The best thing about being a student is that you dont have to worry about the consequences of not joining the college in time. And so were we at that time, not worried about anything, all that was on our mind was roaming about, enjoying ourselves, spending the amount given to us by our parents and enjoying the freedo we got away from home.
After a mind refreshing trip to the hill stations, we were now all set for a shopping session before leaving for Goa the subsequent day. We first of all caught a lodging very close from the bus stand. The loding had a lot of similarities to the "Decent" hotel from the movie "Jab We Met". It was not a great worry to us as we needed only a shelter to hide ourselves during the night. We freshened up a little in the hotel and thought of going close by to shop around. We bought ourselves the tickets to Goa and then it was all our time to shop around. I must say Bangalore did not dissappoint us. There were so many various places, roads where we could go shopping. The most i remember is MG road and I am sure none of us will forget it.
In every city there is one MG road and it is always the most happening road with college boys and girls using their precious time to be in the most convenient positions that they could ever be. I always wondered why such happening roads are named by the great Mahatma Gandhi. I would not have taken by surprise if that road was named "Nehru road" because nehru liked children and secondly the whole country knows about his adventures with Mrs Mountbatten.
Anyways, whatever it is we i.e. Me, Atul, Nilesh and Manesh were shopping and concentrating on what we could buy that will be like a tresure with us forever. Farooq, Ketan and Sandeep considered coming on to such a happening road and shopping was a waste of time and hence kept their eyes busy and healthy. We bought a few Tshirts with Atul topping the charts. Until this time we never knew that Atul loved shopping. But this was just that start and Atul was yet to display all the different colours and shopping qualities he has in him that even a girl would envy.
Next we went to a small road which had shops on either side. It is called the Tibet street. Atul was shoppping like hell. We would have called him a kleptomaniac with the speed that he was picking each thing from there. Yes of course, we did not call him that as he was paying the amount to them. However not before using his bargaining skills such that the shopkeeper would sell the item to him with him being at loss. We had a lot to learn from his bargaining skills.
Atul's theory of reasonable shopping was "If a shopkeeper does not argue, it means he is selling you at an unreasonable price". So the degree to which he got a item at reasonable price (or the buying satisfaction) is directly proportional to the amount of time spent in arguing with the shopkeeper irrespective of the quality of the buy. With this theory making his shopping foundations, we went in a shoe shop as Atul wanted shoes to wear in the interviews soon to start. The shopkeeper was quite a friendly man and I thought he would show us exactly the shoes we wanted and we could scamper out on to another shop. But I forgot that Atul also had another shopping theory of best buying. According to him "If you want the best, check the rest" and the most sad thing was that he applied this theory in the shoe shop. The shopkeeper was patiently showing him all his collection one by one and Atul would respectfully get them aside. I thought, Lalu might stop eating "Chara", a British might stop cursing the Indians, Karan Johar might become straight, however i had lost the hope that Atul would stop anytime soon.
I was already tired and thought of calling it a day for me and went to sleep. The subsequent morning I got to know that the shopping saga had ended as i coudl see all of them sleeping tight.
We had bus the same evening and decided to bid adieu to this beautiful city which gave us the experiences of our life and yes who could forget this fun for the coming years of our life!.
Truly life is like a rainbow, a combination of different colours, some bright while some light. But still the overall combination is what matters and in the end looks awesome.
After a mind refreshing trip to the hill stations, we were now all set for a shopping session before leaving for Goa the subsequent day. We first of all caught a lodging very close from the bus stand. The loding had a lot of similarities to the "Decent" hotel from the movie "Jab We Met". It was not a great worry to us as we needed only a shelter to hide ourselves during the night. We freshened up a little in the hotel and thought of going close by to shop around. We bought ourselves the tickets to Goa and then it was all our time to shop around. I must say Bangalore did not dissappoint us. There were so many various places, roads where we could go shopping. The most i remember is MG road and I am sure none of us will forget it.
In every city there is one MG road and it is always the most happening road with college boys and girls using their precious time to be in the most convenient positions that they could ever be. I always wondered why such happening roads are named by the great Mahatma Gandhi. I would not have taken by surprise if that road was named "Nehru road" because nehru liked children and secondly the whole country knows about his adventures with Mrs Mountbatten.
Anyways, whatever it is we i.e. Me, Atul, Nilesh and Manesh were shopping and concentrating on what we could buy that will be like a tresure with us forever. Farooq, Ketan and Sandeep considered coming on to such a happening road and shopping was a waste of time and hence kept their eyes busy and healthy. We bought a few Tshirts with Atul topping the charts. Until this time we never knew that Atul loved shopping. But this was just that start and Atul was yet to display all the different colours and shopping qualities he has in him that even a girl would envy.
Next we went to a small road which had shops on either side. It is called the Tibet street. Atul was shoppping like hell. We would have called him a kleptomaniac with the speed that he was picking each thing from there. Yes of course, we did not call him that as he was paying the amount to them. However not before using his bargaining skills such that the shopkeeper would sell the item to him with him being at loss. We had a lot to learn from his bargaining skills.
Atul's theory of reasonable shopping was "If a shopkeeper does not argue, it means he is selling you at an unreasonable price". So the degree to which he got a item at reasonable price (or the buying satisfaction) is directly proportional to the amount of time spent in arguing with the shopkeeper irrespective of the quality of the buy. With this theory making his shopping foundations, we went in a shoe shop as Atul wanted shoes to wear in the interviews soon to start. The shopkeeper was quite a friendly man and I thought he would show us exactly the shoes we wanted and we could scamper out on to another shop. But I forgot that Atul also had another shopping theory of best buying. According to him "If you want the best, check the rest" and the most sad thing was that he applied this theory in the shoe shop. The shopkeeper was patiently showing him all his collection one by one and Atul would respectfully get them aside. I thought, Lalu might stop eating "Chara", a British might stop cursing the Indians, Karan Johar might become straight, however i had lost the hope that Atul would stop anytime soon.
I was already tired and thought of calling it a day for me and went to sleep. The subsequent morning I got to know that the shopping saga had ended as i coudl see all of them sleeping tight.
We had bus the same evening and decided to bid adieu to this beautiful city which gave us the experiences of our life and yes who could forget this fun for the coming years of our life!.
Truly life is like a rainbow, a combination of different colours, some bright while some light. But still the overall combination is what matters and in the end looks awesome.
