The Lazy Trip to Bengaluru

This post is getting kind of late. So was our trip actually. After huge amounts of haggling about dates for the trip (which if you have been following carefully, was a part of our conversation at the previous meet up at Besant Nagar Beach itself), after getting fooled by Gc (please ask me how ) to come this weekend (19th-20th July) instead of the previous one, and various other reasons for not going the previous week itself, we, i.e. Swami, Pk, Damaal and me, finally made a trip to Bangalore and stayed there from 18th Friday to 20th Sunday, July.

At a CCD on Friday

The trip was luckily “on time” for Swami, our very own Purdue student, who had to meet this junior NITT girl who was leaving on Friday night back to Trichy for college. Pk and Swami went to her house and had lunch there before even meeting up with us (Damaal and me). Hot new rumour with old news: The junior girl’s friends in NITT are speculating if their friend has got herself a US maaplai! This rumour is compounded by the fact that the girl’s parents only vaguely remember (in fact very vaguely, if Pk is to be believed) that Pk was also with Swami when they visited their house.

At the same CCD on Friday

The four of us met up in the afternoon later that day and spent time idling in CCDs and roaming around window shopping and what not, near Brigade Road and M.G. Road. We managed to convince Srikanth to come meet us in the evening, and have dinner with us. Dinner at Ulhaas Restaurant in Utility building, was a quiet affair with hardly any crowd on a friday evening. Srikanth of course initially made a fuss about coming, but Pk being in his pursuasive best on the phone, told him there were lots of girls and booze! Though he did not believe it, Srikanth finally decided to come meet us.

At a CCD on Saturday

The next day was slightly more eventful. Pk and Swami had gone to Jayanagar to see a house for rent for Pk. The house turned out to be a disappointment, mainly because, they wanted Pk to be married. This partiality towards spinsters for getting houses is definitely regrettable. After all, in Bangalore, the women are hardly different from the men in terms of disruptive behaviour. Some are even known to bite!!

Soon after, we went to Garuda Mall, where while roaming, we accidentally bumped into my relatives. After quick introductions, we parted ways, and I steered us away to put maximal distance in between. We soon went off to a CCD (now statistically, our favourite hangout place in Bangalore) where we witnessed a group of 2 girls and 3 guys willingly and completely embarrass themselves, with the guys doing things like baring their chests and proposing to the girls. Yechchh!! I know you want pictures, but Swami, not being Quickdraw McGraw with his camera, missed all of them! My apologies too.

Dinner time beckoned and this time we elected to eat Chinese at “Chung Wah” near Utility building.

At Chung Wah

This time we managed to garner more company. BharathS and Manish agreed to come all the way from their house to eat with us. Sowmia, also turned up, desperate to have some better company after a long time. Dinner was good fun. We were pretty noisy, and the staff looked slightly worried about it, but it was ok.

We were intially planning to go to Wonderla on Sunday, but lazy as we are, that plan borked. Sowmia was nearly in tears . Finally, we settled on some movie, that too in the afternoon. Sowmia was going to book tickets, but found none were available, so we finally decided to just have lunch in Transit, Forum Mall. I manged to finally convince Ashwin to meet us there. We turned up rather late and found the place terribly crowded. Luckily ECE people had organised their own reunion on the same day in the same place, and as expected of them, they were well prepared and had lots of tables. We poor Compscis (+Ashwin+Damaal), finally got the tables that the ECE people left! And so after ages of waiting we finally ate. Satya also turned up. My T-Shirt and hair, especially my hair, excited plenty of comment.

After food at Transit, we went to a nearby Corner House and had huge amounts of ice cream. BharathS has still not gotten over the DBC he ate there. Today he is still raving on Gtalk: “If I must die, then let it Death By Chocolate.” In the meanwhile, Sowmia got into chicken fights with some ECE guys and girls, and had to be restrained! Soon, that was over, and we were left with huge amounts of time to kill.

After all sorts of “good attempts” and “well trieds”, and giving up with locations such as various

CCD on Day 3

peoples’ houses, Lalbagh and what not, we decided to go to good old CCD. If we throw a stone in Bangalore, it is pretty likely to hit a CCD. Thats how easy it is to find one, and we soon walked in. Being terribly full, most people only ordered light teas or sodas. I was dumb enough to order a Tropical Iceberg and could not finish it. Sowmia paid the bill off with coupons, and many of us were regretting that we didn’t order more! We broke up in a little while and went home.

After thoroughly breaking my diet regimen over this weekend, I thought that I had put on couple of thousand kgs, but after carrying the huge amounts of stuff I had (mainly sweets and stuff from relatives) to the station and on the next day to home, I managed to make up for the weight I put on. Now, after my medical checkup today (for my institute), there is nothing too embarrassing on the weight line .

Well that was our thoroughly wasteful and relaxing weekend!

Picture credits – Swami’s Cam.