Peace
'Haud saar, yaw seat beku?', said the ticket booking dude. Yes! I was going home. That is the best answer you can expect for 'Mangloorige ticket idiya?' asked in broken kannada. 320 bucks, but still. I could smell Mangalore. I was coming back. The happiness made me realise how much I hated Bangalore.
'Whaaaaat? You hate bangalore?' is the usual reaction. 'Bangalore is sooooo coool, soooo happening, there's sooo much to do'. I ask 'I want two minutes of silence and peace of mind, where do you suggest I go?'.
No answer. I wait. Two more seconds. I'm still waiting. One more minute. Silence.
I've won again.
I'll tell you why Bangalore sucks. There's nothing to do there unless all you want to do is consume litres of ethanol. Or elevate yourself on some psychotropic substance and hang out like weirdos in malls discussing the butterfly effect. Too much pollution, you get a natural one inch dirt make up two minutes into the open. And then comes the traffic. Amazing. Five lanes of traffic on two lanes of road. I pity the poor cyclists.
All said and done, I have to go back to that place in three days. In the meantime, I'm breathing as much oxygen as I can.
'Whaaaaat? You hate bangalore?' is the usual reaction. 'Bangalore is sooooo coool, soooo happening, there's sooo much to do'. I ask 'I want two minutes of silence and peace of mind, where do you suggest I go?'.
No answer. I wait. Two more seconds. I'm still waiting. One more minute. Silence.
I've won again.
I'll tell you why Bangalore sucks. There's nothing to do there unless all you want to do is consume litres of ethanol. Or elevate yourself on some psychotropic substance and hang out like weirdos in malls discussing the butterfly effect. Too much pollution, you get a natural one inch dirt make up two minutes into the open. And then comes the traffic. Amazing. Five lanes of traffic on two lanes of road. I pity the poor cyclists.
All said and done, I have to go back to that place in three days. In the meantime, I'm breathing as much oxygen as I can.
posted by Suraj at 12:04 AM
9 Comments:
Makes me wanna come to mlore man... :)
never knew you hated this place so much...
you know i miss manipal the most man...
yest mornin when i was comin to wrk the sky had a hint of sunshine streaming through the clouds... it just reminded me of manipal :)
i dont hate it that much man :)
you know how it can get sometimes
Suri, Jyshree..more than the place its the people!
I'm here...it doesn't make a big difference!!!
I miss manipal too...i can get to that place everyday...but its just not the same!
I hate this city for a variety of reasons traffic, too busy for my liking and most people are very contrived. But the only thing that keeps me in this city is the weather.
All of us IT guys suffer from compulsive cribbing disorder... So stop cribbing and start living..i wouldn attach lot of imp to the place, rather its the people ur with that makes a moment special.
i know anju...but sometimes it just gets on my nerves
I AM HURT!
I was born and brought up in Bangalore and i HATE it when people who live in this city, live on it's resources and then bad-mouth it. Yes it is polluted, has horrible traffic, a highly inflated real estate scene (so the rents are too high)BUT who made it like that? US!
The Bangalore I was born in was cool and clean, it had lovely tree lined avenues and friendly locals (who are still friendly but have gotten kinda invisible cause there are SO MANY people who have come from outside and taken their space - me included)
Don't bad mouth the city. It has a heart and soul like no other, and you wouldn't understand. Help make it better instead or well, you could leave. India has lots of other states, right?
i agree with anooja. stop cribbing anddo something u run to moon ot mangalore u are gonna make it a worst place and crib anways
@anooja and enigma
Apologies. I dint mean it the way it sounded. Had a bad week in Bangalore once, and needed to take it out somewhere
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