Back from( without a) BANG(alore)

Before moving on to the post, I request thee to pardon me for a long period(about two months!) of absence from the world of blogosphere, one of which is attributed to my laziness and the other month is being described below :-)

As I lay awake at 6:00 am today, feeling the heat of Chennai in the train returning from Bangalore, I'm reminded of Bangalore, and my month long stay there.

The first thing I realised as I stepped onto Bangalore was it was cool!!! Phew, finally a month of relief from Chennai's scorching summer :-)

As things moved on, I settled with the "Bangalorian" life style in a couple of days.
BTW, if you are new to Bangalore, things to carry in mind :

1. The roads will be deserted in the night( night as in 9 PM on)
   
2. No shops after 10 PM

these are the things that I first noticed as I did practically nothing other than sleeping and eating in the first two days. ( This might seem normal to you, but to the author, who is accustomed to hunger attacks late in the night, and is used to eating at nearly midnight times in Chennai)

But, hey life is not just bound by grubbing places and road traffic, you can always get over the grubbing issue by stocking up with finger chips and Haldiram's Bhel Puri . These are some other interesting things :

Auto-Rickshaws in Bangalore use meters to charge, If you are from Chennai and bulbing over "meter", I wont blame you, its a long forgotten instrument here, auto-wala's use them these days as something with an antique value! and needless to say, the auto fare comes out to be half of what you would normally pay in Chennai!!

There is something called a Daily pass (for 30 rupees) which you can get in the bus and travel in any bus for da whole day, I remember one particular day when travelled for about 60-70 bucks, and paid only 30 ! Ah, and thus saved money from my project budget.(Here the author wishes to mention that, he has aptly taken care of these savings by carefully utilising them for Grubbing purposes :D )

If you are suffering for back aches and if you are frustrated over poor roads in Chennai, Bangalore is the place for you to drive your bike, though the roads keep varying in slope, they are smooth.( Man, Why am I not 18 yet? I could've gone for a cool ride with my mom's colleague's bike othewise)

The author apologises for spamming his blog with description of roads and buses and autos, but as most of his time there was spent on travelling, he hopes you would understand

As to the shopping front, take a stroll in Malleshwaram area or near the railway station or in the avenue road, you get "original"( Yeah I mean original The special emphasis is meant for a particular person, if you find it inappropriate kindly ignore ) stuff for amazingly cheap prices, being a branded user myself, I can vouch for their originality, just pick stuff from the right shop. [For instance, the author brags about this Adidas raincoat, which he got for 100 bucks.] And what more, you don't have to put up with a crazy crowd, no, not even half of whats there in Chennai!

Needless to say, Bangalore is one of the cheapest places to buy novels, I bought only about 8 books :P (In the moment of happiness, the author shows his tongue to the e-books, which can never match the hard copies)

And thanks to the Bangalore trip, the author has gotten into linux once again, and a special note thanks to two of his friends (one had helped without her knowledge, for which a treat is pending :P, and the other is the main source of the author's inspiration, need I mention who?) the author has started developing kstars :)

Perfect as it seems till now , I couldn't help but notice several disturbing things, here is a small list :

What follows is the author's personal views, continue reading with caution, the author is not responsible for any arguments or bickering that might arise

No offence meant
But Dustbins, where are they???
NO dustbins in roadside, NO dustbin for about a km in the Railway station, NO common bins in the streets, what are people supposed to do with chocolate wrappers and kur-kure covers ? especially responsible citizens like me,( who never put waste outside the bins)...
I ended up carrying the wrappers in my bag and dumping them in my room(Where garbage was overflowing out of two bins)!!!

Fine, no bins all right, but Pollution control board , Where art thou ?
You don't have to do a emission check with the machines, just look at the nozzle of the autos and trucks a thick white(or black in the latter case) smoke comes out, and the roads look misty! (I've been in Delhi when the temperature was about 3 Degrees, and those roads looked fairly clear compared to the Bangalore counterparts)

All right, Now moving on to the buses, ah the boards in the buses are written beautifully in a language that shares its script from the second most spoken language in India(its Telugu for those of you bulbing), but I've a small problem with that, how is a person from Tamil Nadu or Kerala or wherever supposed to comprehend whats written? (Thankfully, we had Ramya on our team to decipher the fuzzy mess of characters :P oopsie I had forgotten to mention the fact that I was a part of the team of 4 , doing a project over there)

And most importantly, the author felt really sad for missing the 4.2 speaker system which he had to unwillingly leave at home

Okay, am tired of bleating :P ( The author realises that if he goes on with his list of cribs, he might be regarded as glummy, bewailing and clamorous especially by Ramya who regarded him as querulous )

See as I had mentioned before, the disturbing things are quite small, they'll never superseed the amount of fun that I had under the name of our "project"( which went very well btw :D )

( The only thing the author, regrets is not being able to submit his *solved* google code jam's qualification problems, on account of the browsing centre that closed early and the power-cut that followed)

P.S. This can't even be called as a short summary of what had happened, but right now what I need is sleep, so I'll include the other interesting facts later on :)