18th of October was an eagerly awaited day last year.The family was all packed up fora fortnight's trip to India for my sister's engagement.I was visiting India after a year and half then which meant I was pretty desperate to 'feel' Indian for a break!
Bangalore was fun but the schedule was too tight to spend more than 4 days and I met upmany friends, went to favorite eating joints, was shocked at the traffic,happy to go to same old temples managed to visit shopping malls and Koramangala in particular had a new look to offer!Did the standard tour of temples in Kerala and soon we were in Bombay.
This visit was after more than a year and I couldnot really notice much changes due tomy poor knowledge of Bombay,however the attractive part was to meet favorites and though it was such a short stay it was all so worth it.The mehndi and last minute puchases...oh!what an atmosphere!SJ n NS made it to the functionand that was really nice of them! The function was a short one and I remember the episode of losing the 2300 -very weird story behind it!It never came back,thats the ending!
Return was very very difficult then!It felt horrible to just think of the long workinghours I used to do then and with the thought of the "emptiness" that Gulf has to offer.I remember as I put the bags down in front of our flat the watchman came with the newsof the passing away of the President!Yes,it made me feel even more gloomy!
A year has passed and sometimes it feels more than a year,with all the events that followed and now,I just want to re-live the trip again.....Sigh!
Bangalore was fun but the schedule was too tight to spend more than 4 days and I met upmany friends, went to favorite eating joints, was shocked at the traffic,happy to go to same old temples managed to visit shopping malls and Koramangala in particular had a new look to offer!Did the standard tour of temples in Kerala and soon we were in Bombay.
This visit was after more than a year and I couldnot really notice much changes due tomy poor knowledge of Bombay,however the attractive part was to meet favorites and though it was such a short stay it was all so worth it.The mehndi and last minute puchases...oh!what an atmosphere!SJ n NS made it to the functionand that was really nice of them! The function was a short one and I remember the episode of losing the 2300 -very weird story behind it!It never came back,thats the ending!
Return was very very difficult then!It felt horrible to just think of the long workinghours I used to do then and with the thought of the "emptiness" that Gulf has to offer.I remember as I put the bags down in front of our flat the watchman came with the newsof the passing away of the President!Yes,it made me feel even more gloomy!
A year has passed and sometimes it feels more than a year,with all the events that followed and now,I just want to re-live the trip again.....Sigh!
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