The first few days i didnt step out due to certain circumtances. The past couple of days i have been going out a little even though i am more or less confined to South Bangalore. Its not that bad. The weather is perfect. It is absolutely gorgeous with no need for fan or AC. Since i havent gone out much the pollution hasnt gotten to me either. I have left the house only during non peek hours and at those times, Bangalore still seems to be the same sleepy awesome town that it was 10 years ago. Every damn auto driver talks to me in Hindi and i answer in Kannada. There is a large influx of people from different parts of the country coming in for the vast opportunities that lie within. Basavanagudi largely remains the same. Old Bangalore is so saturated that change is highly unlikely.
I have been eating away as usual but am watching my food. We have this digital weigh scale at home and i am literally watching the grams. I have to lose weight and not gain anymore.
People you grew up with are in very prosperous positions right now. People in the their late 20s and early 30s are doing really well. They were all in the market at the right time and most of them have taken advantage of the booming opportunities. Bangalore has some major issues. One of them being that the roads are not big enough. The volume of traffic is so high that it clogs the roads. I have no bloody clue as to how these guys are going to cater to the ever increasing traffic. Most people can afford to buy cars now in the city and most people will do so. I am at a loss to understand exactly where it is leading to and how it will be handled. There is no space to increase the breadth of roads unless they start enroaching upon private properties. I wonder how people will react to that.
Sanjay Dutt is in jail and Salman might be following him too with the poaching issue. Tomorrow, the third and final test starts and Kevin Peiterson might not be playing. Shah Ruk's Chak de India is all over the damn TV. Amitabh and Sarika won awards for Black and Parzania repectively. All news readers for some odd fucking reason use the word 'right" before they start any sentence. I dont know where the hell that came from. "Right, lets talk to Shah Rukh about his beard and how we can give you one too."
Media is as obesessive about things as back in the US. When the guy Haneef was coming back from Australia, every damn channel was showing us something about him and something about his family. The other day i saw an interview between someone here and Trishala( sanjay dutt's daughter). It was one of the most ridiculous interviews that i ever heard off with absolute bull shit questions. I think it was on CNN-IBN. I was under the impression that we as peoples were a little more intelligent than that and were looking for deeper questions and deeper answers. I remember those days when all that existed was DD and a bunch of news papers. I pity the kids these days. They get to watch absolute horse crap. The executives sitting in their cushy offices need to bring out content which does propogate stupidity but content that makes people think and for them to evolve. Its fucking sad. What needs to be understood is that minds of those future citizens of the nation are being shaped by all this shit.
Other than that, i haven't been to too many places. I have been working at times. I havent been to the so called happening places this time and i dont think i will either. I visited FAB India a couple of times and spent a lot of money there. I buy all this shit which i will never wear again.
