2 months in Namma Bengaluru

been a month again before i got back to writing a blog....that too inspired by Vijay's mail on his story abt Reboot-2008. Well written dude....i loved the sabrimalay part...too cool....
i won't write particularly on reboot though....generally abt my last two months at work...they have been quite a time...flew away before i cud stop and realise....bt awesum nonetheless....
so today I am thinking i'd count the blessings of being in Bangalore:
1. My job - i love it....it can be a bit too much bt i get to meet so so many people, touch their lives...and this is what i wanted to do for so so long....it jst can get better from here....
2. My friends, my extended family - so many thanks to my old friends in the city and from delhi - I am never alone...and being in a distant city, this is the best thing to happen....
3. My flat - right next to the airport....the old one in bangalore....i can see fighter jects taking off from my bed ....i mean how many people have that fortune...
4. My flatmate - super sweet aand very nice.....

Now to things that I haven't done before:
1. Stayed at the company guesthouse for 20 days - an obvious first
2. Took a local bus in an unknown city at 10:30 - coz i figured it'd be safer than a bus...conviniently forgetting the half a km of walk that i had to do once i got down...nightmarish!
3. Went to a club, overdressed for a chnage....follwoing delhi standards...
4. Went for drinks with 1 friend and 15 acquintances and then going to someone's place whom i don't even know...and haveing a blast till 4 am
5. comes close to point 4, door being knocked by cops at 4 am, coz we all were loud....
6. going for a fashion show....though i was in delhi...never got to do that in delhi....
7. drink....at random friend's houses till 4 am an entire weekend...6 am on a particular one...
8. buy shoes worth 6 k
9. drive...8 people in a maruti car......
10. get to a farmhouse party....rocking music and bring your booze types...and have absolutely nothing to drink and hence sky gaze instead....
11. this same party getting busted....
12. have a firang flatmate....while at the guest house....get to meet his even cuter german friends....sigh!
13. air kissing while at the fashion show....
14. go to an anniversary party....for a nightclub and have a member's invite to it...i mean all these last months i have partied like crazy without ever paying an entry to that place...my awesum friends and friends of friends...
15. be on page 3 in bangalore times....didn't believe it really....i mean 24 years in delhi and nothing happened and 2 months in bangalore and straight to page 3.
16. went to a charity event for kids....
17. went out with my office dance troupe...for a fundraiser....
18. went to an inter-corporate fest with an entourage of 20 people and had a great great time.....we were out for almost 20 hours....bt it was great! I am hoping to make some new friends and going forward not eat lunch alone in the cafeteria nemore....
19. being invited to a b'day party...when i knew him for almost exactly 24 hours....
20. having 3 straight tequila shots and rum...and then not knowing when the cake was cut even though people remmeber me as being right there....
21. wanting fresh air and walking out at 4 am i nthe morning....with another new friend...roaming the closed markets like ghosts....
22. this one shud be right at the top...experimenting with my hair...after atleast 9-10 years of the same kinda hairstyles...i cut my hair very short witin a week of getting to bangalore...has kinda given me,and my personality, a fresh breath of life....

22 things that i cud remmeber in 2 months...not a bad count at all....am living and loving it and there's no ther way that i'd rather have it.....

IPL : Big game, Big Money...

Have you seen the new vides for all the IPL league teams... crores of rupees spent on "buying" the "auctioned" players...and now the videos for each team....the money spent on this one sport...that too not national is enough to sponsor all sports for I guess an entire year! I mean money...money...money , and deserving players are going crazy looking for sponsors just because they chose to rifle shoot or do boxing instead of play cricket. Well here's all the video's incase u haven't checked them out yet..... of by the way- I forgot paying for the airtime, prime time airtime that these videos are being aired on....

The Official DLF Indian Premier League Promo



Deccan Chargers



Kolkata Knight Riders