15 April 2010 : Madiwala Outdoor Market

Here are some pictures from Madiwala Outdoor Market. This market has all sorts of fresh indian veges that are used in curries, fruits and fish as well... though its one thing i would never try buying cause the fish are all laid out and flies, ohhh tonnes of flies were surrounding the fish (as you can see below)

This was actually a very fun day out with my really lovely friends, who waited each time i snapped pictures or saw something interesting that could potentially be a picture :D Hope you will enjoy the pics ;)

11 April 2010 : Lazy Sunday afternoon

Our sunday afternoon consisted of stationary shopping for Janus' little office, late lunching and then a short little trip to Lalbagh Botanical Gardens. The walk at the garden was like any other walk...but we arrived just a tad bit after the sun had set. We did try taking some pictures even though the sun had set. But while taking pictures there were 2 indian guys, probably in their 40s dressed in jeans and polo shirts. They both started staring at us taking pictures and one of the guy came right behind us and stuck his face inbetween our faces as we looked on our live view mode on our camera. And i tried to give him an evil-youre-in-my-space stare, but that didnt really work. Gah! But its weird how this is something common that happens here, their personal space distance is really tiny or even non-existant. And so when they come into our personal space its just highly uncomfortable. And i really dont like it. It feels intrusive and so wrong. But thats how it is here, so we are the ones that are 'not in line', so to speak.... But we used our stand to get a few really good shots of the evening at Lalbagh lake, where a type of tree is blossoming now. The tree has a fantastic color and it looks abit like its on fire... Pictures will be uploaded soon ;)

After our little walk at the garden, we took a tutuk to Brigade road and found ourselves a pub called Le Rock. We had a cocktail and beer each and also had some nice juicy tandoori chicken. Janus seems to love them - and i am catching up :D The place looked like some hard rock cafe, abit like the late 80s look if i am not wrong. But it was interesting to see and hear what is popular here. Almost all the songs were from the 70s to the 90s, and people were shouting to the lyrics. And its always cool to see the various prototypes there, like the geeky thin guy trying really hard to be cool, the not so thin girl flirting with the geeky guys, the im too cool guy that seems to know everyone working at the club, and so on so forth......

10 April 2010 : Fireflies

Today we had some really good Indian buffet for lunch at a place called Café Masala. There was obviously a wide spread of indian dishes - yums, and also a section for dessert. It is unfortunate that we didnt take any pictures but the food was really nice. It was however really tough to leave the restaurant because it was just really scorching hot outside. This weekend the temperature actually was the highest in 25 years - so we tried everything to stay indoors or in an a-c coffee café. Which was exactly what we did - we ended up sitting under a fan at Coffee world where Janus had a cuppa Americano while i had a caramel frappe. Long time no caramellin'... Oh! And funny story. At the coffee place we were at, there was a young teenage couple sitting right in front of us, having a nice time cuddling and dosing off together. Then there was a very dark indian man sitting behind us. He was oggling and staring his eyes out at the couple. Weird. I think he was one of those freakishly weird voyer. Yuck! Anyways the coffee café was in a mall located on a street called Brigade Road, and we walked around and found a shop selling some loose beads where i got about 6pairs of neat beads, of which i have already made 4 pairs of simple earrings :) I like!

When the sun started setting we started walking and ended up walking around 5km before ending uo at a rooftop lounge called the Fireflies. There was a big screen television screening the live cricket match - where Bangalore won! Fireflies was quite a nice place - we had about 2 cocktails and 1 beer each, and 2 oven pizzas which no doubt tasted quite yummie.. It was a nice relaxing saturday - almost kind of felt like we worked hard for our food and drinks cause we walked so much before getting to fireflies... Well i will upload pictures as soon as possible - probably tonight when the connection is much better?

04 April 2010 : Water shows and Japanese food ;)

We started off the long weekend with a blast to the past - Retro! Cafe. We had indian food at a place near our apartment called Retro, it was on the top of the roof and was kind of nice to be there. There was about 2 big screens showing the IPL - cricket matches. And if i am not wrong the Bangalore team won! Woohoo. But i dont think my 'woohoo' shows how happy and noisy the crowd was because there team won - lots of cheering and whistling and clapping....

The next day we went to the musical fountain where everyday from 1900 - 1930hr there is a show with different colors. It is coordinated according to some Indian songs that they play in the background - from their national anthem to bollywood songs :) Interesting to watch the locals get all excited with the water works. Many were awed by the height of the spurting water while others were enjoying the music with the nice display of lights... Either way we had a fun time there...

Efter this colorful show we had really´, like really good Japanese food at a restaurant called 'Shiro'. Lovely ambience.