One thing I love about where I work is that I don’t need to wait six months before I can take leave. This is usually a requirement of most companies. Out here, I’ve planned my leave well in advance, the first one begins today, for a week.

This blog post will take you three weeks back. I’ve had three weeks which have been so filled with work (yes, that is a usual statement I make) that my initial plan of updating the blog took a back seat.

Anyway, three weeks back, I met up with Maria, who, along with her sister, has been complaining that I’ve spent more than two months in Bangalore and hadn’t even seen them! The main reason has been my prolonged effort to settle into the city that I haven’t yet called home and the lack of a full weekend out here yet. I haven’t seen much of Bangalore yet and I don’t know when I will be able to. The few places that I have visited have been Church Street and Brigade Road area on two separate occasions.

Maria picked me up from near my house in Koramangala on that Sunday morning and we headed over to “The Only Place” in Brigade Road. “The Only Place” is famous for its steak and I decided to try one of those. Well, it was also a while since I had some good meat. We then walked down Church Street to the Levi’s store at Brigade Road. My current pair of blue jeans had started to fray and rather than make a fashion statement, I decided to pick up a new pair.

From what I have seen, shopping in Bangalore seems to be more expensive than Mumbai. I’m going to verify this on my trip back to Mumbai as I hunt for some clothes. Anyway, I found a decent pair of blue boot-cut jeans for a little more than 2K and picked them up. It turned out to be a smart thing to do because my jeans finally frayed and well, they are now a pair of torn jeans that many people pay so much extra for!

After this, we walked over to one of the Cafe Coffee Day’s in Brigade Road, where they insisted that we have to take addons on Saturday and Sunday. I have definitely not seen this at any other CCD and we told him that we refused to do that. Why should I take chocolate sauce in my coffee, when I don’t want it?

We didn’t spend much time there, because we decided to drop into Garuda mall for a while, which is supposed to be one of the biggest malls in Bangalore. Well, I still prefer InOrbit in Mumbai, which is not only bigger, but definitely better planned than any of the malls here in Bangalore.

Anyway, I decided to go window shopping for suits. Saw some excellent ones which were 7K and above. Decided to check the same out in Mumbai over this week. I need a good business suit for work. The one we got in college was good for college and the one I got at home is too party types.

We hung out at Garuda mall a while and after that tried to find out the mass timings at the nearest church out there. We found out that we had to wait for at least an hour for mass and so decided to rush back to the one near Forum. It turned out to be a mixed language double-feast mass where we found ourselves standing far far away in the dust and the dirt and the crowd. We just gave up hope and headed back home.

Stay tuned for yet another post with the events of the last two weeks. Until remember you cankeep track of updates of my blogs and me of course by following @ajaydsouza on Twitter.

Yesterday, I paid a visit to a marize called the Li’l White Mouse, who had been down with malaria.

Yesterday was also a very rainy day. While I don’t mind the rains, I hate getting wet, and that is exactly what happened.

Just as I stepped out of the bus at Andheri Station it started to pour. It did reduce immediately so my jeans didn’t get completely wet.
Stood in a massively long line for the 84, which would take me to Worli.

Managed to find a place to sit in the long journey out there. Thankfully had my iPOD for company the entire journey.

Got off at Worli and started walking towards her place and just when I was five minutes away, the sky let loose. Before I knew it my jeans were wet. Was given permission to iron the jeans out. She has a good iron which got the jeans relatively dry (and a little burnt) after a good deal of ironing.

Next step was to find out why my contact lens were hurting. Took them out and managed to tear them (there always is a first for everything)!

Dropped plans of buying a new set because they were just to expensive. This meant that I would be relatively blind for the rest of the day.

And after this was the tragedy of the broken glass. For some extremely weird reason a glass that the Li’l White Mouse gave me developed a crack at the bottom! It didn’t break but it leaked out all the tang :O (Like I said, always a first for everything)

Thankfully the rest of the day was uneventful. Lunch was fabulous. Her mother is a good cook

Didn’t go for my evening class because of my lens tragedy and left her place around 8. She put me in a 39 which comes right upto Seepz. Got a rick immediately and was home in one piece.

Sunday passed quickly. The mock CAT mocked me yet again. Went for the evening mass, had dinner and now I am off to bed.

Feeling really tired and I can really do with some sleep right now.