
Lalbaag is neither red nor a garden. [Maybe a lotta ppl ate paan and spat there]
No king ever stayed at Kings Circle.
Nor did Queen Victoria stay at Victoria Terminus. [nor did Shivaji stay there to name it CST]
Nor is there any princess at Princess street. [It probably belongs to her]
Lower Parel is at the same level as Parel [maybe the real estate prices are lower]
There are no marines or sailors at Marine Lines.
The Mahalaxmi temple is at Haji Ali not at Mahalaxmi. [same things happen with too many project leaders and too little programmers]
There are no pigs traded at Dukar bazaar.
Teen bati is a junction of 3 roads, not three lamps. [The person who thought of this name probably lost his batti]
Trams used to terminate at Kings circle not Dadar Tram Terminus. [An example of project ambitions and budget mismatch]
Breach Candy is not a sweetmeat market.
Safed Pool has the dirtiest and blackest water.
You cannot buy coal at Kolsa street.
There are no Iron smiths at Lohar chawl.
There are no pot makers at Kumbhar wada.
Lokhandwala complex is not an Iron and steel market.
Null bazaar does not sell taps .
You will not find ladyfingers at Bheendi Bazaar.
Kalachowki does not have a black Police station.
Hanging Gardens are not suspended. [That part of the project couldn't get off the ground.. pun intended ;)]
Mirchi Gully does not sell chillies.
Figs do not grow in Anjir Wadi, Sitafals do not grow in Sitafal Wadi, Jackfruits do not grow at Fanaswadi
But it is true that you may get fleeced at Chor (Chira) Bazaar!!!


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.
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 an 8' x 10' clustered room a Hall.
8. You're paying Rs 10,000 for a 1 room flat, the size of walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal."
9. You have the following sets of friend: school friends, 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. Hookers, 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 Santa Cruz 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 through 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.