Shopping in Bangalore on Weekends/Holidays......

There are many things in Blore that has become a real pain in ones life...like roads, traffic, a decent rented home etc. However there is one more addition to my list which is Shopping on weekends/holidays.
Few weeks back i went out with my fren who wanted to shop for a pair of jeans. We left early frm our homes thinking its not gng to be crowded as all the places are in Blore on weekends, after all it was thurday Jan. the 26th. Alas! we were wrong and our nightmare begun........we reached a Mall @ MG around 4 pm and after lookin around my fren chose 3 Jeans to try and headed for trial rooms.....i told him i will be hangin around while he makes up his mind which one to buy.......returning after 25 min. i still found him standing in the queue.................astonished i looked around for other trial rooms location and the situation was not differnet .. long queues....after a wait of 45 min. we came out empty handed and frustrated.

Bryan Adams coming to Bangalore

As any other music lover i am too excided by the visit of the rockstar to Bangalore this Feb. After making calls to my frens who are interested in watching the concert and buy the tickets. i was struk by the thought that ALL entertainment sorces shuts shop @ 11:30 pm.
Oh my gosh!!! is it applicable for this concert too... i am afraid so it is

Neverthless i am still excited abt the visit of the greatest rockstar.......

The City i fell in love with ....

It is almost three and half years back when I along with four of my class mates came to this city for our Summer Internship. All of us almost instantly fell in love with the beautiful city which is known as Bangalore. There are lots of things that ppl like abt Bangalore. To name a few which had left us mesmerized were --

1. Of course the weather esp. the cool breeze in the evening (month of June-July) which reminded me of my Port Blair days. It was awesome we use to roam post dinner enjoying the cool air and clear skies. Clear skies? Well yea come to Assam and u will find out what it looks like in June and July there -:)
2. Then there was (still is) BMTC, I was amazed how peaceful ride in a city bus can be (and comfortable if u know the local language) esp. if u compare it with DTC/ blue line buses of Delhi. Well initially it was not comfortable as we didn’t knew the neither the routes nor the language, as a result u have to ask the driver , confirm it will go pass thru ur destination and board the bus all under 30 sec. phew!. I remembered one such incident when I boarded the bus from the front side all under 15 sec., boy that was fast. Alas! Only I knew that here that the front entrance is only for ladies, once I was asked by the driver who stopped the bus rite in the middle of road and asked me to get on frm the back entrance.
3. Last but not the least is the PEOPLE of Bangalore. They are so cheerful and helpful.
4. Of course how can one in blore forget Brigade and MG...That time there was no forum or central.

All in all it was very good experience and we enjoyed every minute of our stay, and we decided that we will come back here to work after our engineering. I am glad three of us made it year and a half back.
If some-one is wondering abt me mentioning Port-Blair and Assam, will write abt them where I spent few years before coming to Blore in subsequent posts.

Abhinav