Bangalore This Time

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Originally uploaded by iT KRiSHNA.

It has been long since i had posted any travel blogs. This one is for Bangalore TRIP, a relatively short one , and of course a miserable travel back. i don't know how, but i have developed this weird affinity towards, facing hard times while traveling home, all the fun and enjoyment i get i traveling and visiting places gets lost in the way back home( Its like i m not happy to find my way home. )

This was in mid-December, i was already in between a hectic schedule. I was busy in some personal activities, new-site went live, was busy fixing up some new scripts that i wrote a couple of weeks back, etc... it was all busy times.... i really needed a desperate break and arun calls up one fine day saying that , he has an interview at some company in bangalore (*for those who dont know about Bangalore, more than
50% of the world's blue chip companies run out of here...) and said like, he s moving alone and needed a company..... "why not, with pleasure....:-)" and here we go, i got the reason to slip outta chennai one more time....

I made it to the bus stand, very earlier than arun on that day, i was like waiting for this guy to come for close to an 30~40 mins.... i m very serious about timings.... i don't like waiting for others, i will only make others wait.... he he :-) , this guy made it very late.... we fortunately found some couple who were about to sell their tickets, got the tickets.... what next, board the bus.... it was close to 10:30 in the night... i thought we will reach comfortably by around 7/8...
ITs all old memories crepping in when the bus crossed Sastha Inst., " College life was fun na.... ? i miss it badly ..." it was around 11 odd then. I pulled on the bedsheet and went into sleep......................damn,... . that driver halts the bus in 4:30 in the morning, 4:30 AM ..... :0..... imagine, i have never seen such a time in my life for more than 4 months.... and you are in Bangalore during december, just imagine the amount of chillness we would have felt.... i was shivering like anything .. my jaws were making a new music every time i tried to speak... We had to goto a place near kemp-fort, it was don's brother's home... so we called up don's bro... he guided us to that place... we took an auto... we told the auto driver, not to go very fast as we were already shivering..... never in my life i have seen an auto driver flying through the city roads... he was cruising in 60's and 70's.... atlast he stopped near some kids shopping mall.... someone had opened a tea dhukaan outside... wow... tea... tea means fun.... and having a tea in that climate is like crazy. we went to that place... i slept for some time.. had some nice breakfast made by don's anna... arun in the meanwhile slipped for the interview.... i ran through the streets a couple of times but did nothing....

Arun came back from the interview.... we headed to the shopping mall... did some jaldi-jaldi shopping.... i wont forget what arun asked for in the shopping mall.... I was desperatley searching for some toys for a 1 year old kid.... while .. he was searching the same for a 25 yr old kid ( what he calls as 'boy' ?)... amazing.... the salesman was stumped when we asked we need a toy to play for a 25 yr old..... then arun says 'boy' .... (I will give you the choice to guess who that 25 yr old kid is...?) .... forget it ... kemp-kids reduced the thickness of my credit card by a few millimeters.....

Now its time to do some routine shopping.... we stepped out with don's bro and his friends.... JP, kathir, etc... we ran thru... all city malls.... BG road... city center/.....lots of other places.... and the gud thing is ... were never bought anything.... :-) thats the spirit of shopping....

wat else... lets find our way home..... sweet home..... but how is the question... this is severely unplanned travel... i didn book any tickets, neither did arun.... i had to be in office the next day... i din have a choice.... We went to bus-stand... trying to find some unknown travels... jus to get them saying "NO TICKETS"... we were feeling very hungry... so we thought of having some food... and continue the ticket searching.... food :-).... one bad thing about karnatake... food is always worser than your least expectations.... nothing changes here... we managed to have what others called as food... and continued our ticket searching...

We found some guy who was selling tickets for some unknown travels company... i bought the tickets.... and we ended up walking some 5 kms to get to the place where the buses stop for that "unknown travel company".,... arun is one guy , who worries about comfort, quality and brand... in my travel dictionary these words never exist.... "So no matter, what he says , or whatever i feel..... i was not gonna worry about it"... and that "Unknown-travels" guy.... takes so much time to bring out buses.... that u end up going pissed off by their service.... but theres'nt much of a choice either....

We ended up in chennai by some 5~6 am in the morning..... thats all for this edition of my travel blogs.... will catch u in some other place....