BENGALOORU FOR YOU:

I am back to the the Insti. I have every right to be. After an eventful journey over the last three months, I feel good to be back here.

Looking back, they were the most wonderful summer holidays I have had in a long time. I was in Bangalore, famous for three things: I.T, Girls and Dogs. I got a taste of all the three (not literally you see). My intern has just helped me realise that I.T is not my domain. All the reduntant 'for' loops were a wee bit too much for the rather humble mechanical engineer within me. But I did 'go to work' every morning. For a good amount of time, I liked to believe I was a corporate :D. Coding is good, it's wonderful, In fact, that is keeps the wheels of the economy powered but it kinda sucks. The A.C cabin, the cubicles, the desktops, the googling and the Visual Studio - were just too good though.

Girls.. Ahem.. I am amongst the less fortunate of the lot to have been roaming around the malls of the garden city with a guy (Hi Uss), but none the less, we never let go of an opportunity to ogle at the good young things that walked past us. Somehow, Uss couldn't help being fixated at those things. At the end of the day, he would say "Yaar, zindagi mein ladki toh zarur honi chahiye". And when he saw HOT young things with apparent losers and hippies, he would do the VIP-ad "What's he got that I ain't got?". Well, at most times I was only echoing his sentiments. But there was a certain occasion when we did manage to get a real Hot young thing interested in us and she kept constantly staring at us. That we did not have the balls to even talk to her is another issue.

Bangalore is more famous for it's dogs than anything else. The Times of India is planning to bringing out something like a dog-bite update every week on the lines of Times Classifides. There are an enormous number of dogs and they make their presence felt all over the city and in the morning newspapers. That said, I was luckiy enough to come back bite-free. Dogs, they say are man's best friend. But I doubt the Bangalore-man would disagree.

Old habits die hard, that's Bengalooru for you.