This was an absolutely natural/dumb theme, some askew mebbe tired minds, conjured up last week! And then, it was decided that this wud be my next blog....not that it has to do anything with wat this log is abt!
I found out that when anyone is searching for a house...in this land of the ever greedy Scrooge's, it sure happens that the person faints before all is over, and that too, if he gets a place to live that he is looking for. Anyaayam! I sound this harsh 'cos i was shown some s**thole, where even a pigeon wudnt care to do it, n 4k bucks was the amount quoted as rent! It took REAL patience and some nomadic, unrewarding efforts and all the will power i cud muster to come to a reasonable decision.
Finally we(here me n bull) did decide on a place to live....though this 1BHK not being worth the amount we going to pay as rent!
As someone commented - 'So! Balaji? back to college life?huh?'....n i replied sayin-'college vera, vaazhkai vera...college romba secure environment! inimey thaan theriyum!'
So a whole new phase of life lies ahead....not much different from that lead by close-estranged frends in foriegn lands......feels lonely in the real sense for the first time!!
Friday, October 15, 2004
Monday, October 04, 2004
Of Zoos, Eating and Speed-riding!
The long awaited arrival of Saravanan did finally come on the cold morning of 2nd October.
When returning back from picking him from the statition, just around the ususal corner near my place i saw 'that' couple as i have been doing now for almost an year and a half....jus confirming from Saro that it was 7:30 sharp indeed! talk about commitment! thats wat actually drew me to 'em, atleast take a peek every morning dot at 7:30am and feel assured 'they' met today!
Ha...! LOVE!!!!
anyways...this trip was long awaited 'cos it was to be made duing Bull's(Karthik-Wipro) bithday weekend, but that dint happen. So the whole itenarary was left to be planned by Bull and as expected...nothing was for sure on 2nd morning. But some loon had suggested to Bull that we go to Bannerghatta Zoo rather than on a long drive to Nandini Hills 'where there isn't even a tea stall' - as Bull put it.
Even the ride along the potholes with some roads in between to Bannerghatta was fun because of the distance and those cuddly couples on Pulsars, who we kept givin a gud race with our Splendor n Libero's! And u reach there after a wretched ride is when u find out...most people around here take it to be a serious place to be visited in the weekends! Only going around the place n coming back outside do u realise, u had been amidst a couple of bushes with fences around them called 'Zoo'....damn! it is a small roadside garden compared to Vandalur or even the Mysore zoo i had visited few years back! It was so uninteresting there that we only took a total of six-seven snaps going around the whole place! Which zoo do u reach-go around the place-and pack up in just about 2 hours, which exactly what we did!! And sure we were hungry like hell... No specific place in mind led us to the convivial 'Krishna Kafe' in Koramangala...where this definitely sooper 'kalyana saapaadu' after long time, had us all lumbering along to the bikes, each of us passing around the bike keys and with it the burden of riding in Bangalore traffic after such heavy lunch! What else to do next?...heading straight to Bull's place - the nearest one to where we ate - and falling asleep like a polar bear on its belly was logical! But again Bull had different plans for us...and got all the cursing for it later. We watched 'Kudaikkul Mazhai' - the new Paarthiban film - and were drained beyond our sane abilities to do anything after the pathetic ordeal!
All that was Saturday and returning back home was a big relief. So Saro n me thought unwinding by watching 'The Village' would be best! Ten minutes into the movie both of us found out we were famished and had to sleep! Not to mention that the movie was of no help to revive us from that state! And the movie still remains to be seen! It has to be mentioned here that when retuning the cd back first thing on Sunday morning, there was this guy outside the shop asking how the movie was. I said- 'i am yet to watch n so dont know!', to which he gave a bewildered n sad look saying - 'I've watched it 4 times n still dont know what it is about, atleast thought u cud tell me!!!". Have to verify that one!
Sunday dint present any surprises as i like 'em, and so we had to head back to the always crowded MG/Brigade corners. Food at RR was tedious with some old friends-new faces n some nonsense talk going around. All plans of returnin back home to finish watchin the movie also went for a toss as new plans came up from the new faces! atleast the ones spared from the plans cud catch up with unadultrated 3 hours of sleep! We got up watching 'Shrek' on movies and then it was farewell time....! Had a good weekend though, after a long time....!
Got hold of a copy of 'Are u afraid of the dark'...so possibly something to post a comment on J's blog in a few days time??
When returning back from picking him from the statition, just around the ususal corner near my place i saw 'that' couple as i have been doing now for almost an year and a half....jus confirming from Saro that it was 7:30 sharp indeed! talk about commitment! thats wat actually drew me to 'em, atleast take a peek every morning dot at 7:30am and feel assured 'they' met today!
Ha...! LOVE!!!!
anyways...this trip was long awaited 'cos it was to be made duing Bull's(Karthik-Wipro) bithday weekend, but that dint happen. So the whole itenarary was left to be planned by Bull and as expected...nothing was for sure on 2nd morning. But some loon had suggested to Bull that we go to Bannerghatta Zoo rather than on a long drive to Nandini Hills 'where there isn't even a tea stall' - as Bull put it.
Even the ride along the potholes with some roads in between to Bannerghatta was fun because of the distance and those cuddly couples on Pulsars, who we kept givin a gud race with our Splendor n Libero's! And u reach there after a wretched ride is when u find out...most people around here take it to be a serious place to be visited in the weekends! Only going around the place n coming back outside do u realise, u had been amidst a couple of bushes with fences around them called 'Zoo'....damn! it is a small roadside garden compared to Vandalur or even the Mysore zoo i had visited few years back! It was so uninteresting there that we only took a total of six-seven snaps going around the whole place! Which zoo do u reach-go around the place-and pack up in just about 2 hours, which exactly what we did!! And sure we were hungry like hell... No specific place in mind led us to the convivial 'Krishna Kafe' in Koramangala...where this definitely sooper 'kalyana saapaadu' after long time, had us all lumbering along to the bikes, each of us passing around the bike keys and with it the burden of riding in Bangalore traffic after such heavy lunch! What else to do next?...heading straight to Bull's place - the nearest one to where we ate - and falling asleep like a polar bear on its belly was logical! But again Bull had different plans for us...and got all the cursing for it later. We watched 'Kudaikkul Mazhai' - the new Paarthiban film - and were drained beyond our sane abilities to do anything after the pathetic ordeal!
All that was Saturday and returning back home was a big relief. So Saro n me thought unwinding by watching 'The Village' would be best! Ten minutes into the movie both of us found out we were famished and had to sleep! Not to mention that the movie was of no help to revive us from that state! And the movie still remains to be seen! It has to be mentioned here that when retuning the cd back first thing on Sunday morning, there was this guy outside the shop asking how the movie was. I said- 'i am yet to watch n so dont know!', to which he gave a bewildered n sad look saying - 'I've watched it 4 times n still dont know what it is about, atleast thought u cud tell me!!!". Have to verify that one!
Sunday dint present any surprises as i like 'em, and so we had to head back to the always crowded MG/Brigade corners. Food at RR was tedious with some old friends-new faces n some nonsense talk going around. All plans of returnin back home to finish watchin the movie also went for a toss as new plans came up from the new faces! atleast the ones spared from the plans cud catch up with unadultrated 3 hours of sleep! We got up watching 'Shrek' on movies and then it was farewell time....! Had a good weekend though, after a long time....!
Got hold of a copy of 'Are u afraid of the dark'...so possibly something to post a comment on J's blog in a few days time??
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