How to pass ur time in bangalore?

Question

How to pass ur time in bangalore?

Answer 1

1.walk in cubbon park

2.walk down mg road and people watch

3.shop in jayanagar or malleshwaram

4.boat in ulsoor lake

5.hike up nandi hills

6.bowl in star bowling or near mg road

7.watch a movie in a multiplex in residency road

8.eat in any restaurant

9.sip coffee in cafe day

10.surf the net at sify

11. check out many temples including ISCKON in rajajinagar

12.eat at mavalli tiffin rooms near lalbagh gardens

Answer 2

Go to Forum on hosur road - Lo! you'll require more time than 24 hours. IMP: Carry loads of Money. A Credit card will be handy!They charge twice to thrice the amount elsewhere! You can shop, eat, see movies & make merry!

Answer 3

Move the hands of ur watch.

Now U see ur "time pass".

Answer 4

Crosswords in Indiranagar

Shoppers’ Stop that a Crosswords has come up in Indiranagar and at a very identifiable place too - 12th Main, 5th Cross. Went there today. The size of the store fell far short of my expectations. Bad that my sense of measurement is, I always thought 4000 Sq. feet would mean a space much bigger than that :)

But still - even if a small one, it will be a good place to spend time once in a while. And I had a paniful realization that I have never splurged freely on books since I started working. I always seemed to have more money in my hand for that purpose in my student life… What the h**l! One of these days, I am going to splurge - come what may :)

By the way, for those looking for an English Translation of “Umrao Jaan” Novel, I saw one copy from Rupa Publications for aroun 300 bucks. Probably you can try to check out for one in a book-store near you. Of course, the price does not beat Rs. 50 that I had paid for Hindi (rather Urdu in Devnagri) edition in Lucknow :P

Technorati : Bangalore, Book Store, Crosswords, Indiranagar, Umrao Jaan Novel

Shivagange

Its not necessary to praise every place you visit by sacrificing your weekend, is it? So, this time I am not going to praise it. Okay, don’t take that to mean that I have a negative recommendation for just everybody. Depends on your mood, purpose and expectations. So, just read on.

We went to this place called Shivagange, around 70 kms from Bangalore, last Saturday. There were three of us in total. We were warned that nothing suitable can be gotten for lunch there. So, I exercised my newly found cooking skills at making roti and sabji and packed it up too. In fact I had planned it even before the warning came through because of my previous trysts with South Indian food (no insults intended - its just that I do not like it) on the trips. That was the only good decision taken I suppose :)

Well - so this place has a rather tough climb uphill. And what you are supposed to get as a treat at the end of the terribly tiring trip is a statue of Nandi carved out of the rocks. When we had just started climbing up we saw a statue of Nandi and then laughed at ourselves at attaching too much of importance to that. The real treat was waiting up there, right? Now the place misguides you with the decent stairs made in the beginning of the climb. They end soon and all you are left with is the single option of making your way through the rocks. Some unhygienic “Ganne ka juice”, “Neembu Paani” and cucumber are the things you can console yourself with. Right when you are thinking that you have been adventurous for quite sometime by climbing through those rocks, you get to see another stair. Just that this time it is steep as h**l, and many a time the steps are so small that you have keep your legs at ninety degrees to your body to let them fit it. After a while, you are simply clinging to the railings to get up. Reminds of those old Hindi Movies with an old lady clinging to whatever comes in her way and somehow managing to reach “bhagwaan ke dwaar” to pray for her son bleeding profusely in the hospital. Well - we did not have any such desperation either. Still we clinged on and climbed on. For that real treat. And when we finally reached there, we saw a statue not only much smaller than the one we had seen at the beginning of the climb, but smaller than several others you will see scattered around in the city of Bangalore too. The population density of monkeys made mockery of any plans we were still left with of eating our food at the top of the hill. We hardly felt like staying there much longer. I was so disappointed that I forgot to even look for the “Suicide Point” where Queen Shantala is supposed to have committed suicide from. Well - that’s a tourist spot - I can’t help it.

However, if you like climbing for the sake of it. Do go ahead. And its not bad for weight loss either. I lost a full 200 gms :D

A musical evening…

Posted by Jaya on 10th September 2006

It was after years that I realized the relaxing effects of music. Yes - years. Good poetry crafted in soothing music, and having time to concentrate on just that. Haven’t known it in years. Not since the days when I used to learn music and there were times, when there was just that around you. In my college life the popular musical feats were too full of things I did not like. Loud music, meaningless or shallow lyrics, only occasionally having the things I liked. And somewhere in the race of life, I missed out on the moments of respite SPICMACAY programmes could have provided. I regret that. And particularly so today. Had and still have a huge collection of music of my liking on my computer. But in that, the concentration part was missing. Being the kind of person I am, it was almost impossible for me to leave everything aside and just listen to the music. It never happened. Its never will happen. I will continue to find things to do while the computer is playing music.

Today in Jagjit Singh’s concert, the bliss was recreated. I think my experience with live concerts was pretty much NIL. Except for the programmes by some of the musical bands that came to IITK and IIML. As I said, they were too full of things I did not like. So, never stayed through them for long. (Of course, not that it helped much. With that wretchedly loud music and a bit too effective speakers, there was little you could avoid so long as you are in the campus and even few kilometers around it.

But anyway. Coming back to today’s musical evening. It started off with this. And then went on. One after the other. Post interval, it only went from good to better and some of the all time favourites were sung by him. It was a wonderful feeling to have left everything out and just be in that. I wish I am able to make it to more such events. It should do some good to my mental health :) (No, no - do not worry. I am not mentally challenged as of now :P).

Artist’s arrogance was pretty much there. With him being quite rude about the sound system settings and once commenting upon (of all the things) lights on the stage. He wanted the lights to be changed. When they were changed he was still like, “कोई और Light नहीं है?” I don’t know. May be there are valid reasons. May be I am nowhere close to being like an artist. But I wish some of this unnecessary display of arrogance could be done away with.

There was one thing I missed. There was almost no communication with the audience. I think the show would have better been named “Jagjit Singh Non-Stop”, rather than “Jagjit Singh Face to Face”. Probably one the biggest attractions for fans of a live show is that they get to see a more human face of the person they admire. So, when an almost revered singer talks about incidents related to a song, or cracks jokes, audience gets to see a non-God-like, and more of “like-me” kind of person there. That’s the charm. He did not do anything like that. Only once was there an attempt to crack a joke and it was well received. Some people may want to discredit this idea by saying that artists need not (and possible should not) care to have showmanship. They may not be completely wrong. But I would say that you need not have showmanship for doing this. You can connect to the audience by simply being a human once in a while.

There was another interesting thing I noticed. Possibly for those who go to such events frequently, its not such a news. But as a first timer, I really found it a good thing. The main artist gave opportunity to those accompanying him on various instruments to exclusively showcase their talents several times. And this was done without breaking the flow of things. And yes - they were really good and at times invited rightly deserved loud applauds from the audience.

Technorati : Bangalore, Concert, Face to Face, Ghazal, Jagjit Singh

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Dedicated to Bangalore life!

Posted by Jaya on 27th August 2006

तरस गई हूँ मैं

पथरा गई आँखें।

देख चुकी रास्ता

कई बार जा के।

पूछा पड़ोसियों से

उसे देखा है कहीं।

पागल समझते हैं

मुझे लोग सभी।

बहुत मन्नतें माँगी

बहुत रोई, गिड़गिड़ाई।

कितने संदेशे भेजे पर

काम वाली आज फिर नहीं आई।

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जाओ बढ़ो,

बिना हॉर्न बजाए,

मुझे बाईं ओर से

एक इंच की भी दूरी दिए बिना

ओवरटेक करो

चलाओ अपनी गाड़ी

साँप की तरह रेंगते हुए

करो आगे उसे

इधर से, उधर से

जान आफ़त में डालते हुए।

क्या होगा अगर आगे मुझसे निकल भी गए तो?

अगले जाम में

या अगले सिगनल पर

हमें फिर मिलना है।

फिर एक ही जगह से

सब शुरु करना है।

लेकिन फिर भी

जाओ, बढ़ो।

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:-) - Sometimes you just have to find a way to laugh on things! Despite the title of the post, I do not claim that these experiences are limited to just Bangalore.

Answer 5

There are lot of ways to time pass.

Bangalore has all that you need, it is only the wish it depends upon you, which is favorate hobbie, like watching movie, go to pubs, Fun worl, wounder law etc. and also go for picnic .

Answer 6

Malls --- FORUM & GARUDA  (u can shop & watch movies)

Pubs--- M G Road and surrounding area

Temple --- ISKON,Ragi Gudda,Bull Temple

Theme Park-Wonder La

Bowling---Megabowl

Icecream---Corner house or Basken Robbins on Brigade road

Cofee ---Cofee day or Barista near Brigade road

or just roam around on Brigade road