5

That's the number of the cubicle I am sitting in in this cyber cafe, which has come up with a pretty innovative idea for a keyboard where the letters have worn out. They have used those stickers, which makes the keyboard look kind of jazzed up actually.



Have to catch the bus back to the city in exactly two hours and forty five minutes, but I have to pick up sweets which aunties insist on sending. Infact, they insist so damn much that they actually pack it in the dammned bags when I am not looking.



Weird tradition. There is also a huge cock in the aangan outside my aunt's place. It almost reaches upto a man's knee's, and terrorizes little kids by pecking them and little hens by trying to rape them. Funny sight really, just climbs on top and crows like its morning or something. This is like one of those photoshoped big cocks that show up in a google by little excited girlies looking for extra large phalluses, more than provided by Sydney Sheldon.



That apart, am not really going to miss Bangalore. What I thought was a pleasant visit to a quaint city turned out to be almost as hectic as Mumbai itself. Bangalore is growing up, for many reasons. Actually its grown hotter than the last time I was here. There is more traffic too, but the roads are well maintained and there are functional traffic lights, unlike mulund, where they look like they have been brought out of a disco. There are traffic policemen around too, and flyovers and suchlike, but the drivers here have no road sense. Unlike Mumbai, they don't behave like they own the road, they are all hesitant of being in a vehicle at all, and roam around in a slow measured speed, cursing each other all the same.



The water problem still exists in most places, but the good thing is Bangalore is experimenting positively with solar energy. Local transportation is not a problem because of the excellent Bus system, which shuttles between any two arbitrary points in Bangalore. No trains, a metro is coming up, but there is sufficient opposition from the locals to stall the project for some time now.



Supermalls, markets and showrooms are flourishing, and like Mumbai, there is a class divide in this city too... but the south is more posh in contrast.



Problem is, with all the developements, its no longer the peaceful little city that I used to enjoy. The people in this city are no longer simple.