7.10 am, 12 April 1983 was the time and day when god thought of blessing this world by making me a part of it! :-D…
Just before dispatching me to earth, God gave His aide the surname, address of the family I was supposed to be a part of. That aide, I suppose, was a very careless person.
God had suggested the surname as ambaNI. But that stupid fellow messed up the last 3 alphabets! That’s how I ended up being an ambaLIA!!...
Not that I m not happy about being an AMBALIA. It’s just that life would have been very different if I were an AMBANI!....so, I thought of jotting down what difference my life would have experienced if I were an ambaNI instead of an ambaLIA!!!
| Being an ambaNI | Being an ambaLIA |
| 1) I don’t have to mention the floor number of the building where I stay (because the whole ANTILLA would be mine) | 1) I specifically have to mention which floor I stay on. |
| 2) I can go to Australia in a christmas holidays, to US in Summer Holidays and to brazil if I want to enjoy a safari. It would be a thrilling experience to see animals living in the wild and enjoying nature. | 2) I go to Rajkot on Diwalis and to Jijabai Udyaan if I want to enjoy a safari! Needless to say, it would be saddening to see animals cry in the 5 walled cages in the zoo. |
| 3) I face a problem of plenty as far as cars is concerned. I would be in a dilemma as to whether I should take Bentely or a BMW or a Porshe while going to a nearby restaurant. | 3) I face a problem of scarcity as far as means of reaching station is concerned. I don’t get rickshaws to reach station. Half the distance, I have to share a seat beside the rickshaw driver. The rest of the distance I crib about the traffic. |
| 4) I can gift a plane to my wife | 4) the maximum I can think of gifting my wife is a Honda Activa! |
| 5) I would have a confusion as to which bathroom I have to use to enjoy my morning showers… | 5) I don’t have any confusion as far as having a shower is concerned!... there is just one bathroom. Problem solved! |
| 6) I don’t have to worry about train derailment, trains halting at signals, odour-testing in trains, etc. | 6)the moment I leave kalyan station, I start thinking whether the train will reach dadar at the right time so that I don’t miss the connecting MALAD fast local to reach Goregaon! |
| 7) I don’t have to worry about appraisals, increments, rebuke by bosses for coming late to office. | 7) in times of recession, I better reach office on time, I better complete work before time, I better outperform others so that I good appraisals and hence good increments… |
| 8) I can’t sleep well in the night fearing how the markets will perform the next day | 8) once I leave office, I give a damn about the office!... I should get my salary on time.! That’s it!... |
| 9) I always have a threat from my business opponents who might want to kill me. | 9) the only living things that I fear are the dogs outside our compound! Let aside any human being as an opponent! |
| 10) I get to live with the pretentious world of the riches | 10) I got to live with all my dear NRCites!... that means a lot lot lot to me!... the old days spent in NRC are more valuable to me than the riches one would get in ANTILLA. I am very happy with a simple, middle-class childhood that I have had! |
And so and so forth…. After having lived the life of an ambaLIA, I want to see how life would be being born as a ambaNI… God, are you listening???!!..
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