It’s been almost five years now and slowly but surely Bangalore has become HOME for me. Though my connection with this city started during my school days, when I spent my summer vacations here with my grandparents, its only now that I feel at home in Bangalore.
My early memories start with my mom, sis and me getting out of the train at the Bangalore railway station. Barely awake, with half opened eyes, yet excited to see Ajoba (grand dad) waiting at the platform. That’s the sweetest thing he would always be there no matter what time the train arrived. Ajji (grand mom)of course would be at home preparing breakfast for the princesses…yeah I am a descendant of the Royal family or at least I pretend to be!!! The holidays were the best part my school life NO STUDYING…ah what life…running around the house all day, playing with the neighbors dog from over the fence as I was too scared to touch it, planning the famous ‘fun fair’ with Tanu and I only for mom n grandparents. The entry ticket itself was a big amount that’s where Tanu and I got all our investment back, which ironically came from Aai’s purse. The venue was of course free ‘coz it was our own terrace upstairs!
Now it’s a different Bangalore for me. With minuscule(!?!) problems of bad roads…leading to terrible traffic situations, the unmotivated(read useless) autowallas…who will only ride to the place that they want to go to and that too at almost double the actual cost, long distances from home to office…which seem even longer with the teeny problems mentioned earlier. But I still love it. The weather is awesome, the people that I have met are great, I have the liberty to do what I want… what more would I want?
My early memories start with my mom, sis and me getting out of the train at the Bangalore railway station. Barely awake, with half opened eyes, yet excited to see Ajoba (grand dad) waiting at the platform. That’s the sweetest thing he would always be there no matter what time the train arrived. Ajji (grand mom)of course would be at home preparing breakfast for the princesses…yeah I am a descendant of the Royal family or at least I pretend to be!!! The holidays were the best part my school life NO STUDYING…ah what life…running around the house all day, playing with the neighbors dog from over the fence as I was too scared to touch it, planning the famous ‘fun fair’ with Tanu and I only for mom n grandparents. The entry ticket itself was a big amount that’s where Tanu and I got all our investment back, which ironically came from Aai’s purse. The venue was of course free ‘coz it was our own terrace upstairs!
Now it’s a different Bangalore for me. With minuscule(!?!) problems of bad roads…leading to terrible traffic situations, the unmotivated(read useless) autowallas…who will only ride to the place that they want to go to and that too at almost double the actual cost, long distances from home to office…which seem even longer with the teeny problems mentioned earlier. But I still love it. The weather is awesome, the people that I have met are great, I have the liberty to do what I want… what more would I want?
3 comments:
Well,I think u should spare time to start with Indal life too
Nice read... Once you have got adjusted to the pace of life here and the shopkeepers who refuse to open before 11am... or the pubs that close at 11pm... life is good here. :-)
@risair, Indal yes i def would and it'll need a lot of time
@meeta, i so agree
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