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Mon, 08 Apr 2019 10:16:58 +0000

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Guy Kawasaki on Mumbai

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Guy Kawasaki on Mumbai via Kaps @ DesiPundit

Longer than the Longest Day

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:00:00 +0000

I had declared 30th May 2005 as my longest day. Air India proved me wrong. My longest day was 18 Feb 2006.

I didn’t plan to fly Air India to Chennai in the first place. British Airways had more convenient timings and a similar fare. But I clicked on the wrong button, and didn’t realise until a few days before the flight that I was on the Air India, and that the flight left at 8:45am.

4:30am UK. Wake up. Brush teeth. Bathe. All items packed previous night.
5:10am UK. Taxi arrives and calls. Great timing.
6:05am UK. Arrive at Heathrow Terminal 3. Good timing.
6:10am UK. Huge queue near Emirates counter. Can’t be mine. Walk in.
6:11am UK. “Excuse me,” says elderly lady. “The queue is back there.” For my flight?
6:30am UK. Still in queue. Slow panic. I have 27 kgs of cabin baggage. 20 kgs permitted. Will they torture me with pins?
6:45am UK. Sardarji waves me in. I try a smile.
6:46am UK. Heave cabin baggage on to the ramp. 27.2 kg. Sardarji makes no comment.
6:47am UK. “I’m afraid there’s some bad news, Mr Subramanian.”
OK, this is it.
It costs 1,000 per kilo.
I’m not allowed on the flight.
I have to compensate by shedding 7 kgs on the spot.
“The flight is delayed by 4 hours.”
Whew.
“Here is your boarding card, and a complementary coupon for breakfast.”
7:00am UK. Call home and convey good news. The flight will therefore land at 7:15am at Chennai – a more decent hour than 3:15am.
8:00am UK. Bored.
8:30am UK. May as well pass security check.
8:40am UK. “Sorry sir. This boarding pass says 19th Feb. Today is the 18th.”
Huh? “But my ticket says 18th Feb.”
“You’ll have to go back to Air India and check with them, sir.”
8:45am UK. Long queue again.
9:00am UK. “Excuse me, this boarding card says 19th Feb. I’m flying today.”
Lady takes my ticket and vanishes.
9:15am UK. “Sorry sir, since the flight was delayed, the computer thought it was tomorrow already. Just take the pass, and they will accept it.”
“Are you sure?”
“Certainly sir.”
“Well, just to be on the safe side, could you call them and tell them?”
“I will, sir.”
“Right now?”
“Yes, sir.”
“In front of me, please?”
She gives me a funny look, and picks up the phone.
9:25am UK. At the security gate.
“Excuse me, I have a boarding card for tomorrow, but I’m actually flying today.”
“Hey, Mike…” (… here’s a nutcase?)
“It’s an Air India flight…”
“Oh, OK. Get in.”
9:45am UK. Clear security.
11:00am UK. Hungry. Have breakfast.
12:45pm UK. Flight should have taken off by now, but I’m still at Heathrow, waiting for a boarding announcement.
1:45pm UK. Still waiting.
2:45pm UK. Finally, a boarding announcement. So, flight is 6 hours late, at least. Call home and convey the good news.
3:00pm UK. “Fasten your seatbelt! Fasten your seatbelt!” Air hostess in stern tone.
Guy next to me mutters, “Fasten your seatbelts, please.”
5:30pm UK.“Any food?!” Same air hostess, same tone.
“Vegetarian, please.”
“Open your tray!”
6:00pm UK. Food is lousy. No movies. No books. Laptop: low battery. Can’t sleep.

4:00am India. Flight lands at Mumbai. Haven’t slept. Totally bored.
4:30am India.“All passengers are requested to leave the aircraft.”
“But I’m going to Chennai.”
“You still have to get off, sir.”
5:00am India. “Excuse me, which way for the flight to Chennai?”
“Your flight has already taken off, sir. Please collect your baggage and clear immigration.”
Right.
5:30am India. No luggage yet. Slow panic.
6:00am India. No luggage yet. Rapid panic.
6:10am India. Luggage arrives. Check tag: yes, it’s mine.
6:15am India. “Excuse me, where should Air India passengers for Chennai go to?”
“Why are you asking me? How should I know? Everybody is asking like this only!”
“But…”
“Go! Go there! Stand with everyone!”
6:30am India. Huge mob shouting at Air India staff, who have no clue what’s happening.
7:30am India. Air India staff has vanished.
8:30am India. Rumours that we’re to be put on to a Jet Airways flight.
Chennai passengers are OK, actually. Bangalore passengers only have flights in the evening.
9:00am India. “Go! Take this form and go to the other airport!”
“Is my ticket confirmed on this Jet Airways flight?”
“How do I know? Everything you ask me only. Go! Ask Jet!”
9:30am India. “Excuse me, am I confirmed on the 11:30am flight?”
“Sorry, sir. The flight is booked.”
“Look, I’ve been travelling for a whole day. I’m tired. Can you please do something?”
“I’ll see what I can do, sir.”
To her credit, and Jet Airways’, she got me on that flight.
11:30am India. Jet Airways takes off. On time.
1:30pm India. Flight arrives.
2:00pm India. No luggage. Did Air India transfer it at all?
2:15pm India. Ah, there it is. Pick up luggage from conveyer belt.
“Wait! Sorry, this is my bag.”
Middle-aged man with glasses and thick moustache.
“Um…”
“See? Here’s my yellow tag. I always place a yellow tag for identification.”
“Oh, OK. Sorry. It looked like mine.”
Just to be on the safe side, may as well verify the number…
But he’s gone.
2:30pm India. No luggage. All other bags have arrived.
“Hello sir. Waiting for luggage?”
“Yes. Are there any more bags left?”
“No sir. Only one bag left here. See, is this yours?”
I check. “No.”
“No problem sir, you talk to Jet Airways counter.”
2:40pm India. Jet Airways counter still empty.
2:45pm India. “Sir, this must be an exchange of bags. Does this bag look like yours?”
“Yes, sort of. In fact, someone picked up what looked like my bag.”
2:50pm India. “We have the number of the owner of this bag, sir. We’ll call him.”
“Let me call him as well.”
Mobile is engaged. Leave him a message.
Hi, I think our bags got exchanged. I am still at the airport. Anand.
3:00pm India. Rrring.
“Sorry, sir. I took your bag by mistake!”
“No problem. You wouldn’t have wanted a bag full of diapers anyway.”
“I got confused by the yellow tag.”
“My mother uses a yellow tag as well.”
3:15pm India. We exchange bags.
3:45pm India. Reach home, after nearly 30 hours.

My flight back to the UK was (relatively) uneventful, thanks to having tied pink, yellow and white bands to my luggage this time.

Comments

Madhu 23 Mar 2006 11:32 am: it takes 10 mts to read this post:) Can imagine how long it wud hv been for u:)
lazygeek 23 Mar 2006 9:04 pm: gosh, that was truly long. btw, are u back in chennai for a vacation ?
S Anand 24 Mar 2006 6:17 am: No, just got back from my vacation at Chennai, actually.
harish 27 Mar 2006 5:15 am: haha that cracked me up. i can so imagine my few trips but all of this in one trip.. haha u have all the luck mate
Sai 6 Apr 2006 11:35 pm: good read, but i guess pretty painfull to go through. We have similar issues whenw e travel from the us, only ’longer'.
Sailesh - Chennai 17 May 2006 11:29 am: Hai Anand, How are u, Shobana and Dhyeya. Hope all well. By the way wher r shobana and Dhyeya ?? how s life ??
hari 17 May 2006 12:42 pm: Sorry for the things happended. My experience is other side. what you are saying happen to me on British airways. Air lndia treated me like a king while traveling. better luck next time
Jyoti 7 Jul 2006 7:35 pm: Thats is incredibly funny! Thanks for a fabulous read. And thanks for painfully typing out all the Calvin & Hobbes. Thank you! Thank you! :)

Market emergence - fan bartering

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Over my last few years as a consultant, I’ve seen many interesting ways in which markets have emerged where they shouldn’t have, creating havoc in pricing and scarcity. Fixed prices fluctuate, free goods acquire a value, and non-tradeable goods are traded. I’ll share a few of these examples over the next few weeks.

Once, a fan manufacturer asked us, We did an analysis and found that our wholesalers’ margins fluctuate. How could that happen, when we are fixing their buying and selling prices?

The manufacturer sells several popular fans. Their highest selling fan (call it HS), for instance, was sold to wholesalers at Rs 1,089, who would then sell it to retailers at Rs 1,100. No question of margin fluctuation.

I took a trip to Lohar Chawl, the wholesale fan market, to get to the bottom of this. After a few conversations in dingy warehourses, here’s what I discovered. Fans are bartered. Wholesalers keep as little cash and inventory on hand. Often, a retailer would order a fan (say X) not in stock. The wholesaler doesn’t want to lose the deal, and doesn’t have cash, but he would have some inventory of HS, since it’s such a high-selling fan. He goes to another wholesaler, and says,

“Give me some fan X, and I’ll give you some HS fans instead. You’ll be able to sell these HS fans fairly quickly anyway.”

“Why should I? Tell me your customers name and I’ll sell it to him myself, and make the profit.”

“Tell you what. I’ll give you my HS fans for Rs 1,079 instead of Rs 1,089. You’ll get a higher margin when you sell it.”

This is a routine matter in Lohar Chawl. If you don’t have a fan, barter it for another (often HS) at a discounted price. So the wholesaler’s margin would depend on how many fans they bought at a bartered price!

Poaching was another reason for the margin fluctuation. The manufacturer demarcated territories for each wholesaler, saying “You can sell the these 20 retailers, you can sell to those 18, and so on.” Ambitious wholesalers, or those with inventory to dump, would do a side deal with a retailer.

Look, your wholesaler charges Rs 1,100 for this fan. I’ll sell you this lot for Rs 1,095. And let’s keep it quiet."

Yet another reason for margin fluctuation was smuggling. Sometimes, the wholesalers would be able to smuggle fans into Mumbai without paying octroi. And sometimes they wouldn’t.

The biggest lesson for me from this was, It’s bloody tough to restrict a free market. I’ll tell you more about this shortly.

Comments

ritzkini 6 Jan 2006 6:25 am: :) Bloody tough indeed ! lemme guess,these were all gujjus !rite ?? ingenuous, i tell you,these guys..
Arun 6 Jan 2006 8:27 am: Neat! Thanks for those Excel tips. And look forward to more of these!
Madhu 6 Jan 2006 12:10 pm: I have noticed instances where a TN Auto Distributor comes and sells his stuff to a Karnataka retailer! How did you solve this problem? in my case, which was personal advice to a friend, we wrote to the company with some of the fake bills etc and asked for a higher discount for my friend who is a karnataka distributor, things like CST also start to matter in inter-state things. now the problem has come down bcos of VAT
S Anand 6 Jan 2006 4:50 pm: I did this work as part of a proposal. We finally didn’t get the project. But I suspect (and will try and show over the next few posts) that this is a problem that’s probably not worth fighting. The market will eventually win!
Madhu 7 Jan 2006 11:53 am: Ideally a very good supply chain management system will help solve this problem atleast. For eg: If i can order and get it immediately instead of having to bargain. Another issue is how was fan X priced? If its lower than 1089, it will also solve the problem
S Anand 7 Jan 2006 7:15 pm: The problem wasn’t supply chain lead-time, but shortage of cash for inventory among wholesalers. Whenever they were short of stock in one fan, they’d sell some other fan they had as inventory to get the fan they were short of. They can’t order it from the manufacturer, remember: they’re short of cash. They NEED to barter.
joe 7 Jan 2006 11:39 pm: the fan company had no clue why the margins were fluctuating ? scary thought. how could they not know about this. I presume it is top management that did not know this
Madhu 8 Jan 2006 3:53 am: Ok. A SCM which can even take in account demand considerations is ideal. But how can the HS and X be priced the same to the retailers? Isnt that failure of the market? Shouldnt a HS fan be priced different(higher?) than some random fan X?
S Anand 8 Jan 2006 10:52 am: Madhu, you’re right. The fans ARE priced differently. So it won’t be a one-to-one barter. If Fan X is priced at 1000, the wholesaler will give agree to sell 10 HS fans at Rs 1079, give 10 HS fans PLUS 790 Rs, and get 10 Fan X in return.
S Anand 8 Jan 2006 10:54 am: Joe, even the line mgmt didn’t know about this bartering! One of my colleagues discovered it. This guy’s a god of black money market operations, incidentally :-)
shyam 9 Jan 2006 10:07 am: This is something similar to the SJP Road market in Bangalore where u can buy computer parts at " SJP Road price “. the shopkeepers will undercut even the wholesaler price and sell it for " cash "

Bloggers Meet April 2005

Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Pictures from the Mumbai Blogger’s meet with Aadisht, Altaf, Amit, Anand, Arnab, Nandan, Ravikiran, Saket, Sameer, Yazad, Zainab, and myself.

Comments

S Anand 15 Apr 2005 5:33 am: More photos from Sameer

Mumbai bus and train schedule

Tue, 04 May 2004 12:00:00 +0000

Mumbai Navigator from IITB tells you how to get from one place to another in Mumbai, using the local bus and train services. Also has maps. (Here’s the old Mumbai Navigator.)

Alphonso has the full Mumbai local train timetables as pictures.

If you’re looking for street maps, Google Maps has a pretty good street map of Mumbai. But it’s not as good as MapMyIndia, which gives you the driving route from Nariman Point to Bandra for instance.

2003 Mumbai Bloggers meet photos

Tue, 06 May 2003 12:00:00 +0000

The Mumbai Bloggers’ Meet photos are online.

Comments

Mumbai Man 3 Dec 2006 10:57 pm: try this http://mumbainews.wordpress.com/2006/08/30/local-trains-time-table/

Mumbai Bloggers Meet

Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:00:00 +0000

The next Mumbai Blogger’s Meet is on May 4th.

Water problem in cities

Sat, 19 Oct 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Water problems at Chennai. And Mumbai. And Ahmedabad. And Andhra. The rest of the world will, too, in a short while.

2002 Mumbai Bloggers meet photos mirror

Tue, 08 Oct 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Amrita has mirrored pictures of the Mumbai Bloggers’ Meet. Since she has no bandwidth restrictions, please visit that site.

2002 Mumbai Bloggers meet photos

Sat, 05 Oct 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Photos from the Mumbai Bloggers’ Meet.

IIMB junta get together

Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:00:00 +0000

A dozen IIMB junta got together at Hotel Pritam, Mumbai.

Under the staircase of Bandra station

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Under the staircase of Bandra station lies a two-storeyed apartment. Dupleix layout, single room. East-facing, with elevated entrance.

It’s 8:00am. The man on the ladder is a boot polish-walla. He’s picking up his box, getting ready for work, while his colleague watches. Their families is still asleep in the single room. And in the room, along with them, is a rather cramped storage space.

I wonder how many live in such conditions. Of course, it’s much better than the slums around Mahim. Still, it looks like a rather difficult life.

Yet people manage. I asked a driver a few months ago why he’d migrated to Mumbai. “Livelihood,” was his simple answer. At the end of the day, there are far more well-paying jobs in Mumbai than most other cities. Despite the ridiculous rents and cramped spaces.

Comments

Aparna 16 Aug 2002 12:00 pm: Anand, If someone does not stop the torrential pouring of men in Mumbai, very soon the city will have no space left! Mumbai has close to 29000 people per sq km, can you believe it. I am agitated not amazed. And yes, severely pained for the state of my country’s financial capital.

I deliver movie tickets on the phone at Bandra

Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Fame has its ironical twists. I was searching in google for someone who could deliver movie tickets on the phone at Bandra. The irony is that my site landed up on top.

P.S: The title is sarcastic. I DO NOT deliver tickets. I’m a consultant, not a ticket distributor. So please don’t try to book your tickets in the comments section below!

Web is boring and life is interesting

Fri, 10 May 2002 12:00:00 +0000

No, I haven’t stopped updating because I wanted my Google entry to be on top for a long time. It’s just that the web is boring, and my life has become interesting otherwise. Read more in Mumbai. I’m in Delhi these days, so I hope to add a Delhi chapter as well.

I just watched

Sat, 04 May 2002 12:00:00 +0000

I was waiting for Vandana and Prashasti at ticket counter of the Andheri (E) station. Mumbai is extremely warm these days, so I went in search of a fan to stand under. I found one, but the place under it was occupied.

By a dog.

Now, I have to describe this dog. It looked like on of the normal mongrels. Not too discoloured or anything. Looked pretty young. And it was lying on its back. Yeah, sure, dogs aren’t supposed to do that, but this one did it pretty well. In the middle of its sleep, it woke up, and tried scratching itself. Poor thing must’ve felt itchy all over, so it ended up trying to bite its paw several times over, and not always succeeding.

I didn’t budge. I just watched.

While I was watching all this, this fairly well-dressed guy of about 25 had just bought his ticket, and was walking towards me. He noticed me, and noticed me looking at the dog. He walked pretty close to the dog, and I thought he wanted to pet the dog. What he did, instead, this well-dressed guy, was to kick the dog instead. For no reason at all. And walked away.

I didn’t budge. I just watched.

Then this little girl of about 4 came along. Clothes in tatters, and probably hadn’t eaten in many hours. She stood near the dog. The dog tried scratching itself on her skirt and leg (still on its back, mind you.) She moved a bit back. The dog followed. Soon they were playing.

I didn’t budge. I just watched.

After a while, the little girl went over and joined her mother and (equally tiny) sisters. Someone else had just bought a ticket, and was rushing to catch the train. In his haste, he dropped a little red booklet. The little girl was closest to it, so she picked it up and opened it. If it had any money, I’d have been quite happy to see her take it. There wasn’t. It was just a red booklet. She took it to her mother, who looked at it, looked around for help, saw me looking, and asked the little girl to give it to me, and asked me if I could return it.

I don’t think that well-dressed guy would’ve asked me to return it.

The booklet seemed like a phone book of sorts, though it had some Hindi poetry too in it (romantic poetry, too!) and a workman’s pass. A phone number was listed. I called the number, explained to the person that I had this pass, and said that I’d leave it with the station master at Andheri, and that the owner could pick it up.

It didn’t work out that way. I couldn’t find the station master. I don’t know if these stations even have one. So I just left, figuring I’d return it the next day. Didn’t happen. That week, I had to leave for Delhi. Now that I’m back, I still haven’t returned it.

As far as I’m concerned, I didn’t budge. I just watched.

Punctuality of Bombay trains

Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:00:00 +0000

12:05 Churchgate

Hmm, maybe it’s not just the London and Tokyo trains you can set your watch by. On the way back from my trip to Ullas Nagar, I was sitting at the Bandra station waiting for the 12:05 to Churchgate. (That’s 12:05AM – as in the middle of the night.) The train was late, and I was enjoying the last of my plum cakes on the platform.

Two old people clad in khadi strutted in, and looked at the display. It said “12:05 C”. The older one said, “Heck, we’ve missed the train. Let’s go to the next platform.”

“No, we couldn’t. It says ‘12:05 C’. The train’s coming,” says the “younger”.

The older one purposefully turns towards the big clock on the station, points to it, and says, “Look. It’s 12:10. The 12:05 train has left.” End of argument.

Maybe there’s something to be said for the punctuality of local trains in Mumbai, after all.

Comments

raj 7 May 2007 4:54 pm: ullas nagar is not anywhere near on the bandra-churchgate railway link, but miles apart on different part of the town. don’t fool the people, learn bombay’s geography first
raj 7 May 2007 4:56 pm: and ullas nagar is not spelt as you have spelt it. It’s called Ulhas Nagar. And if you have missed the 12:05C train, you don’t have to change platforms, but simply wait there for arrival of the next train. you don’t change platforms for evry missed train. wake up, man.
S Anand 7 May 2007 5:02 pm: Raj, correction noted on the spelling of Ulhas Nagar. I was lugging furniture from Ulhas Nagar to my new house in Bandra. After moving it in, I was waiting to take the train to Churchgate, which was where my old house was. Trains from Bandra to Churchgate come on platforms 2 and 4. The 12:05 was on platform 2. The 12:10 was at Platform 4. You didn’t HAVE to change platforms, but catching the next train, in this case, meant you did.

The 7-column blueprint

Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:00:00 +0000

I was traveling from VT to Ullas Nagar to buy furniture. Since it’s an hour-and-half, I had taken a printout of an article on Scenario Planning to read. Being the gripping reading that it was, I’d fallen asleep on page 4, when I feel a gentle tap on my shoulder.

“Excuse me, are you reading this?”

Since I was asleep, I clearly wasn’t. But I looked at him, just to make sure he hadn’t mistaken it for a newspaper or something. He had a moustache, was wearing a blue shirt, and didn’t looked like the type who could mistake Scenario Planning with the latest political gossip.

“Could I have a look?”

He sure could. The article had made no sense to me so far. If it helped him, great! He started leafing through it.

“Did you download it?”

I had. I nodded. Then I went back to sleep. After a few minutes, when I woke up to see what station had arrived, he started off again.

“So are you studying this only now?” (His tone was like, “So, are you learning to read at THIS age?”)

I said, “Yeah.”

“Haven’t you taken any classes on strategy before?”

Now, how do I explain that I work for a strategy consulting firm? But then, that wasn’t his question was it? To be honest, I’ve taken only one class on strategy, and I’m not really sure I understand it, so I said “No.”

“I work for BPL Mobile, you see,” he continued. “We had this class on strategy where they gave out this blueprint. You should read it.”

Well, if he’s from BPL Mobile, I have a few strong thoughts as a customer that I’d want to share with him. But then again… maybe I’d learn something. I asked, “Blueprint? What’s that?”

“Oh, it’s a sheet that has 7 columns. It tells you what all you have to do for a company’s strategy – from deciding everyone’s designation to putting names in each of the boxes and so on. It’s really detailed. It has 7 columns. You should get it and read it.”

“Oh, you mean a business plan!”

“No, no, no. This has 7 columns. It’s a blueprint. You should read it.”

Of course. 7 columns. Should anyone spot a blueprint with 7 columns, do pass it to me. I should read it. In the meantime, I’ll stick to sleeping on trains.

Fun place

Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:00:00 +0000

I work at a fun place (search for “Having fun in India” on Google).

I help a guy pick a college in Mumbai

Sun, 23 Sep 2001 12:00:00 +0000

I was pretty surprised that this guy wanted to go to the “richest” college in Mumbai. But by the time he asked if they were co-ed, I figured I had to get off quickly…

root_node: M 26 BLR.
root_node: Well, M 26 Mumbai, actually.
kushnoodh: ok wanna chat with male
root_node: Hi!
kushnoodh: tell me wann chat or ?
root_node: Sure, why not? Where are you from?
root_node: Of course. I mean, where in PK?
kushnoodh: fsd
kushnoodh: u knoqw this place
root_node: Heard of it, of course. But don’t know much.
root_node: You a student?
kushnoodh: yes i m coming to india for study
kushnoodh: bombay
root_node: Oh, that’s good! Where to?
kushnoodh: i m coming to bombay but now i need some information about college
kushnoodh: can u help me
root_node: Which college are you coming to?
kushnoodh: plzz tell me the best college name of bombay
root_node: Boy, that’s a tough one…. what do you want to study?
kushnoodh: i passed my matric in 1996 and now i want to continue my study 11th
root_node: Oh… VJTI is a pretty good college.
root_node: So is Wilson college.
root_node: Ruparel college is probably the most famous, though.
kushnoodh: can u tellme the richest college name
root_node: Uh… no clue actually!
kushnoodh: ok
root_node: In terms of reputation, these three colleges are pretty good.
kushnoodh: im these colleges hostel facility
root_node: I’m not sure… but getting accomodation in Mumbai is not a problem at all.
kushnoodh: and tellme the fee and hostel charges
kushnoodh: guess
root_node: Frankly, I’m new to Bombay, and have never studied here, so I haven’t a clue.
root_node: But if you’re looking for an estimate.
root_node: My guess would be it’s in the order of
root_node: a lakh a year, excluding accomodation.
kushnoodh: ok thanks and no admission problem for muslims
root_node: None that I know if.
kushnoodh: i mean is any admission problem for mmuslims
root_node: Usually, no.
root_node: There’s no quota or anything.
kushnoodh: ok
kushnoodh: nice
root_node: Best of luck with your application, Habib!
kushnoodh: tell me if i come to bombay and wanna stay there then can i get room on rent
root_node: Oh yeah, sure. They’re easily available. Rents vary from 2,000 to 10,000 per month.
kushnoodh: its is so castly
kushnoodh: any low one
root_node: It would be pretty far away, then.
kushnoodh: ok
root_node: I’ve got to chat with another friend, Habib. See you around, then. Bye!
kushnoodh: tell me in these colleges total co education plz tell me and ui will not disturb u plz
root_node: Sure. They’re all co-ed!
kushnoodh: have a nice chat ok see u bybeybeyeyeb sweet friend
root_node: Bye! Best of luck!
kushnoodh: ok so nice of u man i like u very much because ur very good man
kushnoodh: have a good day nice meeting and chatting with u ok ybeybebeyb