Back from a long and much deserved break

Hey so here I am finally after a real long long break, more so duration wise.. Cause lets face it, if I were infact to vanish from the scene for a coupla months and you to decide to write me off (nice pun effect eh?) then one of us has a problem :) Anyways, lets get down to business.



Quick couple of warnings though, One - Pardon the excess, grossly over compensating attitude (Its just to reassure myself). Two- If i dont seem upto the mark just heed this, its been way too long and would take me a little bit of time to get back..



So, I am living in this lovely city on God's green earth (Wonder why they say that though? Is it just me or is there really not much greenery left down here. I almost wish I could tell the lord, dude, terrible state of affairs down there, u might wanna pull up your socks ;), apparently they call it brown, dusty earth nowadays) by the name of Namma Bengaluru. What do I say about it that his not been said before? I could of course tell you that there is an old Bangalore(areas such as Banshankari,Basvangudi) which still wake up to the aroma of filter coffee, the smell of incense sticks and fresh flowers being delivered at the doorstep. It really reminds you of the old Bangalore which you visited when you were in school and your suddenly turned rich/Onsite returned cousins stayed( Ouch! that hurts, even the thought of onsite does).



Then there is the flashier side of the city. Filled with people. Loads of them. Who wake up to the sound of honks, rush to work, earn a living here, have a life here and yet never quite feel at home here. That's all of us, well most of us. We slog on weekdays, fall asleep in the bus, we're seen at every mall in the city there is on weekends. You cant tell us apart if we so much as stood in a group, but leave us alone and we stand out. Dunno how but the auto guys always seem to know who you are and just how much to extort out of you :) I can still tell you every single shop on every single lane of my hometown, my native. Ask me for a zerox shop in my area and I know squat. That's the difference.



But the feeling the city gives you every time you return to it, that feeling of being productive( I dunno if you'd agree to this but being paid for something I do is one of the most apt definition for productive so far as I'm concerned) is priceless. After all, we always like to believe what we do does make a difference.. I know I do.. Even if more often than not, its not true....