It’s been quite a while since I wrote anything… hands were kinda tied I should say.. sometimes things happen which you really can’t explain.. for example, one fine morning in Jan when I was enjoying my coffee in office over some mundane conversation, the cup slipped and dropped from my hand to splash the entire table n the laptop with my favorite drink.. I still don’t know how and why it happened.. all I could you see was a good quantity of it flowing into my lappy’s keypad, under the stack of paper on the table n dripping onto the carpet... even with all the frantic turning of the machine upside down and draining out the brown liquid, my lappy gave up.. for a good 3 hrs it refused to start and when it did, the keys either began writing their own sweet story anywhere and everywhere they found a text box to type in or they stopped working at all..not even Ctrl+Alt+Del was working..can you imagine, I couldn’t even attempt to lock the system coz I wouldn’t have been able to log in again.. I was literally at my wits end because I couldn’t open a folder without a series of j’s or k’s or I’s getting typed in the search box.. all my messages would have a ‘j’ or a ‘k’ or an ‘I’ after every letter of any word like I was inventing a new lingo.. I had to actually wait till all the coffee remaining inside dried up leaving the keys sticky and hard, to use the lappy again, never mind the keypad.. for the joy of living in Jo’burg I had to survive using an USB keyboard for the remaining 3 months till I reached Bangalore..
Well yah.. I returned to Bangalore.. it was such a huge relief to be back in your city with your people.. never mind, the traffic, the ever under-construction flyovers, the dust, the pollution, the power cuts, the water shortage and so on.. it’s still my dear city.. u never realize how much you have missed something until you get it back.. even the pani puri off the streets seems heavenly when you haven’t had it for 6 months :).. Bangalore has suddenly had a barrage of shopping malls sprouting all over the place.. for a shopaholic like me, nothing seems sweeter than this.. I happened to visit the new Bangalore central in Jayanagar and Mantri square in Malleswaram.. Bangalore central was nice but Mantri was huge n I was almost swamped by the number of people visiting that place over a weekend.. n ‘course there was loads of shopping involved.. now that’s something very inherent to the female species.. can never shop enough n there’s never enough to shop.. there’s always something more to buy.. if not the clothes, then it’s the bags.. if not the accessories, then it’s the cosmetics.. if not shoes, then it’s the watches.. just doesn’t stop.. if I talk for myself, I’ll even add books and chocolates to this list :)..
I’m still enjoying the fact that I’m back in this place.. still checking out all the new places and revisiting the old.. the city limits seem to be extending in all directions.. bursting at its seams is more like it.. all the builders are hunting for newer places to construct apartments and the prices seem to be going off the roof.. but I guess this is the case in most growing cities these days.. so nothing new to rue about… one fine day it’s all gonna settle down but I guess people need to have patience till then.. talking about patience.. one thing that struck me the minute I landed here was the constant and persistent honking.. it was always so in-the-face that I never noticed before.. some people just honk for the heck of it.. something which you never come across when you are outside India.. in most places, honking is considered rude and is done only in extreme situations.. but then again, it’s one of those zillion things which will never be applicable in India :).. like lane driving, following traffic rules, keeping the roads free of trash.. even things like ‘Hello’ being the first thing to tell anyone, be it a stranger or someone you know.. small courtesies go a long way in building relationships.. just try giving a smile, forget saying ‘Hi’, to the next person you meet in your office.. you might just make his or her day… n I shall continue enjoying Bangalore.. Cheers ;)..
