07
Sep
06

Back Home

It’s been close to two weeks since I returned back home and things have been mostly okay. I didn’t blog partly because I was busy and partly because I just didn’t feel like.

  • On my first day to work after coming back, my cell phone’s alarm stuck to following the German time zone (even though I had changed the time zone) and went off at 9:00 am which meant I had to go through a harrowing experience of getting from the centre of the city to Whitefield during the peak traffic hour.
  • Last Sunday, Sonia Gandhi decided to visit Bangalore and since her rally took place near my home, the traffic situation was horrible. No, not everyday-Bangalore horrible, this was at a totally new level. I’ve never really liked her but now, I hate her. It now seems like Congress might be fined for all the posters they put up all over the city. But don’t we all know that its not really going to happen.
  • It’s good to be back home and watch Indian television after a month. I missed it. Last Sunday. I turned on the TV and saw the headline “Salman ke ghar Ganesh” (Ganesh in Salman’s home) and it felt so familiar and good.

16 Responses to “Back Home”


  1. 1 priya Sep 7th, 2006 at 5:43 pm

    It happens often we forget to change the time settings. Whenever I fly from est coast to west coast, I have a spare watch with me. I don’t blame you. Hope you had a good trip.

    Nobody likes politicians coz they not only eat our money but roll out unwanted stickers all over. Who shouts back?? Nobody due to fear.
    I cannot ocmment in non-beta blogs and using my dummy blog a/c for comments alone.

    You can visit at www.priablog.blogspot.com

  2. 2 Preeti Sep 7th, 2006 at 7:52 pm

    cool…. so u bangalore now???
    so mister… my indirect demand of chocolates… have u bought them??? m coming to bangalore for 4 days for a change… ;-)

  3. 3 Vinaya HS Sep 7th, 2006 at 7:55 pm

    Welcome back. I am in India and I can’t watch TV from where I am!

  4. 4 Becky L Sep 8th, 2006 at 1:39 am

    that stinks that your alarm went off at the wrong time. i hate when that happens.

  5. 5 Raj Sep 8th, 2006 at 11:29 am

    @priya: Well, I had changed the time zone. Its just that since I set the recurrent alarm while in Germany so it decided to follow the same time zone.

    Ya, i know abt ur blogger beta problem. Blogger shuld do smthings abt it soon.

    @preeti: Yup, in Blr again. And yes, I have the chocolates :)

    So u r not in Blr anymore?

    @vinaya: Thanks. I feel bad for you. I would probably die if I was not allowed to watch TV :)

    @becky: Ya, I hate that too :(

    @harry: Sorry but that looks like spam to me so I’ll have to delete it.

  6. 6 greensatya Sep 8th, 2006 at 1:25 pm

    It does not take a Sonia Gandhi to realise the traffic situation of Bangalore. Even an ant will commute faster than vehicles in the God forsaken roads of Bangalore.

    time zones, ah, tell me about it

  7. 7 SM Sep 9th, 2006 at 3:19 am

    So you are back home,and enjoying T,V and India.Do you miss foreign country?

  8. 8 freeze Sep 9th, 2006 at 9:36 pm

    dint blog for sooo long! bad bad!! :P

    //I’ve never really liked her but now, I hate her.//

    this is the funniest thing i have read in yr blog!!
    hahahahhahaha
    i laughed for almost a minute. damn, my mom must have thot i’ve gone crazy or some shit… yikes!

  9. 9 Raj Sep 11th, 2006 at 10:40 am

    @greensatya: Ya, but as I said in the post, Sonia’s visit raised the traffic horror levels to a new high :)

    @sharda: Honestly! Sometimes, a little :D

    @freeze: Ah, I love it when I’m funny without even trying:)

    And why aren’t u using ur blogger id??

  10. 10 Tarini Sep 13th, 2006 at 1:15 am

    welcome back home :)
    i envy u

  11. 11 Raj Sep 15th, 2006 at 10:27 am

    @tarini: Thanks :)

  12. 12 Abhinav Sep 15th, 2006 at 10:41 pm

    welcome back to Blore .. time zones ehh???

  13. 13 Raj Sep 18th, 2006 at 4:51 pm

    @abhinav: Thanks :)

  14. 14 Perspective Inc. Sep 19th, 2006 at 1:32 pm

    I hate it when alrams go off at the wrong times..
    And your post strangely made me miss home…

  15. 15 Raj Sep 19th, 2006 at 3:01 pm

    @perspective inc.: Ya, defeats the whole purpose of setting the alarm.

    //your post strangely made me miss home

    Aa haa, I see :)

  16. 16 freeze Oct 4th, 2006 at 9:25 pm

    //And why aren’t u using ur blogger id??

    coz i am too lazy to sign up. wud it not be nice if the computer cud recognize who is using the comp and log in for me! sigH!

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