Hercule Poirot's Mangalore Trip

Hey Atif thanks for reviving the Blog. It did seem desolate for a long time with literally just one post this summer.
And our ever-so-diminishing readers, with a new look and a cheek title we are back again.

This summer for me was one of the most uneventful ones. I did go to India, my home place Mangalore where I spent the most pleasant phase of an otherwise bleak summer 2008.
SO I shall begin with it.
Oh yes, traveling to M’lore was no less than an ordeal. That’s because the only intl flight that connects Dubai with Mangalore is our very own Air India...Now you may have guessed why I called the traveling part ordeal.
M’lore is a city that has a lot of potential and is developing rapidly. It’s a nice place to live, the beaches are amazing, the food is very good, the roads suck though.
Changes I saw in M’lore:
- Newly built factory outlet stores of Levi’s, Nike, adidas, reebok, MTV, etc….right across the street where I live.
- Prices of snacks at the multiplex multiply….this is what they meant by food crisis I suppose! A burger over there which cost 30 Rs. last year is now worth 40Rs! And they haven’t spared the colas either, with half a liter bottle costing 45Rs! The above mentioned change made me guess that they were my last visits to the cinemas...
But that wasn’t exactly the case…watched as many as 5 movies in a span of 28 days and that too …..not without buying those yummy burgers that I simply cant resist.
-a noticeable increase in the sex ratio
-hah! New Hindi radio stations thanks to which I didn’t miss Dubai much


Meeting my relatives and family friends was the one thing I was eagerly looking forward to. I met every one of them and spent a lot of time with them. My techy cousin taught me a few computer tricks. And as always I never had enough of his jokes. He is the funniest cousin in the world.
I had the usual trips to the temples, and sacred places. I got to eat a lot of things that I usually don’t get to here in dxb. And Atif, thanks for keeping in touch with me through the phone. I have a lot of stuff to tell you….new jokes to share…new tales to narrate...etc.

Unfortunately I couldn’t get my hands on the royal challenger jersey, this despite the fact that there are as many as two Reebok stores in M’lore. The reason being low demand! It was ironic to know that the knightriders jerseys were sold out within hours.


I have some pics to share which I will in the forthcoming post.

Squeeze!

ANVIT

Summer holidays 2008-- Top 3 picks

New post! YAY... Well I’m sure you are not that excited...:D

Frankly, the reason I have not been updating this page is cuz I have not had the time for something as boring as this blog... Oh yes, I have had the time of my life, the past 45 days or so... Thought I’d share some special moments with ye all right here on this page... so that I have something to look back at come November and the always horrible ‘half-yearlies’ (or is it yearly’s? :D... I’m clearly losing my touch)

45 days is not much, but as they say, ‘time is where you can find it’ (who am I kidding? that is one crappy quote) ... Well I certainly found time to do a hell lotta things this summer .... And here are 3 of my favourites (not in ranking order)

1) Trip to Vythiri:- 2 1/2 hours and 9 hairpin bends away, the road to Vythiri resort itself wuz a fun experience (not the actual roads....that wuz just horrible... they said it wuz part of the experience...i feel its just baaaad roads)

The resort wuz breathtaking as I had expected, the rope bridge being the best part.

We ended up playing TT till 11 (the recreation room wuz supposed to close at 10)... The steward watched helplessly as we lost ball after ball in the nearby woods and yet refused to move... ( I know it seems rly stupid to be going to a resort in the woods and playing ping pong there, but hey! it’s atleast better than UNO cards, which wuz the original plan :D...Yes jeej, i’m pointing at u)
We left early next morning for Pookot lake, and there we found the ‘gulmaleil’ that we had been searching for ages.... ‘gulsitar’ too .... (i know it doesn’t make sense, and i wudn’t expect it 2, unless the esteemed reader wuz one of the party)
Bottomline, it wuz a fun experience.. nuff said...but not b4 i show u the best foto of the trip... Faizka, this 1 is 4 u

2) Family photo session :- As the great Atif Saleem once remarked “ Thou dost hath nothing after good times but memories and photographs “... and so the idea of a family photo session wuz born

It wuz just another photograph, except that I didn’t have to bring my fake smile at all... I cudn’t stop smiling on the 4th of August, 2008

3) I can think of many events for this position, including my cousin’s marriage, but there is one particular outing that I still hold dear... It’s not something that I can write about....but somehow, it remains as a memory that could drive the even the dementors away..

Thanks to all of those who made my summer special
Cheers
@if $>leem