Is what I would call my trip to India this time around! Well.. besides having a lot of fun and carbo loading till I gained 3 kgs(!), I actually kinda re-conciled what I’ve been looking for and what I’ve been missing out on. One point of self-discovery is that no matter where I live and where I work, I will always want to go back there from time to time – cuz at one point in time or the other, I miss the place really dearly – not just the food or the people, the feeling of being settled and being back home – with family.
This post is gonna be a shorter version of the looong story that I’ll prob tell u ppl in parts! So here goes! =)
Vidhana Soudha at night – There’s a cheesy line written on the top… try to read it!
Our driver, Viswanath tried his best to take a pic… after much much coaxing!
My cousin and me (mum not in pic) are squeezed into out little car at the back! =p
The ladies
And the gents
And began the holiest week of many years I’ve had in a long long time! I went to a new temple literally everyday from Iskon in Bangalore to Tirupati to the temple near our house to even Puri Jaganath – after the Chariot Festival. Like my cousin told me, we’re gonna have a life full of blessings considering how many temples we’ve been to so far!
Iskon Temple, Bangalore
Then I wanted to take pics of our house in BLR and wow! The mansion is a mother load so huge that I had to take samples of the Taj Mahal mum and dad had built after a lot of pain and sweat.
Balcony
Living Room 1
Living Room 2
Bedroom
Prayer Room
Grand Staircases… slippery too!
A REAL dorky pic of me on the living room wall. Taken when I was in Sec 2… I can see why I was alone with no frenz!
Look at the hair, the tummy, the glasses, the bloody backpack! SHEESH!
The next day, we headed to Mysore, a small place near BLR (abt 280kms away) which was the capital of the state previously. I had been there last when I was 6 or 7 and so for me, it was like being there for the first time again! As for mum and dad, it was a second honeymoon trip to what was 26 yrs ago! OMG! And for me… I took a pic for comparison. Once the old pics are scanned and up, I’ll show u ppl – promise!
Sleeping Vishnu Temple
Tipu Sultan’s Summer Palace
Cam-whoring again…
Honeymoon pic spot – 26 yrs on, Chamundibetta Temple
Temple outside Mysore Palace
Mysore Palace
YELPS!
A pic of me at the very same spot after 25 yrs… I’ll show u when I scan the original
The musical fountain
And the beautiful dome fountain – my fav of all!
A pic of the place from practically every Bollywood movie in the 80s and early 90s.
The next day, we intended to go to the Museum and the Planetorium – obviously, nothing happened when we met up with Sukanya – Pupsy’s fren who lives in BLR. All we did was the take a lot of pics and talk a lot of rubbish and played UNO – to the point we even forgot our tea and screwed the initial plans! Totally worth it! =)
Sukanya and Sushree
And the three S-ess (No puns intended)
Sukanya in her beloved room with her beloved kapohed lampshade
Evening, we headed down to Prabha aunty’s house to meet Vani Didi and Ajay. They were so young I last remember them tt Didi now has a son of the same age that I was when I first knew them! OMG! After so long, I didn’t even know where to start trying to catch up. Btw, the house Ajay built for his dad and mum is so beautiful and functional, as an engineer, it makes me tear in joy! Then we 4 went for a quick dinner to retire for the night… cuz next up was Tirupati.
A nice place just near home. =)
Love BLR, the weather is so nice u look exactly the way when u left home after ure bk!
The next day, our road trip began at 430am to Sukanya’s place and picked her up and off we went to Tirupati. Although I was hoping to get to know her better, the poor girl had a whole trip of motion sickness – which our driver Mahadev was very nice to constantly look for drug stores to buy medication. Also, he knows so much that he made the trip worthwhile and cracked a lot of funny jokes along the way. The two of them were def lost.. and I had to laugh twice – once with Mahadev and once more after translating it! My Kannada was surely brushed up at the end of the trip! =)
5am from a Hyundai Tucson
Outside
And Inside
Ms. Motion Sickness with her power Remedy
We’re still good to go… till the ascend began. After tt we all looked the same
The awesomest driver, Mahadev!
Sukanya and Me at Woody’s – I ALWAYS loved to stop here for tea since I was a kid!
The next big thing was shopping and what we did instead was eat more and take more pics! We found this huge butterfly made of paper cups in a shopping mall! It’s to raise awareness of re-cycling and re-using. But for us, it’s just another prop!
After this I headed to my hometown which I’ll continue in Part 2 cuz its almost 3am now… OMG!
