iBlog: Nishit Shah

..of India was really awesome. I have 3 of my friends from my previous workplace who are now working with Yahoo! Bangalore. So, one fine morning I just gate crashed at their place for a weekend. I left Bombay early morning on 23rd February and came back Monday 26th Feb night. Reached Bangalore at 9:30am by early morning Bombay-Bangalore flight of GoAir. I found GoAir pretty decent as compared to other low cost - no frills airlines. My experience with Air Deccan was really horrible that I now tend to avoid it whenever possible.

One thing I couldn’t help to go unnoticed at the airport was that everywhere I saw, I could see only Airbus A320 and Boeing 747-300 and a couple of Kingfisher ATRs.

First day was pretty good. First of all went to a Southie Restaurant and had a delicious meal there. Went to the ISKCON temple and spent half of the day there. In the evening I went to shop at MG Road popularly called as emgiees and Brigade Road. Then had an awesome dinner at Caesar’s which is next to Yahoo India’s office on MG Road.
Next day we all got up pretty late and I headed towards other part of the city near The Forum to meet another friend of mine. This time he took me to a Mallu restaurant to have awesome veg mallu food. And in the evening we went shopping at the Forum. Next, we went to a place called NASA which looked more like a space craft and then moved to a more rocking place called Purple Haze. Its a club for all the Rock fans. There is a pretty big hall with a huge 3 huge LCD screens where they play awesome rock music videos and guys just stand around and headbang. They usually played videos of some rock concerts. They usually played hard rock like Sepultura, Korn, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Rammstein, etc. The atmosphere there was really Rockking..

Next day again as usual got up late and missed the chance to go on a day’s trip to Mysore. So, we had an excuse to have Brunch on Sunday without pre-planning it. The we decided to go to Bannerghatta National Park. It around 30 minutes drive from the Bangalore city. Went for a mini safari, spotted a white tiger too and then checked out the poor animals in miserable conditions at the zoo. There was a cage full of turtles, sadly all of them were dead. No matter which National Park you go in India, the condition of the animals is really pathetic there.

Then we headed back to the city and went to Garuda Mall to roam around and since we had nothing better to do that Sunday evening we bought tickets for Ghost Rider at Inox. Pathetic movie. Made no sense at all except for Eva Mendes.

Next day we started out hunting for MTR(Mavalli Tiffin Rooms) restaurant as we had heard that you get awesome southie meals there. After searching for it for couple of hours we finally found it and also got to know that its closed on Mondays. Gr8! So 2 hours of traveling with our backpacks turned out to be a waste. Finally had some food and headed back to the Bangalore Airport.

Boy! Hate it when they write Bengalooru or Bengaluru on the flight boarding pass or just anywhere.