Morning Commute

In the train, generally in mornings see a lot of people sitting around me. The fascinating thing about everyone is,we all are thinking the same thing in a different ways. Some people are working on their laptops, some people are reading books, some people are listening to music,but all of the people are thinking why is this train moving so slow? Despite the fact it is running a the normal speed.

Morning commute is always fun. The main objective for people,who use public transport, is to catch a specific train or bus, though the next one is coming in 15 minutes. If they get the bus they feel like they conquered a big battle against the time. However, if they miss it they will be so mad at the driver, like it all the driver's fault that he/she is trying to run service on schedule.

I tend to observe a lot of people on buses. There are all kind of people taking buses and trains for example,students, workers, small business owners etc etc. But one thing which I observed is nobody want to sit next to a stranger. People have very high self esteem. They prefer to stand despite if they have an open seat next to someone. People are very less friendly on buses and trains I don't know why? . This is what it looks like, there are 40 people in a bus and nobody is talking for 40 minutes. If we put these people in a room for 40 minutes I am sure people half the people will end up talking. But on public transport I never saw it happening.

It is also fascinating to see groups of people taking the bus/train. They will end up being the loud and obnoxious people on the bus. Because nobody else is talking and they have somebody to talk to so they flaunt it to others. They think they are the only people in the bus/ trains who have friends. Isn't it funny.

Disclaimer:This is mere an observation.Facts may differ.

Cheers
M

Valentine's day Pillow Fight

As the clock struck 6 people started attacking each other without mercy, every one was on one another,nobody got just one blow they got several hits. They try to hit back some succeed and some just missed. However, they never stopped just keep trying hit each other, on the valentine's day 2009 in Justin Herman plaza, with their deadly weapons,"pillows". Yes I am talking about the Pillow fight. Unbelievable sight!!!. Thousands of pillows was just flinging around. I just couldn't have imagined how people can just jump out of their comfort zone and start hitting completely random strangers without a second thought with their pillow and when people get hit by other people's pillow, they enjoyed it as well.

My girl friend (Caitlin) and I want to do something cool and different this Valentine's day and she found out about the pillow fight in San Francisco in Justin Herman Plaza . We were looking forward towards it. We decided no matter what will happen we are going to do it. Then lately we heard the news that the weekend of Valentine's day will be rainy and wet but it didn't effect our decision we bought ponchos as the rescue plan. However it didn't rain during the pillow fight hours.

So, This was the fourth successful pillow fight in the row. I will not talk more about the history and whereabouts because it all available on-line. I will be talking about how does it feel to be there in the "Pillow War Zone".

So before we couldn't even start the pillow fight around 5:45 pm there was these people dressed up as UN officers were protesting against the pillow fight. For an instance we thought they are real UN people and they want to stop pillow fight but soon we realized that it was just joke(As seen on flyer:) ). However for those who don't know what "UN" is; UN stand for UNO which is acronym for United Nations Organizations. I am not being condescending here because I saw couple people went to the UN fake officers and start asking what "un" stands for? they didn't have any clue whatsoever that there is something called UN. Which kind of spoiled the joke. They were just handing out flyers.

At 6 sharp I got my firs pillow hit on my face and then another followed the first one on my neck it didn't take time for me to realize that I have to start attacking soon. I just start flinging my pillow in all the direction. And it is the same scene all over Justin Herman Plaza. People were dressed in different interesting costumes; A set of Zombies(they were just maneuvering within the crowd pillow less, and every body was hitting them), People were dressed in sleeping robes, people were dressed as super heroes, Ninjas. There was a DJ as well riding on his bike ,carrying his speakers on it, moving all over the arena.

After 45 minutes or so some pillows started getting torn and in 15 minutes or so whole area was filled pillow feather It just looked like snow all over. People didn't care about it they were just keep hitting each other with the same animosity ;). Apart from the main arena people were doing extreme pillow fights in different groups. It was all very well managed by the participants despite of such pillow brutality there were no fights what so ever which is really very good about it. It was all in the name of just simple fun.

There were so many moments but this is the one I remember most. So, there was this couple they were actively participating in pillow fight and then the girl dropped her pillow her boyfriend helped her to get it back and then they just kissed each other. It was so "cheesy ";kissing in the fore ground and lots and lots of jumping pillows in the back ground. However, they just didn't realize that it was in the middle of pillow fight ...hahaha




Cheers
Mragendra