First days in Bangalore

The lighter moments in life during the early days in Bangalore!!!

• I stay at proximity of 5 km from the office. Unfortunately I have to hire a rickshaw every time I need to visit my office, which is everyday, and so to save the money I walk about half the distance and then hire the rick. It so happened that one day I walked 5km only to find that I took the wrong turn at the right junction, only to end up with “Auto!!!Auto!!!”
• Being new to Bangalore, I decided to walk around to get to know the places better. After walking for over 5km, I decided that I have understood the roads. The next day, to test myself, I took the rick and gave the driver the location. I was waiting eagerly to see the roads that I had formed in my head. “Ended up finding more ways then I could fathom, and realised that my roads were all one ways and took me no were. Ooooops!!!”
• New place=New language. Though I am not equipped with kannada, I am quite happy speaking Tamil and Hindi, which is widely accepted in Bangalore. So after my not so successful mission of understanding the roads, I decided to take a break and drink juice. At the nearest juice counter I ordered for Lime juice, and after waiting a long time, ended up drinking GRAPE Juice. I wonder how I got that mixed up.
• Another walk, another story. This time it is Brigade Road. Rajesh and I, walking with no job at hand. He was supposed to join his company that day, and I the next. After having walked about 6-7 km, I decided to drink lemon soda. Cuz of the previous experience, I avoided the juice counters and went to a ‘Petty Kada’. No much confusion, asked for lemon soda, got lemon soda, asked for the price “Twang!!!” It was 20 bucks. My pathetic look at Rajesh earned me a discount of Rs 5. Way to go!!!