Mish Mash !

I go around Bangalore every now and then in search of a cheap meal. Pity I fail to find one every time. The city boasts of all kinds of cuisine restaurants and dhabas but when you want a tasty healthy vegetarian food prepared in a hygienic kitchen, you will more often draw a blank.

It is important to dress well even when a guy is single and is out in the city. Invariably all men check out other girls. It irritates girls but then it does not offend them much if you are well dressed and seem to be a harmless guy just giving some health supplement to his eyes. I enjoy it when I look at the girl and she seems to not mind it. It’s fun ! When guys are carelessly dressed or downright pathetically dressed, the girls perceive some sort of a danger to them and hence take offense at even a harmless unintentional glance at them. I might be wrong but hey my opinion.

I have a huge irritation to mothers who accompany their daughters to office interviews ! Why oh why do they think that their daughter needs that extra dose of safety from a bunch of docile, already haggled corporate uncles? Beats me all the time ! They should rather accompany their daughters to the neighbourhood store or to her bus-stop as there are half a dozen uncles peering at her from their balconies, or ruffians trying to brush against her. But on second thoughts even this is not needed as how long will you protect your girl? She has to experience all of this to know how bad the world out there is. As much as I hate to say this but then I have no clue what else to say or do in this regard. Didn’t I just digress from the main topic? Screw it !

When someone says “I have done a lot of research on this and….” What does that mean ? Research is reading up on the net, newspapers, etc? I doubt if that is right. Just reading on some matter does not mean that you have the right to claim expertise on that topic. Especially if the topic is something like JanLokpall bill, gender inequality, economic reforms, love, psychology….etc etc…. and many such topics that do not have a right or a wrong defined. Basically one can make an opinion based on research, but not a statement.

I have a deep abhorrence towards people who smoke. This disgust is manifested only when I see them smoking. I don’t hate them at the other times when they are just normal people without that twig in between their fingers. I find it pathetic that they suck at a piece of stuffed paper, as if it some life force. Isn’t it disgusting that grown up men and women behave so? Come on !

I travel to kerala quite often from Bangalore. Every time I pass through Ettimadai Amrita campus, be it bus or train. And every time I wake up around that time ! strange ! I just need to look at the sky to realize that I am near Amrita – my alma mater ! each and every journey the past 4 years and each and every time this has happened. Amazing !

This curious incident that happened once when i was in Mysore, still makes me smile. I was out near the palace trying to find a place to have breakfast and I ended up in front of a furniture shop. Spotting a mirror on the dressing table kept on display, I instinctively started setting my hair right. I was combing with my fingers, when I noticed the owner of the shop staring at me. I didn’t understand why his gaze was so nasty and his facial expression turning into a dramatic frown ! I guess he was trying to dissuade me from continuing my pruning session. Being the timid boy that I am, I immediately stopped fiddling with my hair in the mirror, said sorry to the shop owner and walked away. I still haven’t for the life of me figured out what I did wrong in that shop. Did I harm the mirror by looking into it? Did the owner think that its value will be reduced if someone peered into it? It’s still a mystery to me. Also I wonder why I had to say sorry to him!!!???