3 Day Hop

Thursday Night – Koshy’s Dinner
Order : One Spanish Omelet, One Minced Mutton on Toast, Two Cups of Coffee. Noisy surrounding, Mallu waiters, two anxious diners, whispers, re-collecting old times, warmth of the coffee and the presence of your partner in front of you…















Friday Evening – Rangashankara
Play – Robinson and Crusoe
Max Mueller Bhawan, Rangashankara, AHA , India Stage and all the enthusiast bought this wonderful play ‘Robinson and Crusoe’ to Bangalore. Directed by Gracias Devaraj, it was definitely a well executed play, with excellent acting, plot development, sound and light and with the required dash of humor. As always it’s more fun to hear to giggles and mouthed laughter of the kids around. This time it was all the more special when I could feel an arm around mine all through the play. Both of us liked the play and also the hurried cup of coffee and tea before the play. Reached the next hop half drenched in Bangalore late evening shower.




















Friday Night: Juke Box
Order: One JB Chicken Sizzler, One Bottle Mineral Water, One Chicken Stroganoff
Half drenched, walk into the almost brimful restaurant, grab a seat for two, see people engrossed in their meals and their pitchers with animated conversations, we share the warmth of each other’s company and the food of course. Moderately yummy meal, reach home, a cup of coffee to ward away any chances of a cold…Power of love, Pretty Woman, I just Died in your arms and others play on in the background…
















Saturday – Ebony, Barton Center
Table for Two, Outdoor Specified, Time 9:30
City Lights in the backdrop, fireworks dazzling the night on account of Eid and Ganesha festival, UB City shines bright, Kakori Kebab, Sprinkling wine, Murgh Kebabi Masala, light drizzle, shining engagement ring, hands in hand, few snaps clicked with the mobile camera, unable to capture the magic, but of course. A promise fulfilled.
















Sunday – Infant Jesus Shrine
Seek blessings for ourselves and our families















Commercial Street
A sneak preview of the things to offer, haggle with an antique store guy to pick an Victorian style railway station clock, later found that we paid almost the double for that…

















St Mark’s Church
A lengthy sermon, soulful singing by the priest, flowers for every woman in the church, and a special wish for the lady ‘to bloom like the flower’.














Java City
On the bench, listening to the oldies on the lead guitar, keyboard, percussion and the bass, ‘pretty woman’, ‘don’t worry be happy’, and a few others which I heard for the first time, Java City Filter Coffee, Java City Iced Tea(2 of them), an evening well spent and that too for just 106/-.

Everjoy & Co - Footsteps in Time

Neatly tucked on the first floor of a building on the busy Commercial Street is Everyjoy and Co which deals in watch repairs for all international watch brands. It has stairs leading to the store just adjacent to a posh jewelry shop in town. When you climb up the narrow stairs you come to a well lit store with leather couches for customers to wait. There is a small counter, behind which I have seen an old lady, probably in her late 70’s dressed in an impeccable manner, and usually draped in a silk sari. Its so happens that is the only store which does this kind of work, and all the other retailers of the international brands would direct you here for any repairs.

Once when I had gone to get a original leather strap for my Swatch, the person who was there at there at the counter was in his late 70’s or early 80’s. The old lady was also there at the counter and their son, who himself was in his late 30’s. Astonishingly not only did the person advanced in age, know which was the black strap for Swatch and where it was kept but also himself in front of me removed my old strap gingerly with his instruments and replaced it with the new one. He is a person with humorous temperament and as you would have guessed, an eye for detail. When my card did not get swiped, he jokingly said its because its not signed on the hind side. I mean someone with such a zest for life and precision at work at that age was indeed a moment of inspiration for me. He also knew that the model which I had taken for a leather strap originally does not come in leather strap version. He shared this information with his son, who was all ears to what he had to say.

Today when I went to get there again, to put a new battery in the watch; the son attended me very politely. Quickly took the watch inside, (you can see what goes on through the glass door) and himself replaced the battery. Father like son, he too knew his job, and did not expect the other people employed at his store to do it. As no one was there, he himself did and with so much panache