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25 Things To Do In Bangalore

Prats — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:19:24 +0000

Saw this post at Ratzz on things to do in the city you live in. Found it quite interesting, and since that I have lived in a lot of cities I might do it for some which I know well. So here is a list of 25 things to do when you are in Bangalore.

1- Take a walk on the Brigade Road on a Saturday evening

2- Eat Masala Dosa at Vidhyarthi Bhavan

3- Take a stroll across the Lal Bagh

4- Watch the sunrise over Nandi Hills

5- Have a ride in the Red Volvo busses

6- Do some window shopping at UB City Mall

7- Have a cup of coffee in silver tumblers at Maiyas or MTR

8- Have a Kingfisher beer at Dewars’ the oldest bar in the beer capital

9- Take a drive through electronic city or Whitefield to see the pulse of technology hotspots

10- Visit the Vidhan Sabha of Karnataka on Sunday evenings or on Public holiday evenings when the lighting is on

11- Have an authentic Uttar Kannada meal at Kamat Lokaruchi (pref on Mysore Road)

12- Have a Gobhi(Cauliflower) Manchurian from the street peddler

13- On a rainy evening get out for drive in cars around 6 in the evening to have a real taste of Bangalore traffic

14- Take a stroll across the Cubbon Park

15- Shop for Kaveri Handicrafts or Sandalwood in Majestic

16- Have a drink at ‘The Thirteenth Floor’ followed by dinner at ‘Ebony’ Retaurant overlooking the skyline of Banglore

17- Visit Visvesvariya Industrial & Technical Museum

18- Visit the 16^th century Bull Temple

19- Visit the Blossoms Book Store if you are a book lover

20- Visit the Rangashankara for a splendid theatrical performances

21- Have piping hot Idlis at Brahmins

22- Have a trip to Wonder La amusement park

23- Have some gourmet cakes and pastries at Sugar & Spice, the patisserie at the Taj Vivanta at Trinity Circle.

24- Spot some wildlife and animals at Bannerghatta National park

25- Just take a walk in the evenings reminiscing the weather and if you are lucky there would be mild a drizzle soothing your face anywhere and anytime in Bangalore

Well this from someone who has been here in this city for close to two years, so if you folks have got to add something on Bangalore the comments is an open house.Similar Posts:

Delhi Belly & How It Got Released

Prats — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 04:55:56 +0000

I am wondering if I am not blogging enough, I know you folks would agree. But in my defense I have been terribly busy at work. However, what makes me wonder about my blogging frequency of the folks at WordPress. This blog is hosted on the WP platform and these days I get more WordPress Updates than the posts I write, so either I am writing very less, or the guys at wordpress are working their asses out. More I think of it, and I feel sorry for those guys. Imagine the project manager/product manager at wordpress would be after the life of the poor chaps writing the code upgrade, to deliver it in time for the customers to use. And here I am one of their customers who do not even write a post as frequently those folks churn out and upgrade.

So coming back to “I have been terribly busy bit”, amidst all this busyness of my business I found time to catch up with most of the movies. I am sure even you guys would agree that the recent times were like gold rush for movie fans. I mean you had movies like “X-Men, Cars 2, Transformers 3, KungFu Panda, Pirates of The Carrabian, and Harry Potter, Delhi Belly, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara” and I might have forgotten mentioning few. So I have watched them all, and I must say most of them were pretty good. As a matter of fact I loved all of them except Transformers-3, which was painstakingly boorish and dumb.

But what was icing on the cake was Delhi Belly, I must say I absolutely loved the movie. I was surprised and shocked to see that movie where the abuses and F words weren’t beeped out by the censor board. I actually watched the movie twice because I just couldn’t believe that the censor board hasn’t actually beeped out the movie. The reason that this movie actually passed censor board is a very interesting story, from what I hear on my non-existent grapevine.

Place: Central Board Bored of Film Certification

Time: Fake Approval Screening of Delhi Belly

Aamir Khan (AK)- So this a movie about youth, about India, the reality of this generation.
Leela Samson (LS) – Wow.
Shubhra Gupta (SG)- What wow? Asha ji tells me he used the same line for DCH.
Arundhati Nag (AN)- These commercial actors I tell you, can’t come up with something original. They will steal stories from Hollywood, and now they have become so shameless that they remake the old Bollywood classics. Look at that Ramesh Sippy guy he made Sholay again such horribly.
Pankaj Sharma (PS) – Errr AN Ramesh Sippy was the guy who made the original Sholay. RGV was who made the remake.
AN- RGV? Who? Whatever.
Rajeev Masand (RM)- It is Packed with rude humor and made with the intention to shock. This is a filthy comic thriller which would work because it’s a smartly paced wild-ride, it doesn’t have a madly inventive story. Yet with sharp performances.
LS- RM you are not reviewing the movie, please stick to the censoring right now. Pankaj Vohra (PV) what do you think?
PV- Since this has nothing to do with Thackreys and Pawars so this is ok.
Annes Jung (AJ) – I think this might be objectionable and we need to beep the abuses. AK can you come back with a beeped version of this.
AK- Oh I already have it let me play it for you.
*plays the movie*
*Bhaag Beep Beep Beep Beep bhag beep beep Beeep*
goes on for 5 minutes.
RM- What the hell is that?
LS- After beeping this is not in English or Hindi, the movie seems to be in Morse code.
AN- Yeah but does movies in Morse Code lie in our jurisdiction.
LS- Actually no.
AK- so you mean to say that I can release this movie in MORSE CODE?
LS- Yeah, if you want you can dub it in English or Hindi. GO ahead.

and that my friends is the fake story of how Delhi Belly got approved from the censor board bored

On a more serious note, given the success of the movie, I feel our Industry is coming of age. Though I hear some petitions going against it in one of the courts in MP but I am sure the law would take its course and accept the new generation of people and the cinema.
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10 Day You Challenge- Day 9: 2 Songs

Prats — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:30:53 +0000

Choosing two songs from a list of thousands which I love is very difficult. But here are the two which often come at the top of my mind.

1- Bazeecha-E-Atfal- The song simply touches every chord in my heart and every time I hear this I just feel tempted to hear it in infinite loop.

2- Main Zindagi ka Saath Nibhata Chala Gaya- Again a song which is my ideal philosophy of my life.

10 Day You Challenge- Day 8: 3 Movies

Prats — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:30:24 +0000

3 Movies, now this is an easy one-

1- Guru- I am a fan of this movie and I have seen it so many times that I can’t even count.

2- Choti Si Baat- This again a brilliant movie which deals with a complicated subject of human psyche of perceptions in a very light and comical way. I have learnt a lot from this movie.

3- Thank You for Smoking- This is another movie which has motivated me a lot in life.
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10 Day You Challenge- Day 5: 6 Places

Prats — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:31:25 +0000

Now I am not the one who has traveled across the globe and seen a lot of places but in what ever places I have been here are my picks from those-

1- Kanpur- This is my home town and I have grown up there. A major contribution of who I am and what I am is courtesy this city. A lot of people who I consider my life support system share the essence of Kanpur with me. Though the city is on a decline because of all the crappy politicians who have taken charge of it but still the place adds a zing to my heart whenever I visit there and it will always remain home for me.

2- Pune - again is city which is very close to my heart. I have spent some very beautiful moments in Pune and some of my high points in life have happened in Pune.

3- Bangalore - This is the city where currently my life is.

4- Goa - Though I have not stayed there for a long time, but in a short trips which I have made to Goa the culture, life and beaches simply take over me.

5- Singapore- I know I am one of the people who find the concrete jungles lovely. And Singapore is an epitome of the concrete jungle. The kind of organized and orderly lifestyle the city has makes my heart yearn for being in Singapore.

6- Cliffs of Moher, Ireland- I visited the cliffs couple of months back and the view is simply difficult to get out of heads.

So before I close this post, I will leave you folks with the view of The Cliffs of Moher.

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