15 March 2010

Well it has been more than a week without any updates.. But i have been busy packing up the apartment, packing bags and then flying to Bangaluru. It is 4 days now that we are in bangalore. Today Janus starts his work at NN :) It definitely going to be a very different experience for him.

On our first day we went to Lalbagh Gardens, right in the center of town. Now isnt that cool. There are many different flowers and it was a very very sunny day! But otherwise it was a nice way to see how the locals go about their day.. I took alot of pictures of people so that everyone can see how it is to be here. One thing that is very evident about bangalore, is that it is a city of HUGE contrast. On one side of the road there can be a really cool villa or bungalow, and just next to it you can see beggers and people lying on the street. This perspective of live is nothing either one of us have actually seen before. We actually had a driver from the hotel and we actually let him decide where to take us which was a terrible idea. He took us to two shops where we were constantly forced to buy something cause everything was apparently very special. I was made to try on clothings (more like forced) and we were made to tour the shop for about 1 hour. We didnt get to go to the other park which we wanted to go cause our driver just drove by it saying 'this is cubbon park'. Anyways after we went back we had chinese food :) Yums!

On sunday we decided to have a more realistic view of the surburb we live at - whitefield. So we walked for about a few hours and had the best lunch - chicken briyani, coin pratas with fantastic curries. I am going to make lots of curry here cause the ingredients here are so cheap! Walaaa!

Unfortunately i cant upload any pictures today or the next few days cause the hotels connection is ultra slow : 1 picture takes 1 hour to upload..And i have 100s!