Instant Happiness

// July 17th, 2006 // Bangalore, Blog, Happy, Life

16th July, 2004 was when I came to Bangalore and yesterday I completed 2 years in the city. The city has been really nice to me in these two years. I have grown really attached to the city. I consider it my second home. And I feel good about Bangalore these days. After a development drought of several months, the city is getting some share of development. Roads are being rebuilt and repaired; long delayed flyovers are finally getting ready, new sidewalks are being made. Things are looking up.

As one might have noticed, I didn’t write a post in the last 10 days or so and since it’s important that I blame someone, I would like to place the entire blame on some people in my blog neighborhood who also happen to be my blog’s loyal readers (at least three of them) for not reading my blog and commenting on the posts in the past couple of weeks. The only consolation is that they are genuinely busy which can be proved from the fact they’ve not been updating their blogs. So it’s not like they are just ignoring my blog.

Last Saturday, amidst all the rain and the accompanying madness, I bought a new digicam. It’s a Canon Powershot S2 IS. It’s absolutely fabulous. What this means is that you’ll soon get to see lots of pictures on this blog. None today though cos I haven’t taken any worthwhile pictures yet except for a pretty neat picture of my dirty rain-soaked shoes.

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18 Responses to “Instant Happiness”

  1. Shruthi says:
    July 17, 2006 at 3:21 pm

    Hey thats nice – am glad you have grown attached to Bangalore – and am even happier that you can see development :) A nice change! (I personally have only heard of development, not seen much by myself!)

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  2. Lucio says:
    July 17, 2006 at 6:05 pm

    Even I have grown sort of attached to Bangalore, day to day issues have begun bothering me etc etc…

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  3. SM says:
    July 17, 2006 at 10:36 pm

    Waiting for your amazing pictures.
    And yes Bangalore should look beautiful.You know why this is the only place which comes on news channel on T.V here in the U.S.and the Americans pretty much know about India by looking at Bangalore.So I am happy for it.

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  4. Raj says:
    July 18, 2006 at 8:55 am

    @shruthi: Ya, development in Bangalore sounds like an urban legend until u see it yourself, doesn’t it? :)

    @lucio: Hey, thats good :D

    @sharda:

    //Waiting for your amazing pictures.

    Amazing? I’m not that good ;)

    If only the Karnataka govt. understood the importance of Bangalore in the world, it wouldn’t have been in the state it is in right now.

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  5. greensatya says:
    July 18, 2006 at 11:24 am

    Roads are being rebuilt and repaired; long delayed flyovers are finally getting ready, new sidewalks are being made.

    I am pretty sure, this being your day of second year of stay, you are senti and wrote that stuff.

    I have been living in Bangalore long before you. Has the Indiranagar-Airport road flyover even half built ?

    This might sound harsh, but ‘Bangalore’ is the only thing which makes me sad about my return to India in couple of months. Had I not to go to Bangalore, I would have come to India long ago.

    So three people were not commenting and you decided not to post ? I hope they start commenting or you will take down your blog.

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  6. Raj says:
    July 18, 2006 at 4:27 pm

    @greensatya:

    //you are senti and wrote that stuff

    No, I liked Bangalore inspite of no development. And why would I make stuff up? :O

    All the things I wrote are absolutely true. I can name atleast 20-30 roads that have been rebuilt in past 2 months and those are only the ones I have seen.

    //I have been living in Bangalore long before you.

    I know, I know :D

    //Has the Indiranagar-Airport road flyover even half built ?

    Yes. Thats the “long delayed flyover” I was talking about. The main flyover was inaugarated recently and the four loops are to be completed in 2 months. Isn’t that relieving?

    //I hope they start commenting or you will take down your blog

    You seem to be in a bad mood today.
    I was just trying to blame them for fun. I blogged evwn when nobody read my blog :D

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  7. Xohra says:
    July 18, 2006 at 6:59 pm

    meow Waj. congwats on your new cam:”>

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  8. greensatya says:
    July 18, 2006 at 10:03 pm

    Well for one,a flyover does not mean the intersection pathway. A flyover means non-stop traffic and that is done by the loops. So the flyover is not fully built. How does it changes the traffic condition(in the present form) anyway ?

    The intersection pathway takes 4 years to build and 4 loops in 2 months !!! is that supposed to be believed ?

    About that comment thing, yeah I was having a bad day, courtesy ICICI. Excuse that.

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  9. Raj says:
    July 19, 2006 at 9:35 am

    @xohra: Thanks :)

    @greensatya:

    //a flyover does not mean the intersection pathway

    The section that was inaugarated is a flyover and there is no intersection anywhere.

    //So the flyover is not fully built.

    Ya, its not.

    //The intersection pathway takes 4 years to build and 4 loops in 2 months !!!

    It was built in few months. The construction was stalled for most part of those 4 years. And all the loops are already in various stages of completion so it is believable.

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  10. Sayesha says:
    July 19, 2006 at 4:33 pm

    Red shoes ka hi sahi, photo toh lagao :)

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  11. Raj says:
    July 20, 2006 at 9:47 am

    @sayesha: Alrite then i’ll post some images from my cam very soon. Be ready!! :)

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  12. Anonymous says:
    July 20, 2006 at 12:04 pm

    Congrats raj for ur successful 2 yr completion and congrats again for the new arrival.

    Cheers,
    Mruthica.

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  13. Preeti says:
    July 20, 2006 at 9:44 pm

    hmmm…. me completely out of touch with bangalore… errr since 2 months!.. will be coming for sure…
    for a change… y dont u put the photo of the thing you said at last???? :-p

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  14. Amodini says:
    July 21, 2006 at 2:29 am

    How nice ! And a good choice – I think Canon makes the best dig. cameras on the market. Now you can take 100s of photos – with my camera I tend to take way more than I need since it doesn’t cost anything until you print – and post them.

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  15. Raj says:
    July 21, 2006 at 8:59 am

    @mruthica: Hey, this is a pleasent surprise. Thanks!

    @preeti: So u r back. Waitng for posts about ur wedding :)

    Not in Bangalore yet, huh? Okay, i will post the pic of my shoes but dont complain later :)

    @amodini: Ya, even I think that Canon makes the best digicams. And I too love tha fact tha one can take 100s of pics. Give me lots of scope to experiment :D

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  16. Abhinav says:
    July 24, 2006 at 12:29 pm

    i also completed 2 years in Blore on July 6th and hey i also bought a cannon camera :)

    Do post some pics frm ur new camera and send some photography tips

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  17. Raj says:
    July 24, 2006 at 3:48 pm

    @abhinav: Hey, what a double coincidence :D

    I have posted pics from the new cam in my latest post. Didn’t u see? *wondering*

    //send some photography tips

    he…he…I don’t know any myself :p

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  18. Abhinav says:
    July 24, 2006 at 9:33 pm

    nope man internet @ office sucks …

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