Everything happend in a span of three days. It was on the day while I was leaving to bangalore for ISRO interview I got a call from sajeer telling about the opening at ittiam. As I was in bangalore I gave it a try. It ended up smoothly and within three days from a guest lecturer post I was elevated to a MEDIA PROCESSING ENGINEER, with a salary hike of more than thrice. Yeah, that's what i wanted, a core job at bangalore and a reasonable package. I had to join soon and I reached bangalore within one week after my interview. While leaving I got a series of advice from my mom: It's bangalore don't fall into bad friendship, go to church on all sundays, keep an account of ur spendings, if u r falling in love with any girl make sure that she is christian, romancatholic ,younger, from a good family ,has acres of family property and the list goes on...
There I was at bangalore next morning. I was aware about the challenges that I will have to face. I saw an autorikshaw driver and started arguing with him over the price. As I was good at hindi (no i am not boasting my friends used to say it often, and one admirer even wrote a blog on it) I thought I wil give a try. he started with 150 and I started with 50. Atlast he agreed for 70, I made it sixty, he never showed any chance of reducing further so I took the eighteenth adavu, I started walking back. Amazingly he wasn't calling me back. But thats not the way it should be rite?. Anyway he might not be knowing about it. So I waited a long time there for next auto and agreed on 90 Rs and he left me at my Three Star hotel.
Eventhough I was depressed with my first defeat, the hotel ambience was great. My company had made a great arrangement for us, with food worth 200Rs free twice a day. It was for the first time i was in such a posh hotel. I tried almost all the dishes and was clever enough to make the bill 200Rs all time. On the last day of my stay i ordered something different and was conscious about the bill. It was at that time the waiter brought a bowl with a fresh lemon on top of it. I was amazed because the bill was almost 200 . I asked sajeer what it is, he too seemed to be unaware of it. I called the waiter and asked him what it is.He said that it's finger ball. "Oh look i haven't ordered it so u may take it back because i am not going to pay for it" I replied soon. Sir its free!!! He looked scared." Oh is it free k then where is the spoon i can't have it without a spoon". "Sir its finger bowl" and he backed of and started laughing with his face turned towards the wall. Next time when he came to collect bill i told him" BAHUTH SHUKRIYA" , just wanted to avoid the usual notion about mallus.
I never went back to that hotel, thank god it was the last day. even now when i have to cross across that hotel, i prefer to walk on the other side of the road. As my mother wanted me to go to church on all sundays i found one, that too, catholic. (But that wasn't enough now i have to get powers to know whether one was from good family and with rubber estates). On one sunday after the service i went to archies gallery to get a birthday card and thought about having a meal at the Mc Donalds. So i went their and ordered a meal, only after finishing it that i found the tomato sauce below the tissue paper. i looked at either side no one was watching i slowly slipped it to my pocket. I got up and started walking out, some one from behind started calling me. how on the earth could someone see me taking it. I put my hand in my pocket and picked the packet and turned to him. "Oh Sorry Sorry" i told to him with my hand stil in my pocket. he handed me the card that i had bought. Thank god my response time is large, otherwise i would have handed him all the sauce and tissue paper that i took from their. Now they are mine!!
Anyways bangalore in life is great. I love this place. This was what i wanted in my Life. Though realizing the great words of one great man :We develop new principles for the world out of the world’s own principles. We do not say to the world: Cease your struggles, they are foolish; we will give you the true slogan of struggle. We merely show the world what it is really fighting for, and consciousness is something that it has to acquire, even if it does not want to.
