Bangalore Crib-list
I finally managed to buy a Bean bag. There was this sales-person at a furniture store in Koramangala, who had the cheek to tell me very sweetly that bean bags were out of fashion, but he could get me one for 2,200/- I said a "Haha! are you kidding me or did you think I didnt know any better than trust you after your out-of-fashion statement on bean bags". That shut him up nicely. I din't need his help to get me a bean bag anyways >:P
I went to good old Big Bazaar instead and bought a very average looking, medium sized bean bag for 999/- Saving 1201/- in a place like Bangalore is an achievement, I prefer to think. But going to Big Bazaar, which is over-crowded like any other place in Bangalore, is a major pain in the ass in itself. Sigh! This is what saving money costs.
On Saturday, I had a MAJOR fight with an autowallah (my mother was with me and kept wincing, but she didnt try to stop me). I had told him to take the ring road, but that idiot thought we didn't know the way from Koramangala to CMH road and took us round and round and round. Too much! I asked him why he didnt take me the way I wanted him to, and he started giving some really silly explanation about his way being shorter than the Ring Road way. I wouldn't listen to his bosh, so he came up with the winner of all excuses! He told me in Hindi that he didnt know any Hindi and couldnt understand which way I wanted him to take and all that blah.
I was SO pissed that I literally screamed at him and called him names. Then I dragged him to a police near the Traffic Police Station on CMH road. The dude (from the auto) tried to give some Kannada shit to the policeman, who listened to him patiently and then heard me out. When I was done, the policeman asked me to not pay a paisa more than 60/- When the guy protested, a little more drama happened and he got a good one from the policeman (verbal bashing only, though I was hoping he would shellout some beating to him). The policeman then gave me a traffic control number (080-22942919) and asked me to call them in case this autowallah acted smart. He didn't dare. I checked his meter though. It was showing a 72/- as opposed to the 50/- it should have been.
Then the good-for-nothing house I have rented. Even straw thatched huts provide better shelter against rain!
When it rains a little harder than usual, puddles form under the fridge and on the kitchen floor. The kitchen is pretty tiny in itself and the entire floor is covered with water rendering it unuasable. My mother has to clean up the mess and it does no good to me.
I have 2 choices, to find another job and move to a different city (namely Hyderabad, because whatever else might be wrong with that city, it isn't obnoxiously expensive, and has many good housing oprions) OR buy myself a house here.
The second option is mainly a non-option because I have no plans whatsoever and continuing for more than 2 yrs in this lousy city filled with all sorts of cheaters. I need a good rental accommodation close to my workplace. The ones that I have managed to find have been unaffordable.
And now, our electricity bill for this month is a three thousand something, which it can't be, because we don't have any arrears. Also, we didn't use any electricity for 2 whole weeks. Our landlord is going to BESCOM today to check on this. Depending on the results, I will go there tom.
I have totally had enough of Bangalore and being cheated upon here. If the job weren't as good as it is, I would have never spent 6 months here and quit a long time back.
I wish I could win a lottery of a few crores or something like that and straighten up a few things. For that, I will need to buy a lottery ticket, which I am against. I believe, people like me, who could really do something worthy with the money, never win lotterries. Sob!
I went to good old Big Bazaar instead and bought a very average looking, medium sized bean bag for 999/- Saving 1201/- in a place like Bangalore is an achievement, I prefer to think. But going to Big Bazaar, which is over-crowded like any other place in Bangalore, is a major pain in the ass in itself. Sigh! This is what saving money costs.
On Saturday, I had a MAJOR fight with an autowallah (my mother was with me and kept wincing, but she didnt try to stop me). I had told him to take the ring road, but that idiot thought we didn't know the way from Koramangala to CMH road and took us round and round and round. Too much! I asked him why he didnt take me the way I wanted him to, and he started giving some really silly explanation about his way being shorter than the Ring Road way. I wouldn't listen to his bosh, so he came up with the winner of all excuses! He told me in Hindi that he didnt know any Hindi and couldnt understand which way I wanted him to take and all that blah.
I was SO pissed that I literally screamed at him and called him names. Then I dragged him to a police near the Traffic Police Station on CMH road. The dude (from the auto) tried to give some Kannada shit to the policeman, who listened to him patiently and then heard me out. When I was done, the policeman asked me to not pay a paisa more than 60/- When the guy protested, a little more drama happened and he got a good one from the policeman (verbal bashing only, though I was hoping he would shellout some beating to him). The policeman then gave me a traffic control number (080-22942919) and asked me to call them in case this autowallah acted smart. He didn't dare. I checked his meter though. It was showing a 72/- as opposed to the 50/- it should have been.
Then the good-for-nothing house I have rented. Even straw thatched huts provide better shelter against rain!
When it rains a little harder than usual, puddles form under the fridge and on the kitchen floor. The kitchen is pretty tiny in itself and the entire floor is covered with water rendering it unuasable. My mother has to clean up the mess and it does no good to me.
I have 2 choices, to find another job and move to a different city (namely Hyderabad, because whatever else might be wrong with that city, it isn't obnoxiously expensive, and has many good housing oprions) OR buy myself a house here.
The second option is mainly a non-option because I have no plans whatsoever and continuing for more than 2 yrs in this lousy city filled with all sorts of cheaters. I need a good rental accommodation close to my workplace. The ones that I have managed to find have been unaffordable.
And now, our electricity bill for this month is a three thousand something, which it can't be, because we don't have any arrears. Also, we didn't use any electricity for 2 whole weeks. Our landlord is going to BESCOM today to check on this. Depending on the results, I will go there tom.
I have totally had enough of Bangalore and being cheated upon here. If the job weren't as good as it is, I would have never spent 6 months here and quit a long time back.
I wish I could win a lottery of a few crores or something like that and straighten up a few things. For that, I will need to buy a lottery ticket, which I am against. I believe, people like me, who could really do something worthy with the money, never win lotterries. Sob!