Melancholy………………………………..

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Nostalgia can sometimes make you remember some of the most awesome memories of childhood, which I had lost after I entered the rat race of the corporate world.

Just the other day, my brother and I were discussing the major impact Doordarshan had on our childhood. I can still remember the tunes of a couple of serials and hum them once in a while.

Of late, children seem to be caught up with all the absorbing gadgets and miss the most fascinating and important part of their life – Childhood.

The Garden City

For a person who believes that Bangalore was, is and will be the best city ever to live, a visit to a city in the neighboring state came as a pleasant surprise. The wide roads, the various restaurants, the hang out joints, the bindaas guys and babes of the city were actually an eye opener.

After Bangalore if I had to actually rate my choice of preference for a place to stay it would probably be this city. But if I had to actually think back on the statement just made by me then I would in fact see a vast difference and yet vast similarities between the two cities.

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No doubt that one is “The” IT capital of the country and the other is just emerging to be one, people in both the cities are equally busy.

People in both the cities actually turn into maniacs when they start driving and I guess the same follows through out the country.

People in both the cities equally enjoying eating out (we Indians are known for our vast appetite for good food!)

No doubt the meters of the auto rickshaws in this city read kilometers or distance traveled very much unlike to the auto rickshaws in Bangalore which shows the amount, but in both places the drivers’ mentality is the same – to loot people.

But still there’s something that actually makes me feel that Bangalore is the best place to stay coz no matter how busy people are with their own lives, we still manage to strike a conversation with the person sitting opposite to us in the public transport system, and sometimes these meetings of minutes turn into relationships for a life time

Mother nature's blessings

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The smell of mud as the first drop of rain touches the earth has always enthralled me. It has this distinct aroma which is hard to describe but it makes u feel like throwing up all your work and dancing with joy.

I can spend hours together watching out of the window as it rains. The pitter- patter of rain drops, the lashing of it against the window, the fluttering of leaves as every rain drop hits it, the ripples that are formed in puddles of water, the breeze within the power of rain, it starts as a passing shower, and then becomes a steady cadence. Heavy drops thud the skylight. Like a child's play xylophone, it gently chimes the metal vents on the roof. The music almost lulls me to sleep. It’s an amazing sight that one must see and experience. Words fail when you try to explain such mesmerizing acts of nature.

Ice cream Island

Who wouldn’t want to have an ice-cream? It does make a person add on a few extra calories but who cares? It’s the best anti-depressant I’ve ever come across.

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I remember running to my mom asking her for money at the sound of the ringing bell on the street, when I was young. The joy of smearing ice-cream across your face, having it drip down your fingers onto your dress as you eat, is something incomparable. No doubt, I would get scolding for spoiling a pretty dress, later on, but that is nothing when compared to the bliss of having ice-cream.

I once had my tooth plucked out when I was young. I was put on a strict ice-cream diet. The doctor advised my parents to give me all the ice-cream I wanted. I loved him for that.

You want magic???

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Something that always amazes me is the intelligence that the kids are born with now a days. This was until I discovered the joy of reading Calvin & Hobbes. My morning has to start with my cuppa of coffee and the all knowing and ever enthusiastic Calvin’s cartoon strip in the newspaper.

This guy’s just amazing. For a 6 year old kid, he has a damn good imaginative power consisting of Spaceman Spiff, Stupendous Man, Captain Nitro, Transmogrifiers, dinosaurs (Tyrannosaurus rex to be exact) etc, his misadventures, his unique views on a diverse range of political and cultural issues and his polls on his dad.