Changing times

Well, time goes so fast. Atleast your engineering college life. And that is something very depressing. You will be reminded in every single moment, that you have passed the best moments of your life and that you wont ever get back those memorable 4 years,and you cannot do anything about that. So thats exactly the situation in my life. I have moved from the sweet "college life" to the "corporate life". And with that i have moved from Kerala to "namma Bengaluru". Obviously this one is on my 'experiences' of my first few weeks in Bangalore.

Let me start on the positive note. With that previous statement you got the whole point.'This guy is going to throw dirt on Bangalore life'. This is strictly my personal view and as one of my good friends puts it, "the view of a person who should have been born 60 years back". I am sure there wont be many takers for these opinions.Please bear with me.

Let me try to see the glass "half full". The climate here is really good and having a job is nice i agree. I am free to spend money on whatever i think of, just because it is my own. I dont feel that pride when i buy a shirt or shoe or anything like that. But i feel that pride when i eat something. Seems silly? But thats truth. I can eat as many icecreams as i want. I can have as many chocolates as i want. Wow! i like this state of things.

Well cherish those statements guys, the rest of the blog sees it "half empty" almost everywhere. And the characters who are being mentioned are mostly not Bangaloreians. They are from all parts of India and most of them,if not all, are seen in the corridors of the corporate world. So this is not on Bangalore as it is but on corporate world. I have started seeing many things that i have not seen for the past 22 years of my life. And most of them are not pleasant,atleast for me.

Within these very few days here, i have found one fact. The only thing that matters here is "money". You have value only if you have money. And that too in large quantities. Not only you should have money, you should show it in the way you dress. That fact is the most evident when you enter shopping malls. If you are not wearing branded attire, the sales people in the shops dont even bother looking at you. So the next time you are out to shop in any mall make sure that you have that branded jeans and shoes and other accesories in display on your body.

The next is about my food eating ways here. All my life i have eaten iddlis,dosas and rice with my hands. But now i eat it with a spoon!!! Why i cant eat it with my hands is simple. Ego.Its a prestige issue. With all the people eating around you eating with spoons and forks you have no choice but to eat with spoons. If you eat with your hands, its "really nice" to see the look on the faces of the waiters serving the food to you. You can see this statement on their face,"Duh! Third rate cultureless fellow, eats with his hands in this high class hotel!! ". If you think this is an over statement, well i have seen it in Bangalore many a time.

Following is about the traffic here in Bangalore. The driving habits of the people here is really good. They dont know their vehicle has a thing named "horn" fitted into it. And if they enter some main road from a pocket road what they will do is to drive on till the middle of the road and then put a brake on the wheels. The bikers are the best. They "invent" roads on footpaths. I have seen persons driving their bikes right through a bus stop!!!!

Being born and brought up my entire life in Kerala i have seen women smoking cigars and taking liquor only in movies and that too villanous characters. But here i see 'heroines' enjoying these things without even a bit of second thought. If men can smoke then women surely can, i agree. But then it is a very disturbing sight for a person who comes from a village in Kerala.--You loser from Kerala this is 21st century. "Zamaana badal gaya hei !!".

So what was the whole point in this blog. Nothing i guess.Just something for a new post. But these are some of the thoughts my first few days in Bangalore evoked. As i said "The thoughts of a person who should have born 60 years ago!".