Garden Sh(C)ity Episode - 1

From the Garden SH(C)ity of India - Blore.

Landed at Madivala, Blore on 11th April, 2005 at 6.30 AM. The KPN Bus ticket foil said "Nihegaas". Soon, i spotted a guy running around with a placard "Nilas". I assumed it was me, whome he was looking for and promply jumped inside the Indica he showed me. En-route, he wanted to know how much my salary was , which concrete jungle i would be in, where i was from and so forth. A very open man, who could manage 4 languages at a time ( a trait which is common to any bangalorean), he dropped me at P-11, Diamond District, Airport Road. I disturbed the sleep of the House keeper and was escorted to Room-2 in the apartment. White Bed Sheets ? White Towel ? I stepped inside the bathroom, made a mess of the bath tub and slept off....

After a while, i called Sijin, dear Morpheus, and asked him to pick me up. I called up Stimbi, who said "dont expect sijin for another 2 hours", which turned out to be true. Sunday morning. I went to the sitting room, to realize that the house keeper was a Mallu named Chandran.

Chandran is a very interesting and talkative character. A few days later he even took me to "MOOKAMBIKA", no not a temple, the nearest bar, where he happily devoured a bottle of beer, and offered me a bottle of Thumpsup! Supposedly, Chandran was a business magnet, and owned a theatre, and a fleet of taxis at his home town near Palakkad about 20 years ago. This was when a sweet nurse fell in love with him. Chandran fell ill when he was in bangalore , and coupled with some major business blunders lost all he had. His wife had to fly to Dubai, to support him and pay off
the debts. Chandran is pretty excited, as his wife is coming back in 2 months after a long 2 years. He plans to set up a Hotel. I personally dont think it would succeed, because chandru baby , who is now 40, sleeps for most of the day, boozes twice a day and talks big - does nothing :-), there is another simpleton who helps with the daily chores at he guest house.

Back to me... Sijin came at around 11. And we went on a journey to the Desert , aptly called the Whitefield. about 22 kilometers from the guest house, Sijin did have to use his superb driving skills on his 'splendour' at times to keep us safe. Whitefield is a white field, where you could spot most of the Software Prisons, Multi-storeyed grandesque (??) buildings of DELL, SAP Labs, Perot, iFlex .... you name it , you got it ... There is a ITPL (International Tech Park Limited) and a near by GR Tech Park, where i am supposed to toil.

After having successfully spotted it, we decided to celebrated with 3 varieties of chicken when Stimbi called up to say he just had good kerala rice and fish fry.... ngeeee..

About an hour later, we were speeding above 80 (on a spledour) on the Outer ring road, where i spotted again BIG BUILDINGS of some electronic/ software giants , and then finally took the right turn to Bommanahalli, where stimbi was sleeping. Small meeting with Shiju, Sandeep , varma and kutti kiran.

After which , we proceeded to Stimbi's new foundland - FORUM. about 1/3rd the size of SPENCER PLAZA, but this place was packed with People of the age group 18-30. This place also features 11 theaters (150/- bucks which reminded me of Wave Cinema, Noida).

After running around for a while, stimbi took the drastic step and bought 3 tickets to "AVIATOR" - which we left in the middle... Sijin braved the rain to ferry me back to the Guest house......

END OF DAY 1.