Me Myself n Gurgaon

My first trip to Gurgaon in Haryana made me to do many "My First..." like my first visit to Delhi, my first visit to Qutab Minar, my first on airplane. My biggest dream ever which became partially true as I was sitting in passenger's seat in plane, but always wanted to sit in cockpit n drive away the passengers (not to heaven of course :-)), yes I always wanted to become pilot. It started when I was in my high school. I was studying in a residential school where we use to finish our dinner at around 8:30pm n go to wash our plates. I clearly remember everyday at 8:30pm sharp a flight use to go above my head when I was washing my plate, which always inspired me to make it fly (seems funny ah..). In fact during my high school, we had oral exam for languages like English, Kannada, Hindi every year. There was this Kannada teacher (Some say he is from military background because he uses to punish student in a funny way. He uses to make them face towards the wall n salute the wall!!! (Only for boys :-)) who use to ask same set of questions every year. One among it was, “what is your aim? “ and all the five years my answer was "PILOT". Once I entered college I came to know I was unfit to become pilot because I had an eyesight problem. Never mind everything happens for good :-).

The trip to Gurgaon made me to sit in flight even though I was not flying it. When I returned back many of my friends asked the most expected question “how was your first time in plane?” (They asked this because it is still a big thing for middle class people in India…thanks to indigos n deccans which made common man to travel by air) and my answer was “I felt as if I was sitting in BMTC Volvo and BMTC Volvo had FM Radio n planes don’t have” most of them burst in to a loud laugh

When I was landing in Delhi the view was spectacular. The city n the roads are very much organized unlike my bengalooru. Once I landed over there it was 11:30pm n I was suppose to go to Gurgaon which is just 25 kms. But the traffic was so heavy that to travel 1 km from Delhi airport I took around 20 minutes at 11:30pm night. I just remembered how I used to crib when there was slow moving traffic near KR Puram Bridge during peek hours and felt my bengalooru is better :-). I must say Qutab Minar is a place to visit….wow what an architecture…mind blowing!!!!!

My first visit to Gurgaon educated a lot about this place. Firstly the good things, Roads are too good, best thing is NO pot holes, 6 way lanes, planned city, wonderful buildings, you get to see boat shaped building to perfect rectangle buildings. One of the areas in Gurgaon has more than 5 shopping malls much bigger than our guarda’s and forum’s in the same lane. Now the bad things, first n foremost is weather, which varies from 2 degrees to 50 degree (extreme ah!). Secondly my all time favorite masala dosa costs 60 bucks, which I could not digest. I still remember 12 years back when my dad made a deal for writing an entrance exam for masala dosa, which costed just 7 rupees and I wrote the exam well only because the deal was tempting. I also remember, with 60 bucks how I threw a Benne dosa party for 5 friends of mine, when I topped a semester in engineering (It is still a mystery as how I topped the class even though I was not studios first bench student…na…I was not intelligent either!!). I am planning to make a living in Gurgaon with masaladosa@60 :-).