Koramangala- The place where we stay has given us the advantage to try restaurants of all
kinds.Some of our regulars:
a. Chandani Chowk: Floor is made of gravel,seats of stone,speakers in the shape of matki, bill comes in jewellary case and waiters wear a turban :D.So you can imagine. Somewhat expensive,but worth it. The only place where I had tea in kullar(mud vessel) and perhaps the maximum I spent on a cup of tea out here.Same goes for jalebi(but yah not served in kullar :P).
b. Dal roti: Due to some reason,we are no more welcome there(thanks to amogh) :D.Neways a nice place to have proper north Indian food. Malai kofta and Egg parantha(not as a combo :P) are just too good!
c. Yo China: One advice,never go there. Pathetic service and arrogant waiters.
d. Pizza places:The usuals; Pizza Hut,Domino's,US Pizza,Pizza Corner. Saved us often. More of a default option.
e. Anand: Perhaps the only place where I can eat decent aloo tikki and mirchi bada!Not to forget dhoklas. The taste atleast seems familiar to the North Indian food.
f. Mast Kalandar: Khichdi!!! You get a 'close to' home cooked khichdi. What more can you ask for.
g. Fornetto's- This is a newbie. Serves free soup in the beginning and is offering 50% discount. Cheapest food at good quality.On the last day we have planned to drink the free soup and get away after that ;).
h. Curry House- Awesome egg curry and gajar ka halwa(ya I know,weird combo).
i. Corner House: Death bar chocolate.Say no more.
j. Gangotri: Ask Prasoon. He is crazy about it.Infact they have even asked him to be the new face and brand ambassador of the restaurant.
k. Juice junction: Fruit basket and paneer cheese sandwich. Yummy.
l. Casa Picola: Pasta and stakes.
m. Gramin: Proper North Indian food with good ambience. And a place where you get decent lassi.
n. Aangan: Kadi Pakoda \m/
o. Kormangala Biryani House: As the name suggests,Best biryani in the area.
p. Paramount: Appam chicken :P. Dosa in chicken. sounds awful,but trust me its good.
q. Mushroom: Biryani and decent food.
r. Barista: I'll write a post about this place later.Just crazy about this place.
s. More than paranthas: Never been there. Suyog spent 700 bucks for 2 paranthas :P. so I guess you can skip it.
t. Parantha place:Just below our house. 15 bucks one parantha \m/.
u. Bakery: It had to be mentioned. egg patties have been our savior and so is the tea and bun which has been my breakfast(whenever I had a breakfast i.e)
v. Oasis: The best food court in any mall. You'll find from anything and everything under the roof.Also a place where you can watch cricket and not order anything :P.
w. Ammi's Biryani: The name suggest what its famous for.
x. Pizza port:I have not included in the usual pizza places because this is one of its kind. Everything you get here is like 1+1 free :D. Ideal place for home delivery.
y. Ghar ka khana: Another ideal place from where you can get food delivered home.
z. Kebab Magic- For non veg lovers :P
Am sure this list gonna help next sem guys. Bahut mehnat ki itni sari jagah dhoondne mei :D. phew.
PS:still more to come ;)
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
PS2 files-part 1
I guess time to bid goodbye to Bengaluru is closing in.With less then two weeks left, I have so much to write about this place. Well I'll keep posting whenever I find time.Some of the unforgettable memories.And am sure this gonna help other batch mates coming next semester:
1.FORUM on weekends: Watching movie at PVR in forum mall has almost become a ritual here. Sometimes we have seen movies for the heck of it and I am even embarrassed to mention such movies! Tops the list is Mission Istanbul,so you people can imagine ;). The best of them(serious this time :P) was perhaps Dark Knight which I saw with some 20 more Bitsians.
2.Church Street and around:This place is in midst of bustling Brigade road and has the best food joints and pubs in town. It is said if you have not tried each and every restaurant on this street, your visit to Bangalore is not complete.Here are few of its gems(I'll refrain from mentioning the dishes as it will make the post too long,personal inquiries are welcome ;)). Three Quarter Chinese(awesomest chinese food), IndiJoes and Yokos(best sizzlers in town), Soul(pasta and stake), Javacity,Koshi, Stakehouse(name suggests what its famous for),and many more(please pardon me for forgetting few).And yah,there is amoeba where you can do bowling and play video games :D.
3.Rock gigs: This city offers the best gigs in the country and you can find rock fans in plenty! Best places to watch a gig are Legends of Rock, La rock, Purple Haze and Hard Rock cafe. We were fortunate enough to witness the last gig of Kingfisher rock fest at HRC. That place is a must see(eating there is not advisable :D,unless you visit there on the day you receive your salary).
4.Team trips:I was lucky to get a team where outings are frequent. Some of the awesome places we have been to are guhantara(cave resort,already written a post about it), then there is E zone where we did karting, paint ball, etc, Cosmo mall(bowling, video games etc) and few other places.
5.Hukkah places: Must have tried every place that offers hukkah in town.Mochas(obb
tops the list),had also become our weekend ritual until we found other places.It was like movie+mochas+dominos=weekend in our early days here.Then we found places like paramount(not all that great though,roof top ambience is good), soul(awesome hukkah with coke base;food is also great), Hypnos(one of the rare places that offers hukkah+drinks),to name a few.
6.Traffic police encounters:I won't say these were good,but yah unforgettable for sure.Its like you have to pay a road tax of 2.8k if you want to drive in Karnataka and obb I dint pay it.So I had made this calculation that even if am caught 6 times and charged 300 on an avg( with my bargaining expertise :P),I'll save some 1k bucks.But am doing better,getting caught once a month on an average(fingers crossed).
PS1: more coming later
PS2:Don't ask about my haircut
1.FORUM on weekends: Watching movie at PVR in forum mall has almost become a ritual here. Sometimes we have seen movies for the heck of it and I am even embarrassed to mention such movies! Tops the list is Mission Istanbul,so you people can imagine ;). The best of them(serious this time :P) was perhaps Dark Knight which I saw with some 20 more Bitsians.
2.Church Street and around:This place is in midst of bustling Brigade road and has the best food joints and pubs in town. It is said if you have not tried each and every restaurant on this street, your visit to Bangalore is not complete.Here are few of its gems(I'll refrain from mentioning the dishes as it will make the post too long,personal inquiries are welcome ;)). Three Quarter Chinese(awesomest chinese food), IndiJoes and Yokos(best sizzlers in town), Soul(pasta and stake), Javacity,Koshi, Stakehouse(name suggests what its famous for),and many more(please pardon me for forgetting few).And yah,there is amoeba where you can do bowling and play video games :D.
3.Rock gigs: This city offers the best gigs in the country and you can find rock fans in plenty! Best places to watch a gig are Legends of Rock, La rock, Purple Haze and Hard Rock cafe. We were fortunate enough to witness the last gig of Kingfisher rock fest at HRC. That place is a must see(eating there is not advisable :D,unless you visit there on the day you receive your salary).
4.Team trips:I was lucky to get a team where outings are frequent. Some of the awesome places we have been to are guhantara(cave resort,already written a post about it), then there is E zone where we did karting, paint ball, etc, Cosmo mall(bowling, video games etc) and few other places.
5.Hukkah places: Must have tried every place that offers hukkah in town.Mochas(obb
tops the list),had also become our weekend ritual until we found other places.It was like movie+mochas+dominos=weekend in our early days here.Then we found places like paramount(not all that great though,roof top ambience is good), soul(awesome hukkah with coke base;food is also great), Hypnos(one of the rare places that offers hukkah+drinks),to name a few.
6.Traffic police encounters:I won't say these were good,but yah unforgettable for sure.Its like you have to pay a road tax of 2.8k if you want to drive in Karnataka and obb I dint pay it.So I had made this calculation that even if am caught 6 times and charged 300 on an avg( with my bargaining expertise :P),I'll save some 1k bucks.But am doing better,getting caught once a month on an average(fingers crossed).
PS1: more coming later
PS2:Don't ask about my haircut
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Those were the days
One thing that is common to our generation is our craze for cricket.. We have been born and brought up in an environment where watching cricket matches is like a ritual and cricketers our heroes..Though I have lost the enthusiasm I used to have when I was quite young(I have turned 21 :O) and used to play it regularly,but even now, given a chance I won't miss a match and play a match for that matter..
Yesterday,at our flat,we had this discussion on cricket which brought the old memories and I could visualize each and every match we discussed..Like almost every Indian, I am a big big fan of Sachin..My flatmate Amogh is someone to whom you can't say anything bad about Saurav(and you should have seen the fear on Suyog's face when he said something bad about dada,and then me and Raju burst into laughter)..Raju bhaiya is a fan of cricinfo.com, and also someone who'll catch anyone who makes up any statistics(and that person usually is Suyog :P)..
Last night we covered almost all games in the 90's and it left our adrenaline pumping so much that I decided to write a blog today..All of us surely miss Sharjah and the innings played by Sachin and the sixes he gave to Mcgrath,Olonga and so many others..What Saurav did at toronto was mesmerizing and so was Yuvraj and Kaif's partnership against England..Not to forget Sachin's sizzling 186 against New Zealand,Saurav's blitzkrieg against Srilanka in Taunton, Laxman's marathon knock against Aussies, Srinath-Kumble partnership against Aussies at Banglaore, Sachin tormenting Pakistan in world cup,Kumble taking 10 wickets against Pak, there are so many memories that it will take days to write about all of them..
We also learnt some interesting facts about people like Mohinder Amarnath who has been out not only due to 'handling the ball' but also due to 'obstruction of the field'..and the explanation given by Raju is that "usne wicketkeeper ko utha liya hoga taki vo use run out na kar sake"..can't blame him,that is the only way he thought field could be obstructed :D..some other names also came up, which am sure, would only come to people who lived cricket in their youth.. people like praveen aamre,manoj prabhakar(I somehow hated this fellow and couldn't figure out why did he used to open till now), Vinod kambli,Robin singh,S.ramesh and many others who came and left..
Point is that in our generation,most of us have found cricket indispensable in our lives and watching matches has always been so much fun..In recent times I can remember the day we were shown the 20-20 world cup final between Ind-Pak in our college audi and it was so much fun watching it with 2000 more college mates..Trends have changed,new players like Dhoni, Yuvraj have taken the front seat, but still we all will remember those days..and it seems India is going on the right track these days,hopefully they'll perform the same way and give us more reason to celebrate..kudos to us and our passion for cricket :P..
PS:Don't ask about CAT ;)
Yesterday,at our flat,we had this discussion on cricket which brought the old memories and I could visualize each and every match we discussed..Like almost every Indian, I am a big big fan of Sachin..My flatmate Amogh is someone to whom you can't say anything bad about Saurav(and you should have seen the fear on Suyog's face when he said something bad about dada,and then me and Raju burst into laughter)..Raju bhaiya is a fan of cricinfo.com, and also someone who'll catch anyone who makes up any statistics(and that person usually is Suyog :P)..
Last night we covered almost all games in the 90's and it left our adrenaline pumping so much that I decided to write a blog today..All of us surely miss Sharjah and the innings played by Sachin and the sixes he gave to Mcgrath,Olonga and so many others..What Saurav did at toronto was mesmerizing and so was Yuvraj and Kaif's partnership against England..Not to forget Sachin's sizzling 186 against New Zealand,Saurav's blitzkrieg against Srilanka in Taunton, Laxman's marathon knock against Aussies, Srinath-Kumble partnership against Aussies at Banglaore, Sachin tormenting Pakistan in world cup,Kumble taking 10 wickets against Pak, there are so many memories that it will take days to write about all of them..
We also learnt some interesting facts about people like Mohinder Amarnath who has been out not only due to 'handling the ball' but also due to 'obstruction of the field'..and the explanation given by Raju is that "usne wicketkeeper ko utha liya hoga taki vo use run out na kar sake"..can't blame him,that is the only way he thought field could be obstructed :D..some other names also came up, which am sure, would only come to people who lived cricket in their youth.. people like praveen aamre,manoj prabhakar(I somehow hated this fellow and couldn't figure out why did he used to open till now), Vinod kambli,Robin singh,S.ramesh and many others who came and left..
Point is that in our generation,most of us have found cricket indispensable in our lives and watching matches has always been so much fun..In recent times I can remember the day we were shown the 20-20 world cup final between Ind-Pak in our college audi and it was so much fun watching it with 2000 more college mates..Trends have changed,new players like Dhoni, Yuvraj have taken the front seat, but still we all will remember those days..and it seems India is going on the right track these days,hopefully they'll perform the same way and give us more reason to celebrate..kudos to us and our passion for cricket :P..
PS:Don't ask about CAT ;)
Monday, November 3, 2008
Sometimes all you want is a 'break'
27/10/08.Well thanks to my home trip, I got time to write this blog.Life has been busy lately and my intuition again proved me right. I had the feeling that my PS will start once CAT will close in and it really has :-|..A lot has been going on since past few days..With the economy going down, recession has been predominant in my Simcat scores too :P.. And it has been my longest stay outside home, so it was natural for me to feel home sick (am one of those 'pampered kind')..
And yah, I finally managed to grab a week off and come out of everything and be at the place which is closest to my heart, Jodhpur( ya ya people say I say a lot about Jodhpur, all the time, but common yaar,itne time baad blog likh raha hun, itna to allowed hai ;)).. I shut down the part of my brain which contained the folder 'work' as soon as I laid my foot on the Sun city of India and it suddenly all came back..
Be it the namkeen(read 'pyaj ki kachori') or 'the' CCD or kaju katli, or hanging out with old pals, its such a delight to stay here(I intentionally missed out on Mom's food because those who know me know that writing anything about it won't do justice as to how awesome it is).. This time my cousin(10 year old)is here who is celebrating his first diwali in India (angrez hai).. so he's all excited about two wheeler ride and crackers and of course hindi!Two days already gone and I could not even blink..
All I can say is it feels really nice forgetting about all the crap which can never go away and will be waiting for you eternally..But living without it even for 7 days can change the things for you which you might not realise..Just hoping that the dry spell will go away and things will be better once I get back and be ready to say "Bring it on"..By the time I post this thing, situation maybe worse and you may not get to see this post and if you do, then I'll say I(read 'U') got lucky :D..I have not been writing about "billi and usko ghanta bandhne ki koshish" because even I fear few things (people think I don't :P).. But I think I'll have to come out of the expectations being build upon me for this one exam because Bits had helped me in erasing this fear of expectation as people never expected me to do anything here ;)..I have missed on IIT's before and won't be surprised if I miss on IIM's too..But there was BITS GOA waiting for me and I have no regrets what so ever in joining it and so I know if its not that then something else is in store for me..So its not the end of story..But yah its end of this blog and I think I drifted from the topic and it was all random what I wrote..I needed a break and I got it,rest I'll know once I'll be back in Bengaluru :D.. \m/
PS:Bengaluru is still very much the same and so are the simcats...still I decided to post this blog :P ..
And yah, I finally managed to grab a week off and come out of everything and be at the place which is closest to my heart, Jodhpur( ya ya people say I say a lot about Jodhpur, all the time, but common yaar,itne time baad blog likh raha hun, itna to allowed hai ;)).. I shut down the part of my brain which contained the folder 'work' as soon as I laid my foot on the Sun city of India and it suddenly all came back..
Be it the namkeen(read 'pyaj ki kachori') or 'the' CCD or kaju katli, or hanging out with old pals, its such a delight to stay here(I intentionally missed out on Mom's food because those who know me know that writing anything about it won't do justice as to how awesome it is).. This time my cousin(10 year old)is here who is celebrating his first diwali in India (angrez hai).. so he's all excited about two wheeler ride and crackers and of course hindi!Two days already gone and I could not even blink..
All I can say is it feels really nice forgetting about all the crap which can never go away and will be waiting for you eternally..But living without it even for 7 days can change the things for you which you might not realise..Just hoping that the dry spell will go away and things will be better once I get back and be ready to say "Bring it on"..By the time I post this thing, situation maybe worse and you may not get to see this post and if you do, then I'll say I(read 'U') got lucky :D..I have not been writing about "billi and usko ghanta bandhne ki koshish" because even I fear few things (people think I don't :P).. But I think I'll have to come out of the expectations being build upon me for this one exam because Bits had helped me in erasing this fear of expectation as people never expected me to do anything here ;)..I have missed on IIT's before and won't be surprised if I miss on IIM's too..But there was BITS GOA waiting for me and I have no regrets what so ever in joining it and so I know if its not that then something else is in store for me..So its not the end of story..But yah its end of this blog and I think I drifted from the topic and it was all random what I wrote..I needed a break and I got it,rest I'll know once I'll be back in Bengaluru :D.. \m/
PS:Bengaluru is still very much the same and so are the simcats...still I decided to post this blog :P ..
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