After a while it was a party time yesterday… Took a friend out to the streets and malls of Bangalore… After all fun we packed our bags to Chennai by around 11.30 PM… From there we drove to our favourite spot HP Petrol Bunk at Soolagiri which has McDonalds, Cafe Coffee Day and other food joints…
After fuelling the car we headed to Cafe Coffee Day to cool us with some COLD COFFEE… Joint was unusual less crowded and I placed my order;
Me: 2 cafe frappe please…
CCD folk: want extra ice-cream??
Me: No just frappe….
CCD folk: 174 rupees SIR!!!
Me: Handed over a Rs.500/- note…
CCD folk: no change SIR…
Me: me too don’t have change….
CCD folk: sorry sir no change SIR!!!
Me: What do you mean to say?? You can’t take this order without giving you exact change??
CCD folk: Yes SIR…
Me: YOU CAN’T TELL THAT TO A CUSTOMER…. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO HAVE CHANGE OR ARRANGE FOR CHANGE…
CCD folk: sorry SIR!!!
My anger shot to my head and my friends asked if we have to fight it out…. By this time I decided not to take anything from that guy…. Also creating a scene is not going to help it anyway as it will give the other guy an opportunity to justify his act….
I sat for a moment and posted following message in CCD FB Page and raised a complaint thru their Contact Us page;
mr.nayan refused to take my order for not tendering exact change of rs.174(I tendered rs.500)… Poor #customerservice….
Then as a solace someone called from their in the morning and apologised…. Also there was a reply in my post asking for the location… Not sure if any strict action was taken….
Those were times where Bangalore is known for its Climate, Garden, Pretty girls and the last one for its pubs… During my college days we use to travel to Bangalore just for Pub Hopping and the crazy thing is I was a teetotaller then…. We start from NASA and hop thru all the pubs at Residency, Brigade and MG Road…
But now I’m not longer a teetotaller and I’ve never thought of hopping pubs :)… We first went to a pub named DownTOWN at Residency Road… Those days this pub was one of our favourites… But this time around its standards have fallen drastically…
We didn’t like the place at all and we decided to move to some other pub and that is when I thou of hopping…. We went to couple of pubs and there was not much fun other than getting nostalgia and an opportunity to compare prices…
Washin powder Nirma, Washing powder Nirma
Doodh si safedi, Nirma se aayi
Rangeen kapde bhi khil khil jaaye
I’m a Complan Boy(Shahid Kapoor) and
I’m a Complan Girl (Ayesha Takia)
Surabhi : Renuka Sahane and Siddharth
Then were ‘Mungerilal ke hasin sapane’ and ‘karamchand’ …’Vikram Betal’, etc.
Malgudi Days
Dekh Bhai Dekh
How did one survive growing up in the 80’s and 90’s?
We had no seatbelts, no airbags..
Cycling was like a breath of fresh air…
No safety helmets, knee pads or elbow pads, with plenty of cardboards between spokes to make it sound like a motorbike…
When thirsty we only drank tap water, bottled water was still a mystery…
We kept busy collecting bits & pieces so we could build all sort of things … and we were fearless on our bicycles even when the brakes failed going downhill…
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We were showing off how tough we are, by how high we could climb trees & then jumping down….It was great fun….
We could stay out to play for hours, as long as we got back before dark, in time for dinner…
We walked to school, or sometimes we even rode our bicycle.
We had no mobile phones, but we always managed to find each other…. How?
We lost teeth, broke arms & legs, we got cuts and bruises and bloody noses…. nobody complained as we had so much fun, it wasn’t anybody’s fault, only ours
We ate everything in sight, cakes, bread, chocolate, ice-cream, sweet sugary drinks, fruits..yet, we stayed skinny by fooling around.
And if one of us was lucky to find a 1 litre coca cola bottle we all had a swig from it & guess what? Nobody picked up any germs…
We did not have Play Stations, MP3, Nintendo’s, I-Pods, Video games, 99 Cable TV channels, DVD’s, Home Cinema, Home Computers, Laptops, Chat-rooms, Internet, etc ..
BUT, we had REAL FRIENDS!!!!
We called on friends to come out to play, never rang the doorbell, just went around the backdoor…
We played with sticks and stones, played cowboys and Indians, doctors and nurses, hide and seek, soccer games, over and over again…
When we failed our exams we were given a second chance by simply repeating the same grade…without visiting psychiatrists, psychologists or counselors…
Such were the days…
We had freedom, success, disappointments and responsibilities. ..
I had to take a break from Blogging for policing from Parents and Relatives… Yesterday I just realised how that break affected my personality alltogether…
When I blogged I enjoyed all the challenges, struggles and pains… These days I’ve become a angry and depressed….
When I blogged I use to observe all the small things that happens around me… I missed to see a lot of good things around me these days….
When I blogged I’ve never been into boredom…. Blogging made me engaged all the times…
When I blogged I developed lots of hobbies…. I became a foodie, traveller, photographer, gardener etc…
When I blogged my vocabulary improved… I used to write all the new words I’ve come across…
When I blogged I was able to flush all the anger, agony and frustration… Off late my frustration levels are high…
When I blogged I used to read a lot… My reading habit has almost become defunct….
When I blogged I had the habit of sharing and compromising…. These days I’m getting selfish and self-centered…
When I blogged I learned from my mistakes… Not sure if I’m wise these days…
When I blogged I got lots of well washers like friends, relatives and unknown acquaintance… My friend base is stagnant these days…
After finishing my under graduation from Dhanraj Baid Jain College at Thoraipakkam(OMR) 13 years back… I had make a visit to apply for a duplicate Transfer Certificate…
A lot has changed in this 13 years…
The profile of the place… OMR is more of a village and all who where there were local villagers…
College had a deserted look with no maintainable….
College literally had no good infrastructure…
Students literally lacked discipline….
but I was thrilled to see a college which has got a real make over in terms of student discipline, infrastructure and more…
One thing still remained was arrogant and tardy attitude of the admin staff… I had to slog and run pillar to post to get the degree….
Certain things were disrespectful and abuse of power… But I enjoyed being exploited and disrespected as we use to do such things as a student and I enjoyed those tasks as lived my student like for couple of minutes….
I was asked to deposit some money in the Bank (Personal task of the admin staff)…
I was asked to take them to tea stall and get the tea and snacks…
I was asked to drop them for lunch and pick them…
After all this I was finally given a Duplicate copy of TC…. I really don’t want to complain rather I want to thank the admin staff for giving me an opportunity to live a dream…
It was the first time I took my wife out for a drive… I wanted to sit in a peaceful environment and wanted to discuss a lot of things… I zeroed in on the CCD which is on Motel Higghway at Nazrathpet…
When I entered I was surprised to see a friend who was in Sriperambudur joint… Firstly I was feeling guilty as I forgot to invite him for my marriage… Infact my marriage happened against lots of odds… He immediately made me fee free and congrajulated us… Then I placed my order and took my wife to the table and started discussing about things I wanted…
Normally a cappuccino comes with a heart or leaf as design… My friend surprised my wife with this stuff… In fact he made me feel proud and happy in frient of my wife… Lot of small things can make a big impact… That is what happened that day…
I’d like to thank my friend for the gesture and this image would find a place in my album… It would definately be cherished forever….
Its the beginning of the week & I had to get up with Throat Infection, Cold, Cough & Fever… Though I wasn’t feeling sleepy I had to sleep to control my headache which occurs when I cough… Finally got up by 4 in the evening and started to get ready to office… Took some hot water shower, had some lite lunch just to take tablet…
When I was to start to office it was raining and thought of working from home… Within minutes rain stopped and there was clear sky… Then I scotted to office and immediately swung into work and finished couple of meetings…
By now I was too dehydrated and thought of going back home… Then I stayed back as I had to discuss a lot with my CTO and the check the progress of Sales & Delivery… Overall this is one other occasion where I’m enjoying my work to the core as I don’t feel the pinch of flu…
Age has always been a FACTOR in my life… I’ve always judged people with their age… When I use to take up computer classes during college days there were a bunch of people who were in their 30’s and I thought what these folks were upto in their 30’s… When I was in my 20’s when I see 30+ people in party I use to wonder what these folks got to do at that age… When I was nearing my 30’s it was the most uncomfortable part in my life… Until a year ago I was very reluctant to reveal my real age… I fake my age as 29 where ever I was asked to disclose (Even my FaceBook age was 25 until a year)…
Slowly I’ve started to come to terms and for last 6 months I’ve started revealing my real age :)… But these days I started believing age is just a number… Hollywood which use to accept heroine till 30’s has started to accept 40+ heroine’s too… Bollywood where heroine’s retire after touching there 30’s have started to prolong their career… Infact a lot of heroine in Bollywood has made their debut in their 30’s and they they have reached their peak in their mid 30’s…
Was researching about Bollywood heroine’s and was fascinated to see a bunch of top heroine’s were 30+… This must give me more reasons to be transparent on my age and in-fact be proud and understand even 30+ is a young age :)…
If I have an opportunity to meet God i’d be really happy to thank him for giving me such a life… Right from my childhood my life has been exciting with lots of uncertainties… The best part of my life are those tough times and I’ve been blessed with lots of tough times…
In my 12 year as an entrepreneur last 6 months is becoming a best part of life… It has been really interesting as there are lots of challenging situations… We had lots of unexpected turns, Lots of downs, Little ups, Failures, Struggles etc… Overall this is for the first time I’m enjoying the experience of running thru a tough time… I think am maturing as a person… Am enjoying because;
Am working almost 16+ hours in a day…
Working along with all the teams and that too on the floor…
Working with a very lean financial situation…
For the first time gave some room for personal life…
I pray to the almighty that I come across lots of situations and wish they are different types… All I want is Experience which will help me write a biography which would be of help to others…
AnandNataraj 