Came upon this while surfing through rediff`s inane articles...

Eerie..but so very true. It stumped me with the facts , those which I had always chosen to ignore, even though they couldn`t have been more in-your-face in nature.

Cant wait to get Bangalore-d...

Come Friday , n ill hop-skip my way across the country back home, back to Bangalore. Can`t wait to feel the cool and nippy Autumn breeze, feel the 'Bangalore weather'.4 months away from this place has made me realise how much I miss the place, how unconsciously I had got connected , nay ..hardwired to it.At times I visualize it at this Mother-figure..ever accomodating, ever adjusting.Year after year, it takes into its folds thousands of new faces , which in matter of months show an identical reflection in the mirror-that of a 'Bangalorean'...not a Kannadiga, but a Bangalorean.
One day I sat down to calculate how many persons like me - fresh outta Engg. college and got placed in an organisation located in Bangalore - is this city gonna take in this year.My college alone threw up a number of atleast 300-400.Now, taking into consideration the number of Engg. colleges and the no. of kids graduating out of them every year who either get recruited by companies based here , or come down here to try their luck in the walk-in`s and interviews scene ...wait , I can already see the numbers blurring..Its dizzying, these statistics.Yes, I do agree , the city`s infrastructure has started crumbling under this onslaught.But what I want to highlight is - The way this still-beautiful city welcomes everyone regardless of our ethnicities,mother-tongues etc.I myself am a non-Kannadiga, but I identify with this city, I feel connected to it.And I dare say so would most of the 60% of the population, that co-incidentally is Non-Kannada.Which other capital city can boast of this kind of a balance where the majority of the population is lets say , 'non-prawasi'.Excepting a few sporadic incidents that I know of ,there has been a minimal level of ethnic bias between the various communities that reside here.Any kind of regional/communal clashes (except for the Cauvery issue) is more or less non-existent.One of the safest cities for women, I really like the gender ratio at the major offices where women are not exactly a minority.The best examples would be the PSU`s or Govt. offices where the staff if predominantly female, and ofcourse the familiar faces of the lady-conductors in buses.These are just a few reasons why ,after just a few months of living in this city, I have grown to respect the spirit of this city.
Can`t wait to get back home, home to Namma Bengaluru ...

Tried my hand at Counter strike today.Mann!! Is it tough to play without a mouse !! Two hours, of gunshots n bombs exploding in my ears, later I realise I absolutely suck at it :( After being crazily addicted to Doom-II not very long ago I thought this would`nt be all that tough.All ambitions of making it to XIMB`s unofficial CS gang, are almost squashed.Had placed a bet with one of "ladki-hoke-CS-Khelegi??" kinds,so ill give the "terrorist" in me another chance though, if for nothing else but proving him wrong.

We went for our first Batch trip yesterday...It was "Legend -wait for it- ary"..(for those uninitiated into the How I met you Mother series, catch a couple of them, and you wont miss those F.R.I.E.N.D.S days nemore).You`ll find me in the jabber-jabber mode about the trip in a later post.Right now Ill just bask in the revival of the batch bonhomie.