Nature Trail-II

Continued from “Nature Trail – I” ………..

We haven’t yet reached the eastern end of this walk-way yet.  While we soak ourselves in the warmth and pleasure and giggles billowing out of children sliding, swinging & riding on the duck in their very own play zone, we happen to see an adult lady jumping on the baby trampoline wearing most pointed and longest heel shoes. Seeing the plight of baby trampoline we loudly lament that wisdom has gone to the dogs.

While enjoying the sight of gleeful children and lamenting the sight of an adult jumping on baby trampoline, we unmindfully step into a big stretch of accumulated water on the walkway. Time and again since last 3 years it was regularly brought to the notice of commodores and captains of this Mahindra Eminente project, but corrective action phrase probably doesn’t exist in the lexicon of MLDL, particularly if it involves infusion of capital and more importantly infusion of basic common sense. One need not take admission in civil engineering class to understand that incorrect slope is causing the water accumulation on the walkway.

If all this was not the nature walk than what else can be.  During our walk through the nature we came across – Snails, stray dogs, pedigree dogs, toads, mosquitoes and just when we thought that we had enough, a fat rat runs over our Crocs sandals.  
Bhaag BoseDK Bhaag !! Lets take shelter in the house and my long lost school time friend quickly retorts – I hope your house ceiling is not leaking like the house with thatched roof which may finally complete the concept of perfect nature living. Thank God it isn’t. I am not on topmost floor and my neighbour living above us empathises.

At the final leg of our nature-walk, we enter into the entrance lobby of the building and DK Bose wanted to admire himself in the mirror to ensure that he is not looking as luchha/ lafanga as he used to look during his college days. But here too he breathed heavy and exclaimed that mirrors in the lobby have turned black. Not interested in facing any more embarrassment, I pulled DK Bose upstairs to my house.

Now since it is the season of credit rating downgrade by credit rating agencies like Standard & Poor’s, we now complete our daily constitutional with downgrading the rating of Mahindra Lifespaces Developers Limited, because fair share of misery is the outcome of under-development rather than development of this complex by MLDL which is so widely evident by leakages, water accumulation, shoddy quality and what not reflected through various other posts in this blog. However, even residents of this complex cannot escape unscathed without getting their own rating downgraded based upon how the bells and whistles facilities in this complex are misused and abused.

I can guess what the office bearers of MLDL might be mumbling – “we give two hoots to your rating and don’t care”. Yes, I know that MLDL doesn’t, which proves that “Standards” are so “Poor” and if it continues to be poor then days are not far when office bearers will turn into pall bearers of this MLDL. We can only offer best wishes at this point in time.

I can guess what errant residents might be mumbling- “we give two hoots to your rating and don’t care”. I know that too. That’s why our beloved India is crawling, not running, because nobody cares. Mahindra group boss goes and gives consultancy to Singapore government and chooses to have the resident’s grievances bracketed as juvenile spat. Same errant residents when they go to foreign land walk the dog with poop scooper or choose not to have the pet at all.

Mera Bharat Mahan.

Moral of the story – Its safer to take a swing on the jhoola in own balcony while sipping elaichi chai and solving Sudoku.