Time Flies..One year @ Bangalore !!

I can't believe how fast a year has passed. It feels like yesterday when we landed in Bangalore with our luggage's for start our career as a fresher. This day marks our one year completion in and so much has happened in the past year.

• First day experience was a total crap..Fell as a prey for bloody house brokers...Parthone epdi than ilichavayan nu kandu pudikaranungalo.. Eluthi otti irukkum pola.. We were so innocent that we believed madiwala is at walkable distance from BTM.. Gave token advance but later realised that it was worthless to pay for it.. Well it was a little late :-). First day in Bangalore , total loss- 10k . Presently residing at a place close to the old one. Every time we cross that house, nayagan background music plays :-(

• Learned the art of cooking. Started from no where, tried out a few fatal experiments like boiling rice without water etc,etc but finally what matters is that even I learned to cook. But anyways my frnz feel that I am gud at cutting vegetables rather than cooking.. :-)

• My taste buds which have been accustomed so far only to traditional Aryabavan & Amman mess, got a lot to explore & experience ranging from Bengali to Punjabi, Chinese to middle east cuisines, KFC, McDonalds. But almost a year & still I find it difficult to adjust to Bangalore pongal in a semi solid state with thayir pachadi combo.

• Almost 75 percent of the weekends were spent roaming in the FORUM & MG Road. It really hurts to watch the harry potter mandayans varuthufying with the bangalore babes. Life la oru 22 years ah waste pannina mathiri oru feeling..

• Apart from the usual visiting places, we had some good weekend hangouts , adventure activities, team outings, long trips as well. Especially the wyanad trip was exciting.

• This post wouldn't be complete, if I didn't even mention a single word about Guitar. Started of with great enthusiasm , bunked 3 months , changed tutor and finally snapped a string also. Guitar kathukiteno illayo , I ve become an ardent fan of Maestro Raja Sir.

• Amidst these one important thing to be noted is that , ennada kadantha 1 year la work ah thavira ella vetti velayum pannitu irukkane nu nenaikathenga. Mathathu ellathayum sollitu intha mathiri important matter ah ellam archive pannale na epdi. sarithiram miga mukkiyam illaya.. [Future la namma oppicers yaarchum padichangana appraisal ku useful ah irukkum.]

• Both the beginning and the year end share the similar events. Except during the end the loss is much higher than the former . 7 1/2 Satan has played its pranks.. This post shares the information behind the scenes.

Not a fresher anymore :-(. Expecting a great year ahead. While I pen down this my media player plays

சொர்கமே என்றாலும் அது நம் ஊரைப் போல வருமா?
அட என் நாடு என்றாலும் அது நம் நாட்டுக் கீடா ஆகுமா?

Cheers
Prem.

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The LOST

"If something can go wrong,by all means it will" - Murphy. What will you do if You wake up and find that everything happens goes against your will ??

1. Woke up early morning just to find out that laptop was stolen.

2. Searched for mobile & figured out that it was already gone.

3. For the first time, my friend went for bird watching & jogging. He was in a dilemma whether to carry his phone. But last minute decision was "no". We never locked the door from inside & the heavy breeze left the doors open.

4. Thief managed to reach till the second floor, came in with ease & walked across the room picked up the laptop bag. Ivalo nadanthum nanga 2 perum cow(erumai nu epdi yen vaayala sollarathu) mela rain water falling effect la kuppura paduthu thoongitu irunthom..

5. All the study materials inside the laptop bag were left behind beside my bed. Later that night we found out that the charger which was plugged to the wall was also picked. The expected use case is that, during exit he should ve noted the charger. Since the bag was full & it cant accommodate the charger, he should ve thrown out all the study material stuffs. Unfortunately, the mobile was lying at the place where he left the notebooks.

Fate, Carelessness, Bad luck you can name it anything, but anyways gone is gone. :-(

As per the sources,to file an FIR you should take a person who can converse in Kannada with the police. If not you will end up getting more abuses than expected from police. We were given a template and asked to write a complaint letter. By reading the template one thing got cleared, this is a usual activity in Bangalore, coz the scenario in it was exactly a ditto of ours with the only change being name & address. Bad luck didnt stop there, on return my friend who was already tensed forgot his mobile in the police station. Searched the police station & later it was a constable who had our mobile phone. "Oru mobile phone ah ye ivalo careless ah tholaikarenga, neenga ellam ...." apdinu aaatha aarambichavar than summa aaathu aaathu nu aaathi irukkar. What to do avaroda time, kai ya kattikitu vaya pothikitu lecture ah ketka vendiyatha pochu.

There is no way that we can get the things back. But by writing this, I feel at least a few will get alerted.

For those who are staying in bangalore - Neenga careless ah irukenga nu naan solla varala, innum careful ah iruntha nalla irukkum nu than solren...

P.S: My blog turned 1 today.. 18 posts, 1865 hits,320 profile views... Not bad for a starter.. :-)

Cheers
Prem.

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Xploring Bengaluru

Hi all. Nearly a month has been passed since my last post. Doesn't mean that I was busy, had no access to net. I joined my concern almost a month back and corporate life is really cool out here. Had loads of fun in induction and training programs. Still can't forget those odd days when I was asked to do improvement to get into medical stream. Nalla velai I somehow managed to escape or else CHINNI JEYANTH mathiri note ah suthikitu innum student ah than irunthu irukanum. About life in Banglore it is really very fast. Even after spending a month here I still find very difficult to get used to it. I really find it difficult to figure out the areas, as there are many layouts, flyovers, crosses, mains, circles and the list goes on. Real estate is one of the profitable business out here. The land owners gets bucks more than what a software engineer earns in a month. As far as climate is concerned its always cool and chill. Cant predict when will it rain. To resist the chillness many wear socks along with slippers which is a weird combination in Tamilnadu.

Weekend Salvation - The Forum Mall

Banglore is flooded with shopping malls and software engineers. No wonder why people say when you throw stone in the streets of Banglore it will hit either a dog or a software engineer. There is atleast a mall for a muttu santhu and everything is extremely costly out here. Language is also bit a problem. Only englipis will not help at certain places. Everyone in my batch often used to communicate in hindhi though they are from different places. But nammaluku therinjathu ellam idhar awwo, yek gaon mein yek kishan rahatha tha. Itha vachu evalo nal than samalikarathu. Anyways the butler hindhi that I learnt helps me to sort things out. Traffic is really hectic in Banglore. If you compare Chennai with Banglore, former is far much better. The best mode of transport I would suggest is nataraja service. The vehicles in traffic will be much slower than our mattu vandi. The better thing is that auto fare is pity decent coz its metered. But ooruku pudusha iruntha avalothan, ore area va pala thadava round adichu yemathiduvan. Nalla velai nanga rendavathu round varum pothu kandupidichutom..:-) The major problem for me here is Food. Worse is that Sambhar tastes like payasam. Even some hotels contain jaggery bottle along with salt and pepper. Thank god we got a TamilNadu hotel near our place. Interesting trivia is that we are cooking. Cant believe isnt??. I ll share my experiences in cooking in the upcoming posts. Another thing which captured my attention is the So called Fashion in Banglore. For boys if you wanna be fashionable then do something to your hair. Watever it may be. Either spike it or color it. Fashion doesn end up here. Drop down ur pants as far as you can. I found many of them wit this kinda outfit calling it a fashion. Dunno why they are so desperate to show off their Jockey. Many girls are addicted to the lipstick culture irrespective of the ages. Even girls started wearin short shirts and I don wanna discuss more about that...:-)

Everyone here knows Rajnikanth. But I was surprised when one of my colleague who is from Delhi asked about Vijaykanth. He had seen Gaptuns stunts in youtube. It really took a lot of time to convince him that gaptun is a hero and not a comedian. I was happy that he havent seen any of T.R videos. Illati atha ennanu solli puriya vaikarathu. Learnd a few kannada words. Life has finally become mechanical. Yet enjoyable. Still exploring Banglore...

Cheers
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