Kabir's Hood: February 2006

I returned back today from a memorable tour to bangalore with my buddies. While im getting bored pondering over about what to do online, it struck me to write about the weekend tour. We, 11 guys, landed in bangalore on saturday at around 6 am trespassing the mist and biting cold at the station. With our teeth vibrating to their limits, we started off our expedition at b'lore, the land of technologists and broad-minded people. After a hectic journey through autos and buses, we finally reached the place, yeah, IIM-B ...the best campus and culture i've ever seen. We arrived just a couple of hours before lunch, got our ourselves checked into the simple and elegant hostel rooms, finished our bathing rituals and got ready..for what? Khaana..food! After reaching the canteen, we thought to ourselves, Y R IIM-B STUDENTS BLESSED WITH SUCH HEAVENS?... Yeah, the canteen or the food-court as they call it, served food that was too good to be resisted. After a belly-full grub, we took a "noon-walk" inside the campus that's wrapped with trees and lovely grey-stone buildings. Forget the architectural beauty. Let me talk about the culture thats haunting the campus there.

We saw all these into play at nowhere else but IIM-B... Stunning, isnt it...the interaction, the culture, the attitude, the style of the people. If there's Harvard in India, it cant be anywhere else but IIM-B. Now coming back to the story, we went back to our rooms at around 4 to take rest for a while before the ultimate fusion show of JAL and Shivamani at 6:30. When our watched struck 5pm, we started getting ready tryna look the best we can to hit the show. We decided to occupy the first row in the show, just below the stage, no matter what! we rushed to the gates of the show and to our surprise, we were the first ones waiting in the queue before thousands of people started backing up on the queues... We were so damn happy that we were the first ones to enter the gate of the ground where the show was being held. Once the gates opened, the public rashed in, breaking the barricades adn we ran to occupy the first row. And Yeah, a dream and goal well achieved, we finally got the first row along with a bunch of cute-looking girls... Some of us started panicking watching the crowd filling up in thousands behind us. JAL finally came on stage at 8 and started performing kick starting with the most popular "WOH LAMHE"... We could only hear the crowd singing and not the band members. Thats the way crazy bangalore music crowd is. One song after the other, our energies kept increasing..screaming out till our lungs burst.. And when Shivamani stepped in the middle of the show, it was like a tsunami after a storm.. mind-blowing crowd and response. i dont have any more words to talk about the show...it finally came to an end at around 10:30 pm and after that we walked to the food-court like nomads in search of food, coz we were terribly hungry and thirsty after screaming out all throught the show. After eating the dinner we headed straight to our rooms to settle down after a tiring evening. After talking, gossiping, playing and fiddling with out phones, we finally retired down to our beds and fell asleep. Thats just one day of the tour and we had solid fun... One more day to go on sunday. I will end this one now, and try writing about the next day sometime later.