In the Garden City...Contd..

Yes, I'm back home now and i've actually been sleeping like that baby...all day loong...I had a baaad Bangalore hangover, i suppose, with headache, stomach ache, cramps, stomach upset and fever...so have finally sat down to finish what i started, like my sis calls it, "The chronicles of Bangalore"...

ok where was i? yes, right. Well something happened at the Shiv mandir, i really don't know what it was, only i got really depressed. That day when we got back home, I cried myself to sleep, for no reason at all (and before u suggest it, NO i was not homesick! I never get homesick ).

The next day, (3rd october) as everyone knows, was the Karnataka Bandh . So we couldn't go out anywhere at all, but the good thing is that my Di had a day off and all day we chatted and played scrabble......everything went really well till the phone call from Calcutta in the evening (may write about that later), after which both my sister and i were crying. I felt so horrible that I couldn't stand the thought of staying alone in that house all of next day till my Di returned.

So, 4th oct was the first day I ventured out alone. i looked around the place, visited the Cyber Cafe. the ones at Blore are nice...i like the little cabinets they have, we don't have that in Cal...

After that I contacted a schoolmate over phone and met three of them at the new McDonalds' at Brigade Road i was very fortunate to get a sweetheart of an auto driver, who brought me the right way and, what's more, charged me by the meter only! I felt wonderful roaming about the place on my own...gave me kind of a sense of freedom and adventure. yes, i know it sounds funny, but the thing is I know almost every place in Cal and can go just about anywhere here. But that's not the case in Blore. My Papa has no qualms about my sister or brother roaming about another city, but I know he would never ever dream of letting me go alone anywhere in Blore. Like i've said before, absolutely no faith my folks have in me. In their opinion I'm a fool (ok, that i agree I am...hehe) who everyone is on the lookout to con (donno why...maybe it looks good on their resume or something of that sort)...so well...I felt wonderful being absolutely on my own in a place i was so new to..kinda felt very nice..hard to explain...

We had a grreat time at Mc Donalds'...talking about all the fun times at school and catching up with each others' lives. I got the Happy Meal coz i wanted the toy (u know, proof that i'd finally been to Mc Donalds'!). But the complete DODO that I am...i nicely forgot the toy when we left (oh how i cried when i remembered what i'd forgotten!)

Ah well....after that we wet to Garuda where i got a phone call from an extremely furious sister. Now, I frankly don't understand why she was furious. I had very very clearly TOLD her I'd be going out. All I had forgotten was to tell her WHERE I was going. that's it! But i got a firing anyway (just the idiosyncracies a younger sibling must inevitably suffer, i tell you..). So i headed right back home like an obedient sister (after having spent one more hour, of course..hehe )

On the 5th, 6th and 7th, I was either at the cyber cafe, or cooking at home, or completing the college projects I'd taken to blore (no, i did not study a single word, yaay!!). initially I got bored of not doing any work, but then i realised it's a feeling i dont often get. So i treasured the boredom, all the time being so thankful that there were no classes to attend, no tuitions to rush to and no house chores to do. But i ended up doing the cleaning and cooking becoz i simply cannot sit still. The good thing is, I worked becoz i wanted to and not becoz someone else asked me to... I had a nice time...END of WEEK ONE...

P.S.: No photos this time coz i'm back home where we just have explorer and so no multi pic posting