Mujhe Shikayat Hai...

Its been almost 2 years in Bangalore now. Have definitely come in terms with the city and infact am in love with it. But there are certain things/elements which are displeasing, irritating and sometimes downright hateful. Just trying to compile a list of these.
I really have complaints towards :-

• The autowallahs who start asking for a double-meter from 8-30 in evening. Also the autowallahs who never are ready to go where one wants to go (eg. The ones standing at Fernyl Apartments gate).
• The city authorities who are doing nothing about the awful roads, uncovered potholes (the other day i saw an auto turned 45 degrees with one wheel in a pothole !), the hazardous trenches, open electicity wires...
• The indisciplined traffic (again autowallahs being the main culprits!) which makes the things worse.
• The Kannada cine-authorities, who are vowing not to allow non-Kannada films to be realeased till 7 weeks after the national release. (I'm surprized they are missing a simple point that it is actually an insult for Kannada films...is there so much dearth of quality here???)
• The shop-keepers here, for whom 'good service' is a taboo...(we were eating out in a small restaurant where a guy came and asked for Aloo-Parathas less oily, the owner - a lady - says, no I can't give you customized food!!! The guy left immediately, certainly hurt and insulted. I've seen no other city which treats the cusomer like this!) Well, a very good exception are those 'Darshani' hotels (the Udupi-styled) where despite of such a huge crowd, one seldom gets a chance to complain.
• BMTC. The numbers on the route-plate are incomprehensible (Nut then the conductors are very helpful.)
• The house-owners, who are charging the tenants exorbitantly...

(Did i miss anything?)

But all in all, the people here are nice and accomodative. They aren't fanatically against Hindi (like some neighbouring states). Its a very peaceful and cool (literally as well) place.

Had a good outing this weekend at Banerghatta National Park. Nice place to spend atleast 2-3 hours!

i remain.