Well..not literally...being 'Bangalored' is totally different....but In a sense, I've been surprised by the changes that have taken place in this city. After a very hectic last week in Mumbai, marred by the torrenatial rains and the following damage, I finally arrived in Banaglore last wednesday.
When you first come to a city as a tourist, the first things that you take in are it's sights and sounds. But knowing that i will have to live here for the next 12 months or so, the first things that caught me were not the sights and sounds...but the smell. When you come to South India, you just cannot miss the feeling of the aroma all around you. Not surprsingly enough, this city does not reek of filth or rot. The smell of fresh spices and Coffee are the first that hit you. It is very Obvious. Of course, the traditional shops selling freshly ground coffee powder are far less now as compared to the abundance of trendy coffee shops...there's a CCD or Barista round every corner..at least in the area I'm living in right now. Of course, as they say, 'A lot can happen over Coffee'. And fortunately, a lot does! Even the polluted air smells different out here...a heady mix of diesel and petrol (hehe).
I still haven't had much time to discover this city. It's going to take some more time yet. Once I'm done with Training and undertaken other travel and once I can finally call myself a resident of Bangalore (I definitely cannot call myself a BANGALOREite....that would be grave Injustice to Mumbai!), I will hopefully get a chance to discover this city.
Until then, it's back to the clinical confines of my work space.
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where are u dude? Nice to see a post at least. Lemme know ur number so I can call u.
Bangalored !!!
Liked the perspective you have presented here. Especially the way you have depicted the beauty in that place though you are from Mumbai. I say so because most of my Mumbai based friends used to call Bangalore a dead city, relatively. Indeed there is whole lots to do there, Just get going and you will end up having lesser days in weekends.... But what was most interesting was the title you gave... Just a small insight to the word "Bangalored". Whenever in US people loose jobs because of outsourcing, mostly to a Indian company based out in Bangalore, they are said to have been Bangalored.
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