Wander-Clicks

Hot!!!! Temperatures were in the mid 40's (deg Celsisus). Even the gulmohars were dull orange and not their usual fiery red


Transportation: 1) A gaily painted auto-rickshaw


2) The ubiquitous cycle rickshaws. I am surprised that given the hot summer, the cycle rickshaws didn't have the retractable hoods.


Some strange fad around there. I saw a lot of bikes with their rear view mirrors turned inwards as if the rider wants to see himself in the mirror rather than traffic at the back.


The funny looking phat-phatis. Another common mode of travel there.

Gulmohar's are the flowers of the season.. Also known as Flame of the Forest, these bright red flowers add some colour to Bangalore's traffic laden roads.

Jacarandas came and went a month or so back...

@ Konna that my bro and I fetched for Vishu

@ aka Cassia Fistula aka Golden Shower, tt's the national flower of Thailand.
@ The state flower of Kerala and an important part of the Vishu festival (new year) in Kerala.

@ Barbeque Nation, Koramangala

Unlimited kababs Work if you have a big appetite!

on a recent drive to Coorg with friends...

Found @ my workplace

 

Found in many places - these Ayurvedic "Camps". Almost all of them feature the funny punctuations.

 

@ an apartment in B'Lore

Newspaper clip from 15th August, 1945 in the Cellular Jail Museum, Port Blair.
The clip speaks of a War on Poverty to banish Free India's biggest hurdle. The war is still on.

This awesome road - part of the BMIC : Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor - is meant to connect Hosur Road - Bannerghatta Road- Kanakapura Road - Mysore Road. I hear the government (the greedy ppl that run it, that is) have been blocking the project and so it remains incomplete. The connect across Bannerghatta Road is a lunar landscape. Knkpura Road to Mysore Road is a brilliant drive anyday.

That's a Mahindra Scorpio in a shiny bright yello with matte black trim and black-tinted windows. Bling Bling!!

How is this for size? I'm not sure if you can fathom the scale, but this carrot cake was huge. It must've been 1/4 kilo and it was served as dessert after dinner at the RockBottom.

Metro Transit is a network of buses and lightrail trains like this one.





The frequency isn't very good but with a little bit of patience you can get anywhere you want and back.

Pictures of the room at the new place I am staying. Residence Inn by Marriott.

This is the room I first stayed in at the Hilton, Mpls

From the car


Downtown Minneapolis

Double entendres in ads have become the norm rather than the exception. Takes a lot of creative ability to devise, I agree. Though, too many of them is a tad yawny!!

Found stuck in the PVR B'lore restroom.

Litchies with icecream @ Magnolia. After a long time, went there this sunday. The guy waiting on us was pretty rude :-(. Us having to repeat orders, him nonchalantly replying or not replying to our questions. The food's awesome though.

Got to use zook (thru SMS) to get Magnolia's number. Cool!!